The signing focused on the child health aspects of the bill.

By Donald Eng, CTNewsJunkie.com 

Less than a week after a two-day special session for the state House and Senate, Gov. Ned Lamont has signed three of the four bills the legislature passed. The fourth, a comprehensive housing bill that was a revised version of the one he vetoed earlier this year, has not been transmitted to him yet, but he will sign it as soon as it is, according to his office.

Lamont and a group of child advocates and elected officials held a signing ceremony Wednesday for House Bill 8004, a wide-ranging bill that passed the legislature along mostly party lines. Among other things, the bill an omnibus bill that among other things addresses children’s behavioral health, establishes standard self-employment expense deductions for Temporary Family Assistance participants and establishes a month $.05 telephone fee that supports a firefighters cancer relief fund.

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