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Can a landlord charge for a pet in Connecticut, and what does the law require for an assistance animal?

Verified September 21, 2026 Updated October 1, 2026 All Connecticut topics →

Connecticut has no pet-deposit law and no pet-fee law, so a pet deposit counts inside the ordinary security-deposit cap rather than on top of it.

Cited to Conn. Gen. Stat. § 47a-21 (2026 Supplement) (a)(7), (a)(11), (a)(14), (b), (d)(2), (h), (i) and 10 more cited sources · Verified September 21, 2026

That cap is two months' rent, or one month if the tenant is 62 or older, and the pet money must come back on the same twenty-one day clock as any other deposit, with double damages if it does not. An up-front pet fee is caught by the same definition, so calling it non-refundable does not make it so. Monthly pet rent is simply rent, and nothing limits the amount. Since October 1, 2025 a landlord may leave pet fees and deposits out of an advertised rent figure, but that changes nothing about the deposit cap. Connecticut has no emotional support animal law: a tenant's right to keep an assistance animal comes from the state fair-housing duty to make reasonable accommodations and from federal law, and that duty does not reach an owner-occupied two-family house or a rented room. No state statute says what documentation a landlord may ask for, and none bans charging for an assistance animal outright, though charging for an animal a tenant needs is itself a refusal to accommodate. Faking a service animal is not an offense in Connecticut. Towns may not regulate dogs by breed, and in a town with a fair rent commission a tenant may ask the commission to review a pet charge as excessive.

Connecticut pets & assistance animals at a glance

Which law governs Connecticut answers this topic out of three bodies of law. The money and lease rules are the residential landlord-tenant act, chapter 830 of the General Statutes, and the security-deposit chapter, chapter 831: the deposit definition and the two-month ceiling in section 47a-21, the rules-and-regulations section 47a-9, the prohibited lease terms in section 47a-4, the fifteen-day notice in section 47a-15, and the advertising and payment section 47a-7d added in 2025. The assistance-animal answer is the state fair-housing act, chapter 814c, and specifically the reasonable-accommodation clause in section 46a-64c, subsection (a)(6)(C)(ii); the state's only animal definitions sit in chapter 435, section 22-345, and in chapter 814b, section 46a-44, which carries a guest right and an interference offense. Local power over pets is the municipal-powers statute, section 7-148, and the fair rent commission statute, section 7-148b. Connecticut has no assistance-animal statute, no emotional support animal statute and no administrative rule on either.
Where in the state the answers differ The money rules and the accommodation duty bind different landlords. Every residential landlord is inside the deposit and lease rules. The fair-housing duty, which is where the assistance-animal answer lives, does not apply to the rental of a room or rooms in an owner-occupied single-family dwelling, or to a unit in an owner-occupied two-family dwelling (section 46a-64c, subsection (b)(1)). The four-family owner-occupied exemption in the same section is written for familial status only and does not reach the disability provisions, so an owner-occupied triplex or fourplex is bound. A reader works out which side of the line a building is on by counting the units in the dwelling and asking whether the owner lives in one of them.
Which landlords are covered Every residential landlord, for the money and lease rules. A landlord is the owner, lessor or sublessor of the dwelling unit, the building it is part of, or the premises (section 47a-1, subsection (4)), and for the deposit chapter that extends to a receiver, a successor and a tenant who sublets (section 47a-21, subsection (a)(7)). The act excludes six arrangements rather than six kinds of landlord, and the list opens with the words unless created to avoid the application of the chapter: residence at an institution incidental to detention or to medical, geriatric, educational, counseling or religious service; occupancy under a contract of sale; occupancy by a member of a fraternal or social organization; transient occupancy in a hotel, motel or similar lodging; occupancy by an owner of a condominium unit; and occupancy by a personal care assistant. None of the six is a small-landlord exemption. The fair-housing duty that carries the assistance-animal answer has its own narrower reach, stated above and in the assistance-animal section below.
Pet deposit

Yes — no pet figure exists, but a pet deposit is a security deposit however it is named and counts inside the general deposit cap.

Connecticut has no pet-deposit statute, and it does not need one: a security deposit means any advance rental payment except an advance payment of the first month's rent or a deposit for a key or special equipment (section 47a-21, subsection (a)(11)). The exception list is closed and short, and a pet deposit is not in it, so pet money taken in advance is a security deposit whatever the lease calls it. The consequence is that a pet deposit consumes the ordinary ceiling rather than sitting beside it: two months' rent, or one month for a tenant of 62 or older, is the whole amount a landlord may hold. The same definition catches a pet fee collected up front, which is why a landlord who calls the charge non-refundable has still taken a deposit that must be escrowed, earn interest and be returned. Nothing in the deposit chapter exempts a pet, and nothing in it exempts an assistance animal.

