Connecticut HB 5366: AN ACT CONCERNING THE COST OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS.

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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5366
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 2265

Referred to Committee on HOUSING

Introduced by:
(HSG)

AN ACT CONCERNING MUNICIPAL RIGHT OF FIRST REFUSAL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

Section 1. Section 8-30g of the 2026 supplement to the general statutes 1
is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 2
October 1, 2026): 3
(a) As used in this section: 4
(1) "Affordable housing development" means a proposed housing 5
development [which] that is (A) assisted housing, or (B) a set-aside 6
development; 7
(2) "Affordable housing application" means any application made to 8
a commission in connection with an affordable housing development by 9
a person who proposes to develop such affordable housing; 10
(3) "Assisted housing" means housing [which] that is receiving, or 11
will receive, financial assistance under any governmental program for 12
the construction or substantial rehabilitation of low and moderate 13
income housing, and any housing occupied by persons receiving rental 14

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assistance under chapter 319uu or Section 1437f of Title 42 of the United 15
States Code; 16
(4) "Commission" means a zoning commission, planning 17
commission, planning and zoning commission, zoning board of appeals 18
or municipal agency exercising zoning or planning authority; 19
(5) "Municipality" means any town, city or borough, whether 20
consolidated or unconsolidated; 21
(6) "Set-aside development" means a development in which not less 22
than thirty per cent of the dwelling units will be conveyed by deeds 23
containing covenants or restrictions [which] that shall require that, for 24
at least forty years after the initial occupation of the proposed 25
development, such dwelling units shall be sold or rented at, or below, 26
prices [which] that will preserve the units as housing for which persons 27
and families pay thirty per cent or less of their annual income, where 28
such income is less than or equal to eighty per cent of the median 29
income. In a set-aside development, of the dwelling units conveyed by 30
deeds containing covenants or restrictions, a number of dwelling units 31
equal to not less than fifteen per cent of all dwelling units in the 32
development shall be sold or rented to persons and families whose 33
income is less than or equal to sixty per cent of the median income and 34
the remainder of the dwelling units conveyed by deeds containing 35
covenants or restrictions shall be sold or rented to persons and families 36
whose income is less than or equal to eighty per cent of the median 37
income; 38
(7) "Median income" means, after adjustments for family size, the 39
lesser of the state median income or the area median income for the area 40
in which the municipality containing the affordable housing 41
development is located, as determined by the United States Department 42
of Housing and Urban Development; and 43
(8) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of Housing. 44

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(b) (1) Any person filing an affordable housing application with a 45
commission shall submit, as part of the application, an affordability plan 46
[which] that shall include at least the following: (A) Designation of the 47
person, entity or agency that will be responsible for the duration of any 48
affordability restrictions, for the administration of the affordability plan 49
and its compliance with the income limits and sale price or rental 50
restrictions of this chapter; (B) an affirmative fair housing marketing 51
plan governing the sale or rental of all dwelling units; (C) a sample 52
calculation of the maximum sales prices or rents of the intended 53
affordable dwelling units; (D) a description of the projected sequence in 54
which, within a set-aside development, the affordable dwelling units 55
will be built and offered for occupancy and the general location of such 56
units within the proposed development; and (E) draft zoning 57
regulations, conditions of approvals, deeds, restrictive covenants or 58
lease provisions that will govern the affordable dwelling units. 59
(2) The commissioner shall, within available appropriations, adopt 60
regulations pursuant to chapter 54 regarding the affordability plan. 61
Such regulations may include additional criteria for preparing an 62
affordability plan and shall include: (A) A formula for determining rent 63
levels and sale prices, including establishing maximum allowable down 64
payments to be used in the calculation of maximum allowable sales 65
prices; (B) a clarification of the costs that are to be included when 66
calculating maximum allowed rents and sale prices; (C) a clarification 67
as to how family size and bedroom counts are to be equated in 68
establishing maximum rental and sale prices for the affordable units; 69
and (D) a listing of the considerations