| CT | HB06831 | Intro
25% | To (1) provide financial incentives for municipalities that adopt certain transit-oriented development policies, (2) establish the interagency council on housing development, (3) direct the State Responsible Growth Coordinator to establish a fund for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| CT | SB01186 | Intro
25% | To index the per capita payment amount to each regional council of governments from the regional planning incentive account to any increase in the consumer price index for all urban consumers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| CT | HB05050 | Intro
25% | To require the Office of Policy and Management to establish a program of assistance to municipalities publishing certain budgetary and financial information online, and guidelines for best practices in such publication.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | SB00698 | Intro
25% | To require that municipalities (1) provide notice to any owner of income-producing property when such owner has failed to timely file a declaration of personal property concerning such property, and (2) provide a breakdown of taxes owed and penalties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| CT | SB01185 | Intro
25% | To increase the maximum penalty for the violation of certain municipal regulations and ordinances to one thousand dollars and adjust such amount for inflation annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-30
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| CT | HB06821 | Intro
25% | To require the validation of deeds prior to the recording of such deeds by municipal clerks.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-29
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| CT | HB06540 | Intro
25% | To (1) require annual audits of the Metropolitan District Commission by the Auditors of Public Accounts, (2) establish a task force to examine the organization and operation of the Metropolitan District Commission, (3) require the board of commission...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06521 | Intro
25% | To (1) define "discount retailers", (2) authorize the adoption of municipal zoning regulations concerning discount retailers, (3) establish parity between discount retailers and grocery stores, and (4) authorize municipalities to impose an excise tax...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06525 | Intro
25% | To dissolve the Laura Andrews Free Library Association and distribute the funds of said association to the Town of Thomaston.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06543 | Intro
25% | To cap property tax increases for senior citizens and individuals with fixed incomes at an amount not to exceed the Social Security benefit per cent increase for the most recent benefit year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06533 | Intro
25% | To permit political subdivisions, including fire districts, to join or establish a municipal electric utility.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06535 | Intro
25% | To increase the amount of the property tax exemption for farm machinery to three hundred thousand dollars of the assessed value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06538 | Intro
25% | To increase the threshold for which sealed bidding shall not be required for municipal contracts or purchases from twenty-five thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06527 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipal assessors to issue certificates of correction for tangible personal property assessed in error at any time following the tax due date relative to such property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06545 | Intro
25% | To permit the recovery of attorney's fees and costs in successful actions for wrongful property tax assessment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06541 | Intro
25% | To (1) clarify the reasons for which a municipal tax assessor may increase or decrease a gross assessment established by the board of assessment appeals prior to a revaluation, and (2) require an assessor who makes such a change to submit a written e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06544 | Intro
25% | To prohibit municipalities from requiring a donation of land from an applicant for subdivision of land as a condition of subdivision approval.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06528 | Intro
25% | To establish a uniform deadline for the submission of applications for certain property tax relief programs, permit late applications for medical reasons or other extenuating circumstances and require municipalities to establish optional online appli...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06524 | Intro
25% | To require that unless the holder of a land use permit seeks and is granted an extension of time, such permit shall expire five years from the date of issuance, and any associated site plan shall be deemed null and void.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06522 | Intro
25% | To phase out the motor vehicle property tax over a period of five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06530 | Intro
25% | To specify that any unpaid penalty for a housing code violation or violation of public place ordinance shall constitute a lien upon the real estate against which the penalty was imposed from the date of such penalty.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06523 | Intro
25% | To prohibit the state or municipalities from considering any study concerning environmental, health, traffic or economic impacts produced in a permitting or project approval process, unless the party submitting such study discloses certain informatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06546 | Intro
25% | To increase the amount of the property tax exemption for farm machinery to five hundred thousand dollars of the assessed value.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06520 | Intro
25% | To reduce municipal administrative burdens in the annual issuance of dog licenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HJ00027 | Intro
25% | To require approval by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the members of each chamber of the General Assembly to enact a new unfunded state mandate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06539 | Intro
25% | To allow the Millstone Ridge Tax District to collect taxes on a flat rate basis.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06537 | Intro
25% | To increase the threshold for which sealed bidding shall not be required for municipal contracts or purchases from twenty-five thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06532 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipalities to publish legal notices on municipal Internet web sites and online local newspapers in lieu of publication in a newspaper.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06526 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipalities to publish legal notices on municipal Internet web sites.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06542 | Intro
25% | To grant absolute control over the regulation of zoning to municipalities.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
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| CT | HB06529 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipal legislative bodies to fill vacancies in unaffiliated justice of the peace positions, require the Secretary of the State to oversee training and certification of justices of the peace and establish a task force to examine issues...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06531 | Intro
25% | To establish an infrastructure improvement district in the town of East Hartford.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-24
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | SB01144 | Intro
25% | To repeal sections 34 to 42, inclusive, of public act 24-1 of the June special session.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| CT | HB06423 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipalities to waive requirements concerning the construction of sidewalks in certain areas in exchange for contributions into a fund for the construction of certain pedestrian infrastructure.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| CT | HB06429 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipalities to delay implementation of new motor vehicle property tax assessment guidelines until after the completion of the next municipal property tax revaluation.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06427 | Intro
25% | To require municipalities to designate areas in which accessory commercial units shall be allowed as of right.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
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| CT | HB06426 | Intro
25% | To require the Comptroller to analyze reports concerning health care and retirement plans and other benefits provided by nonstate public employers, and submit a report containing such analysis to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06425 | Intro
25% | To require that any economically distressed municipality with a population less than twenty-five thousand that meets the criteria for referral to the Municipal Finance Advisory Commission be automatically referred to the commission.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06432 | Intro
25% | To increase the threshold for which sealed bidding shall not be required for municipal contracts or purchases from twenty-five thousand dollars to fifty thousand dollars.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06421 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipal publication of legal notices in online news publications specializing in a municipality's region.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06420 | Intro
25% | To specify that if a protest against a proposed change to zoning regulations or boundaries is filed, it shall be signed by the owners of fifty per cent or more of the area of the lots included in such proposed change or the lots within five hundred f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06431 | Intro
25% | To establish a municipal option to abate property taxes for landlords that maintain affordable rental units for a specified period of time.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB06419 | Intro
25% | To allocate funds from the regional planning incentive account to each regional council of governments to permit the hiring of personnel to facilitate the creation of additional housing.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-23
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | SB01039 | Intro
25% | To require adoption of the state, regional and municipal plans of conservation and development on March 1, 2030, March 1, 2031, and March 1, 2032, respectively, and every ten years thereafter.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
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| CT | SB01038 | Intro
25% | To prohibit municipalities from (1) restricting any person from reporting a suspected fraudulent marriage to United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, or (2) taking adverse action against any such person for making any such report.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | SB01042 | Intro
25% | To establish a property tax exemption for real property and tangible personal property located on certain Indian lands.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-22
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| CT | HJ00012 | Intro
25% | To prohibit the state or any nonmunicipality political subdivision of the state from restricting a municipality's authority to enact and enforce its own zoning regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB05611 | Intro
25% | To require the provision of survivor benefits to survivors of municipal public works employees killed in the performance of their duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB05617 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipalities to impose a tax on the endowment funds of a private institution of higher education located in the municipality.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
| CT | HB05619 | Intro
25% | To authorize municipalities to require the imposition of a fee in the amount of two cents on each single-use paper checkout bag used at the point of sale in a retail establishment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-01-21
To Joint Planning and Development Committee |
