AN ACT DEDICATING THE ADDITIONAL SALES TAX ON MEALS TO CERTAIN PURPOSES.

Plain English Breakdown

The official metadata states the bill reached final enrollment, yet the last action listed is referral to a committee. The effective date field is empty in the source material.

SB00055: How Extra Meal Tax Money Is Spent

This bill proposes dedicating revenue from an additional one percent sales tax on meals to the Tourism Fund, local municipalities, and free school lunches.

What This Bill Does

• Dedicates fifty percent of the collected meal tax revenue to the Tourism Fund.
• Pays twenty-five percent of the collected tax to the municipality where the meal was purchased.
• Deposits twenty-five percent of the collected tax into the General Fund for free school lunches.

Who It Names or Affects

• The state agency managing the Tourism Fund
• Municipalities where meals are purchased
• Programs providing free school lunches

Terms To Know

Tourism Fund

A fund receiving fifty percent of the additional meal tax revenue.

General Fund

The state account receiving twenty-five percent of the additional meal tax for school lunches.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill has been referred to a committee and does not yet have an effective date.
• The text does not specify how much money is currently collected from this tax.
• The source material does not list specific rules for how the Tourism Fund must spend its share.

Official Summary Text

To dedicate the revenue generated from the additional one per cent of sales tax on meals as follows: (1) Fifty per cent of the amount collected to be deposited in the Tourism Fund; (2) twenty-five per cent of the amount collected to be paid to the municipalities to which the purchases of the meals are sourced; and (3) twenty-five per cent of the amount collected to be deposited in the General Fund and dedicated to funding free school lunches.

Current Bill Text

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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 55
February Session, 2026 LCO No. 317

Referred to Committee on FINANCE, REVENUE AND
BONDING

Introduced by:
SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist.

AN ACT DEDICATING THE ADDITIONAL SALES TAX ON MEALS TO
CERTAIN PURPOSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:

That the general statutes be amended to dedicate the revenue 1
generated from the additional one per cent of sales tax on meals as 2
follows: (1) Fifty per cent of the amount collected to be deposited in the 3
Tourism Fund; (2) twenty -five per cent of the amount collected to be 4
paid to the municipalities to which the purchases of the meals are 5
sourced; and (3) twenty -five per cent of the amount collected to be 6
deposited in the General Fund and dedicated to funding free school 7
lunches. 8
Statement of Purpose:
To dedicate the revenue generated from the additional one per cent of
sales tax on meals as follows: (1) Fifty per cent of the amount collected
to be deposited in the Tourism Fund; (2) twenty -five per cent of the
amount collected to be paid to the municipalities to which the purchases
of the meals are sourced; and (3) twenty -five per cent of the amount
Proposed Bill No. 55

LCO No. 317 2 of 2

collected to be deposited in the General Fund and dedicated to funding
free school lunches.