The bill establishes a comprehensive framework for regulating data brokers, prohibits the sale, sharing, transferring or allowing access to precise geolocation data, and adds additional protections for reproductive health data.

This appropriation package establishes a “Safe Harbor Account.” The Safe Harbor Account is a separate non-lapsing account to receive funds and disperse grants to health care providers that provide gender affirming and reproductive health care as well as non-profit organizations. Moreover, this law expands the state’s shield law protections, protecting providers and allowing patients, providers, and assistants to recover damages when an out of state actor seeks to enforce an out of state judgement. This bill also requires licensed hospitals with an emergency department to provide reproductive health care services related to complications of pregnancy that are legal in the state and necessary to treat the patient, including, but not limited to, miscarriage management and treatment for ectopic pregnancies.

This bill guarantees that minors in Connecticut may consent to their own contraceptive and pregnancy-related care without requiring permission from their parents.

This bill granted $800,000 to Planned Parenthood of Souther New England, Inc. Although not explicitly mentioned in the bill, the VP of the organization confirmed the funding would be used to stockpile mifepristone in Connecticut.

This regulation sets forth educational training requirements and patient assessment standards for pharmacists prescribing emergency and hormonal contraception.