Refundability: Refundable, by operation of the scheme rather than by a pet rule. Because the money is a security deposit, it must come back within twenty-one days after the tenancy ends or fifteen days after the landlord receives written notice of the tenant's forwarding address, whichever is later, either in full with accrued interest or with an itemized written statement of the damages deducted. A landlord who breaks that subsection is liable for twice the amount of the deposit (section 47a-21, subsection (d)(2)).

The general deposit cap it sits against: Two months' rent for a tenant under 62, and one month's rent for a tenant who is 62 or older; where a tenant who paid more than one month's rent turns 62, the landlord must return the excess on request (section 47a-21, subsection (b)). The security-deposits page carries the cap, the escrow, the interest and the return rules in full.
Pet rent and pet fees

Yes — no statute caps, authorizes or forbids pet rent or a pet fee.

No Connecticut statute caps, authorizes or forbids pet rent or a pet fee, and there is no reasonableness standard attached to either. The list of lease terms a landlord may not use is closed and contains no bar on a pet fee (section 47a-4, subsection (a)). What the state has instead is two definitions that decide the character of the money, and one advertising rule. Since October 1, 2025 a landlord must include every charge a tenant has to pay on a periodic basis inside the advertised rent figure, but may leave out any fee or deposit imposed for keeping a pet in the dwelling unit (section 47a-7d, subsections (a) and (b)(2)). That is an advertising carve-out and nothing more: it does not authorize a pet charge, set a ceiling, or take a pet deposit out of the deposit definition or the deposit cap. A landlord who breaks the advertising section owes the tenant a civil penalty of one month's rent, and the court may award attorney's fees and costs (subsection (f)). In a town with a fair rent commission a tenant may ask the commission to review a pet charge as an excessive rental charge, which is stated under local authority below.

Monthly pet rent: Monthly pet rent is rent. Rent means all periodic payments to be made to the landlord under the rental agreement (section 47a-1, subsection (8)), so a recurring pet charge carries the rent rules, including the eviction route for non-payment, and Connecticut has no statewide limit on the amount. Payments a tenant makes are applied first to rent and then to other fees and charges (section 47a-7d, subsection (e)), so a landlord may not put a short payment against a pet charge and then treat the rent as unpaid.

A one-time pet fee: An up-front pet fee is an advance rental payment and therefore a security deposit under section 47a-21, subsection (a)(11), so it counts inside the deposit ceiling and must be escrowed, earn interest and be returned. Connecticut reaches by definition the result other states reach by banning a non-refundable pet fee.
Pet policy in the lease, and changing it mid-tenancy

No — but a written-rules or mid-term-change provision would govern a pet rule the landlord adopts.

No Connecticut statute requires a lease to state whether pets are allowed, supplies a default when the lease says nothing, or limits the number or species of animals. What governs a pet rule is the general rules-and-regulations section: a landlord may adopt one at any time, but it binds only on the five conditions in section 47a-9, and a mid-term rule that substantially modifies the agreement needs the tenant's written consent. An unauthorized pet is handled through the ordinary fifteen-day notice and right to remedy for material noncompliance with the rental agreement or with rules adopted under section 47a-9 (section 47a-15); Connecticut has no pet-specific cure period. Separately, from April 1, 2026 every written rental agreement must carry the state housing department's standardized rental terms summary form as its first page (section 47a-7d, subsections (c) and (d)). The published form names no pet and no animal, but a recurring pet charge is a periodic amount and belongs in its total periodic rent or other charges field. Connecticut has no pet mandate for publicly financed or income-restricted housing.

Changing the rule mid-tenancy: Section 47a-9. A landlord may adopt a rule or regulation, however described, about the tenant's use and occupancy of the premises, and it binds the tenant only if its purpose is to promote the convenience, safety or welfare of the tenants, to preserve the landlord's property from abusive use or to distribute services and facilities fairly; it is reasonably related to that purpose; it applies to all tenants in the premises in a fair manner; it is explicit enough to tell the tenant what to do or not do; and the tenant had notice of it when the rental agreement was made or when the rule was adopted. Subsection (b) adds the mid-term rule: a rule adopted after the tenant signs that would substantially modify the terms of the rental agreement is not valid unless the tenant consents to it in writing. A no-pets rule imposed part-way through a tenancy, or pet rent added part-way through, is such a modification.
Breed, size and weight restrictions

Yes.

