Legislature Approves a Pair of Controversial Bills
http://westhartford.patch.com/articles/legislature-approves-a-pair-of-controversial-bills-26/4/11
By David Moran
The Connecticut legislature passed a pair of controversial bills early Saturday morning outlawing discrimination against people who identify themselves as transgender and enacting the nation's first mandate that private employers must provide their workers with paid sick days.
Both bills resulted in hours and hours of debate, with each stretching into the early hours of the morning Saturday, and both were passed entirely because of large Democratic majorities in the Connecticut House of Representatives and state Senate. Gov. Dannel P. Malloy must now sign the bills before they can become law, which he has indicated he will do.
