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House approves SB 9, a broad climate‑resiliency and pesticide package after multi‑hour debate
Summary
The House passed SB 9, a comprehensive resilience and environment bill that updates disclosures for flood insurance, extends coastal site‑plan review, creates municipal resilience financing tools and limits retail access to second‑generation anticoagulant rodenticides while tightening rules on neonicotinoids. Lawmakers debated zoning, transfer of development rights, and applicator rules for rodenticides.
HARTFORD — The House voted to pass SB 9 as amended, a sweeping environment and resilience bill that brings together changes ranging from property‑transaction disclosures to restrictions on certain pesticides.
Representative Parks (chair of the environment committee) summarized the bill as a "theme of resilience," saying it "creates a culture of preparedness" by improving information flows between state and municipal planning and giving towns new tools to finance resiliency projects. Key components include new disclosure requirements for buyers about flood insurance (sections 1–4), expanded coastal site plan…
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