Connecticut
Connecticut: bills from both sides, with enacted laws, hearings, court cases and the legislators who sponsor the bills.
Bills
90 bills: 38 Anti-LGBTQ+, 52 Pro-LGBTQ+. 19 are enacted (0 Anti-LGBTQ+, 19 Pro-LGBTQ+). “Enacted” is the status this tracker records for the bill.
| Status | Bills | Anti-LGBTQ+ | Pro-LGBTQ+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Failed | 71 | 38 | 33 |
| Enacted | 19 | 0 | 19 |
Most recent bills
- CT HB 5562 (2026) Pro-LGBTQ+
- CT HB 5555 (2026) Pro-LGBTQ+
- CT HB 5516 (2026) Pro-LGBTQ+
- CT SB 399 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- CT SB 295 (2026) Pro-LGBTQ+
- CT SB 192 (2026) Anti-LGBTQ+
- CT HB 7287 (2025) Pro-LGBTQ+
- CT SB 1530 (2025) Pro-LGBTQ+
- CT SB 1509 (2025) Anti-LGBTQ+
- CT HB 7135 (2025) Pro-LGBTQ+
Titles, summaries and tags are on each bill's page. The Bills list shows them for the bills of Connecticut: all, Anti-LGBTQ+ or Pro-LGBTQ+.
Bills by year
Introduced each year
Enacted, by the year introduced
- Anti-LGBTQ+
- Pro-LGBTQ+
A bill is counted in the year of its session, and an enacted bill in the year it was introduced. A year with no bill in the data has no column.
Show the numbers
| Year | Introduced | Introduced, Anti-LGBTQ+ | Introduced, Pro-LGBTQ+ | Enacted | Enacted, Anti-LGBTQ+ | Enacted, Pro-LGBTQ+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | 42 | 28 | 14 | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2024 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2023 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2022 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 10 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Topics and tags
A bill can have more than one topic or tag, so the rows add up to more than the number of bills.
Topics
| Topic | Bills | Anti-LGBTQ+ | Pro-LGBTQ+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Identity documents | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| Bathrooms & facilities | 8 | 7 | 1 |
| Sports participation | 20 | 20 | 0 |
| Youth gender-affirming care | 19 | 5 | 14 |
| Adult gender-affirming care | 9 | 0 | 9 |
| Medicaid & public funding for care | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Insurance coverage | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Prisons, jails & detention | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Schools & curriculum | 13 | 2 | 11 |
| DEI & bias training | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Book bans & censorship | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Marriage, family & custody | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Nondiscrimination protections | 16 | 3 | 13 |
| Hate crimes | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Military service | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Conversion therapy | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Symbolic resolutions & recognition | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Government process, funding & data | 8 | 0 | 8 |
Tags
| Tag | Bills | Anti-LGBTQ+ | Pro-LGBTQ+ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sports Ban: Colleges | 13 | 13 | 0 |
| Sports Ban: K12 | 10 | 10 | 0 |
| Safe State Bill | 8 | 0 | 8 |
| Anti-Bullying | 6 | 0 | 6 |
| Trans Bathroom Ban: K12 | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| Birth Certificate Or Identification | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Gender Affirming Care Ban: Minors | 5 | 5 | 0 |
| Broad Nondiscrimination | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Commissions, Task Forces, and Studies | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Healthcare Nondiscrimination | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Sports Ban: Secondary | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Anti-Censorship: Library Protection | 3 | 0 | 3 |
Show the other 45 tags
Hearings
No hearings are listed for this jurisdiction.
Legislators
The sponsors of the bills listed here, with the number of those bills each one sponsors.
| Name | Party | Role | District | Bills sponsored |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anne Dauphinais | R | Representative | HD-044 | 15 |
| Craig Fishbein | R | Representative | HD-090 | 14 |
| Martin Looney | D | Senator | SD-011 | 12 |
| Matthew Lesser | D | Senator | SD-009 | 11 |
| Robert Sampson | R | Senator | SD-016 | 11 |
| Mark Anderson | R | Representative | HD-062 | 10 |
| Robert Duff | D | Senator | SD-025 | 10 |
| Anne Hughes | D | Representative | HD-135 | 9 |
| Julie Kushner | D | Senator | SD-024 | 9 |
| Nick Gauthier | D | Representative | HD-038 | 9 |
Party as recorded: D Democratic, R Republican, I Independent; other codes are shown as recorded.
Court cases
Cases placed in this jurisdiction by where the court sits, newest first. Each case links to its own page, which has the caption.
| Case | Court | Level | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case n573590008d | Connecticut Supreme Court | State | 2021 |
| Case n71cfdf514e | Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities | State agency | 2020 |
| Case c4497671 | D. Conn. | District | 2016 |
| Case n33669d181f | Connecticut Supreme Court | State | 2011 |
| Case n9bae425f25 | D. Conn. | District | 2004 |
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How this page is sourced
Bill data comes from LegiScan, licensed CC BY 4.0 and used here in modified form. Outcome coding, category tags and the summaries are the Trans Data Initiative team's, licensed CC BY-NC 4.0 with credit.