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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut bill expands emergency generator requirements to multifamily housing in municipalities with populations up to 139,999
Last action · March 19, 2026: File Number 77Sponsors: Martin Looney and 3 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Starting October 1, 2026, privately owned age-restricted multifamily housing projects of at least 15 stories with federally insured mortgages must install and maintain emergency power generators if located in municipalities with populations between 130,000 and 139,999.
Modifies municipal population thresholds to require backup power equipment in specific high-rise residential properties, ensuring continuous operation of heating, water, lighting, critical medical devices, and elevators during power outages.
- State statutes establish baseline safety and emergency equipment mandates for high-rise residential buildings based on municipal population sizes. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Owners of privately owned multifamily housing projects
Property owners in qualifying municipalities must install and maintain emergency power generators meeting specific operational standards.
Age-restricted residents in high-rise buildings
Residents gain guaranteed backup electrical power for heating, water, lighting, critical medical equipment, and elevators during power outages.
Key Facts
- Raises the upper municipal population limit from 135,000 to 140,000 for mandatory emergency generator requirements in specific multifamily housing projects.
- Applies to privately owned multifamily housing projects that are at least 15 stories high with age-restricted dwelling units.
- Applies to housing projects subject, in whole or in part, to a mortgage insured under the federal National Housing Act (12 USC 1701 et seq.).
- Requires generators to provide four to 12 hours of electrical power for unit heating, water, lighting, critical medical equipment, and passenger elevators.
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- Produces no fiscal impact to the state or municipalities because the mandate applies only to private parties.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
9 actions- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 77
- Mar 19, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 77
- Mar 19, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Mar 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/18/26 5:00 PM
- Mar 5, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Mar 5, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Feb 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 02/24
- Feb 19, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Aging
Version history
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Expansion of Municipal Population Bracket
The legislation broadens the applicability of emergency power rules by raising the upper population boundary from 135,000 to 139,999 residents.
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 40)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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