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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut bill authorizes state bond allocations for capital projects, graduate student loans, and aging-in-place grants
Last action · April 20, 2026: File Number 694Sponsors: REQUEST OF THE GOVERNOR PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 9 and 8 others
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What This Bill Proposed
The bill authorizes new and adjusts existing bond allocations to fund state capital projects, establish a supplemental graduate student loan program, and create grant programs for veterans' memorials and aging-in-place home modifications.
Changes state debt levels, provides funding for specific capital and infrastructure projects across state agencies, and creates new grant and loan opportunities for graduate students, older homeowners, and municipalities.
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.
State agencies
State departments receive bond funding authorizations for capital projects, IT upgrades, and facility improvements.
Graduate students
Students enrolled in eligible graduate programs gain access to a new supplemental loan program managed by CHESLA.
Older homeowners and persons with disabilities
Eligible homeowners can receive grants of up to $10,000 for home accessibility modifications.
Municipalities
Towns gain expanded eligibility for school safety equipment grants and Town Aid Road funds for equipment purchases.
Key Facts
- Authorizes up to $46,500,000 in state general obligation bonds for FY 27 for capital projects across the Departments of Administrative Services, Emergency Services and Public Protection, Correction, and Energy and Environmental Protection.
- Allocates $20,000,000 to replace the DAS fleet garage in Wethersfield.
- Allocates $1,500,000 to DESPP for a new mesonet system.
- Allocates $10,000,000 to the Department of Correction for security upgrades and $10,000,000 for electronic health records systems.
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- Allocates $5,000,000 to DEEP for natural diversity database mapping enhancements and IT permitting resources.
- Establishes a Supplemental Graduate Loan Program via CHESLA and authorizes $30,000,000 in general obligation bonds to fund it.
- Authorizes $2,000,000 in bonds for the Department of Veterans Affairs to provide grants for capital projects to place or maintain war or veterans' memorials or monuments starting in fiscal year 2028.
- Creates an aging-in-place grant program administered by the Department of Aging and Disability Services, capping grants at $10,000 per eligible homeowner aged 60 or older or with a disability.
- Increases bond authorizations for school building construction projects, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner facilities, Windham Technical High School, and a new data center.
- Adjusts UConn 2000 infrastructure program bond authorizations, increasing the total bond cap and project authorizations by $210.1 million.
- Expands CHFA bond authorization uses to include capitalizing down payment assistance and emergency mortgage assistance programs.
- Expands Town Aid Road grant uses to allow municipalities to purchase and maintain road maintenance and snow removal equipment.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the purpose of the newly created Supplemental Graduate Loan Program?
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What new items can municipalities purchase using Town Aid Road grants?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
9 actions- Apr 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 694
- Apr 20, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 426
- Apr 20, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Apr 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Apr 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/20/26 12:00 PM
- Apr 1, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
Show 3 earlier actions
- Mar 31, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable Substitute
- Mar 5, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/11
- Feb 5, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding
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Discoveries
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Expansion of UConn 2000 Cap
The bill shifts several specific bond authorizations into the UConn 2000 infrastructure program, increasing its total bond cap and project authorizations by $210.1 million.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 85)
- Controversy25Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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