Connecticut bill to waive tax interest for a co-op in receivership died on the Senate calendar
Connecticut bill to waive tax interest for a co-op in receivership died on the Senate calendar
2026-09-09 · Connecticut · Legislation · Did not pass
A Connecticut bill written for a single 924-household housing cooperative cleared committee unanimously, passed the House on a roll call, and then died on the Senate calendar with twelve days left in the session. House Bill 5500 reached the Senate on April 24, 2026 as Senate Calendar No. 453 and was never called before adjournment on May 6.1
It is the clearest example this session of a common-interest-community measure failing for reasons unconnected to opposition.
What it would have done
The bill was titled “An Act Concerning the Abatement or Refund of Interest on Delinquent Municipal Property Taxes or Sewerage System Use Charges Owed by Certain Common Interest Communities.”
It would have allowed a municipality, by vote of its legislative body, to waive or refund some or all of the interest on delinquent property taxes owed by a common interest community that has more than 500 units and is in Superior Court-ordered receivership. House Amendment Schedule A extended the same power to water pollution control authorities for delinquent sewer use charges.1
The eligibility test is narrow enough to be an address. The target was Success Village, the cooperative straddling Bridgeport and Stratford that has been in receivership since 2024.
The history, which is the story
Referred to Planning and Development on March 5, 2026. Public hearing March 11. Reported out joint favourable substitute, 21-0, on March 13. File No. 336, House Calendar 255. Passed the House on April 22, 2026 as amended, on roll call votes 86 and 87. Tabled for the Senate calendar on April 24 as File No. 718.
Then nothing. The bill history ends there — no Senate vote, no transmittal to the Secretary of the State, no public act number.1
Sponsors included Reps. Gresko, Gee, Rosario, Felipe, Brown, Baker, Stafstrom and McGorty, and Sens. Gaston, Gadkar-Wilcox and Perillo. No recorded opposition appears anywhere in the file.
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Related Connecticut HOA Topics
- HB 5500 (2026) bill status and complete history — House passed April 22, 2026; Senate Calendar No. 453; no further action ↩
- Joint testimony of the mayors of Bridgeport and Stratford in support of HB 5500, City of Bridgeport (March 11, 2026) ↩
- Bridgeport Council Approves $437K Refund for Success Village Residents, CT Examiner (June 2, 2026) ↩
- HB 5189 (2025), tax assessment of units where municipal services are reduced — died in committee ↩
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