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CEMA
Language for a new carbon tax bill in Connecticut is out, and there will be a hearing on the bill, No. 1064, starting at 11 a.m. on Monday, March 18 in Room 2B at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford. The bill's language is identical to that of bills proposed the last two years.
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CEMA
Last week, 50 CEMA members participated in the 4th annual March on Hartford. Lead by CEMA Board of Directors Chairman Peter Russell of Santa Fuel (Bridgeport), participants started the day with a briefing on all of the issues that they were going to tackle with their local legislators.
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CEMA
On Tuesday, the Human Services Committee will hold a public hearing to address an issue that occurred in the energy assistance program where funding was not available at the beginning of the season to pay dealers for deliveries. The issue arose when the Department of Social Services (DSS) failed to provide the community action agencies (CAA) with a contract to administer the program.
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CEMA
The General Law Committee held a hearing this week to allow for on-demand fueling of passenger vehicles. CEMA defeated similar legislation last year, but the Department of Consumer Protection (DCP) asked the committee to consider the bill again this session. Proponents of the bill claim that consumer demand is driving the legislation and that this is simply a modernization of the way motorists will fill up in the future.
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CEMA
The Public Safety Committee held a public hearing this week to consider proposals to allow lottery draw games to be sold online and to legalize sports wagering at lottery terminals. While CEMA opposed the online lottery bill, the motor fuels committee was supportive of a bill that would allow sports wagers to be made at lottery terminals.
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Federated Insurance
With Connecticut considering legalizing recreational marijuana, marijuana in the workplace will become an even more important issue for employers in the state. This is a complimentary webinar sponsored by Federated Insurance. Employers are increasingly perplexed about how to avoid mistakes in confronting the use of marijuana by employees, on and off the clock.
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CEMA
The latest edition of the CEMA Directory is finishing printing and will be mailed shortly. In the meantime, you can view it online as a "flip book" on the CEMA website. We thank our advertisers, in particular.
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CEMA
A member asked us for data on heating oil's market share for states in the northeast, and how that has changed over time. As this of general interest to our readers, we are reproducing the results of the report we generated for that member. We looked at census data that is available for the nine-year period 2009 – 2017.
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PMAA via CEMA
Recently, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a significant crack down on the sale of e-cigarettes and other tobacco products by retailers. The FDA has identified 15 national retail chains, either corporate-owned or franchised, whose rates of violative inspections exceed 15 percent of their total inspected stores since the inception of the FDA's retailer compliance check inspection program in 2010.
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CEMA
Through March 30, the state of Connecticut prohibits the sale of prepay/prebuy contracts to residential customers. Fixed price contracts and other guaranteed price contracts where a customers does not pay for the fuel in advance of delivery is permitted during the moratorium.
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CEMA
Online registration is open for the Eastern Energy Expo, May 19-22, 2019, Hershey, Pennsylvania! Visit EasternEnergyExpo.com to view the schedule of events, exhibitors and sponsors for this year's show.
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CEMA
Spring Meeting: March 20 & 21, 2019
PGANE reminds propane retailers that their Spring Meeting is only one week away. They urge you to be sure to register now if you have not yet and would like to attend. To register for the spring meeting, click here. To view the agenda, click here.
CEMA
AVATAS has been endorsed by CEMA for credit card processing for over a decade and we highly recommend them for all fuel retailers for their specific expertise in our industry that has resulted in money-saving processing for dozens of CEMA members. Now they are offering a special promotion through April 30: a free, no-obligation review of your current processing; special utility processing rates; oil/propane payment tools you can use; and a $100 activation bonus if you sign up with payment processing with AVATAS. To get started, please contact Tori at vazar@avataspayments.com or call 855-272-8841.
Peter Cohen, PC Planning & Benefits, Inc.
Many investors use return on equity to help build wealth over the long term. Unfortunately, as individuals, we sometimes find it difficult to endure the sharp declines often experienced in the equity markets. This was particularly true from late 1999 through early 2003, and the first and third quarter of 2008.
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CEMA
March 14 is National Pi Day, by a 2009 resolution of Congress — an annual celebration of the mathematical constant π (pi), which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. Pi is what is called in mathematics an "irrational" number since it contains an infinite number of digits, with no repeating sequences.
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Hartford Business Journal
They say those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Everyone in Connecticut should study history of the creation of the state income tax, because the state appears on track to being doomed to repeat a bad decision by implementing tolls. When the income tax was being debated, it was pitched as the only way to restore fiscal stability.
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The Connecticut Mirror
When Anne Hughes learned that her godson was in late stage kidney failure, she jumped on a train to Washington, D.C., and volunteered for a round of testing. She was a match. But the transplant surgery she then underwent cost her two weeks of pay. Hughes, a state representative from Easton, recounted the ordeal to fellow lawmakers Tuesday as she pressed for paid family and medical leave.
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CT News Junkie
A Sacred Heart University poll of 1,004 Connecticut residents found 59 percent oppose electronic highway tolls and 54.5 percent would seek a route around electronic highway tolls if they are installed. Only 34.7 percent of residents surveyed supported the idea of tolls in a survey released Monday afternoon.
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No Tolls CT
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Hartford Courant
Connecticut's solar industry and environmental advocates are fiercely lobbying state lawmakers to reverse or at least delay action they took last year changing how consumers are compensated for solar energy generated from rooftop panels. About three dozen workers in the industry that installs solar panels gathered Wednesday at the Capitol, urging legislation they say will save industry jobs in Connecticut, estimated at more than 2,000.
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Motor Transport Association of Connecticut via YouTube
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Hartford Business Journal
The Connecticut Lottery Corp. is lobbying legislators to pass a bill that would allow lottery tickets to be purchased online, which officials say would increase overall revenue without adversely affecting the retail market. Under the bill, which went before the Public Safety and Security Committee for a hearing Tuesday, the lottery would be able to sell tickets to all of its draw games on the internet. Scratch games would be excluded.
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