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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut bill proposes eliminating the 1% additional sales and use tax on restaurant and grocery meals
Last action · February 10, 2026: Referred to Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and BondingSponsors: Patrick Biggins and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
Proposed Bill 5130 eliminates the additional one per cent currently imposed on meals sold by eating establishments, caterers, and grocery stores under chapter 219 of the general statutes.
Residents purchasing prepared meals from restaurants, caterers, or grocery stores would no longer pay the extra one per cent tax rate.
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.
Consumers
Consumers purchasing meals from restaurants, caterers, and grocery stores would no longer pay the additional one per cent tax.
Eating establishments, caterers, and grocery stores
Businesses selling meals would no longer collect the additional one per cent sales and use tax.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
1 action- Feb 10, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding
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Sources
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 45)
- Controversy30Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
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