ConnecticutHB 072872025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE BUDGET FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2027, AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR, AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO REVENUE AND OTHER ITEMS IMPLEMENTING THE STATE BUDGET.

Sponsored By: Matthew Ritter (Democratic)

Signed by Governor

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247 provisions identified: 148 benefits, 47 costs, 52 mixed.

Airport firefighters gain cancer relief eligibility

Beginning October 1, 2025, cancer relief includes qualifying firefighters and fire investigators at the Connecticut Airport Authority and Tweed-New Haven Airport. It also includes qualifying workers of entities contracting with the Connecticut Airport Authority. A covered cancer must cause death or temporary or permanent total or partial disability. Workers need five years of qualifying service, no cancer found on a post-entry exam, no cigarette use during the 15 years before diagnosis, and recommended annual screenings. The account may reimburse covered state employers for compensation, benefits, and eligible treatment costs not otherwise covered.

Emergency pregnancy care protections for patients

Hospital emergency departments must provide necessary pregnancy-complication care when a patient's life or health faces serious risk. The services must be legal in Connecticut. Covered care includes miscarriage management and ectopic-pregnancy treatment.

Local Tax Relief for Unemployable Veterans

Beginning October 1, 2025, towns may approve an exemption for veterans with a VA finding of service-connected total disability based on individual unemployability. It replaces the specified existing veterans exemption and covers a share of a primary home or, without one, a Connecticut-garaged vehicle. Specified property of a spouse, surviving spouse, or minor children can also qualify; commercial and rental portions are excluded. Towns may limit land to two acres or cap relief at the town's median residential assessed value, and overlapping exemptions cannot be combined. Veterans must provide the VA determination initially, but need not submit it again unless it changes.

More homes qualify for disabled veterans' exemption

For assessment years starting October 1, 2025, more homes qualify for the disabled-veteran property-tax exemption. Veterans need a VA finding of permanent and total disability based on a 100% service-connected disability rating. Qualifying primary homes include condos, common-interest units, manufactured homes, and homes held in trust or occupied under a life estate or term of years when the veteran owes the tax. Commercial and rental portions do not qualify. Without a qualifying home, one qualifying vehicle may qualify; property of a spouse living with the veteran may qualify when the veteran lacks property in their own name. Surviving spouses who remain widowed and minor children who remain Connecticut residents may retain the exemption.

Tax exemption access expands for unemployable veterans

Beginning October 1, 2025, qualifying veterans with service-connected total disability based on individual unemployability gain property-tax exemption access. They must live in a town that provides the law's local exemption. Veterans whose disability determination changes to individual unemployability may also seek that local exemption.

Towns can offer homeowners tax breaks

Connecticut towns may approve a property-tax exemption of 5% to 35% for qualifying owner-occupied primary homes. Homes must have no more than two units. The town's legislative body must approve it, or its board of selectmen where the legislative body is a town meeting. Towns may also set a residency requirement, a maximum assessed home value, or both. This is a local option, not a statewide tax break.

Tax credit for workforce housing contributions

Eligible taxpayers get a Connecticut income or corporation business tax credit worth 50% of a qualifying cash contribution. The money must go to an eligible developer for an eligible workforce housing project in a federally designated opportunity zone. The credit applies to tax years beginning on or after January 1, 2025.

Small Businesses Can Refund Research Credits

Beginning July 1, 2025, qualified small businesses with no tax liability can exchange qualifying unused research credits for refunds. Biotechnology companies receive 90% of the credit's value; other companies receive 65%. Prior-year gross income must not exceed $70 million, and related-person transactions cannot be used to meet that test. Paying the $250 minimum tax, or capital base tax in a year without net income, does not prevent an exchange.

State funds teachers' unpaid pension obligations

For the year ending June 30, 2026, the state sets about $1.512 billion toward teachers' unfunded pension obligations. This is the unfunded-liability portion of the required employer contribution. The provision does not change individual teachers' pension checks.

Connecticut resets rainy-day savings thresholds

Specified income-tax and affected business entity tax receipts above a set threshold go into Connecticut's Budget Reserve Fund. The threshold is $4.0793 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025. It is $4.7286 billion for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026. Beginning July 1, 2026, annual adjustments use compound annual state personal income growth over the previous five calendar years. The calculation uses federal Bureau of Economic Analysis data and does not directly change household tax bills.

Higher Tax Targets for Hospital Services

Beginning July 1, 2026, the hospital outpatient tax calculation uses a $1.195 billion statewide target for fiscal year 2026–27. That target rises by $25 million each fiscal year starting in 2027–28. The rate calculation subtracts inpatient hospital taxes imposed and divides the remainder by applicable outpatient net revenue. Adjustments apply for hospital closures and disallowed exemptions. Hospitals pay this tax; the law states no direct change to patient bills.

Cannabis equity pathways carry substantial fees

Beginning July 1, 2025, covered cannabis license and conversion fees go to the social equity and innovation account. Qualifying social equity applicants may seek provisional cultivator licenses without a lottery or bidding process for facilities in disproportionately impacted areas. They must meet Social Equity Council criteria, pass a background check, and pay $3 million; approvals end December 31, 2025. Eligible social equity micro-cultivators may apply for only one equity joint venture after receiving a license and starting cultivation. They cannot operate the venture until licensing and cultivation requirements are met and the application fee and $500,000 conversion fee are paid.

Farm Investment Credits Carry Repayment Rules

Beginning January 1, 2026, eligible farmers get a refundable credit worth 20% of qualifying machinery, equipment, buildings, and structural investments. Farming income must equal at least two-thirds of federal gross income above $30,000; farmers may use a three-year farming-income average. Property must be in Connecticut, have a class life over four years, come from an unrelated seller, and not be acquired for leasing or leased during its first 12 full months. Qualifying machinery must be purchased, or buildings acquired or placed in service, on or after January 1, 2026; the same purchase cannot earn another state credit. Farmers must repay 100% if qualifying farm use stops before three full years, or 50% before five years, unless the replacement-property exception applies.

State officials can get legal defense

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Attorney General can defend state officers, employees, and Public Defender Services Commission members in covered matters. Witness representation must arise from official duties or employment. When requesting help, the person cannot be a target, subject, or person of interest in the criminal investigation. Representation can end if that status changes or the person is arrested or indicted. Federal criminal investigations or prosecutions require an agency-head or constitutional-officer request and Attorney General findings about the conduct and legal basis.

Disability savings protected in assistance tests

State and local agencies must disregard specified ABLE disability savings when deciding eligibility for means-tested assistance. This covers money invested in the account, contributions, and withdrawals for qualified disability expenses. The exclusion applies only as far as federal law permits. It can help account holders qualify for or keep state- or locally administered aid.

Education savings excluded from assistance tests

Beginning July 1, 2025, state and local agencies must ignore specified Connecticut Higher Education Trust funds in means-tested assistance eligibility. The exclusion covers account contributions and distributions for qualified higher education expenses. It also covers other distributions excluded from federal gross income under federal college-savings rules. This applies to state- or locally administered aid, not every federal assistance program.

Emergency patients gain state care protections

Hospitals with licensed emergency departments must follow applicable federal emergency-care rules or Connecticut backup rules. These cover transfers, department capabilities, and on-call staff. Public Health must adopt backup operating rules if it determines federal protections are revoked, inadequately enforced, or no longer apply in Connecticut. Routine federal changes that do not materially reduce patient rights do not trigger backup rules. Emergency providers also cannot discriminate based on characteristics listed in the law, unless they believe a factor matters for proper medical care.

Home-care recipients gain expanded complaint help

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Community Ombudsman covers home and community-based long-term services, including formal and informal individual providers. The program can investigate complaints, help resolve concerns, promote access, and provide referrals. Access to client records generally requires written consent from the client or authorized representative. Clients unable to give written consent can communicate consent orally, visually, or through aids. If a client cannot communicate consent and has no representative, the Ombudsman can access records needed to investigate care complaints.

Medicaid obesity coverage gains treatment safeguards

Beginning July 1, 2025, Social Services can seek Medicaid and HUSKY B plan approval for obesity care; approved coverage is required. This includes bariatric surgery and related care for severe obesity, plus other services for people with BMI over 35 meeting federal conditions. Specified drug coverage is limited to obesity-treatment drugs for people with type 2 diabetes and drugs treating obesity-related conditions. Prior approval and step therapy—trying another treatment first—may apply, but required step therapy cannot exceed 180 days. Medicaid beneficiaries skip step therapy with BMI at least 40 and written provider certification of surgery requiring anesthesia within six months.

Nonprofit grants help cover care costs

Beginning July 1, 2025, Safe Harbor Account grants support qualifying nonprofits funding reproductive or gender-affirming care and related costs in Connecticut. Grants also support eligible nonprofits serving LGBTQ+ youth or families by repaying or directly covering related costs of receiving that care. The trustees set grant policies and eligibility standards. Those policies cannot require collecting or keeping information that identifies patients.

Residential care gains safety and quality measures

By January 1, 2026, nursing homes and managed residential communities must keep a defibrillator in a central location. Staff, residents, and visiting families must know its location and have access; facilities must maintain and test it as directed. Starting October 1, 2026, Social Services can establish quality-based payments to nursing homes serving Medicaid residents. Any program must use national quality measures and state-run consumer satisfaction measures. Payments depend on the department starting the program and having designated funding.

State marshals gain health plan access

Beginning October 1, 2025, state marshals can voluntarily join the state health plan arranged by the Comptroller. Marshals averaging fewer than 20 work hours weekly pay the full cost. Those averaging at least 20 hours can receive active state employee cost-sharing rates after meeting service and coverage requirements. They must perform specified fee-waived process service, protection orders, or family-support capias orders, certify hours and service quarterly, and lack specified spousal-employer or municipal retirement coverage. Coverage for marshals over 65 may reflect available federal benefits; the law gives no premium amounts.

State pays court-waived substance treatment costs

Beginning July 1, 2025, the state pays qualifying court-waived substance use treatment costs not covered by insurance. A court must find the person unable to pay and waive all or part of the program fee or treatment cost. Treatment must be through a provider licensed by and located in Connecticut. Private insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid pays covered benefits first. Mental Health and Addiction Services pays remaining waived costs, including copays, coinsurance, deductibles, and other out-of-pocket expenses.

Telehealth expands access to controlled medicines

Telehealth providers can prescribe Schedule II or III controlled medicines, including opioid drugs, for qualifying treatment. This applies to medication-assisted treatment and treatment of psychiatric disabilities or substance use disorders. Prescriptions must comply with the federal Ryan Haight Act and be submitted electronically under Connecticut law.

Local Tax Relief for Military Survivors

Beginning October 1, 2025, towns may approve property-tax exemptions for resident spouses of service members killed in action on active duty. The spouse must remain a widow or widower. Relief covers the spouse's share of a primary home or, without such a home, one vehicle garaged in Connecticut; commercial and rental property is excluded. Towns may limit land to two acres or cap relief at the town's median residential assessed value. Claimants must notify the town clerk, apply by the assessment date with at least two affidavits, and refile every two years.

Tax exemptions reach qualifying leased property

For assessment years starting October 1, 2025, people eligible for specified property-tax exemptions may claim them on qualifying leased property. A home on leased land must be the resident's main home. Its recorded lease must require the resident to pay all property taxes on the home. Eligible leased-vehicle users may request a refund based on the exemption amount and local tax rate. They must apply to the town assessor by December 31 following the assessment year in which the vehicle tax was paid.

Towns can extend veterans' survivor exemptions

For assessment years starting October 1, 2025, towns may extend the disabled-veteran property-tax exemption to certain surviving spouses. The veteran must have had a VA finding of permanent and total disability based on a 100% service-connected rating. The veteran must have died before October 1, 2024, but after a date chosen by the town. The town must approve the extension, and the spouse must remain widowed.

Veterans Can Recover Missed Tax Relief

Beginning October 1, 2025, eligible residents who missed required VA proof can seek refunds of paid property taxes or reductions of unpaid taxes. This applies to the local exemption for veterans with service-connected total disability based on individual unemployability. Relief can reach the assessment day after entitlement to the VA determination, but no more than three years back. Apply to the tax collector within one year after obtaining proof or within one year after the applicable filing deadline expires.

Custom fabrication workers gain wage protections

Beginning July 1, 2025, public-works contracts must cover qualifying off-site custom fabrication with prevailing wages and worker-benefit contributions. This includes project-specific plumbing, heating, cooling, pipefitting, ventilation, and exhaust-duct systems made at another Connecticut site. Stock or readily available parts are excluded. Contractors on covered state-assisted projects must obtain updated wage and benefit rates by July 1 annually and apply needed changes that day. The annual-update rule covers contracts awarded on or after October 1, 2002.