No Connecticut statute limits, authorizes or preempts a landlord's breed, size or weight rule for a pet, and none carves an assistance animal out of one. The word breed does not appear in the landlord-tenant chapter, the deposit chapter or either chapter of the disability and human rights titles, and its only appearances in the dogs chapter are a rabies certificate description, two pet-shop sign requirements and the tethering standard, none of them a housing rule. The breed rule Connecticut does have binds towns rather than landlords: no municipality may adopt breed-specific dog ordinances (section 7-148, subsection (c)(7)(D)(i)), which is stated under local authority below. A tenant who needs an animal that a breed policy would exclude relies on the reasonable-accommodation duty in section 46a-64c, subsection (a)(6)(C)(ii), and on federal law, not on a state breed rule.
Assistance animals: the state instrument and who it binds

Only through the state fair-housing act's reasonable-accommodation duty, the sole state instrument reaching assistance animals in housing; no state text sets a documentation standard. The operative rules are statutory. State law incorporates a federal statute or codified regulation by reference.

The whole state housing duty is one clause of the fair-housing act. Discriminating in the sale or rental of a dwelling, or in the terms, conditions or privileges of a rental or in the services or facilities that go with it, because of a learning disability or a physical or mental disability is prohibited, and discrimination includes a refusal to make reasonable accommodations in rules, policies, practices or services when the accommodation may be necessary to give the person an equal opportunity to use and enjoy a dwelling (section 46a-64c, subsection (a)(6)). Keeping an animal a person needs is such an accommodation; Connecticut writes no animal rule of its own into the section, and no animal word appears in it. A separate provision in the disability chapter gives a person with a disability, and a person training a service animal, the right to visit a dwelling as a guest of a lawful occupant accompanied by the animal, at no extra charge and with no fee that does not apply alike to all guests, the animal's owner remaining liable for damage (section 46a-44, subsection (c)); it runs to guests, not to tenants. The state civil rights commission is directed, within available appropriations, to publish links to educational materials on the differences between service animals, emotional support animals and therapy animals and on the permissible ways for a landlord to determine which an animal is (section 46a-64d). A housing complaint must be investigated within one hundred days and finally decided within a year (section 46a-64c, subsection (f)).

Who it binds: Not every landlord. The fair-housing section does not apply to the rental of a room or rooms in a single-family dwelling unit where the owner actually maintains and occupies part of the living quarters as a residence, or to a unit in a dwelling containing living quarters for no more than two families living independently where the owner occupies the other quarters (section 46a-64c, subsection (b)(1)). That two-family line is tighter than the familiar federal one. The four-family owner-occupied exemption in subsection (b)(4) is written only for familial status and does not reach the disability provisions, so an owner-occupied three-unit or four-unit building is bound by the accommodation duty. The guest right in section 46a-44, subsection (c), carries the same two exclusions. Connecticut incorporates no federal exemption by reference.
What counts as an assistance animal Connecticut's only animal term is service animal, and it is federal by reference: a service animal has the same meaning as in the Americans with Disabilities Act regulations at 28 CFR 35.104, as amended from time to time, and includes a service animal in training (section 22-345). That definition is adopted for the disability chapter at section 46a-44, subsection (a)(1), which also defines a person training an animal as a service animal by employment or volunteer service with a training organization, membership criteria, authorization and photographic identification. Disability for the housing section is a four-term structure taken from section 46a-51: an intellectual disability, physically disabled, a mental disability and a learning disability. The terms assistance animal, emotional support animal and support animal are defined nowhere in Connecticut law; the phrase emotional support animal appears in one section only, section 46a-64d, and there only as the subject of an agency's publishing duty. The former statutory definitions of guide dog and assistance dog were deleted, and the mobility-impaired-persons definition repealed, by an act in force since July 1, 2024, so any source using those as Connecticut terms is describing repealed text.
Documentation a landlord may request, and what a certifier must meet

No state text sets a documentation standard for an assistance animal in housing.

