AN ACT EXEMPTING INCOME OF UP TO ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS EARNED BY A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-FOUR FROM INCLUSION IN THE PARENT'S GROSS INCOME FOR DETERMINATION OF THE PARENT'S ELIGIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

Plain English Breakdown

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Act Exempting Child Income from Parent's Rental Assistance Eligibility

This act allows a child under age twenty-four who lives with their parents and earns up to $100,000 per year to have that income not count when determining the parent's eligibility for rental assistance.

What This Bill Does

• Exempts from parent’s gross income any earnings by a child under 24 years old living with them, if those earnings are up to $100,000 annually.

Who It Names or Affects

• Parents applying for or receiving rental assistance who have a child under age 24 living with them and earning up to $100,000 annually.
• Children between ages 18 and 23 who earn income and live with their parents.

Terms To Know

Rental Assistance Program

A program that helps people pay for rent through financial support from the government.

Gross Income

The total amount of money earned before taxes and other deductions are taken out.

Limits and Unknowns

• It is not clear how this act will be funded or if there will be enough resources to support the changes.
• This bill has passed both chambers but it's unclear what further executive action might be needed for it to become law.

Official Summary Text

To exempt income of up to one hundred thousand dollars earned by a child living with a parent from such parent's gross income for the purpose of determining the parent's eligibility to participate in the rental assistance program.

Current Bill Text

LCO No. 5 1 of 1

General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5230
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 5

Referred to Committee on HOUSING

Introduced by:
REP. ROBERTS, 137th Dist.

AN ACT EXEMPTING INCOME OF UP TO ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND
DOLLARS EARNED BY A CHILD UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-
FOUR FROM INCLUSION IN THE PARENT'S GROSS INCOME FOR
DETERMINATION OF THE PARENT'S ELIGIBILITY TO PARTICIPATE
IN THE RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

That section 8-345 of the general statutes be amended to direct the 1
Commissioner of Housing to exempt income of up to one hundred 2
thousand dollars earned by a child under the age of twenty -four living 3
with a parent from the parent's gross income for the purpose of 4
determining such parent's eligibility for participation in the rental 5
assistance program, and that appropriations for the rental assistance 6
program be changed accordingly. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To exempt income of up to one hundred thousand dollars earned by a
child living with a parent from such parent's gross income for the
purpose of determining the parent's eligibility to participate in the rental
assistance program.