Higher Pay for Judges and Referees

Beginning July 1, 2025, annual judicial salaries are $248,936 for the Chief Justice, $230,334 for associate Supreme Court judges, and $208,059 for Superior Court judges. Appellate Court salaries are $227,786 for the chief judge and $216,336 for other judges. The Chief Court Administrator receives $239,210 if a judge; the deputy receives $212,381 if a Superior Court judge, and designated administrative judges receive another $1,419. The Chief Family Support Magistrate receives $181,101 annually; other family support magistrates receive $172,361. Judge trial referees receive $312 per qualifying service day and family support referees receive $269, in addition to retirement salary and expenses, including mileage.

Magnet preschool tuition relief for families

Beginning July 1, 2025, covered magnet preschool programs opening on or after July 1, 2024, face a regional-average tuition cap. Families with income at or below 75% of state median income cannot be charged tuition in covered programs. The Education Department covers unpaid tuition within available funding.

Transfer students get college completion awards

Starting fall 2026, Finish Line Scholars awards help eligible transfer students each fall and spring, subject to available funding. Students must complete at least 60 credits through Connecticut State Community College's debt-free program and enter a bachelor's program. They must qualify for in-state status at a Connecticut state university or Charter Oak State College, complete the FAFSA, accept available aid, and make satisfactory progress. Awards equal unpaid eligible tuition and required fees after aid, or a minimum of $500 full-time or $300 part-time, whichever is greater. Full-time generally means at least 12 credits; part-time means 6 to fewer than 12, with an advisor-approved full-time exception for documented learning disabilities. Awards cannot replace other aid and end after the first 72 credits at the institution or a bachelor's degree, whichever comes first.

Extra tax credit for working parents

For tax years starting January 1, 2025, eligible working parents get an extra $250 Connecticut earned income tax credit. You must qualify for the state credit and have at least one qualifying child under federal tax rules. The extra $250 is added to the existing credit based on your federal earned income credit.

More precious-metal purchases become sales-tax exempt

For sales on or after July 1, 2027, Connecticut expands its sales and use tax exemption for precious metals. It covers palladium and platinum bullion, plus gold or silver bullion at least 90% pure. The former $1,000 minimum value for exempt bullion or legal-tender sales is removed. Gold or silver legal tender qualifies only when traded for its precious-metal value.

Faster payments for state subcontractors

Beginning October 1, 2025, state contractors must pay subcontractors within 15 days after receiving state payment for their work or materials. The materials rule covers contracts entered into on or after October 1, 1986. Contractors can withhold payment for a genuine reason. Within the same 15 days, they must give written reasons to the subcontractor and send the state agency a copy.

Larger farm machinery property tax exemption

For assessment years starting October 1, 2025, the farm machinery exemption cap rises from $100,000 to $250,000 in assessed value. Motor vehicles do not qualify. Farmers and farm businesses must use the machinery in farming and meet the qualification and application requirements. Actual savings depend on the machinery's assessed value and the local tax rate.

New credit for home child care

For tax years starting January 1, 2026, owners get a refundable $500 state income tax credit per qualifying family child care home. Each home must meet the state's family child care home definition and licensing requirements. Special claim rules cover eligible shareholders, partners, and owners of single-member businesses treated as part of their owner's tax return.

Transportation contracts can favor smaller businesses

Beginning October 1, 2025, the transportation department may reserve all or part of a contract for smaller businesses. Contractors or subcontractors must have gross revenue of $3 million or less in their last completed fiscal year before award. The department may also require an authorized awarding entity to reserve part of a contract. These reservations do not reduce the contract value subject to spending goals and do not guarantee an award.

Employer Credit Supports Employee College Savings

Beginning July 1, 2025, employers can claim a credit for contributions to employees' Connecticut Higher Education Trust accounts. The credit equals 25% of contributions, capped at $500 per employee each tax year. Contributions for owners, members, partners, or their family members do not qualify. Eligible pass-through owners can claim the credit as allowed by the law.

Funding supports alternatives to incarceration

The Alternative Incarceration Program gets $68.429155 million for fiscal year 2025–2026 and $70 million for 2026–2027. This money supports program services for eligible people in Connecticut. The appropriation does not set individual service terms or household payments.

Funding supports medical care in prisons

Connecticut provides about $145.63 million for medical services in correctional facilities in FY2026 and $150.13 million in FY2027. This supports care for incarcerated people. The appropriation does not specify individual services, eligibility changes, or household payments.

Youth justice and violence programs funded

For fiscal years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027, juvenile alternative incarceration gets $35.33265 million and $35.768876 million, respectively. Juvenile review boards get $3.897957 million and $6.043187 million in those same years. Juvenile justice outreach gets $27.570357 million and $27.94508 million, respectively. Beginning July 1, 2025, Youth Violence Initiative funding also supports named grantees for both fiscal years. Listed awards include $1 million for Reentry Success Plan and $400,000 for Hartford Knights; these are program grants, not household payments.

Ban on Added PFAS in Products

Beginning January 1, 2028, Connecticut bans making, selling, offering, or distributing listed products with intentionally added PFAS. Covered products include apparel, firefighter turnout gear, carpets, cleaning products, cookware, cosmetics, dental floss, and fabric treatments. The ban also covers juvenile products, menstruation products, textile furnishings, ski wax, upholstered furniture, and severe-wet-weather outdoor apparel.

State money supports municipal revenue sharing

The law transfers $101 million from the General Fund to the Municipal Revenue Sharing Fund for the year ending June 30, 2026. It transfers another $90 million for the year ending June 30, 2027. These transfers support municipal revenue sharing but do not set individual towns' payments or household tax savings.

Funding keeps buses and trains running

The Special Transportation Fund provides $316.004297 million for rail operations in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026. It provides $318.803218 million for rail operations the next year. Bus operations receive $296.608656 million and $301.407448 million in those same years. This money supports passenger transportation, but these provisions do not set fares or promise service increases.

Hospitals Receive Supplemental Payments and Refunds

Eligible nongovernmental, licensed short-term general hospitals in Connecticut receive $708.3 million in supplemental payments for fiscal year 2026–27. Starting in fiscal year 2027–28, payments rise by $25 million only when prior-year hospital tax collections grew by at least $25 million. Federal approval requirements and upper payment limits apply. For fiscal years beginning July 1, 2026, hospitals also receive refunds when the commissioner finds inpatient taxes exceed the federal rate limit. Refunds carry no interest and are divided according to each hospital's taxed inpatient net revenue.

Funding supports child care for families

Care4Kids child care assistance receives about $147.96 million in FY2026 and $151.23 million in FY2027. Early Care and Education programs receive about $193.85 million in FY2026 and $201.85 million in FY2027. These appropriations support eligible families and early learning programs. They do not change eligibility or set each family's payment.

Unspent money supports state employee costs

The state preserves and transfers $258 million in unspent funds that otherwise lapse on June 30, 2025. Salary reserves receive $100 million for fiscal year 2026 and $36 million for fiscal year 2027. State employee health costs receive $122 million for fiscal year 2026. These transfers do not set individual pay or benefit amounts.

Corporations get more usable loss deductions

Corporations can carry operating losses from income years beginning January 1, 2025, or later for 30 following years, up from 20. The usual deduction limit of 50% of net income and the rule to use older losses first remain. A separate rule restores losses for combined corporate groups with more than $6 billion in specified unused losses from before 2013. These groups must have made the required election giving up 50% of those losses and recalculate their carryover on a return for an income year beginning in 2025. Restored losses can be used for income years beginning in 2025 or later, within applicable deduction limits and carryforward periods.

Drug company staff face criminal penalties

Responsible pharmaceutical manufacturer or wholesale distributor staff face criminal penalties for willfully failing required compliance duties. Covered failures include unpaid civil penalties, missing statements, missing records, and withheld required information. Punishment can include a fine up to $1,000, jail up to one year, or both. For violations on or after January 1, 2026, prosecution must begin within three years. Knowingly and willfully submitting fraudulent or materially false documents to the commissioner is a class D felony when submitting them is the person's duty.

Adult state supplement standards stay frozen

Adult payment standards for Connecticut’s supplement to federal Supplemental Security Income stay flat in 2025–2026 and 2026–2027. The law suspends the usual annual consumer-price adjustment for those years. The commissioner can still raise the personal needs allowance when necessary to meet federal maintenance-of-effort requirements. This freeze concerns the state supplement, not federal benefit rates.

Domestic violence survivors face assistance cuts

Beginning July 1, 2025, families seeking diversion assistance because of domestic violence must meet the same need tests as others. They must show short-term need and that assistance prevents a need for monthly Temporary Family Assistance. Social Services counts income and assets of household members credibly accused of domestic violence. The law also ends the one-time general assistance payment for survivors ineligible for diversion assistance. That payment equaled the diversion aid the survivor and family would have received if eligible.

Lower state share for teacher health

For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, the state pays 25% of eligible retired teachers' basic health plan costs. This replaces the usual greater of one-third or the applicable 1998-rate minimum. Eligible retirement or disability beneficiaries and qualifying family members must have Medicare Parts A and B and join a covered plan. The state also pays 25%, rather than one-third, of subsidy costs for covered participants in state or school-board health plans. That monthly subsidy stays unchanged, and the law does not specify changes to participants' premiums.

Paraeducators lose one insurance enrollment-assistance option

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law repeals one qualified health plan enrollment-assistance option for paraeducators. School boards still assist with enrollment in Covered Connecticut and Medicaid. The provision does not state that existing insurance coverage ends.

Tank cleanup payments face cost reviews

The environmental commissioner sets guidelines for reasonable residential underground heating-oil tank spill cleanup costs. The commissioner may deny costs submitted by registered contractors when those costs are unreasonable under the guidelines. Reimbursement remains subject to income-based eligibility and cost-sharing rules. The provided provisions give no payment formula.

Towns can limit veterans' exempt land

For assessment years starting October 1, 2025, towns may limit land covered by the qualifying disabled-veteran dwelling exemption. A town may cap the exempt portion of the lot at no more than two acres. The limit requires a local legislative vote, or a selectmen's vote in a town-meeting town. Affected veterans may owe tax on land beyond the adopted limit.

Unpaid tank cleanup assistance ends

The law ends the underground storage tank petroleum cleanup program and moves its remaining money to the General Fund. Pending applications are cancelled, including approved claims that have not been paid. It also repeals several residential heating-oil tank cleanup laws. Some amended reimbursement language remains, so the repeal does not end every reimbursement provision.

College scholarship allocations change; dedicated grant ends

Beginning July 1, 2026, the Roberta B. Willis Scholarship ends its dedicated Charter Oak State College grant and $100,000 minimum allocation. Charter Oak students can still qualify for other grants, but no replacement award amount is stated. Need-based college allocations switch from family contribution to actual full-time-equivalent enrollment of eligible students within a student aid index limit. That limit is 200% of the maximum index eligible for a federal Pell grant. Students must meet program requirements, including Connecticut residency and study toward a first associate or bachelor's degree; individual awards are not guaranteed.

Vape sellers face home delivery ban

Beginning July 1, 2025, sellers may ship electronic nicotine delivery and vapor products only to registered dealers, manufacturers, or qualifying government recipients. Government recipients must be acting on official duties, and carriers cannot knowingly deliver to homes or unauthorized recipients. Authorized shipments outside original packaging need a warning label, signed acknowledgment, and proof of age. Violations can bring confiscation, destruction, criminal penalties, and civil penalties up to $10,000 per shipment.

State agencies face budget savings targets

Beginning July 1, 2025, the budget office can reduce executive-agency spending allocations to meet General Fund savings targets. For the year ending June 30, 2026, targets are $63.71057 million plus $25.518692 million in targeted savings. For the year ending June 30, 2027, targets are $73.71057 million plus $15 million in targeted savings. The law also authorizes $5 million in judicial-branch reductions in each year, allocated by the Chief Justice and Chief Public Defender. These provisions do not identify resulting changes to services or household benefits.

Corporate groups lose extra-tax cap

For income years beginning January 1, 2025, or later, combined corporate groups lose a $2.5 million tax cap. The cap limited how much their tax could exceed their nexus combined base tax, before surtax and credits. The law also excludes certain extra tax caused by the loss or combined-group changes from section 12-242d. That exception covers income years beginning January 1, 2025, or later, but before those changes' effective dates.

Corporate Tax Surcharges Last Longer

The 10% corporation business tax surcharge continues for income years beginning before January 1, 2029. The 10% capital base tax increase continues for income years beginning before January 1, 2028. Both previously ended for income years beginning January 1, 2026. Neither applies when the calculated tax is exactly $250. Companies with gross income below $100 million are generally exempt, unless they are taxable members of a combined group filing a combined unitary return.

