Unlike past years, the final day of the legislative session was relatively slow. The reason: Most of the important bills had already been debated.
The House of Representatives, for example, spent more than four hours debating a bill that would prohibit the use of a chemical, Bisphenol A, in thermal receipt paper that consumers receive at the checkout counter. The bill was eventually approved at 8:30 p.m. and sent to Malloy for his signature.
The House also debated and then voted 135-9 to allow nonprofit organizations to hold "golf ball drop raffles'' in which a person riding in a hot-air balloon or helicopter drops numbered balls onto a target to see who wins.
Rep. Robert Godfrey, a Danbury Democrat who is one of the longest-serving legislators with 23 years at the Capitol, said that the final day was tame when compared with the past.