Connecticut

To establish an affirmative defense for a criminal violation of a protective order or a standing restraining order in the case of contact being initiated by a protected person.

To preclude an employee from seeking incapacity benefits when the employee elects to retire from the workforce and experiences the incapacity after such retirement.

To provide that the additional one per cent sales and use taxes imposed on meals sold by an eating establishment, caterer or grocery store be distributed to the municipalities in which the revenue was generated.

To eliminate the qualifying income thresholds for the personal income tax deductions for Social Security benefits.

To adopt the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act.

To increase the highest marginal rate of the personal income tax from six and ninety-nine-hundredths per cent to seven and ninety-nine-hundredths per cent.

To reduce the two lowest marginal rates for the personal income tax from (1) two per cent to zero, and (2) from four and one-half per cent to three per cent, for taxpayers with adjusted gross income of less than one hundred thousand dollars for single filers and less than two hundred thousand dollars for married individuals filing jointly.

To establish a refundable child tax credit.

To establish a personal income tax deduction of up to sixty thousand dollars for the cost of full-time home health care, including, but not limited to, the cost of medical supplies and in-home services.

To establish a state-wide property tax on residential real property with assessed values of more than three million dollars.

To adjust the methodology used to calculate the threshold amounts for volatility funds transfers and increase the maximum capacity of the Budget Reserve Fund.

To specify that older motor vehicles shall be assessed at a rate of ten per cent of the manufacturer's suggested retail price or five hundred dollars, whichever is less, except that in a municipality that has elected to adopt a modified depreciation schedule, such motor vehicles shall be assessed at a rate of fifteen per cent of the manufacturer's suggested retail price or five hundred dollars, whichever is less.

To allow zoning commissions to exempt certain single-family residential structures from requirements concerning coastal site plan reviews and instead submit quarterly reports to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection concerning the approval of such structures.

To exempt the amount of tips or gratuities declared by a taxpayer and overtime pay from the personal income tax.

To increase the maximum amount of the corporation business tax credit for wages paid to apprentices in the construction trades from four thousand dollars to seven thousand five hundred dollars per apprentice.

To establish a capital gains surcharge on certain taxpayers.

To require that municipalities post monthly reports concerning revenue and expenditure data on the municipality's Internet web site.