Assigned liens carry interest, fee protections

Municipal tax liens assigned on or after July 1, 2026, carry 12% annual interest on delinquent principal from assignment. For tax-lien and sewer-assessment-lien assignments made on or after that date, contracts must restrict attorney fees. Those fees cannot be received, claimed, or collected before foreclosure or a debt lawsuit begins. For enforcement actions started on or after July 1, 2026, attorney fees cannot exceed 15% of the judgment.

Home Sellers Gain Wholesale Contract Protections

Beginning July 1, 2026, wholesale contracts give sellers three business days to review and cancel without a reason or penalty. Sellers must return deposits, pay their own advisors, and provide a state-compliant condition report and required federal reports before contracting. Before assigning or selling the contract, wholesalers must provide the seller's condition report and written notice explaining the third party's rights. That notice must say the wholesaler holds a future interest, not property title. Beginning October 1, 2026, wholesalers must also give sellers a state disclosure report before signing; electronic delivery is allowed, and the state must post it by September 30 within available funding.

Temporary tax withholding pause for distributions

From July 1, 2025, through December 31, 2026, covered lump-sum payments to Connecticut residents generally have no required state tax withholding. You can request withholding, and you still owe any tax due. Covered payments include retirement, pension, annuity, deferred-compensation, endowment, and life-insurance distributions. A lump sum exceeds the lesser of half your account balance or $5,000. Beginning January 1, 2027, withholding applies at the highest marginal rate when you have made no request. Exceptions cover amounts previously taxed and qualifying direct transfers or rollover checks payable to another qualified account.

Minority contractors gain support, face paperwork

Beginning October 1, 2025, minority-business contracting remedies continue until a state-validated study finds they are no longer needed. The state must seek disparity studies every five years, starting no later than January 1, 2030. Studies must examine disparities, explanations unrelated to race or gender, neutral solutions, and narrowly targeted remedies. Beginning July 1, 2025, 1% of covered Small Business Express and related business-program funding supports minority businesses' construction capacity. Public works bidders in the small-contractor and minority-business program must also submit signed statements confirming direct communication with each listed subcontractor.

Small-business contract goals replace fixed set-asides

Beginning July 1, 2026, annual state goods-and-services spending goals and public-works contract goals replace the former fixed set-aside requirements. Public-works goals reflect available small contractors and minority businesses in the relevant industry and geographic market. Agencies and contractors must make good-faith efforts; contracts conflicting with federal requirements are excluded. Affiliated businesses cannot count toward goals when the combined group does not qualify. The state must maintain certification and an online business directory; certification lasts up to two years, with extensions up to six months.

New warnings about PFAS in products

Beginning July 1, 2026, manufacturers must notify the state before covered products with intentionally added PFAS are made or marketed in Connecticut. Covered products include apparel, carpets, cleaners, cookware, cosmetics, dental floss, fabric treatments, juvenile and menstruation products, textile furnishings, ski wax, and upholstered furniture. Notices can cover product types and must be updated when information changes or the state asks. Covered products, including components, need labels visible before sale and durable for their useful life; federal labeling rules control where applicable. Beginning January 1, 2026, new or unused severe-wet-weather apparel containing PFAS must say “Made with PFAS chemicals,” including online. Sellers of turnout gear with intentionally added PFAS must give buyers written notice naming the PFAS and explaining its purpose.

State revenue moves into later budgets

The Comptroller must transfer $150 million in General Fund resources by June 30, 2025, counting it as fiscal year 2026 revenue. Another $244 million must transfer by June 30, 2026, counting as fiscal year 2027 revenue. By June 30, 2025, the Comptroller must also transfer $140 million in Special Transportation Fund resources. That amount counts as $17 million in fiscal year 2026 revenue and $123 million in fiscal year 2027 revenue. These accounting shifts do not directly change household taxes or payments.

Hospitals shift to newer tax bases

Beginning July 1, 2026, inpatient and outpatient hospital taxes use newer audited net revenue instead of fiscal year 2016 revenue. The inpatient tax rate remains 6%; a hospital's tax can rise or fall with the updated revenue base. Hospitals use federal fiscal year 2024 revenue for state fiscal years beginning July 1, 2026, through June 30, 2029. They use 2027 revenue for state fiscal years beginning July 1, 2029, through June 30, 2033, then revenue ending two years before each four-year period. When a hospital closes, its revenue leaves later calculations and the tax is redistributed among hospitals still operating.

Incarcerated voters get ballot delivery protections

Beginning January 1, 2026, the Secretary of the State must supply separate absentee ballot applications for Correction facilities. The forms must contain required information, be consecutively numbered, and be limited to incarcerated applicants. Applicants must use their facility's mailing address for ballot delivery. Correction must ensure voting materials reach applicants transferred to another department facility after using a facility address.

People in custody gain basic protections

Beginning October 1, 2025, Correction must provide everyone in the commissioner's custody with palatable, nutritious meals. Each person must also receive a form to authorize someone else to access medical records protected by federal privacy law. The form does not permit disclosure without authorization. Separately, the Correction Ombuds must explain the purpose before accessing an incarcerated person's medical record.

Limits on Property Tax Collection Fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, property-tax lien assignees and buyers of property-tax debt fall under consumer collection agency rules. Assignees cannot charge property owners collection fees added after a debt is charged off. Those fees also cannot be included in assigned lien amounts listed in assignment or foreclosure notices.

Clearer account access for disabled savers

Connecticut's ABLE disability savings program uses federal definitions for eligibility, beneficiaries, and qualified disability expenses. An eligible person can open an account or choose someone to open it. If the person cannot do so, someone meeting federal requirements and authorized by the program can act for them. If the Connecticut ABLE Trust ends with unclaimed assets, state unclaimed-property law, section 3-61a, governs those assets.

Emergency responders can give nasal glucagon

Emergency medical workers trained to give injectable glucagon can also give glucagon nasal powder when they consider it necessary. Their training must come from an organization designated by the commissioner. Licensed or certified ambulances may carry the medicine.

Epilepsy patients must receive risk information

Beginning October 1, 2025, doctors, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants must inform patients they regularly treat for epilepsy. They must explain the risk of sudden unexpected death in epilepsy and ways to lower that risk.

Medicaid patients get breast prosthesis information

Social Services must send Medicaid providers a bulletin about coverage for custom-made, noninvasive breast prostheses. It must also inform enrollees through existing programs, working with Public Health. These external forms fit a patient's body after mastectomy to restore a symmetrical appearance. The law explains existing coverage rather than creating a new benefit.

New university center for neuromodulation treatment

The University of Connecticut Health Center establishes a Center of Excellence for Neuromodulation Treatments. It can work with a Connecticut hospital to provide treatment at the center. The provision sets no opening date, funding amount, or patient eligibility rules.

Online help finding hospital financial aid

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Healthcare Advocate must hire a vendor to develop a hospital financial assistance portal. It must help patients and families find and apply for hospital aid. It may offer eligibility screening, application help, and information about avoiding future medical debt. The law does not guarantee aid or set an assistance amount.

Residents gain pancreatic cancer referral program

Public Health must establish a pancreatic cancer screening and treatment referral program by January 1, 2026, within available funding. It promotes screening and early detection, educates residents, and refers patients to screening, counseling, and treatment. It includes residents at elevated risk and people who are unserved or underserved. The provision does not promise free screening or treatment.

Easier exemption paperwork for disabled veterans

Beginning October 1, 2025, eligible disabled veterans unable to appear before assessors may use VA documentation instead. The papers must confirm permanent and total disability based on a 100% service-connected rating and inability to appear. For assessment years starting that date, claimants for covered veteran exemptions may prove eligibility before the assessment appeals board finishes its work. Timely proof makes the exemption apply to the preceding assessment day. Qualifying residents may also use their disabled-veteran exemption certificate in another Connecticut town for that assessment year by giving its assessor a copy and remaining eligible there.

New protections for homeowners selling to wholesalers

Beginning July 1, 2026, residential wholesale contracts must set closing within 90 days after everyone signs. Without a written extension signed by everyone, the contract ends after 90 days. Wholesale contracts and related notices or security interests cannot be recorded against the property, and wholesalers cannot file related purchaser's liens. Such filings do not give legal notice to good-faith buyers or creditors. Town clerks may refuse them, and an owner or another informed person may record an affidavit making the purported notice unenforceable.

Renters get time after payment-system failures

Beginning July 1, 2025, renters get five extra grace-period days when their landlord's online system prevents timely rent payment. The extra days extend the usual four-day or nine-day period before the landlord may terminate the rental agreement. The extension applies only to the affected week or month. Renters still owe the rent.

Advanced nurses and midwives save fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut removes issuance fees for nurse-midwifery licenses and advanced practice registered nurse licenses or endorsements. Midwives still need registered-nurse eligibility, current American Midwifery Certification Board certification, and 30 hours of nurse-midwifery pharmacology education. Advanced practice nurses still need the required nursing license, national certification, pharmacology education, and degree or equivalent program. Endorsement applicants need at least three years of experience in a jurisdiction with substantially similar or higher practice requirements. Pending disciplinary action or an unresolved complaint blocks midwifery licensure or advanced-practice endorsement.

Dental hygienists save license issuance fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut removes dental hygiene license issuance fees, including the specified foreign dental school pathway. The waiver also covers licenses without examination for qualifying hygienists licensed in another state or territory. All applicants must still meet their pathway's education and licensing requirements. Applicants seeking licensure without examination need equivalent education, a qualifying license, and competency certification from the other licensing board. Pending disciplinary action or an unresolved complaint blocks that license.

Home-care workers gain stronger safety practices

Beginning October 1, 2025, home health, home health aide, and hospice agencies must implement worker health and safety training. Training must match the curriculum endorsed by the federal workplace safety agencies named in the law. Agencies must provide a way for staff to promptly report violence or threats. Monthly safety assessments remain required and can happen in person, virtually, or through other communication methods.

Mental health professionals save application fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut removes application fees for marital and family therapists, professional counselors, and their associate licenses. Clinical and master social worker license applications also become free. Master social worker applicants save the former $50 temporary-permit fee. That permit is for applicants with the required master's degree who have not yet taken the licensing exam. Other licensing requirements remain.

New educators save $200 application fee

Beginning October 1, 2025, applicants pay no fee for an initial Connecticut educator certificate. The law removes the former $200 application fee charged by the State Board of Education.

Nurses save exam and licensing fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, registered and practical nurse applicants pay no Connecticut licensing-exam fee. The law also removes fees for licenses without examination and related temporary permits. Exam applicants still need approved nursing education; applicants licensed elsewhere need a qualifying license with comparable or higher standards. Temporary-permit applicants must provide their current license and a notarized statement that it is valid and theirs; practical-nurse permits last at most 120 calendar days. Pending disciplinary action or an unresolved complaint blocks licenses without examination and temporary permits.

Occupational therapy applicants save licensing fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut removes issuance fees for occupational therapist and occupational therapy assistant licenses. It also removes the occupational therapy temporary-permit fee. License applicants must still meet state requirements; permit applicants must be graduates with the required education and field experience. Permit holders work only under a licensed occupational therapist's direct supervision in a public, voluntary, or proprietary facility. Permits last at most 120 calendar days, cannot be renewed, and become void if the applicant fails the licensing exam.

Paramedics save licensing and renewal fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut charges no paramedic application, license issuance, or annual renewal fee. Applicants must still show that they meet the state's paramedic licensing requirements.

Physical therapy applicants save entry fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut removes exam fees for physical therapist and physical therapist assistant licenses. It also removes issuance fees for qualifying applicants licensed without examination. Exam applicants must still meet education and program requirements; foreign physical therapy graduates must show comparable or higher graduation standards. Applicants licensed elsewhere need a license or registration from a jurisdiction whose standards Connecticut deems equivalent or higher.

Physician assistants pay no issuance fees

Beginning October 1, 2025, Connecticut charges no issuance fee for a physician assistant license or temporary permit. Applicants must still meet the existing eligibility requirements.

Families can direct refunds into trusts

Beginning July 1, 2025, taxpayers can direct some or all of a Connecticut income-tax refund into either trust. The choices are a Connecticut Higher Education Trust account or the Connecticut Baby Bond Trust. The choice is made on the return and cannot be changed after filing. Contributions cannot exceed the refund left after required deductions, and this option does not increase the refund.

Closer Checks on Small Business Contracts

Beginning October 1, 2025, a compliance officer must monitor contract spending goals for small and minority businesses at covered authority-run facilities. This includes parking facilities tied to authority development projects. The officer also checks required efforts to hire available, qualified minority workers. The officer must report findings and recommendations annually while the facilities operate.

Commercial window installers get licensing exemption

Beginning July 1, 2025, a licensing exemption extends to installing preglazed or preassembled windows or doors in commercial buildings. The exemption already covers residential buildings. This removes the covered licensing requirement, not all rules governing installation work.

More funding options for business innovation

Beginning July 1, 2025, the state may use the Small Business Express Assistance Account and CTNext Fund for additional authorized entrepreneurship and innovation purposes. These uses include grants for eligible Connecticut businesses and organizations supporting innovation. The law specifies no funding amount and guarantees no business an award.

