- June 17, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
When the Legislature left town last week, it had passed more than 800 bills. But after negotiations broke down in the final hours and the Senate zipped away in the early-ish evening, the Assembly demurred on a handful of the noisier issues.
Some had sort-of explanations: The chamber did not take up a slate of anti-harassment measures passed by the Senate because leadership thought the proposals needed more consideration, Majority Leader Crystal Peoples-Stokes said in a statement. The Assembly also waited on a criminal justice bill that would seal most records after an individual had completed their sentence due to technical issues, a spokesperson said.
But it wasn’t clear why the Adult Survivors Act — a bill to unlock a one-year lookback window for adult survivors of sexual abuse to file civil claims — didn’t move anywhere in the chamber despite almost no formal opposition and unanimous passage in the Senate. The Assembly sponsor, Linda…
