New legal protections designed to expand access to abortion services and a $1 increase in the state’s minimum wage are among the changes to Connecticut law taking effect on Friday with the beginning of the new fiscal year.
On July 1, one week after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a federal decision making abortions legal nationwide, a recently passed state law will go into effect further strengthening the rights of women in Connecticut to access abortion services.
The law, passed by lawmakers who expected the court’s ruling, makes two changes to state abortion law. It shields patients and doctors who elect to conduct the procedure in Connecticut from legal action by states where abortion has been made illegal. It also adds certified APRNs and physician assistants to the providers allowed to perform aspiration abortions, the most common type of in-clinic abortion, in Connecticut.
Another change will result in Connecticut’s minimum wage rising from $13 per hour to $14. The hike was scheduled by a state law passed in 2019 when the minimum wage was $10.10 an hour. The law’s final step increase will occur next June when the hourly rate will increase to $15 per hour.
In a Monday press release, Gov. Ned Lamont, who signed the increase in 2019, said that the income of workers has remained stagnant for too long as the economy has grown.
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