Disability driving instructors gain examination authority

Beginning July 1, 2025, disability driver-training staff have motor vehicle inspectors' authority and legal immunities during evaluations, instruction, and examinations. The law expressly includes examinations. It does not change participant eligibility or establish payments.

Emergency placements can keep children with kin

Beginning July 1, 2025, the child welfare department may make emergency placements with unlicensed relatives or close family friends. The primary caretaker must be suddenly unavailable, and placement must serve the child's best interests. A satisfactory home visit, basic family assessment, criminal-history checks, and child-abuse-registry checks must come first. Fingerprint checks must be requested within 10 calendar days after the name-based search. Caregivers still need licensing or approval; safety standards cannot be waived, and refusal to provide identifying information requires immediate removal.

Emergency planning covers larger solar facilities

Beginning October 1, 2025, the state must run an emergency preparedness program for solar facilities exceeding one megawatt. Work is limited to available funds. The program develops facility response plans and provides training and equipment to emergency responders. A dedicated General Fund account holds federal reimbursements and grants without an annual expiration. The annual program plan requires approval from the Office of Policy and Management secretary.

Grant supports families affected by homicide

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law makes $115,000 available to Survivors of Homicide, Inc. The grant comes from the Judicial Department's fiscal year 2026 Other Expenses budget. It funds the organization rather than creating a set payment for individual households.

High-poverty neighborhoods gain investment planning tools

The law creates a neighborhood investment office within the Department of Economic and Community Development and a pilot using ten-year plans. Selected areas generally must have a qualifying community development corporation and a high-poverty, low-opportunity designation as of January 1, 2024. Plans must aim to reduce household poverty to 20% or less and make lasting infrastructure and other improvements. Once a plan reaches the General Assembly, state agencies must prioritize its eligible projects for funding, without guaranteeing grants. Beginning July 1, 2027, selected corporations harmed by delayed official duties can seek a court order after showing good-faith implementation efforts. The commissioner may immediately expand the pilot when recommending expansion by January 1, 2029. The program does not promise direct household payments.

Library access rules and staff protections

Public library boards must publish collection, display, program, and material-review policies and review them at least every five years. Policies must protect against discrimination and bar removal based on viewpoint or solely because material is offensive. Only town residents may challenge materials; requests require identifying information and are not confidential patron records. The director must read the entire material, keep it available during review, and issue a written decision within 60 days. Residents may appeal, but the same material cannot face another challenge for three years after a decision. Exclusions require legitimate educational reasons or professionally accepted collection-maintenance standards. School and public library staff gain civil and criminal immunity, including in related court proceedings, for carrying out required policies in good faith.

More voting access and translation safeguards

Beginning July 1, 2025, towns must add an early-voting site at qualifying public college campuses. At least 1,000 students must live on campus or in housing owned, operated, or affiliated with the college. The site must meet the usual approval and location requirements. Beginning January 1, 2026, towns already required to offer election materials in another language must use professionally qualified translators. Translations must reach the Translation Advisory Committee for review at least 65 days before each election, primary, or referendum.

New committee checks election material translations

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Secretary of the State must establish a committee to validate election translations and recommend improvements. Initial appointments are due August 1, 2025. Members must be Connecticut residents with relevant local experience, English and relevant non-English literacy, and election, bilingual education, or community-assistance experience. They serve four-year terms without pay or mileage reimbursement. The committee meets at least quarterly and reports by January 15, 2027, and every two years afterward.

Police get new university training programs

Beginning July 1, 2025, the state establishes two university programs with input from its police training council. Southern Connecticut State University hosts a project joining social work and policing through training, education, research, policy advocacy, and collaboration. Central Connecticut State University hosts police training in crime scenes, forensic evidence collection and analysis, and criminal investigations. The public safety commissioner must sign agreements with both universities by January 1, 2026. Spending outside police officer training or education requires the commissioner's written approval.

Prisons cannot use diets as punishment

Beginning October 1, 2025, the correction commissioner cannot permit nutraloaf or any other punitive diet as discipline. The ban protects people in the commissioner's custody.

Prisons must strengthen staffing and safety

Beginning October 1, 2025, Correction must staff facilities to protect incarcerated people, staff, visitors, and contractors. The law sets no staffing number or funding amount. By January 1, 2026, the commissioner must develop and actively use a correctional officer recruitment and retention program. The commissioner must also create a protocol to fully document assaults by incarcerated people on correctional staff. Each covered assault must be documented beginning October 1, 2025.

Same-day voters gain another address proof

Beginning July 1, 2025, same-day registration applicants have another way to prove their home address. When their required information lacks address proof, sworn testimony from at least one registered voter can establish residence.

Sharing fake intimate images becomes criminal

Beginning October 1, 2025, sharing qualifying fake intimate images without consent is a crime. The sender must know the image is synthetic and intend to make viewers believe it is real. The identifiable person must suffer harm, or the sender must have created or acquired the image intending harm. Covered images must look virtually real and show specified intimate body parts or sexual intercourse. Exceptions cover specified voluntary public or commercial activity and images without clear identification; penalties range from class D misdemeanors to class D felonies.

State develops youth diversion and reviews

By February 1, 2026, police training and juvenile justice officials must develop a statewide youth diversion policy and training curriculum. The law requires proposals, not adoption of the policy or inclusion of the curriculum in basic police training. The Office of Policy and Management must also evaluate the juvenile reentry success plan annually using a secure data enclave. Reports go to the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee by January 15, 2026, and annually afterward. The office must coordinate related policy work with the Judicial Branch's Court Support Services Division.

State funds legal aid for residents

Connecticut provides $3.547144 million for legal aid in fiscal year 2025–2026 and $4.397144 million in 2026–2027. Legal aid providers use the money to serve eligible residents. These appropriations do not set new eligibility rules or individual payment amounts.

State must plan for federal cuts

The law requires a state response plan when federal legislation cuts Connecticut funding for fiscal years 2025 through 2027. The comparison is with fiscal year 2024 or 2025 funding. The Office of Policy and Management must submit the plan within 30 days after the federal legislation passes. It must identify affected programs, project impacts, and assess whether state money can replace some or all losses. When appropriate, a draft funding and revenue bill must prioritize health care, food aid, education, state employment, and arts and culture; replacement funding is not guaranteed.

Tweed airport gets annual noise funding

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Connecticut Airport Authority must spend $1 million each fiscal year on Tweed-New Haven Airport noise mitigation. The money comes from the Connecticut airport and aviation account. The work must follow federal aviation rules. The law does not promise payments to nearby households.

Youth gain roles in justice planning

The law creates a 15- to 33-member advisory council within the Juvenile Justice Policy and Oversight Committee. It helps develop the state juvenile justice plan and advises on its administration and certain grants under federal law. At least one-fifth of the Governor's appointees must be under 24 when first appointed. At least three appointed members must have experience under juvenile justice jurisdiction; parents or guardians can substitute when that is not feasible and appropriate. Appointed members serve three-year terms and can serve two full terms.

Advance Notice Before Prescription Drug Withdrawals

Beginning July 1, 2025, drug manufacturers and wholesale distributors cannot withdraw state-identified prescription drugs to avoid the specified civil penalty. They must give the Office of Health Strategy written notice at least 180 days before withdrawing an identified drug. Violating either rule carries a $500,000 civil penalty.

Age Checks for Every Vapor Buyer

Beginning July 1, 2025, sellers must request identification from every electronic nicotine or vapor product buyer to confirm age 21 or older. A driver's license, passport, or identity card is accepted. Sellers cannot complete a transaction scan showing a false document or mismatched information. The existing proof requirement for buyers who appear under 30 remains.

Drug reporting violators face public listing

By July 1, 2027, the commissioner must publish a list of pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesale distributors that violated reporting requirements. A new list is required every year and covers violations during the prior calendar year. This adds public information, not a drug-price limit or household payment.

Fluoride Standards for Large Water Systems

Water companies must maintain monthly average fluoride levels of 0.7 milligrams per liter in covered systems serving at least 20,000 people. Levels may vary by no more than 0.15 milligrams per liter above or below that amount. The rule applies to systems the company owns and operates.

Stronger enforcement of real estate wholesaling

Beginning July 1, 2026, violations of the law's real estate wholesaling requirements count as unfair or deceptive trade practices. This covers registration, contracts, disclosures, seller reporting, and recording requirements. Connecticut's unfair-trade-practice enforcement framework applies to those violations.

Updated Safety Standards for Food Businesses

Connecticut's health commissioner must adopt the federal Food Code and revisions issued through December 31, 2024. These standards govern food establishments. The commissioner may also adopt a federal Food Code supplement.

Dedicated funds support public health continuity

The law creates two separate public health accounts whose unspent money carries forward. Public Health must use the emergency communications account for timely, effective messages during covered public health emergencies. It can use the safeguard account for unexpected funding gaps, residents' health needs, and essential public health services. Safeguard money cannot cover the Safe Harbor Account's purposes. These provisions do not specify either account's funding amount.

Families gain public maternity care ratings

Public Health must convene an advisory group to set maternity care measures and send lawmakers its methods by February 1, 2026. Public report cards must begin by January 1, 2027, and appear annually. They cover birth centers and hospitals providing obstetric care, accounting for how complex their patients' needs are. Reports assess care by race, ethnicity, and income to the extent the advisory group recommends. Public data must meet federal health privacy requirements and federal or stricter rules that suppress small data groups.

More state aid for local health

For applications starting July 1, 2026, annual municipal health aid rises from $1.93 to $2.13 per resident. Health district aid rises from $2.60 to $3 per resident. Municipal departments need at least 50,000 residents; districts need 50,000 residents or at least three member municipalities. Both need approved programs and budgets, at least $1 per resident in local tax funding, and compliance with state public-health requirements. Municipal departments also need a full-time health director, subject to vacancy exceptions or a waiver. Grants depend on available state funds and go to health agencies, not households.

State funding supports immunization services

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Insurance Fund provides money for Public Health immunization services. Funding is about $49.18 million in FY2026 and $50.85 million in FY2027. The appropriation does not change who qualifies for immunizations or create individual payments.

Stronger shields for care legal here

Beginning July 1, 2025, protections expand for reproductive and gender-affirming care allowed in Connecticut; reproductive care expressly includes assisted reproduction. Covered people may recover damages, expenses, and reasonable attorney fees tied to qualifying out-of-state judgments. Specified officials cannot issue related out-of-state subpoenas, with exceptions for specified patient and contract claims. Judges cannot summon witnesses for related out-of-state criminal cases unless the acts are also Connecticut offenses. Public agencies cannot provide information or resources for related interstate cases unless the conduct creates liability under Connecticut law; judgment remedies also exclude specified patient, contract, and out-of-state conduct claims.

College contracts update nondiscrimination protections

Effective October 1, 2025, the law changes nondiscrimination terms for covered state college and University of Connecticut contracts. The requirements apply to contracts entered into or amended on or after July 1, 2026. Contracts must require compliance with the specified state nondiscrimination law or include an affirmation under that law. The affirmation expressly includes veteran status and status as a domestic violence victim. Contract language no longer references the separate statute identified in the prior wording.

Funding supports magnet and priority schools

The law provides interdistrict magnet operators their grants under the applicable grant rules for fiscal year 2025 and afterward. In each of fiscal years 2026 and 2027, it also distributes $30.818778 million for priority school districts. Annual distributions include $2.919883 million for extended school building hours and $3.412207 million for school accountability. This money supports school operators and programs, not direct household payments.

Hospice agencies must report staff abuse

Beginning October 1, 2025, hospice agencies join other covered home-care agencies in annual staff-abuse reporting. Reports cover verbal, physical, sexual, and other abuse by clients or anyone else when related to the staff member's work. Agencies must describe steps taken to keep staff safe and use the public health commissioner's required reporting format.

Larger Renovation Grants for Childcare Classrooms

Beginning July 1, 2025, the maximum early care and education renovation grant rises from $75,000 to $100,000 per classroom. Grants cover eligible facility capital costs. The money goes to eligible applicants, not directly to families.

School grants support advanced course access

Beginning July 1, 2026, a grant program reimburses school boards for fees charged for high-need students in advanced courses. Boards must apply, and grants depend on available funding. The education commissioner may also pay the State Education Resource Center up to $500,000 yearly to support dual-credit courses. That support also depends on available funding and gives priority to alliance districts. These payments go to education providers, not families.

School grants support tutoring and attendance

Beginning July 1, 2026, school boards may apply for home-visit and intensive-tutoring grants, subject to available funding. Home-visit grants prioritize districts with the highest chronic absenteeism and must reach at least 10 boards whenever awarded. Competitive matching grants for tutoring may last two years. Tutoring programs must include at least one statutory element of intensive tutoring. The education department may retain up to 3% of tutoring funds for administration, technical help, and evaluation.