Connecticut sets no documentation rule for housing at all. No statute and no state regulation says what a landlord may ask for, who may write a letter, how recent it must be, whether an online certificate counts, whether a form may be required, or how fast a landlord must answer. The two familiar questions about what work an animal performs exist in Connecticut law only for the staff of a place of public accommodation, resort or amusement (section 46a-64, subsection (a)(5)) and for a town clerk at licensing (section 22-345); neither reaches a landlord. The state's answer to what a landlord may ask is the reasonable-accommodation standard itself, plus federal law, which is why the legislature directed its civil rights commission to publish an explainer rather than writing a rule. No Connecticut licensing chapter places any duty on a physician, nurse, psychologist, marital and family therapist, social worker or professional counselor who writes such a letter, and no board has a discipline ground for one.
Charges for an assistance animal

Under state law, yes — no state text bars a charge for an assistance animal; the federal rules alone govern it.

No Connecticut statute bars a landlord from charging a pet deposit, pet fee or pet rent for an assistance animal. The clause that looks like a bar is not one: section 46a-44, subsection (c), gives a person with a disability the right to visit a dwelling as a guest of a lawful occupant accompanied by a service animal at no extra charge, with no fee that does not apply alike to all guests. It runs to a guest of the occupant, and a tenant is the occupant, so it never reaches the landlord and tenant charge relationship. What a tenant relies on instead is the accommodation duty: charging a pet deposit or pet fee for an animal a tenant needs is a refusal to make a reasonable accommodation under section 46a-64c, subsection (a)(6)(C)(ii), which the state civil rights commission and the courts enforce. That is a route rather than an express ban, and a reader should not expect to find a no-charge sentence in the Connecticut statutes, because there is none.
Damage caused by an assistance animal Connecticut states an express damage rule only in the guest setting: the owner of a service animal is liable for any damage the animal does to the premises or facilities (section 46a-44, subsection (c)). In a tenancy there is no animal-specific rule. Damage by a tenant's animal rides the tenant's ordinary obligations, which the deposit chapter makes deductible from the security deposit (section 47a-21, subsection (a)(14)) and which section 47a-11 sets out; a pet deposit carries no damage-priority rule of its own.
Misrepresenting an assistance animal

None — no offense, penalty, forfeiture, eviction ground or licensing sanction exists.

Connecticut has no offense and no civil penalty for misrepresenting an animal as a service or assistance animal, in housing or anywhere else. The word misrepresent does not appear in the disability chapter, the human rights chapter, the dogs chapter or any of the three chapters of the penal code. The section landlord guides often point to, section 46a-44, subsection (d), is the mirror image of a fake-animal offense: it punishes a person who interferes with a genuine service animal or denies the rights that go with one. No Connecticut licensing board may discipline a professional over an animal letter either, because no licensing chapter mentions one. What a landlord has instead is the accommodation standard: it may ask for what federal law allows, and it may refuse a request that is not reasonable or necessary, with the state civil rights commission and the courts deciding the question.

The landlord-side offense: Connecticut punishes the other side of this question. A person who intentionally interferes with the use of a service animal by a person with a disability, including any action intended to harass or annoy that person or a person training the animal, or who denies the rights the disability chapter gives them, is guilty of a class C misdemeanor (section 46a-44, subsection (d)). Acting in violation of the fair-housing section, which includes refusing a reasonable accommodation for an assistance animal, is the class D misdemeanor of hate crime by discriminatory housing practice (Public Act 26-77, section 16, in force since October 1, 2026). A discriminatory practice in a place of public accommodation is now a crime only when done with intent to intimidate or harass and motivated by the other person's protected characteristic (Public Act 26-77, section 15).
Can cities add their own rules

In part — state law preempts the kinds of local rule named as barred, and any power named is one state law grants.

Connecticut keeps three things apart. Towns may not regulate dogs by breed at all, so neither a municipal breed ban nor a municipal ban on a landlord's breed rule is available. Towns may otherwise regulate the keeping of animals on a non-breed basis. And towns have the one mechanism in Connecticut law that can reach a pet charge: a fair rent commission may decide that a rental charge, a term that covers any fee or charge on top of rent, is excessive. Those commissions are optional for a small town and mandatory for every municipality of fifteen thousand or more by January 1, 2028, and a municipality that had one before January 1, 2026 may not abolish it before then. The fair-housing act saves only occupancy limits and ordinances that give greater access to people with disabilities; neither is a pet save. No Connecticut locality carries a pet-in-housing rule on this site.

