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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Exempting Child Income from Rental Assistance Calculations

This law changes how officials count family money by excluding up to $100,000 earned by a child under age 24 living with their parent when deciding if the parent can get rental assistance.

What This Bill Does

• It allows parents to leave out up to $100,000 of income earned by children under age 24 who live with them from the parent's gross income calculation.
• It directs the Commissioner of Housing to make this change in how they calculate eligibility for the rental assistance program.

Who It Names or Affects

• Parents applying for rental assistance
• Children under age 24 who live with their parents and earn money

Limits and Unknowns

• The official text does not state the exact date this rule will start working.
• The bill mentions changing appropriations but does not explain how funding rules change in detail.

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.