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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut Establishes Personal Income Tax Deduction for Military Funeral Honor Guard Compensation
Last action · April 14, 2026: Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, SenateSponsors: Karen Reddington-Hughes and 5 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Connecticut legislators introduced a bill to create a personal income tax for compensation received for participating in military funeral honor guard details, taking effect July 1, 2026.
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.
military funeral honor guard detail members
Taxpayers who serve on honor guard details become eligible to subtract their honor guard compensation from their state adjusted gross income.
Key Facts
- Establishes a new personal income tax deduction for compensation received for serving as a member of a military funeral honor guard detail.
- Applies to compensation received pursuant to section 27-76 of the general statutes.
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This bill did not become law - Tabled in the Senate.
Procedural history
15 actions- Apr 14, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Apr 14, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyNo New File by Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding
- Apr 14, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Apr 14, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Apr 14, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Apr 8, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyImmediate Transmittal to Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding
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- Mar 23, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 130
- Mar 23, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 103
- Mar 23, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Mar 23, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 16, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/23/26 12:00 PM
- Mar 11, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 10, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Feb 27, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/03
- Feb 26, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Veterans' and Military Affairs
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 35)
- Controversy5Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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