CT · Officeholder
DState Representative · District 145
On the ballot Nov 3, 2026: Connecticut House District 145
Corey Paris is a Democratic and Working Families Party member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from District 145 who took office on May 4, 2021, and is seeking re-election in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1]
Paris was re-elected on November 5, 2024, defeating Republican Fritz Blau, 75.8 percent to 24.2 percent.[1] The August 11, 2026 Democratic primary for the seat was canceled, and Republican Andrew Krill advanced from a likewise canceled Republican primary.[1] For 2025 and 2026 he was vice chair of the Appropriations Committee, co-chair of the Children Committee and a member of the Higher Education and Employment Committee.[1]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
Corey Paris is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for Connecticut House District 145 as DWorking Families. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.
Their recorded votes on bills that divided the chamber (unanimous votes left out), grouped by topic. A bill can sit under more than one topic. "With" and "against" compare each vote with how most Democrats voted. How topics are assigned
Most contested
To clarify and amend certain statutes for traffic stops concerning properly displaying a number plate, lamps and illuminating devices, windshields and registration.
May 8, 2025 · Failed 63–79 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To enact statutory provisions providing for the accountable administration and enforcement of law in the state.
Apr 30, 2026 · Failed 64–86 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
Apr 22, 2026 · Passed 86–64 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Reallocates state funds; creates a state Seal of Civics Education for diplomas; limits UConn Health neuromodulation center treatment to disabled veterans; bars active-assailant simulations in school crisis drills; creates a 15-member working group on antisemitism in schools.
Feb 26, 2026 · Failed 54–91 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
AN ACT CONCERNING EMERGENCY NONPROFIT ASSISTANCE.
Moves $3 million from the General Fund to a new emergency nonprofit assistance account, if the April 2025 revenue statement shows a surplus, and awards grants of $62,500 to $800,000 to 24 named nonprofits plus $112,500 for administration.
Mar 5, 2025 · Passed 92–51 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To (1) exempt from the sales and use taxes sales of (A) certain clothing costing under one hundred dollars, school supplies and household appliances, and (B) sandwiches, grinders, coffee and tea prepared and sold by grocery stores, (2) increase the maximum allowable credit against the personal income tax for a person's primary residence or motor vehicle, (3) establish a credit against the personal income tax (A) for expenditures paid or incurred by certain taxpayers for the care and support of eligible family members, and (B) for a portion of rent actually paid by certain taxpayers for such taxpayer's primary residence in the state, and (4) allow all taxpayers, regardless of income, to deduct the full amount of Social Security benefits that are includable in gross income for federal income tax purposes.
May 2, 2026 · Failed 49–99 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE.
To protect patients' access to reproductive health care.
May 1, 2025 · Failed 61–85 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
AN ACT ESTABLISHING CONNECTICUT VACCINE STANDARDS.
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
Apr 21, 2026 · Passed 91–49 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To protect continued access to health care and the equitable delivery of health care services in the state.
May 29, 2025 · Passed 92–55 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
AN ACT CONCERNING HOUSING AND THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS PERSONS.
To lower housing costs, increase housing options and better support homeless persons.
May 27, 2025 · Passed 84–67 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
AN ACT CONCERNING HOUSING GROWTH.
Nov 12, 2025 · Failed 50–93 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE MAJORITY LEADER'S ROUNDTABLE.
To implement the recommendations of the Majority Leader's Roundtable on Affordable Housing and make other changes to the affordable housing statutes.
May 1, 2026 · Passed 89–58 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
Feb 24, 2025 · Failed 49–89 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Reallocates state funds; creates a state Seal of Civics Education for diplomas; limits UConn Health neuromodulation center treatment to disabled veterans; bars active-assailant simulations in school crisis drills; creates a 15-member working group on antisemitism in schools.
Feb 26, 2026 · Failed 54–91 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PROVISION OF PARENT-MANAGED LEARNING.
To address issues relating to the provision of equivalent instruction in the state.
Apr 23, 2026 · Passed 96–53 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
AN ACT CONCERNING RENEWABLE POWER GENERATION.
To (1) require the Public Utilities Regulatory Authority to develop successor programs for the RRES, NRES and SCEF programs, (2) require a study of consumer protections for solar photovoltaic system leasing and sales, (3) allow the use of portable solar photovoltaic systems, (4) require the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to implement an agrivoltaics program, and (5) require the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to establish a pilot program concerning the installation of solar photovoltaic systems in environmental justice communities.
May 1, 2026 · Failed 49–90 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
AN ACT CONCERNING WELL WATER QUALITY.
To allow (1) the Commissioner of Public Health to implement policies and procedures necessary to administer provisions relating to cross connections between water supplies while in the process of adopting such policies and procedures as regulations, and (2) a local health authority or the Department of Public Health to disclose the results or information obtained from an investigation of the results of a water quality test on a private well serving a residential property or a semipublic well to the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
May 14, 2025 · Failed 54–93 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To protect the state's environment while providing for the development of renewable energy sources and related job sectors in a manner that reduces costs connected with such protections and development.
May 1, 2025 · Passed 98–47 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
To enact statutory provisions providing for the accountable administration and enforcement of law in the state.
Apr 30, 2026 · Failed 64–86 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To prohibit libraries in the state from entering into contracts or license agreements with publishers of electronic books and digital audiobooks that contain certain restrictions.
