All Under One Roof

The bill passed and is going on to the governor to sign.

Hun? What passed and what does it have to do with us?

It is a bill consolidates all the bias crime statues all in one section and standardize the crimes and punishments. For example a bias crime of assault might be different depending if was because of race or from religion, there could also a difference in sentencing a bias crime against a gay person verse a trans person.

In additions they were all in different parts of the criminal code.

So the bill brought them all under one umbellar with standardize sentencing.

Hate Crimes Bill Passes Legislature With Bipartisan Support

CT News Junkie

by Donald Eng

May 5, 2026

The state’s numerous hate crimes would be consolidated into a single law under the provisions of a bill that passed the General Assembly with wide bipartisan support. A similar bill passed the House last year but died in the Senate when the session ended.

Senate Bill 90, An Act Revising and Consolidating the Hate Crimes Statutes, passed the state House of Representatives 139 – 8 Tuesday morning. The bill had previously passed the Senate 36-0 on April 28.

“Hate crimes are not ordinary crimes,” said state Rep. Steven Stafstrom, D-Bridgeport, the House chair of the Judiciary Committee. “The anger, anxiety and vulnerability ratchet across our neighborhoods and entire communities.”

When someone is attacked because of who they are — be it their race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation — the harm extends beyond the victim and sends a message of fear and exclusion to everyone who shares that identity, he said.

Hate crimes have risen nearly 50% in Connecticut since 2021, Stafstrom said. He added that there were 130 such crimes reported in the first three quarters of 2024. Nationally, he said, hate crimes had doubled in the last decade.

I don't like calling it a "hate crime" because some argue that they don't hate they just want us back in the closet.

The bill now heads to Gov. Ned Lamont for his expected signature.

Well yeah... it was a "Governor's" bill.

There was opposition to the bill... you want to guess by which party?

In another CT News Junkie article from back in March they write...

House Bill 6872, proposed in January by Gov. Ned Lamont, seeks to consolidate Connecticut’s multiple hate crime statutes – some of which were written as far back as 1880 – into one new hate crime chapter in the Connecticut General Statutes. This consolidation effort would also clarify some of the existing statutes by providing uniformity to the language used to describe protected groups and by removing the requirement under the law that a defendant must have acted “maliciously.”

The changes and consolidations were recommended by the Connecticut Hate Crimes Advisory Council, which was created by the General Assembly and tasked with increasing community awareness and reporting of hate crimes. Governor Lamont appointed the council members in June 2021.

An we were reappointed last year.