Every jurisdiction in this catalog has entries whose figures move when a bill passes, whose act takes effect on a later date, or whose program is repealed while its agency keeps advertising it. This page watches each jurisdiction's law, follows a bill through its own jurisdiction's process where its stages are recorded, and names the catalog entries each instrument touches.
7 instruments in Connecticut. Tracked across 51 jurisdictions. Every other jurisdiction on the board is still watched by hand.
A bill that died is listed only where a guide, an agency, or a news story has described it as current law. That is the failure that puts a number in front of a veteran which no assessor, registrar, or school will honor.
▲Expands benefitsAccepts proof of any qualifying discharge rather than only an honorable one for the veterans' property tax exemptions and extends the allied service exemption to general discharges.
Lets the proof of service show any discharge that qualifies rather than only an honorable one, extends the Second World War allied service exemption to general discharges and similar characterizations, makes the assessor rather than the tax collector receive proof for retroactive disability-based claims, and specifies which grand lists a town compares when raising exemption amounts after a revaluation. Generally effective October 1, 2026 and applicable to assessment years from then.
▲Expands benefitsExempts honor guard pay, Guard active service pay and Public Health Service retired pay from the income tax.
Honor guard compensation is exempt from the 2026 tax year, Public Health Service commissioned corps retired pay is deductible from the 2026 tax year, and Guard pay for being ordered out for active service is exempt from the 2027 tax year.
▲▼Expands and restrictsLimits the permanent and total exemption to the veteran's share of the dwelling and excludes commercial and rental space, while letting towns extend it to individual unemployability and to surviving spouses of earlier deaths.
For assessment years from October 1, 2025: limits 12-81(83) to the veteran’s share of the dwelling, excludes commercial and rental space, adds mobile homes, trusts and life tenancies, requires disclosure of rating changes, and lets towns exempt up to two acres, cap at the median residential assessment and reach surviving spouses of earlier deaths. Creates 12-81pp (the same exemption for individual unemployability, where a town adopts it) and 12-81qq (surviving spouse of a service member killed in action).
▲Expands benefitsExtends the wartime veteran and Guard tuition waiver to extension program fees and to Charter Oak State College.
Requires the community colleges, State Universities and UConn to waive fees for educational extension programs, including summer, winter and intersession courses, for eligible wartime veterans and Guard members, and creates a statutory tuition fee waiver at Charter Oak State College. Effective July 1, 2025.
▼Restricts benefitsNarrowed the full permanent and total exemption to a permanent and total finding on a 100 percent rating, dropping veterans found permanently and totally disabled through individual unemployability.
Rewrote 12-81(83) to require that VA have determined the veteran permanently and totally disabled based on a service-connected rating of 100 percent, applicable to assessment years from October 1, 2024, and let towns that had published their 2024 grand lists adjust them. A veteran with a permanent and total finding on individual unemployability is no longer covered by (83).
▲Expands benefitsExempts the whole primary residence of a veteran with a permanent and total disability rating, with the exemption continuing to the surviving spouse.
Added subdivision (83) to section 12-81, exempting the whole primary residence, or one motor vehicle where the veteran has no such residence, and continuing the exemption for an unremarried surviving spouse and for minor children. The same act took permanent and total ratings out of the sliding scale in subdivision (20) so the two do not overlap. Guidance written before 2025 does not have it, and the statute allows a retroactive abatement or refund for up to three years.
▲Expands benefitsBrings a person discharged other than honorably because of a qualifying condition inside the definition of veteran that every Connecticut benefit keys off.
Rewrote section 27-103 so that a person released with an other than honorable discharge based on a qualifying condition is a veteran for the general statutes. A qualifying condition is a VA-facility diagnosis of PTSD or traumatic brain injury, a disclosed experience of military sexual trauma, or a determination that sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression was more likely than not the primary reason for the discharge. Because every Connecticut benefit in this catalog keys off that definition, the act reaches all of them at once.
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