State coordinates college programs in prisons

Beginning July 1, 2025, the state's criminal justice planning division must develop and carry out statewide prison college-education policies. The policies must address federal Pell Grants and prison education programs. The law sets no funding amount and guarantees no individual student award.

State Covers Reasonable Magnet Transportation Costs

Starting with fiscal year 2026, regional education service centers may receive grants covering reasonable Sheff-related magnet school transportation costs. Costs require documentation and a comprehensive review by an auditor selected by the education commissioner. Up to 95% may be paid by June 30 if records arrive before May 31. After review, the balance is paid in installments by March 1 following the fiscal year. Providers must return any overpayments.

United Way childhood grant authorized

The law allows up to $100,000 for a grant to United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut. The money comes from the Labor Department's fiscal year 2025 Cradle to Career appropriation through the Office of Early Childhood. It is available in fiscal year 2026, ending June 30, 2026. This supports the organization's early childhood work, not a set household payment.

New account supports equity focused investments

Beginning July 1, 2025, Connecticut creates a separate social equity and innovation account whose money does not expire annually. The Office of Policy and Management allocates money for purposes the Social Equity Council finds advance equity. Possible uses include business capital, technical help, workforce education, and community investments, including in disproportionately impacted areas. The provision sets no funding amount or individual award.

Connecticut towns receive annual grant funding

Beginning July 1, 2025, town grants receive $52.541796 million in each of fiscal years 2025–2026 and 2026–2027. The money comes from the Mashantucket Pequot and Mohegan Fund. This appropriation does not set town spending uses or provide direct payments to residents.

More cleanup uses for former waste funds

Beginning June 30, 2025, the state budget office can use the MIRA-related nonlapsing account for more former authority needs. Uses include operations, maintenance, cleanup, and addressing former activities or properties. South Meadows activities and property are excluded. The provision authorizes use of available funds, not a new appropriation.

More towns can join development authority

Beginning October 1, 2025, municipalities can choose to join the Connecticut Municipal Development Authority. Two or more towns can also join together as one member entity. Hartford and East Hartford cannot join, alone or jointly.

One corporation loses property value cap

Beginning July 1, 2025, the corporation established under an 1899 special act no longer has a $10,000 property-holding limit. It can receive, buy, hold, or lease real or personal property without that cap. The change creates no direct household payment.

State takes over recycling authority assets

The Materials Innovation and Recycling Authority ends July 1, 2025, and its rights and property pass to Connecticut. Beginning June 30, Administrative Services succeeds the Dissolution Authority, while the Capital Region Development Authority keeps its assigned responsibilities. Existing facility permits and licenses stay valid when ownership or oversight transfers to either agency. Qualifying property and business transfers, including covered transfers to the Capital Region Development Authority, do not count as establishment transfers under chapter 445.

Towns receive grants for authority property

Beginning July 1, 2025, towns receive state grants in place of taxes for specified Capital Region Development Authority property. Covered land and improvements must be owned or leased by the authority and not otherwise tax-exempt. Grants also cover the convention center and related parking facilities. The provision does not state grant amounts.

Wallingford transfer station gets temporary permit

Beginning July 1, 2025, the state environmental commissioner must grant the Wallingford Transfer Station owner a temporary operating permit. The permit lasts until the owner submits a complete application to resume operations under applicable requirements.

New safeguards for trust fund contracts

The Treasurer must set procedures for fair, thorough reviews when choosing firms that help invest state trust funds. The procedures must encourage choosing the most responsible provider offering the best value. Contracts can be awarded after the advisory council submits its written review, declines review, or 45 days pass—whichever happens first. These contracts fall outside personal-service and contractual-service contract categories but remain subject to the applicable investment policy.

Disability care facilities gain rate flexibility

Social Services must change its rules for intermediate care facilities serving people with intellectual disabilities. The rules must allow a separate direct-care inflation cost limit to be waived when rates are reset. This applies to rate resets after the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027. The law does not set a payment increase.

Funding for early childhood family programs

The Nurturing Families Network receives about $12.67 million in 2025–2026 and $14.47 million in 2026–2027. Smart Start receives about $3.33 million and $6.33 million in those same years. The money supports families, children, and communities served by the programs. These provisions set no individual payment amounts or eligibility changes.

Funding supports toddlers with developmental needs

Connecticut's Birth-to-Three program receives about $33.29 million in FY2026 and $36.09 million in FY2027. The money supports eligible young children with developmental needs and their families. This appropriation does not change eligibility or set individual benefit amounts.

Health centers get updated Medicaid payment option

By October 1, 2025, Social Services must offer federally qualified health centers an updated Medicaid payment method. Each center can choose this option or the federal payment system. The new method uses average reasonable 2023 costs, adjusted for approved service changes and Medicare Economic Index inflation. The update phases in over budget years ending June 30, 2026, 2027, and 2028. Cumulative state funding increases are capped at $5 million, $12 million, and $26.4 million, respectively, subject to available funding.

Health funding for teachers and municipal retirees

The law funds retired teachers’ health services with about $29.51 million in 2025–2026 and $44.36 million in 2026–2027. Municipal retiree health insurance costs receive $6.63 million and $8.84 million in those same budget years. These funds support retiree health costs, but the law sets no individual subsidy or premium reduction.

Higher Payments for Intellectual Disability Facilities

Licensed, certified intermediate care facilities for people with intellectual disabilities receive scheduled rate increases beginning July 1, 2025. Rates rise 1.4% above the calculated rate for fiscal year 2026, then 2.8% above the fiscal year 2026 rate for 2027. Fiscal year 2028 rates rise 3% above the preceding period, with a further 3% increase beginning January 1, 2028; lower interim or agreed rates still apply. For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, facilities may also receive increases for approved resident health or safety improvements, within available funding. During those years, the commissioner may also increase fair-rent reimbursement after a material change in rent circumstances and an approved certificate of need.

Hospitals choose whether to join payment plan

Beginning October 1, 2025, Social Services must develop a hospital financing or payment plan within available funding. Its report is due January 31, 2026; a Medicaid waiver application is allowed at least 30 days after reporting. Licensed acute care hospitals, including children’s hospitals, can choose whether to join for all services included in the plan. Extra payments depend on funds dedicated to implementation. The state cannot penalize refusal or make participation a condition of Medicaid payment or certificate-of-need approval.

Residential Care Homes Gain Improvement Payments

For fiscal years 2026 and 2027, residential care homes may receive higher rates for state-approved resident health or safety improvements. Awards depend on available funding. The commissioner may also approve proportional fair-rent increases for additions not already included in rates. Fiscal year 2026 increases cover additions put into service in the cost-report year ending September 30, 2024. Fiscal year 2027 increases cover the cost-report year ending September 30, 2025; both fair-rent increases are discretionary and funding-limited.

Treatment funding for children and families

Community Kidcare receives about $52.41 million in 2025–2026 and $61.01 million in 2026–2027. Substance use treatment through the Department of Children and Families receives about $9.93 million and $10.07 million, respectively. The funding supports children and families served by these programs. These provisions do not specify individual benefits or eligibility changes.

Housing projects face voucher ranking rules

The Connecticut Housing Finance Authority must use written ranking procedures for housing projects seeking tax-credit vouchers for cash contributions. Rankings consider readiness, use of funds, benefits to very-low- and low-income households, nonprofit capacity, and prior voucher use. Urban housing and use of outside funding are also ranking factors for income years beginning January 1, 1998, onward. The procedures no longer need the revenue services commissioner's approval. This changes project selection, not a household's right to a tax credit or housing assistance.

More locations qualify for development districts

Beginning October 1, 2025, a development district may extend outside its member town or towns. It must be downtown or within a one-half-mile radius of a qualifying passenger rail or bus rapid transit station. Stations qualify when operating, when state transportation planning has begun, or when included in the statewide transportation investment program.

Child care joins local-food reimbursement program

Beginning FY2026, eligible child care providers join school boards participating in the National School Lunch Program in receiving food reimbursements. The program repays half of eligible local-food costs and one-third of regional-food costs for qualifying meal programs, including federal child-and-adult-care meals. Food must meet nutrition standards, and providers must keep spending and origin records for state review. Payments shrink proportionately if claims exceed funding. Starting July 1, 2025, at least 20% of the annual program budget must support outside partners providing farm-to-school training, advice, outreach, or evaluation.

College reserve spending gets student-service oversight

A working group monitors state college system reserve spending for fiscal years ending in 2026 through 2030. It checks whether at least 13% of reserve funds go to education and student services each year. Special capital and debt-service reserves are excluded. The system must regularly provide information, and the group must report annually. Its final report is due by February 1, 2031, and the group ends after submitting it.

Connecticut funds loan reimbursement for borrowers

CT Loan Reimbursement receives $5 million for fiscal year 2025–2026 and $6 million for fiscal year 2026–2027. This funding provision does not specify qualifying loan types, eligibility rules, or reimbursement amounts per person.

Funding supports early childhood disability services

Beginning July 1, 2025, the state transfers $1 million in federal special-education funds yearly to the Office of Early Childhood. Transfers cover fiscal years 2026 and 2027. The money supports Birth-to-Three services and the state's federal special-education responsibilities. Spending must follow the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.

Grants support local education and youth

The law directs education department funds to named education, youth, and community programs in fiscal years 2026 and 2027. Annual grants include $2 million for engineering recruitment and K–2 reading tutoring, $1.5 million for Waterbury Promise, and $1 million for Full Circle Youth Empowerment. Brother Carl Institute receives $800,000 yearly, and teacher residency receives $750,000 yearly. In fiscal year 2027 only, EastCONN receives $3 million and EdAdvance receives $900,000. Awards for fiscal years 2026 and 2027, respectively, are $100,000 and $25,000 for robotics; $150,000 and $200,000 for Big Brothers Big Sisters; $450,000 and $350,000 for Effective School Solutions; and $400,000 and $200,000 for the Connecticut Association of Schools/Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference. Fiscal year 2026 also provides $100,000 for Athlife, $200,000 for Free Agent Now, and $10,000 for Greenwich YMCA scholarships. Additional designated grants support early childhood, school lunch debt, tutoring, youth programs, scholarships, and community groups.

Magnet tuition bills capped for districts

From FY2025 onward, K–12 magnet tuition billed to school boards generally cannot exceed 58% of the FY2024 per-student charge. Authorized programs opening on or after July 1, 2024, instead use a regional-average cap for similar grades. The Education Commissioner sets that average. These caps limit school-board bills, not household tuition.

Public colleges gain guaranteed energy-saving contracts

Beginning July 1, 2025, public higher-education units can create their own process for energy-saving performance contracts. They must follow governing-board policies, seek proposals from at least three qualified providers, and study cost-effectiveness. Contracts can last up to 30 years and remain subject to appropriations when legally required. Providers must check guaranteed savings annually and pay any shortfall; extra savings cannot offset another year's shortfall. Providers must monitor savings and report at least annually using the required international measurement standards.

State funds scholarships for college students

The Roberta B. Willis Scholarship Fund receives $26.288637 million for fiscal year 2026 and $41.288637 million for fiscal year 2027. The money supports scholarships for eligible students. This provision does not change eligibility or specify individual award amounts.

Cannabis oversight gets funding and planning

The law transfers $10.3 million to the Cannabis Regulatory Fund for fiscal 2026 and $10.5 million for fiscal 2027. Beginning July 1, 2025, the Social Equity Council chair and executive director jointly propose equity-account allocations and spending plans. The Council reviews and approves plans for business capital, technical help, workforce education, community investment, and disproportionately impacted areas. These provisions do not establish direct household payments or an equity-account spending amount.

Aircraft venture keeps tax exemption longer

Beginning July 1, 2025, the sales-tax exemption for qualifying aircraft joint-venture services lasts up to 50 consecutive years, instead of 40. The joint venture must have existed before January 1, 1986. The venture and services must continue to qualify under the exemption's existing requirements.

Development authority gets broader property exemption

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Capital Region Development Authority's tax exemption covers land and improvements it owns or leases. It also covers the convention center and convention center project. Covered property is exempt from state and local taxes and assessments.

More clubs qualify for dues-tax relief

Beginning July 1, 2025, more social, athletic, and sporting clubs qualify for the dues-tax exemption. Annual dues for a member with full privileges must be $250 or less. Any required initiation fee must also be $250 or less. The prior limit was $100 for each amount.

Research tax credits reach qualifying manufacturers

For tax years beginning January 1, 2025, or later, qualifying single-member limited liability companies gain access to two research credits. They need more than 3,000 Connecticut employees and manufacturing expertise in mechatronics, alignment and sensor technology, and optical fabrication. The research-and-experimental credit equals 20% of qualifying Connecticut spending above the prior year's amount; that credit counts company and owner employees together. The separate research-and-development credit offers a 6% rate when prior-year gross income is no more than $100 million and related-person requirements are met. When federal tax rules disregard the company as separate from its owner, only an owner subject to the relevant Connecticut tax can claim the credits.

