HB 5369 — AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE ON AFFORDABLE AND MIDDLE HOUSING.

House of Representatives General Assembly File No.

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536926) House ofBill Representatives,No. March 16, 2026 The Committee on Housing reported through REP.

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AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE ON THE CALCULATION OF AFFORDABILITY IN THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPEALS PROCESS.

(Effective from passage) (a) There is established a task force to (1) evaluate the calculation of the threshold at or above which the affordable housing appeals procedure outlined in section 8-30g of the general statutes is not available,available; and (2) recommend alternatives to the current ten per cent threshold outlined in subsection (k) of said section.

(2) evaluate the moratorium process described in subsection (l) of section 8-30g of the general statutes;

(3) evaluate the length of deed restrictions required for the award of housing unit-equivalent points for proposed developments pursuant to section 8-30g of the general statutes;

(4) recommend changes, if any, to section 8-30g of the general statutes to improve the effectiveness and clarity of the provisions outlined in subdivisions (1) to (3), inclusive, of this subsection;

(5) examine existing state and local regulatory barriers to developing missing middle housing and recommend statutory, regulatory and administrative solutions to encourage missing middle housing development, including, but not limited to, revisions to the HB5369 / File No.

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748 State Building Code, and State Fire Safety and State Fire Prevention Codes;

and (6) recommend changes to state law to reduce barriers to the development of missing middle housing.

For the purposes of this section, "missing middle housing" means duplexes, triplexes, quadplexes, cottage clusters and townhouses consisting of sixteen units or fewer.

(1) Two appointed by the speaker of the House of Representatives, one of whom hasis expertise in municipal housing and zoning policy and one of whom represents a state-widepublic organizationsafety ofofficial; municipal leaders;

(2) Two appointed by the president pro tempore of the Senate, one of whom hasis expertisean inemployee municipalof housingthe andDepartment zoning policy and one of whomAdministrative representsServices; a municipality with fewer than ten thousand residents;

HB5369(3) /Two Fileappointed No.by the majority leader of the House of Representatives;

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26(5) (3)Two One appointed by the minority leader of the House of Representatives;

and (4)(6) OneTwo appointed by the minority leader of the Senate.

(c) Any member of the task force appointed under subdivision (1), (2), (3)(3), (4), (5) or (4)(6) of subsection (b) of this section may be a member of the General Assembly.

Not more than six members total may be members of the General Assembly.

Such chairpersons shall schedule thefirst meeting ofthe task force, whichshall beheld not later thansixty daysHB5369 after/ theFile effectiveNo. date of this section.

(f)748 TheHB5369 administrativeFile staffNo. of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing shall serve as administrative staff of the task force.

(g)748 Notdays laterafter than January 1, 2027, the taskeffective forcedate shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committee of thethis Generalsection. Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing, inaccordancewiththeprovisionsofsection11-4aofthegeneralstatutes.

(f) The chairpersons of the task force may, at their discretion, appoint additional nonvoting members of the task force.

(g) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing shall serve as administrative staff of the task force.

(h) Not later than January 1, 2027, the task force shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to housing, inaccordancewiththeprovisionsofsection11-4aofthegeneralstatutes.

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26748 The following Fiscal Impact Statement and Bill Analysis are prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely for purposes of information, summarization and explanation and do not represent the intent of the General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose.

None Explanation The bill establishes a task force to evaluate the calculation associated with the affordable housing appeals procedure and to reportmake oncertain alternativesrecommendations resulting in no fiscal impact to the state because the task force has the expertise and capacity to meet the requirements of the bill.

House "A" alters the scope of the task force's duties and the composition of the task force resulting in the impact described above.

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26748 OLR Bill Analysis HB 5369 (as amended by House "A") AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE ON THE CALCULATION OF AFFORDABILITY IN THE AFFORDABLE HOUSING APPEALS PROCESS.

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