The 2015 regular session of the Connecticut General Assembly
ended at midnight June 3 without passage of Senate Bill 941. As
previously reported in our Connecticut Law Tribune
article "Debate Continues Over Environmental Hazard
Statute," Senate Bill 941 proposed a one-year extension of the
July 1 effective date for certain revisions to Connecticut's
Significant Environmental Hazard (SEH) statute, Conn. Gen. Stat.
§ 22a-6u. The bill reached the Senate calendar, but ultimately
failed since no action was taken before the close of the regular
session.
Since there will be no extension of the effective date,
significant amendments to the SEH statute, originally enacted in
2013 pursuant to Public Act No. 13-308, will go into effect July 1.
These amendments include lowered thresholds for triggering a
property owner's obligation to notify the Connecticut
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) of
significant environmental hazards as defined in § 22a-6u.