Sales tax exemption for qualifying ambulances

Beginning July 1, 2025, qualifying ambulance-type vehicles are exempt from Connecticut sales and use tax. Vehicles qualify when used only to transport medically incapacitated people without payment for that transport. Ambulances operating under a state ambulance license or certificate also qualify. The law does not set a dollar value for the savings.

South Meadows Gets Temporary Tax Relief

Beginning June 30, 2025, the South Meadows site and personal property there are exempt from Connecticut property tax. The exemption ends when the development or redevelopment project covered by the law begins.

Tax Credits for University Promotion Payments

For tax years beginning January 1, 2025, the University of Connecticut may offer credits for qualifying payments promoting its public recognition. Payments require a written agreement, generally signed on or after July 1, 2025; earlier agreements qualify if the university adopts or updates its program policies. Credits equal 50% of payments, capped at $500,000 per taxpayer annually and $5 million statewide per calendar year. Taxpayers must obtain and file a university voucher verifying payments. Unused credits carry forward for 15 years, and the general corporate credit limit does not apply.

Tribal Trust Property Gets Tax Exemption

For assessment years beginning October 1, 2025, real property and tangible personal property on qualifying tribal trust reservation land are exempt from property tax. The land must be held in trust for a federally recognized Indian tribe.

Conservatorship forms must disclose state aid

Beginning January 1, 2026, applications for an estate conservator or involuntary representation must disclose state aid or care. The application must say whether the person who is the subject of the case receives that help. This requirement does not change eligibility for state aid or care.

Disabled drivers lose test certification option

Beginning July 1, 2025, Connecticut removes a driving-test alternative for people completing its disability driver training program. Motor Vehicles can no longer accept the program's certification instead of the driving-skills test under this process. The repealed process also allowed the disability services agency to recommend license restrictions.

State custody adoptions require parent licenses

Beginning July 1, 2025, prospective parents adopting a child in state child welfare custody must obtain a department license. The provided provision does not state a licensing fee.

Collectors Can Sue on Assigned Debts

Beginning October 1, 2025, consumer collection agencies can accept third-party assignments of claims for collection. They can also sue in court on those assigned claims. People owing those debts can face collection lawsuits.

Optional phone fee funds firefighter cancer relief

Beginning January 1, 2026, providers must charge 5 cents monthly per covered phone or internet-calling access line unless subscribers opt out. Collected fees go monthly to the firefighters cancer relief account. Providers must give written notice at least 60 days before the first charge. Subscribers can opt out before the first or any later assessment. Prepaid wireless service is exempt, and assessed fees are not refundable.

Physician assistants face tighter practice checks

Beginning July 1, 2025, Connecticut physician assistant license applicants must undergo state and national fingerprint-based criminal-history checks. The law specifies no fee. Under the interstate licensing compact, discipline-related restrictions can block practice privileges until two years after restrictions end. Adverse action against the qualifying license deactivates privileges in all remote states during that period. A remote state can disregard an out-of-state privilege restriction when the conduct does not justify discipline there.

Annual Tax Claims for Disabled Veterans

For assessment years beginning October 1, 2025, claimants for the 100% permanent-and-total service-connected disability exemption must apply annually by January 1. They must use the Office of Policy and Management form and include VA documentation. They must also attest that they have not claimed, and will not claim, this exemption in another town. Missing these requirements can mean losing the exemption for that assessment year.

Higher fees for recording property documents

Beginning July 1, 2025, the additional municipal land-record fee rises from $40 to $50 per covered document. Documents recorded by state or municipal employees for official duties remain exempt. Of the $50, clerks retain $2, municipalities receive $3, and $45 goes to the state's community investment account. Separately, mortgage nominees pay $160 instead of $159 for covered mortgage assignments where they are the assignor, or mortgage releases. The nominee fee does not directly apply to every household with a mortgage.

Baby Scholars savings fund law ends

Effective July 1, 2025, Connecticut repeals the law establishing the CHET Baby Scholars fund. This provision does not state benefit amounts, replacement benefits, or transition rules for participants.

Heated nicotine products enter cigarette-tax rules

Beginning July 1, 2025, cigarette-tax rules cover nicotine products intended to be burned or heated during normal use. Covered products include heated tobacco rolls, sticks, and capsules. Purchasers may face added tax costs, but this provision does not state the rate or added price.

State Plans Tax Debt Collection Pilot

State budget and tax officials must develop a pilot to collect unpaid state taxes, penalties, and interest from state payment recipients. They must present the plan to the legislature's finance committee by January 1, 2026. The design must minimize agency paperwork and administrative burdens. The law sets no payment reduction formula or collection amount.

Funeral businesses must list more contracts

Beginning July 1, 2025, funeral establishments must include more contract property on annual lists supplied to holders. A contract qualifies when it is at least 75 years old and its beneficiary has reached age 110. Property must also be listed when the establishment receives affirmative notice that the beneficiary died. This reporting rule does not itself require a payment to families.

Paid lactation consultants need state licenses

Beginning July 1, 2026, paid lactation consulting requires a Connecticut license, and titles suggesting licensure are restricted. Exemptions cover specified professionals, supervised students, program staff, community health workers, peer and nonclinical support providers, doulas, midwives, and public health professionals. Each exemption depends on the applicable work-scope, supervision, job-description, training, or service requirements. Exempt providers generally cannot call themselves lactation consultants.

New Registration Fees for Property Wholesalers

Beginning July 1, 2026, each completed real estate wholesaler registration application carries a nonrefundable $285 fee. Initial registrations last no more than two years. Renewals last two years, with another $285 application fee each time.

Real estate wholesalers must register

Beginning July 1, 2026, real estate wholesalers must register with Connecticut's Department of Consumer Protection before operating. Applicants must submit a completed application in the form and manner the commissioner requires. The registration fee is $285. Wholesalers may also hold a real estate broker or salesperson license.

Cleanup contractors face broader oversight

Contaminated soil or groundwater cleanup must follow state cleanup regulations and use a registered contractor or their direct onsite supervision. This requirement now applies regardless of payment by the underground tank cleanup program. The environmental commissioner may revoke a contractor's registration for cause, including failures involving financial assurance, training, or performance standards.

Tougher penalties for unlawful vape sales

Beginning July 1, 2025, selling, giving, or delivering electronic nicotine or vapor products to anyone under 21 carries fines up to $1,000 per offense. This replaces the previous graduated maximum fines. The consumer protection commissioner can also suspend or revoke dealer registrations for violations of applicable age-check or sales rules.

Enfield school-aid increases go through state

Starting in FY2026, the Comptroller withholds Enfield's covered school-aid increases above the amount it received in FY2012. The withheld money goes to the Education Commissioner while Enfield remains an alliance district. This changes who controls that funding rather than establishing a payment to families.

School grants face funding shortfall cuts

Connecticut cuts covered education grants proportionately when total payments exceed available funding. Beginning July 1, 2025, this rule covers regional education service centers and bilingual education grants through June 30, 2027. A separate rule covers specified grants to towns, regional school boards, and regional education service centers through June 30, 2026. These limits affect school funding, not direct payments to families.

School grants shrink when funding falls short

Covered grants to local and regional school boards are reduced proportionately when total grants exceed appropriated funding. That rule continues through the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026. A separate proportional reduction rule applies to school transportation grants beginning with the year ending June 30, 2025, and continues afterward. These rules limit district payments when available funding falls short; they do not set a household charge.

Construction bidders need signed subcontractor statements

Beginning October 1, 2025, general bids for contracts covered by chapter 59 need signed statements from every listed subcontractor. Each statement must confirm direct communication with the general bidder about that contract's work before bid submission.

Long-distressed towns face mandatory financial review

Beginning July 1, 2025, qualifying towns must be referred to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission. A town must have been distressed for at least 15 straight years. Its population must be above 15,000 and below 20,000 in the latest decennial census. The requirement applies only without a prior referral under the listed state oversight laws.

Lottery corporation pays gaming oversight costs

Beginning July 1, 2025, the Connecticut Lottery Corporation pays reasonable and necessary state oversight costs. Covered oversight includes lottery games, sports wagering, and fantasy contests. The corporation pays in three installments. Starting with the assessment year ending June 30, 2027, estimates use prior-year costs, with differences corrected the next year.

Three organizations receive state payments yearly

State account payments move from quarterly to annual for three organizations. They are the United States Olympic Committee, Connecticut Support Our Troops, Inc., and the Connecticut Nurses Foundation. The Olympic Committee uses its money to support and train athletes for competition. These provisions change payment timing, not stated payment amounts.

Birth-to-Three providers lose monthly administrative payment

Beginning July 1, 2026, Connecticut ends a $200 monthly administrative payment to qualifying Birth-to-Three providers. It applied to children with an individualized family service plan in place on the first day of the billing month. The plan had to call for fewer than nine service hours, with at least one service provided that month. This reduces provider funding; it does not directly charge families $200.

Private residential centers face rate-setting limits

For 2025–2026 and 2026–2027, the law excludes one statutory provision from private residential treatment center rate-setting. That provision cannot be considered when raising or lowering residential rates or allowable daily payments to licensed centers. The law does not specify whether resulting rates rise or fall or impose a direct household charge.

Repeated healthcare service interruptions count together

For covered healthcare institutions and entities, separate service interruptions now count together toward a service termination. A termination occurs when interruptions total more than 180 days within any consecutive two-year period. Previously, one interruption had to exceed 180 days.

Cannabis businesses keep interim operating limits

Interim cannabis rules covering social equity license transfers, maximum grow space, delivery, and transport continue until final regulations or October 1, 2026, whichever comes first. Social equity transfer limits apply during provisional licensing and for three years after a final license. Transfers generally must go to another qualifying social equity applicant, with a statutory exception involving backers. Two additional sets of interim licensing and operating policies expire when final regulations are adopted or September 22, 2026, whichever comes first. That September deadline applies even if regulations have not been submitted for legislative review.

Children's hospitals face possible tax payments

The state must seek federal approval to end the hospital net revenue tax exemption for children's general hospitals. With federal approval, previously exempt hospitals must pay inpatient and outpatient services taxes beginning July 1, 2026. They pay the same effective rates as other hospitals. The tax requirement depends on approval from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Drug companies lose penalty payment relief

Pharmaceutical manufacturers and wholesale distributors cannot obtain waivers of the specified civil penalties. They also cannot apply tax credits against those penalties. The restriction applies to the penalties covered by this provision, not all company taxes or fines.

Healthcare taxpayers lose hardship payment extensions

For quarters beginning July 1, 2026, or later, covered healthcare taxpayers lose undue-hardship extensions of up to six months. Taxes and fees under sections 12-263q and 12-263r must be paid by the applicable return's due date. The change affects payment timing, not the stated tax or fee amount.

Hospitals face revenue reporting deadlines

Hospitals paying inpatient or outpatient services tax must report revenue by January 1, 2026, January 1, 2029, and every four years afterward. Reports cover the applicable federal fiscal year. When the commissioner starts an audit, hospitals must provide requested additional information within 14 days. Failure to meet applicable information requirements carries a $1,000 daily penalty.

Tighter tax-credit rules for youth organizations

The law narrows which youth development organizations qualify for the associated tax credit. An organization must be a Connecticut-based nonprofit with federal 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. It must provide the specified evidence-supported services for high-risk youth, skills training, transitional jobs, and job-placement support. The definition applies to applications filed on or after the law's effective date.

Lactation consultants face fees and oversight

Beginning July 1, 2026, applicants with current international board certification qualify for a Connecticut lactation consultant license. The application costs $200, and renewal costs $100 every two years. Renewal requires current certification and its required continuing education. Public Health regulates the profession without a separate board and can deny or discipline licenses for misconduct, unsafe practice, fraud, falsified records, or lost certification. Before discipline, the commissioner must give notice and a chance to be heard.

Physician assistants gain interstate practice options

Beginning July 1, 2025, Connecticut joins the physician assistant licensing compact; the compact activates upon enactment by a seventh state. Assistants can seek practice privileges in other member states, with oversight where the patient is located. Applicants need an unrestricted qualifying license, approved training, current national certification, and compliance with criminal-history, disciplinary, and state-law requirements. Controlled-drug prescribing requires separate state approval; privileges generally last until license expiration, revocation, or termination. State and commission fees may apply, but amounts are not set; changing the application state requires notice and any required fee. Applicants must provide their home address, immediately report address changes, accept mailed legal notices, and report nonmember-state discipline within 30 days. If an uncured state default leads to membership termination after other compliance efforts fail, privileges generally continue for 180 days. Affected assistants can preserve privileges elsewhere by holding or obtaining a qualifying license in another member state before that deadline.

