Connecticut bill capping gifts to condo board members died without a committee vote
Connecticut bill capping gifts to condo board members died without a committee vote
2026-09-09 · Connecticut · Legislation · Did not pass
A Connecticut bill aimed at gifts to condominium board members and at vendor involvement in association elections died in the Judiciary Committee in the 2026 session. House Bill 5433 was referred on February 27, 2026, heard on March 16, and never voted on.1
It is the only Connecticut bill in either of the last two sessions to have addressed association election conduct directly.
What it proposed
The official title was “An Act Concerning Limitations on the Provision of Gifts to the Executive Board Members of the Association of a Common Interest Community.” Its statement of purpose was a single sentence:
“To promote integrity in the conducting of elections held by the association of a common interest community.”1
According to the Community Associations Institute's Connecticut chapter, the bill would have barred executive board members and board candidates from accepting gifts valued at more than $50 from unit owners or vendors, with limited exceptions, and barred managing agents, association management service providers and contracting service providers from campaigning for board candidates.2
The dollar threshold comes from the chapter's own account of the bill rather than from a legislative document. Because HB 5433 never received a file number, no Office of Legislative Research analysis or fiscal note was ever prepared, and the bill text itself is the only authority for its details.
How it died
Its complete history runs to two entries: referred to the Joint Committee on Judiciary on February 27, 2026, and a public hearing noticed on March 12 for March 16. Nothing follows. The committee's reporting deadline passed later that month and the bill lapsed, formally dying at adjournment on May 6, 2026.1
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