The Connecticut General Assembly Office of Legislative Research (OLR) has recently published the following new research reports:

Title or Deed Fraud - 2025-R-0158 - What is title fraud? What Connecticut laws criminalize title fraud? Does the state have yearly data on the number of incidents of title fraud? Has there been recent Connecticut legislation aimed at preventing title fraud? What actions have Connecticut municipalities taken to prevent title fraud? What types of laws recently passed in other states prevent or address title fraud?

OLR Backgrounder: Connecticut's Sales and Use Tax - 2025-R-0177 - Provides an overview of Connecticut’s sales and use tax, including a brief legislative history of sales and use tax rates since 1975.

State-Mandated Health Insurance Benefits - 2025-R-0180 - This report lists and briefly describes Connecticut’s mandated health insurance benefits for fully insured commercial health insurance policies and plans. It updates OLR Report 2025-R-0136.

OLR Backgrounder: Connecticut's Fiscal Guardrails - 2025-R-0142 - What are the state’s fiscal guardrails?

Sexual Assault Investigations and Training - 2025-R-0171 - Describes the (1) sexual assault investigation training offered by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council (POSTC) and (2) role of forensic investigators in sexual assault investigations conducted by the State Police.