College savings accounts gain rollover flexibility

Beginning July 1, 2025, Connecticut Higher Education Trust account owners can make any rollover excluded from federal income under Section 529. The Treasurer can set payment, withdrawal, interstate-transfer, beneficiary-change, fee, and nonqualified-distribution penalty terms. The Treasurer can also delegate investment management to advisors registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission, unless federally exempt. Investments must serve only account owners, beneficiaries, and the purposes set by law. Connecticut pledges to protect account and contract rights until obligations are fulfilled, unless a legal change adequately protects affected parties.

Physician assistants get compact exit notice

A state may leave the physician assistant licensing compact by passing a repeal law. Withdrawal takes effect 180 days after enactment, and existing compact privileges continue during that period. The state must immediately notify its licensees. It must also recognize compact licenses for at least 180 days after that notice.

Religious employers gain workplace speech exemption

Beginning October 1, 2025, qualifying religious entities gain an exemption from specified state workplace speech protections. It covers religious speech directed to employees doing work connected with the entity's activities. The entity must qualify for an exemption under Title VII or the specified Connecticut discrimination laws. Employees have narrower protections under the covered workplace speech rule in those situations.

Public contractors face revised workforce checks

For covered public works, the former rule requiring 50% of work by eligible program contractors or subcontractors is removed. Agencies may instead require at least 30% of work using a contractor's own workforce, except for specified construction managers. Agencies may request organizational, tax, property-transaction, and Connecticut business-location records. They may request federal small-business registration evidence from businesses certified on or after October 1, 2021. The civil rights commission may audit and investigate covered contractors for compliance and must post audit results online.

Small contractors get bond and paperwork relief

The contracting program excludes an awarding agency when the anticipated total value of all its covered contracts is $10,000 or less. Municipal or quasi-public agency public-works contracts worth $50,000 or less are also excluded, removing both program requirements and access provisions. Eligible small contractors and minority businesses may use a letter of credit instead of a required public-works bond. Agencies must accept letters worth 10% of contracts under $100,000 or 25% of contracts over $100,000.

Curbside voting expands with new limits

Beginning January 1, 2026, every polling place must designate curbside voting for voters unable to enter because of an incapacity. The incapacity need not be temporary, and state regulations must include a model local plan. On primary, referendum, and election days, a marked 20-foot zone bars solicitation, loitering, selling, and offering advertising or election materials. During voting, other vehicle occupants must be voting or driving the voter; candidates may enter only to vote themselves.

Faster South Meadows approvals, less local control

Beginning June 30, 2025, state commissioners control South Meadows project approvals, and local rules do not apply. Most applications count as approved after 10 business days without action; environmental commissioner actions and federally delegated authority are exceptions. The Capital Region Development Authority must handle required environmental reviews and hold a public hearing. The budget office must issue a public decision within 10 days after receiving comments; planning and preliminary work can start before review ends, but site preparation still needs required permits. Qualified Connecticut professionals can certify building and fire code compliance instead of certain state permits or inspections.

Library grants require written review policies

Principal public libraries must maintain and follow governing-body policies to qualify for specified state grants. Required policies cover collection development and maintenance, displays and programs, and material review and reconsideration. Residents must have a clear process to request review of library materials. Libraries that fail these requirements lose eligibility for the covered grants.

New ballot rules for incarcerated voters

Beginning January 1, 2026, eligible people in state correctional custody count as absent from their home town for voting purposes. This applies even when their facility is in that town. Correctional employees distributing the designated absentee application need not register as distributors or file recipient lists. Clerks must reject that application if it lists an address outside a state correctional facility. Clerks must record application details and the ballot mailing date or reason for rejection.

Project Longevity changes its city coverage

Beginning July 1, 2025, Project Longevity's designated cities are Hartford, Bridgeport, Waterbury, and New London. New London is added, and Norwich is removed. The Chief Court Administrator provides planning and management help and seeks available federal funding. No funding amount is specified.

Home-care agencies face new safety requirements

Beginning October 1, 2025, providers must share specified safety information they hold when referring patients to home-care or hospice agencies. Sharing is required only when feasible and allowed by state and federal law. Home health, home health aide, and hospice agencies receiving state medical assistance payments must show they implemented required safety training. Social Services can accept a suitable alternative training program. Agencies may receive higher payments, within available funding, for reporting workplace violence to Social Services and Public Health within seven calendar days.

Hospice-only agencies lose safety-sharing duties

Beginning October 1, 2025, hospice-only agencies are exempt from an existing worker safety-information requirement. This includes agencies operating solely as hospice programs, hospice-based home care programs, or hospice inpatient facilities. They no longer must collect and provide covered client and service-location safety information to assigned workers under that requirement. This removes an agency duty but narrows workers’ access to that information.

Interstate physician assistant oversight gains safeguards

Compact states must investigate complaints, share licensing and discipline data, use recognized exams, and implement criminal background checks. Significant investigation details stay limited to member states, and records must be removed when the reporting state reports legal expungement. Commission rules carry legal force, but courts can block conflicts with state laws on physician assistant services. A majority of member-state legislatures can reject a rule within four years, and state executive and judicial branches must enforce the compact. Covered commission personnel gain civil-liability protection, legal defense, and payment of covered claims for work within their actual or reasonably believed duties. That protection excludes intentional, wilful, or wanton misconduct but can limit claims against those personnel.

Shared discipline rules for physician assistants

Only the state issuing a physician assistant's qualifying license can discipline that license. Other participating states can discipline the assistant's compact practice privileges, using their existing due-process rules. States can share investigations and must promptly report disciplinary action to the compact data system. Investigation costs can be charged to the assistant only when state law allows. The compact overrides conflicting state laws only where they conflict, and agreements between the compact commission and states are binding.

Child care building grants change focus

Beginning July 1, 2025, early care facility bond money can support Early Start CT. Smart Start, specified school-board uses, and infant-and-toddler purposes remain eligible. School readiness, state-funded day care centers, and Even Start are removed from the listed uses. Money remains limited to facility improvements and minor repairs. Infant-and-toddler service expansion must address a need identified by the Office of Early Childhood.

College military programs gain discrimination exemption

Beginning October 1, 2025, qualifying college Reserve Officers' Training Corps programs are exempt from specified sexual-orientation discrimination provisions. The exemption covers program conduct and administration. Programs must be established and maintained under the specified federal military training law and regulations.

Magnet schools get revised funding rules

Starting with FY2025, eligible magnet school grants use updated student-need and current-year revenue measures. Need measures include meal-benefit and English-learner weights, plus a Sheff weight when the commissioner finds the program helps meet court obligations. Qualifying new programs opening on or after July 1, 2024, get a regional per-student baseline. An added grant protects operators when the law's prior-year and current-year per-student revenue comparison shows a qualifying decline. From July 1, 2025, transportation grants generally pay half of estimated eligible costs by October 31 and the balance by May 31; covered regional service-center grants use a separate schedule.

Religious employers gain discrimination rule exemptions

Beginning October 1, 2025, covered religious organizations are exempt from specified sexual-orientation and gender-identity or expression discrimination provisions. The exemptions cover employment connected with their activities and matters involving faith, discipline, internal organization, or religious rules. They reduce covered organizations' legal duties and narrow protections for affected employees.

School library access and challenges get rules

School boards must publish library collection, display, program, and challenge policies, with age- and grade-appropriate access and professional review standards. They must consult the superintendent, curriculum director, and a board-employed librarian, then review policies at least every five years. Only parents or guardians of enrolled students and eligible enrolled students may challenge materials; forms require contact details, disputed passages, and reasons. Materials stay available during review, a written committee decision is due within 60 school days, and appeals go to the board. Removal requires legitimate teaching reasons or accepted collection standards—not viewpoint or offense alone—and repeat challenges are barred for three years after a decision.

Special education grants carry spending protections

Beginning FY2026, town school boards maintaining public schools receive special education and expansion development grants. The formula uses the board's aid ratio, a state-set foundation amount, and 50% of prior-year resident special education enrollment. Calculations use records as of the preceding December 1, include statutory adjustments, and payments come in installments. Grants shrink proportionately if funding falls short; increases must add to existing special education spending, not replace it. Boards that misuse funds forfeit twice that amount from grants two fiscal years later, unless the state board grants a waiver.

State contractors face revised discrimination rules

Beginning October 1, 2025, covered state construction, public-work, goods, and services contracts must follow the stated antidiscrimination standard. The human rights commission may file contractor complaints, and findings of noncompliance require corrective-action orders. Neighborhood Security project bids retain specified nondiscrimination and subcontractor-hiring requirements. Their required terms no longer include the separate requirement in section 4a-60a.

Technology center aid uses current enrollment

Eligible technology center grants use current-year enrollment instead of enrollment from the year ending June 30, 2025. The formula includes sending-town adjustment factors and $5,200 per in-district student. Money goes to centers, not directly to families.

Bond premium project funding starts later

Net bond premiums continue going to the General Fund until July 1, 2027. Beginning that date, they can support State Bond Commission-approved purposes or projects whose bonds remain unissued. Deposits cannot exceed the commission's approved amounts. The Treasurer must file a certificate showing the amount assigned to each purpose or project.

Community funds shift more toward farming

Beginning July 1, 2025, agriculture sustainability receives $12 per fee credited to the community investment account, up from $10. Remaining funds split quarterly into five equal agency shares for preservation, affordable housing, open space, farming, and related work; administration is capped at 10% per agency. Annual allocations include $475,000 for the Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation and $625,000 each for agricultural viability and farm transition. They also include $125,000 for Connecticut-grown food promotion, $93,750 for Farm Link, and $59,375 each for the Seafood Advisory Council and Farm Wine Development Council. The Food Policy Council receives $31,250 annually, and agriculture marketing money must support Connecticut-grown farm products.

Contractors face stronger public contract enforcement

The law expands covered public contract violations that can trigger enforcement against contractors and subcontractors. After a hearing and a finding of a willful violation, agencies must stop contract payments and can assess up to $10,000 per violation. Beginning October 1, 2025, nonmunicipal awarding agencies can substitute their own compliance programs only with Commission approval and equivalent protections. Contractors following an approved program can be relieved from the specified statutory requirements. Municipal awarding agencies cannot use this substitute.

Former waste stations gain operating flexibility

Beginning July 1, 2025, qualifying former MIRA stations can accept and charge for outside-area waste, including recyclables. Stations must have met ownership or operation, registration, and waste-acceptance tests on May 1, 2025; outside waste must come from towns or regional authorities that were MIRA members on January 1, 2022. Stations must follow other general-permit rules and submit complete applications for needed commercial permits by July 1, 2026. Authority lasts until July 1, 2027, or the final permit decision, whichever is later; timely complete applications allow continued operation while pending. Existing permits also remain valid when specified stations transfer to Essex or, for Torrington, the Northwest Resource Recovery Authority or its designee.

Some distressed towns face financial oversight

For the years ending June 30, 2026, and June 30, 2027, qualifying distressed towns receive tier I financial oversight. Towns must have been distressed for at least 15 consecutive years. Their latest census population must be greater than 15,000 but less than 20,000. These towns must submit five-year financial plans to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission for review and approval.

South Meadows redevelopment shifts public responsibilities

On June 30, 2025, Hartford's South Meadows site, related property, and duties transferred to the Capital Region Development Authority. The site includes 300 Maxim Road and 100 Reserve Road. The law also creates a development district bounded by the Hartford-Wethersfield line, Wethersfield, Wawarme, Hendricxson, Van Block, and Sequassen avenues, Curcombe and Masseek streets, and the Connecticut River. A separate $5 million transfer from the MIRA Dissolution Authority goes to the account established by the 2023 law, before specified remaining resources move to the development authority. Qualifying state tax revenue from completed site projects stays with the development authority for site reinvestment. Connecticut covers specified title and environmental liabilities that existed on June 30, 2025, including related legal costs. The authority must first use the designated transferred funds; unrelated later conditions are not covered.

Vendor guaranty money moves into budget

The Comptroller must move the Connecticut Itinerant Vendors Guaranty Fund's remaining balance to the General Fund by June 30, 2026. The law does not state the balance or direct how the transferred money is spent.

Windham receives payments instead of districts

Beginning July 1, 2025, specified state payments owed to a district wholly within Windham go to the town instead. The law changes the recipient, not the payment amount.

Bottle-redemption loss grants and stronger enforcement

For the year ending June 30, 2026, the law transfers $2 million to a bottle-bill enforcement and assistance account. Of that transfer, $250,000 goes to State Police enforcement. Reimbursement applicants must have filed required returns showing two consecutive quarters of overredemption losses during the year ending June 30, 2025. Losses must result from bottle-bill violations, and grants shrink proportionately when requests exceed available money. The Attorney General gains authority to investigate violations, issue subpoenas and written questions, and bring civil cases. Information obtained through those investigations cannot be used in criminal proceedings.

