AN ACT CONCERNING THE CALCULATION OF STATE FOREST LAND IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES FOR PURPOSES OF GRANTS IN LIEU OF TAXES PAYMENTS.

Plain English Breakdown

While the bill passed both chambers, it was referred to a committee and no final enactment or signing by the governor is shown in the text.

Calculating State Forest Land Value for Tax Payments

This law changes how the state counts its own forests as real property when paying money to towns where more than half of their land is state forest.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the rules for counting state forest land in certain towns.
• Requires treating this land as real property under section 12-64 for tax payment calculations.
• Applies these new calculation methods only if over fifty percent of a town's land is state forest.

Who It Names or Affects

• Towns where more than half the land inside their borders is owned by the state as forest
• The state agency that calculates grants in lieu of taxes payments

Terms To Know

Grants in lieu of taxes

Money the state pays to towns because it owns land there and does not pay property tax on it.

Real property

Land treated as taxable real estate for calculation purposes, including forests owned by the state.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not say how much money will change for any specific town.
• The text does not list which towns currently meet the fifty percent rule.
• The effective date of this law is not provided in the source material.

Official Summary Text

To calculate the value of state forest land, for purposes of grants in lieu of taxes payments by the state to municipalities, as real property for any municipality in which over fifty per cent of the land within such municipality's boundaries is state forest.

Current Bill Text

LCO No. 312 1 of 1

General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 13
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 312

Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS

Introduced by:
SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist.

AN ACT CONCERNING THE CALCULATION OF STATE FOREST
LAND IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES FOR PURPOSES OF GRANTS IN
LIEU OF TAXES PAYMENTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to calculate the value of state 1
forest land, for purposes of grants in lieu of taxes payments by the state 2
to municipalities, as real property subject to the provisions of section 12- 3
64 of the general statutes for any municipality in which over fifty per 4
cent of the land within such municipality's boundaries is state forest. 5
Statement of Purpose:
To calculate the value of state forest land, for purposes of grants in lieu
of taxes payments by the state to municipalities, as real property for any
municipality in which over fifty per cent of the land within such
municipality's boundaries is state forest.