# Connecticut HB 07154: AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO STATUTES RELATING TO MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTION. Connecticut HB 07154, AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO STATUTES RELATING TO MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTION., is a 2025 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Planning and Development Committee; status failed, last action 2025-03-06 (Public Hearing 03/10) (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-HB07154-2025 - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Connecticut HB 07154 - State: Connecticut - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO STATUTES RELATING TO MUNICIPAL TAX COLLECTION. - Status: failed - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-03-05 - Last action: 2025-03-06, Public Hearing 03/10 - Sponsor: Planning and Development Committee - Cosponsors: 0 - Subjects: planning and development - Touches household money: no - Economic provisions PRIA read: 0 ## Summary To (1) authorize water pollution control authorities to set alternative payment deadlines, (2) require disclosure of commercial or financial information in declarations of personal property to municipal officers upon request, (3) specify that a municipality may withhold and offset a tax refund against a taxpayer's delinquencies, (4) specify that pending assessment appeals shall not suspend a municipality's authority to file a lien continuance certificate, (5) increase from five dollars to twenty dollars the amount of a tax overpayment a municipality may retain, (6) increase from one hundred dollars to five hundred dollars the maximum amount of a tax bill that is billable in a single installment, (7) authorize tax collectors to give notice to pay taxes in any newspaper having general circulation in a municipality, (8) require municipalities to waive all or a portion of interest due on a delinquent tax payment upon the demonstration of the taxpayer that such payment was stolen, (9) require municipalities and district health departments to decline to issue certain licenses to businesses that are tax-delinquent, (10) specify that written demand for payment of certain municipal taxes and charges addressed to one person responsible for such payment shall serve as notice to all persons responsible for such payment, (11) specify that notice of a tax warrant on real estate sent to a deceased owner's estate or fiduciary shall be adequate notice to such decedent's heirs, devisees, representatives and other claimants, (12) specify that a tax sale may be adjourned to a time to be determined at a later date, (13) permit redemption of tax delinquent real property after receipt of notice of a tax warrant on such property, (14) specify that an applicant for payment of tax sale overages need not serve notice of such application on persons having an interest of record in the property if there are no such persons other than the applicant, (15) specify when a property that was the subject of a tax sale shall have a marketable and insurable title, (16) authorize municipalities to designate a place on any property tax bill for taxpayers to donate any amount to a local scholarship fund, (17) make the recording of lien continuance certificates by municipal tax collectors mandatory rather than optional, (18) specify that any municipality may enact an ordinance specifying the manner by which certificates continuing tax liens are incorporated into land records, (19) specify that notice of a tax lien shall not be effective if filed more than two years from the date such taxes were due, rather than two years from the date of assessment, (20) specify that the sale of an abandoned mobile home shall extinguish previous ownership and lien rights, except municipal tax liens, and (21) make minor and technical changes to statutes relating to municipal tax collection. ## Bill overview No economic impacts identified for this bill. ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Planning and Development Committee ## Actions (2) - 2025-03-06: Public Hearing 03/10 (legislature) - 2025-03-05: Referred to Joint Committee on Planning and Development (legislature) ## Bill text - Raised Bill, 2025-03-05: [PDF](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07154-R00-HB.PDF) ## Related bills - HB 05013: AN ACT ADDING CERTAIN PLANTS TO THE INVASIVE PLANTS LIST. (signed) - SB 01558: AN ACT CONCERNING INCOME TAXES IMPOSED BY OTHER JURISDICTIONS ON RESIDENTS OF THE STATE. (signed) - SB 01396: AN ACT CONCERNING EARNED BUT UNPAID WAGE OR SALARY INCOME ADVANCES. (signed) - SB 01187: AN ACT CONCERNING FORECLOSURE, ASSIGNMENT AND OTHER ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS FOR UNPAID SEWER ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER FEES AND CHARGES. (signed) - HB 07236: AN ACT CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS. (signed) - HB 07192: AN ACT IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BIPARTISAN DRUG TASK FORCE. (signed) ## Sources - [Raised Bill (PDF)](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07154-R00-HB.PDF) ## Related - [HB 05013: AN ACT ADDING CERTAIN PLANTS TO THE INVASIVE PLANTS LIST.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-HB05013-2025) - [SB 01558: AN ACT CONCERNING INCOME TAXES IMPOSED BY OTHER JURISDICTIONS ON RESIDENTS OF T…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-SB01558-2025) - [SB 01396: AN ACT CONCERNING EARNED BUT UNPAID WAGE OR SALARY INCOME ADVANCES.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-SB01396-2025) - [SB 01187: AN ACT CONCERNING FORECLOSURE, ASSIGNMENT AND OTHER ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS FOR UNP…](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-SB01187-2025) - [HB 07236: AN ACT CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-HB07236-2025) - [HB 07192: AN ACT IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BIPARTISAN DRUG TASK FORCE.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-HB07192-2025) - [Connecticut bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/connecticut/bills) - [Connecticut state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/connecticut) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/CT-HB07154-2025 (as of 2026-10-17).