Breed-specific local animal-control rules barred: No municipality may adopt breed-specific dog ordinances. The words sit inside the grant of municipal power over animals, as an exception to it, and have done since 2013. The bar reaches a town ordinance, not a private landlord's own breed policy. Text: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-148 · (c)(7)(D)(i).

Localities may regulate the keeping or licensing of animals: The same grant lets a municipality regulate and prohibit dogs and other animals going at large in streets and public places, and regulate or prohibit the keeping of wild or domestic animals within its limits, so long as it does not do so by breed. Text: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-148 · (c)(7)(D)(i), (c)(7)(D)(ii).

Another express grant: A municipal, joint or regional fair rent commission may study, investigate and hold hearings on rental charges in order to control and eliminate excessive ones, and a rental charge includes any fee or charge in addition to rent imposed on a tenant by a landlord. A pet fee, a pet deposit and pet rent are each such a charge, and the jurisdiction reaches mobile manufactured homes and park lots as well as apartments. Every municipality with a population of fifteen thousand or more must create or join a commission by January 1, 2028. Text: Conn. Gen. Stat. § 7-148b · (a), (b), (c), as amended in 2025.
Housing classes with their own pet rule No manufactured-home park, publicly financed, public-housing or senior-housing rule departs from the answers above
Insurance and dog breeds No statute restricts an insurer's use of dog breed in underwriting
How state law refers to the federal rules Connecticut's only animal definition is federal, and it is adopted dynamically: a service animal has the same meaning as in the Americans with Disabilities Act regulations at 28 CFR 35.104, as amended from time to time, and includes an animal in training (section 22-345). The disability chapter and the civil rights commission's publishing duty both adopt that meaning by reference (sections 46a-44, subsection (a)(1), and 46a-64d), so the state's animal vocabulary moves with the federal regulation and no Connecticut act is needed to move it. Because that definition does not include an emotional support animal, a Connecticut tenant's rights for such an animal come from the federal fair housing duty, mirrored in the state accommodation clause at section 46a-64c, subsection (a)(6)(C)(ii). No Connecticut statute or regulation incorporates a federal agency notice or joint statement. The federal rules themselves are on the federal section of the 50-state page.
Changes already signed into law No signed act is waiting to change these answers
Leading court decisions Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities ex rel. Pizzoferrato v. The Mansions, LLC, Nos. SC 21111 and SC 21113 (officially released March 31, 2026); no Connecticut Reports citation had issued as of September 21, 2026 (Supreme Court of Connecticut; residential setting; bears on the assistance-animal rule): An apartment complex with a general no-pet policy allowed one emotional support dog as an accommodation and asked for more documentation, including medical records, before allowing a second. On the parties' own agreement that a person who is only regarded as having a disability is not entitled to a reasonable accommodation, the court held that this tenant was not entitled to one, and expressly left for another day whether such a person ever can be. The Appellate Court's treatment of the record-of prong and of the standard for deciding whether an accommodation is necessary was vacated, so neither is authority. The decision does not hold that emotional support animals are unprotected in Connecticut rentals, and it does not hold that a landlord may demand medical records.

Cite this page: "Landlord Atlas, Connecticut Pet & Assistance Animal Laws (verified September 21, 2026), landlordatlas.com/laws/pets/connecticut/" — free to cite and quote with a link (how these records are verified). Everything above is cited in the citations section below.

Connecticut assistance-animal documentation at a glance

The state's instrument sets no documentation standard, so every row below reads not stated unless a slot is addressed elsewhere in state law; the federal rules further down this page apply on top. The full text of each slot, with its section, is in the table above.

Slot What the state's text says
Who may certify, and on what test Not stated
The certifier's minimum relationship period Not stated
Telehealth Not stated
Online registration or certificate Not stated
Form Not stated
Medical records Not stated
Written answer from the landlord Not stated
Annual re-evaluation Not stated
Proof of vaccination or licensing Not stated

Federal law on pets and assistance animals, in every state

The federal layer for the pets and assistance-animals topic, carried once for the whole site. It is a dated history rather than a single rule: the Fair Housing Act's accommodation duty has not changed since 1988 and the regulation under it has never contained the word animal, while the HUD guidance that most writing on this subject still quotes was withdrawn in September 2025, permanently rescinded in May 2026, and replaced by an enforcement position that governs HUD's own cause determinations and nothing else. Every row names who it binds, and most of the rows that carry real figures bind only federally assisted, public or rural-development housing. No state record restates these rows; a state record says only where its own law references or extends them. Each row below says who it binds before it says what it does. The full text of each row, with its citations, is on the 50-state page.

