PROUDLY SERVING THE 36TH DISTRICT
State Senator Ryan Fazio
Ryan Fazio, elected in 2021 and re-elected in 2022 and 2024, represents Connecticut’s 36th District, including Greenwich, Stamford, and New Canaan. He is the Ranking Senator on the Energy & Technology Committee and the Finance, Revenue & Bonding Committee. Ryan grew up in, worked in, and volunteered in the district he now represents. As senator he has focused on cutting energy bills, reducing taxes, defending local control of decision-making, and finding common ground to pass good, bipartisan legislation.
"A government that governs closest to the people governs the best."
🏆SENTINEL AWARDS: It was my pleasure to present Joe Kelly with an official state citation for winning this year’s Sentinel Award for community service and leadership. Joe always steps up answers the call to serve others, which is exactly the characteristic that makes our communities strong and resilient. Thanks also to the @greenwichsentinel & @newcanaansentinel for all they do to keep our towns united and informed. A great night representative of great values!
👨🏻HAPPY FATHER’S DAY to my great dad—and all the dads out there. Thank you for your unending devotion to family and always setting the right example—like going black tie when the wedding is black tie optional!
🕛END OF SESSION: The regular 2025 CT legislative session has officially come to a close. As much or more than my first session, my most salient thought is how fortunate and honored I am to represent our wonderful community. This session included ups and downs for our district and state.
The Ups:
Energy Compromise: I was proud to co-author and pass a bipartisan energy reform bill, SB4, that will provide consumers roughly $200 million a year in real savings, mostly from cuts to Public Benefits programs. While my original proposals called for $1 billion in savings from cutting Public Benefits costs, I was glad that I could help pass the first ever cuts of consequence. I’ll keep fighting to eliminate these charges for good.
Out-Of-State Taxation: I wrote and passed SB1558 that will encourage and subsidize CT residents who are currently unfairly and unconstitutionally being taxed by New York or other states while working from home. It also directs the Atty. General to create a strategy for the state to take back the $300-400M of tax revenue that NY is currently unfairly taking from CT.
The Downs:
Tax-and-Spend Budget: Unfortunately, having a 2-to-1 supermajority for one party in the legislature yielded a tax-increase budget that shredded our state’s budget guardrails and will increase spending and debt by billions. The budget increases taxes by $300M per year on small businesses, hospitals, and nursing homes. It increases spending AND debt by billions. Worst of all it breaks the states’ fiscal guardrails which will lead to even greater increases to spending and debt and large middle class tax increases in the future.
Local Control Under Attack: The supermajority also meant passage of a housing bill, HB5002, that would constitute the worst affront to local control of planning and zoning and other decisions in memory. It will force our district to rezone to allow developers to build thousands of units however they’d like, disallow any parking requirements for developments under 24 units, make towns liable for 8-30g developers legal fees, ban structures like arm rests on benches or fences that would stop homeless encampments, and more.