Care providers shift to court appeals

Beginning January 1, 2027, covered institutions, agencies, and facilities use court appeals instead of binding arbitration after unresolved rehearings. The change covers specified Social Services payment decisions and facility final-report disputes; the commissioner may also appeal unresolved final-report items. Facilities must describe each disputed final-report item in writing within 90 days after written notice of the commissioner's decision. Appeals receive priority scheduling. These changes do not directly alter household benefit amounts.

Health centers face specific rate-change limits

Beginning July 1, 2025, health centers can receive Medicaid rate adjustments for cost changes tied to services within patient visits. Changes must involve the type, intensity, duration, or amount of those services. Patient volume, clinic size, site changes, capital-related operating costs, or greater use of existing services alone do not qualify. Centers must notify Social Services within 60 calendar days after the affected fiscal year ends and answer information requests within 30 days. With timely notice, an approved rate starts on approval or the day after that fiscal year ends, whichever is earlier.

Hospital buyers get time before disclosure

Beginning October 1, 2025, certain hospital ownership reviews may consider preliminary reports, party responses, final reports, and written comments. This applies to ownership transfers requiring a certificate of need and a cost and market impact review. The preliminary report cannot enter the public record until the parties have a chance to respond.

State mental hospitals receive operating payments

Beginning July 1, 2025, Social Services must make disproportionate share payments to Mental Health and Addiction Services hospitals. The payments support operations and related employee benefit costs. The Office of Policy and Management sets amounts and timing. Hospitals must reimburse the Comptroller for employee benefit funds and deposit other receipts into nonfederal grant accounts. Unspent money in those grant accounts lapses at the fiscal year’s end.

Mortgage recording revenue gets new allocations

Beginning July 1, 2025, the law changes how covered mortgage-nominee recording fees are divided among state and local accounts. For most covered recordings, $45 goes to the community investment account and the clerk retains $50, including $11 for the town clerk fund. Another $39 goes to municipal general revenue. For nominee-assignor assignments and releases, $45 goes to the community investment account and the clerk retains $33 for municipal revenue. This allocation change creates no new household fee.

Construction wage coverage expands with limits

Beginning July 1, 2025, prevailing-wage coverage includes qualifying projects owned by municipalities, regional councils, brownfield land banks, and development agencies. The construction project must receive at least $1 million in state economic-development assistance. Qualifying charitable nonprofits and chambers of commerce are excluded for projects worth no more than $10 million, except specified cleanup or demolition projects. When assistance funds remediation, demolition, or pollution abatement, wage coverage applies only to that work named in the assistance contract. That contract must cover only those purposes and remain separate from redevelopment contracts.

Some towns face phased school-aid reductions

For towns whose formula-based school aid is below prior-year aid, Education Cost Sharing grants stay at FY2025 entitlements in FY2026–FY2027. Grant-adjustment reductions follow this schedule: FY2028, 14.29%; FY2029, 16.67%; FY2030, 20%; FY2031, 25%; FY2032, 33.33%; FY2033, 50%. Beginning FY2034, towns receive their fully funded formula grant. Through FY2033, alliance districts receive the greatest of the scheduled amount, their base grant, or their prior-year entitlement. Afterward, their floor is the greatest of their fully funded grant, base grant, or prior-year entitlement.

Cannabis revenue shifts toward equity programs

For the year ending June 30, 2026, cannabis tax receipts split 60% to social equity, 25% to prevention and recovery, and 15% to the General Fund. For years ending June 30, 2027 and 2028, those shares become 65%, 25%, and 10%. Starting fiscal year 2029, the shares become 75% for social equity and 25% for prevention and recovery. Beginning July 1, 2025, specified cannabis license fees go to the social equity and innovation account; other fees go to the General Fund, without changing fee amounts. The prior equity fund's balance also moves to that account after fiscal year 2025 accounts close.

Care facilities switch to revenue-based tax

For quarters beginning July 1, 2026, a 6% service-revenue tax replaces the resident-day fee for nursing and intermediate care facilities. Federal approval allows a 4.6% rate for municipally owned nursing homes and homes licensed for more than 230 beds. Qualifying continuing-care nursing homes can receive federally approved exemptions; state-operated intermediate care facilities are exempt unless operated as receiver. If federal officials reject the tax, it stops and the prior fee returns. A successful state appeal restores the tax and ends the fee beginning the quarter after the final decision.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

Matthew Ritter
Democratic • House

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 510 • No: 748

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Senate Roll Call Vote 358

Yes: 11 • No: 25

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Senate Roll Call Vote 354

Yes: 11 • No: 25

House vote • 6/2/2025

House Roll Call Vote 290 AS AMENDED

Yes: 99 • No: 49

House vote • 6/2/2025

House Roll Call Vote 286 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD C

Yes: 46 • No: 99

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Senate Roll Call Vote 355

Yes: 10 • No: 25

House vote • 6/2/2025

House Roll Call Vote 285 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD B

Yes: 46 • No: 98

House vote • 6/2/2025

House Roll Call Vote 288 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD E

Yes: 38 • No: 102

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Senate Roll Call Vote 360

Yes: 25 • No: 11

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Senate Roll Call Vote 359

Yes: 11 • No: 25

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Senate Roll Call Vote 357

Yes: 11 • No: 25

Senate vote • 6/2/2025

Senate Roll Call Vote 356

Yes: 11 • No: 25

House vote • 6/2/2025

House Roll Call Vote 289 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD F

Yes: 47 • No: 97

House vote • 6/2/2025

House Roll Call Vote 287 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD D

Yes: 44 • No: 96

House vote • 6/2/2025

House Roll Call Vote 284 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD A

Yes: 100 • No: 46

Actions Timeline

Signed by the Governor
6/30/2025legislature
Transmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
6/27/2025legislature
Transmitted to the Secretary of State
6/27/2025legislature
Public Act 25-168
6/23/2025legislature
In Concurrence
6/3/2025legislature
Senate Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
6/3/2025Senate
Senate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule F 10529
6/3/2025Senate
Senate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule E 10582
6/3/2025Senate
Senate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule D 10580
6/3/2025Senate
Senate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule C 10587
6/3/2025Senate
Senate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule B 10553
6/3/2025Senate
Senate Rejected Senate Amendment Schedule A 10544
6/3/2025Senate
Senate Adopted House Amendment Schedule A
6/3/2025Senate
Senate Calendar Number 602
6/3/2025Senate
Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
6/3/2025Senate
Transmitted Pursuant To Joint Rule 17
6/2/2025legislature
House Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
6/2/2025House
House Rejected House Amendment Schedule F 10410
6/2/2025House
House Rejected House Amendment Schedule E 10424
6/2/2025House
House Rejected House Amendment Schedule D 10394
6/2/2025House
House Rejected House Amendment Schedule C 10409
6/2/2025House
House Rejected House Amendment Schedule B 10413
6/2/2025House
House Adopted House Amendment Schedule A 10255
6/2/2025House
Emergency Certification
6/2/2025legislature

Bill Text

New Bill
6/2/2025
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Public Act No. 25-168
6/2/2025
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Bill Analysis for HB-7287
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Bill Analysis for HB-7287, as amended by House "A"
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10247 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10252 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10255 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10256 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10333 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10335 (Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10336 (Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10355 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10364 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10374 (Minimal Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10375 (Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10376 (Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10377 (Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10380 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10381 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10382 (Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10383 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10384 (Potential Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10386 (Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10388 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10389 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10394 (Potential Savings)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10404 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10409 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10410 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10413 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10424 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10425 (Potential Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10446 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10457 (Potential Revenue Gain)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10458 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10463 (Reduces Cost In Bill)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10464 (Savings)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10483 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10484 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10485 (Cost)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10500 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10506 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10507 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10508 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10509 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10510 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10511 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10512 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10513 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10514 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10515 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10516 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10519 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10529 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10543 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10544 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10552 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10553 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10576 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10580 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10582 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10587 (No Fiscal Impact)
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Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10619 (See Fiscal Note Details)
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Fiscal Note for HB-7287
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House LCO Amendment #10355 (R)
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House LCO Amendment #10364 (R)
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House LCO Amendment #10404 (R)
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House LCO Amendment #10425 (R)
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House LCO Amendment #10446 (R)
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House Roll Call Vote 284 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD A
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House Roll Call Vote 285 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD B
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House Roll Call Vote 286 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD C
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House Roll Call Vote 287 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD D
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House Roll Call Vote 288 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD E
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House Roll Call Vote 289 EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION HOUSE AMD F
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House Roll Call Vote 290 AS AMENDED
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House Schedule A LCO# 10255 (D)
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House Schedule B LCO# 10413 (R)
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House Schedule C LCO# 10409 (R)
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House Schedule D LCO# 10394 (R)
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House Schedule E LCO# 10424 (R)
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House Schedule F LCO# 10410 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10247 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10252 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10256 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10333 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10335 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10336 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10374 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10375 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10376 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10377 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10380 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10381 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10382 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10383 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10384 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10386 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10388 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10389 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10457 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10458 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10463 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10464 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10483 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10484 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10485 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10500 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10506 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10507 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10508 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10509 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10510 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10511 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10512 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10513 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10514 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10515 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10516 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10519 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10543 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10552 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10576 (R)
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Senate LCO Amendment #10619 (R)
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Senate Roll Call Vote 354
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Senate Roll Call Vote 355
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Senate Roll Call Vote 356
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Senate Roll Call Vote 357
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Senate Roll Call Vote 358
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Senate Roll Call Vote 359
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Senate Roll Call Vote 360
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Senate Schedule A LCO# 10544 (R)
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Senate Schedule B LCO# 10553 (R)
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Senate Schedule C LCO# 10587 (R)
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Senate Schedule D LCO# 10580 (R)
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Senate Schedule E LCO# 10582 (R)
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Senate Schedule F LCO# 10529 (R)
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Summary for Public Act No. 25-168
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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

High Impact

Airport firefighters gain cancer relief eligibility

Emergency pregnancy care protections for patients

Local Tax Relief for Unemployable Veterans

More homes qualify for disabled veterans' exemption

Tax exemption access expands for unemployable veterans

Towns can offer homeowners tax breaks

Tax credit for workforce housing contributions

Small Businesses Can Refund Research Credits

State funds teachers' unpaid pension obligations

Connecticut resets rainy-day savings thresholds

Higher Tax Targets for Hospital Services

Cannabis equity pathways carry substantial fees

Farm Investment Credits Carry Repayment Rules

Medium Impact

State officials can get legal defense

Disability savings protected in assistance tests

Education savings excluded from assistance tests

Emergency patients gain state care protections

Home-care recipients gain expanded complaint help

Medicaid obesity coverage gains treatment safeguards

Nonprofit grants help cover care costs

Residential care gains safety and quality measures

State marshals gain health plan access

State pays court-waived substance treatment costs

Telehealth expands access to controlled medicines

Local Tax Relief for Military Survivors

Tax exemptions reach qualifying leased property

Towns can extend veterans' survivor exemptions

Veterans Can Recover Missed Tax Relief

Custom fabrication workers gain wage protections

Higher Pay for Judges and Referees

Magnet preschool tuition relief for families

Transfer students get college completion awards

Extra tax credit for working parents

More precious-metal purchases become sales-tax exempt

Faster payments for state subcontractors

Larger farm machinery property tax exemption

New credit for home child care

Transportation contracts can favor smaller businesses

Employer Credit Supports Employee College Savings

Funding supports alternatives to incarceration

Funding supports medical care in prisons

Youth justice and violence programs funded

Ban on Added PFAS in Products

State money supports municipal revenue sharing

Funding keeps buses and trains running

Hospitals Receive Supplemental Payments and Refunds

Funding supports child care for families

Unspent money supports state employee costs

Corporations get more usable loss deductions

Drug company staff face criminal penalties

Adult state supplement standards stay frozen

Domestic violence survivors face assistance cuts

Lower state share for teacher health

Paraeducators lose one insurance enrollment-assistance option

Tank cleanup payments face cost reviews

Towns can limit veterans' exempt land

Unpaid tank cleanup assistance ends

College scholarship allocations change; dedicated grant ends

Vape sellers face home delivery ban

State agencies face budget savings targets

Corporate groups lose extra-tax cap

Corporate Tax Surcharges Last Longer

Assigned liens carry interest, fee protections

Home Sellers Gain Wholesale Contract Protections

Temporary tax withholding pause for distributions

Minority contractors gain support, face paperwork

Small-business contract goals replace fixed set-asides

New warnings about PFAS in products

State revenue moves into later budgets

Hospitals shift to newer tax bases

Low Impact

Incarcerated voters get ballot delivery protections

People in custody gain basic protections

Limits on Property Tax Collection Fees

Clearer account access for disabled savers