Notes and caveats

Common questions: Connecticut pets & assistance animals

Each answer is the verified value from the table above, restated as a direct answer. Free to quote with a link to this page.

Can a landlord charge a pet deposit in Connecticut, and is there a limit?
Yes — no pet figure exists, but a pet deposit is a security deposit however it is named and counts inside the general deposit cap. Connecticut has no pet-deposit statute, and it does not need one: a security deposit means any advance rental payment except an advance payment of the first month's rent or a deposit for a key or special equipment (section 47a-21, subsection (a)(11)).
Can a landlord charge pet rent or a non-refundable pet fee in Connecticut?
Yes — no statute caps, authorizes or forbids pet rent or a pet fee. No Connecticut statute caps, authorizes or forbids pet rent or a pet fee, and there is no reasonableness standard attached to either.
Does a Connecticut lease have to state a pet policy?
No — but a written-rules or mid-term-change provision would govern a pet rule the landlord adopts. No Connecticut statute requires a lease to state whether pets are allowed, supplies a default when the lease says nothing, or limits the number or species of animals.
Can a Connecticut landlord restrict pets by breed, size or weight?
Yes. No Connecticut statute limits, authorizes or preempts a landlord's breed, size or weight rule for a pet, and none carves an assistance animal out of one.
Does Connecticut have its own assistance-animal law for rentals?
Only through the state fair-housing act's reasonable-accommodation duty, the sole state instrument reaching assistance animals in housing; no state text sets a documentation standard. The operative rules are statutory.
What documentation can a Connecticut landlord ask for when a tenant requests an assistance animal?
No state text sets a documentation standard for an assistance animal in housing. Connecticut sets no documentation rule for housing at all.
Can a Connecticut landlord charge a pet deposit or pet rent for an emotional support animal?
Under state law, yes — no state text bars a charge for an assistance animal; the federal rules alone govern it. No Connecticut statute bars a landlord from charging a pet deposit, pet fee or pet rent for an assistance animal.
What is the penalty for falsely claiming an assistance animal in Connecticut?
None — no offense, penalty, forfeiture, eviction ground or licensing sanction exists. Connecticut has no offense and no civil penalty for misrepresenting an animal as a service or assistance animal, in housing or anywhere else.

Changes since last full verification

The Verified date above (September 21, 2026) marks the last time every figure on this page was verified end-to-end against official sources. The changes below were published since then, each verified against the official source it names (what these dates mean).

Citations

How this record was verified: Direct reading of the General Statutes of Connecticut on the General Assembly's own site, in both layers the state publishes. The base text is the revision to January 1, 2025; the 2026 Supplement carries every section amended or added in the 2025 sessions and states on its own face that it is used with the revision to January 1, 2025; neither layer carries the 2026 acts. Chapters 830 and 831 (landlord and tenant, security deposits), 814c (human rights and opportunities), 814b (the disability chapter), 435 (dogs and other companion animals), 412 (mobile manufactured homes), 98 (municipal powers), the three chapters of title 53a (the penal code), six licensing chapters of title 20 (medicine and surgery, nursing, psychologists, marital and family therapists, social workers, professional counselors) and all 33 chapters of title 38a (insurance) were read in full in each layer that exists. All 365 chapters of the 2026 Supplement were read together as one body of text, which is the whole 2025 session as codified, and all 151 public acts of the 2026 session were read one by one from the act roll, which was checked gap-free from 1 to 151; each act carries the Governor's action date and each section its own effective-date parenthetical. The enrolled acts read in full were those of 2024 aligning state law with federal service-animal law, the 2024 act renumbering the animal definitions, the 2025 consumer protection act that created section 47a-7d, the 2025 act rewriting section 7-148b, the November 2025 special session act that lowered the fair rent commission threshold, the 2025 human trafficking act that amended sections 46a-64 and 46a-64c, and the 2026 acts on hate crimes, security-deposit enforcement, animal welfare and utility charges. The Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies were read on the Secretary of the State's own document route for the human rights title. The state housing department's standardized rental terms summary form was read in full. The state appellate opinion archive was searched for assistance-animal, service-animal and emotional-support-animal decisions since 2015, four decisions came back, and the Supreme Court decision released March 31, 2026 was read in full in the court's own opinion text.

What was read to state each absence on this page: