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

Plain English Breakdown

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Calculating State Forest Land Value for Tax Grants

This act changes how the value of state-owned forests is calculated when giving tax grants to towns where more than half of the land belongs to the state.

What This Bill Does

• Changes how the value of state forest land is figured out for certain towns.
• Uses a specific law about property taxes to calculate this value.
• Applies only if over 50% of a town's land is owned by the state as forests.

Who It Names or Affects

• Towns where more than half the land is owned by the state as forest.
• The state government when giving tax grants to these towns.

Terms To Know

Grants in lieu of taxes

Money given by the state to a town instead of collecting property taxes from the state-owned land.

Real property

Land and buildings that are fixed in one place, like houses or forests.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how much money will be given to towns.
• It is unclear if this change affects all state-owned land equally.

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.