May 15, 2025 · Failed 48–97 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To (1) define "virtual currency control services vendor", (2) establish requirements for virtual currency money transmission licensees concerning (A) disclosures, (B) receipts, (C) the use of virtual currency under the control of such licensees, and (D) the engagement of other persons to store or hold custody or control of virtual currency for or on behalf of a customer, (3) establish that certain virtual currency held by such licensees shall be deemed to be property interests of any claimants against such licensees, and (4) prohibit the state, and political subdivisions of the state, from (A) accepting or requiring payment in the form of virtual currency, or (B) purchasing, holding, investing in or establishing a reserve of virtual currency.
May 14, 2025 · Passed 105–42 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
To clarify and amend certain statutes for traffic stops concerning properly displaying a number plate, lamps and illuminating devices, windshields and registration.
May 8, 2025 · Failed 63–79 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To implement the recommendations of the Department of Transportation concerning (1) infrastructure and service connections located in the state's right-of-way, (2) diesel-fueled transit buses, (3) electric vehicle parking at state agencies, (4) the Port Eastside Infrastructure Improvement District, (5) dynamic part-time lanes and control systems, (6) the restricted use of highways during extreme weather conditions, and (7) the memorial naming of a certain bridge.
Apr 29, 2026 · Failed 54–96 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
AN ACT CONCERNING THE ILLEGAL USE OF CERTAIN VEHICLES AND STREET TAKEOVERS.
To (1) revise provisions regarding forfeiture of certain illegally used vehicles, (2) authorize municipalities to adopt an ordinance related to street takeovers, and (3) revise the time period for suspension of an operator's license and to allow for revocation of a license due to violations related to a street takeover.
May 22, 2025 · Failed 48–100 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Most contested
To make minor and technical revisions to a statute concerning ribbons and medals awarded to certain veterans and armed forces reservists with wartime service.
Apr 9, 2026 · Passed 135–9 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To make minor and technical changes in a statute related to military affairs.
Apr 30, 2025 · Passed 139–7 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
To make minor and technical changes in a statute related to veteran's affairs.
May 30, 2025 · Passed 143–5 · with most DemocratsOfficial record ↗
Voted against most of their party on 2 of 171 party-divided votes on file.
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TEST BED TECHNOLOGIES PROGRAM.
What it does: To facilitate the consideration of cost-saving technology by evaluating and testing the technologies at state agencies.
Voted no · most Democrats voted yes · Democrats 56–40, Republicans 11–36
May 31, 2025Official record ↗
RESOLUTION CONFIRMING THE NOMINATION OF AILEEN K. KEAYS OF FARMINGTON TO BE A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF PARDONS AND PAROLES.
Voted no · most Democrats voted yes · Democrats 88–8, Republicans 0–47
May 7, 2025Official record ↗
The votes in their chamber that came out closest and most divided by party, among those they voted on. How we rank
AN ACT CONCERNING HOUSING AND THE NEEDS OF HOMELESS PERSONS.
With most of their party · Passed 84–67 · Yes 84–No 67 · Democrats 84–18, Republicans 0–49
May 27, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 63–79 · Yes 63–No 79 · Democrats 17–79, Republicans 46–0
May 8, 2025Official record ↗
With most of their party · Failed 64–86 · Yes 64–No 86 · Democrats 15–86, Republicans 49–0
Apr 30, 2026Official record ↗
With most of their party · Passed 86–64 · Yes 86–No 64 · Democrats 86–15, Republicans 0–49
Apr 22, 2026Official record ↗
AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH CARE.
With most of their party · Failed 61–85 · Yes 61–No 85 · Democrats 13–85, Republicans 48–0
May 1, 2025Official record ↗
AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO VARIOUS STATUTES CONCERNING CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
With most of their party · Failed 59–86 · Yes 59–No 86 · Democrats 11–86, Republicans 48–0
May 21, 2025Official record ↗
AN ACT AUTHORIZING CERTAIN MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES TO SERVE ON MUNICIPAL BOARDS OF FINANCE.
With most of their party · Passed 88–61 · Yes 88–No 61 · Democrats 88–12, Republicans 0–49
May 4, 2026Official record ↗
AN ACT ESTABLISHING CONNECTICUT VACCINE STANDARDS.
With most of their party · Passed 91–49 · Yes 91–No 49 · Democrats 91–1, Republicans 0–48
Apr 21, 2026Official record ↗
Substantive votes concern legislation or nominations; procedural votes concern how the chamber considers them. A Yes vote applies to the motion shown, which may not be final passage.
Motion: AS AMENDED
To allow certain persons to file for property tax exemptions, notwithstanding certain statutory deadlines.
Motion: AS AMENDED
To authorize the sale and distribution of sterile cultivars of certain plant species and provide for the review of certain energy-related facilities regardless of their use for sterile cultivar propagation.
To (1) increase the financial assistance cap provided in section 32-462, and (2) create an exception to the employment promissory note prohibition in section 31-51r.
Motion: HOUSE AMD A
To require that a tenant only be charged for utilities if such tenant's dwelling unit has an individual meter.
Motion: HOUSE AMD B
To require that a tenant only be charged for utilities if such tenant's dwelling unit has an individual meter.
To require that a tenant only be charged for utilities if such tenant's dwelling unit has an individual meter.
To amend a prior conveyance of state land in the city of Middletown to clarify what use of the parcel is required and require the Shiloh Baptist Community Development Corporation to repay any mortgage granted on said parcel in case of its reversion to the state.
Motion: AS AMENDED
To restrict private equity ownership of nursing homes.
Motion: AS AMENDED
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
Motion: AS AMENDED
To include the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development in the preparation of any Comprehensive Energy Strategy as provided in section 16a-3d of the general statutes.
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