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Senate approves comprehensive aging bill expanding dementia planning, biomarker coverage and transfer protections

Connecticut State Senate · May 21, 2025

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Summary

House Bill 6771 creates an Alzheimer’s and dementia task force, requires criminal-history checks for long-term-care employees, mandates in-network coverage for certain biomarker testing, adds tuition waivers for nursing-home residents taking online courses, and strengthens discharge-notification rules; the Senate passed the bill unanimously.

The Connecticut Senate took up and passed House Bill 6771 on May 21, a nine-section measure addressing long-term care, Alzheimer’s and dementia planning, insurance coverage for biomarker testing, and protections for residents of nursing and residential-care homes.

Senator Hockadell, who presented the…

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