CT SB01314

Prohibits municipalities from amending their charters to change petition requirements for challenging decisions of planning, zoning, or combined planning and zoning commissions, including signature requirements and residency rules

Bars charter amendments that modify state regulations governing planning and zoning commissions, though municipalities may still establish combined or separate commissions and specify their composition within state requirements

Prevents charter amendments from changing vote requirements for eminent domain proceedings, except municipalities may increase the threshold up to a two-thirds majority vote

Restricts charter amendments from altering vote requirements for disposition of municipal property, with the same exception allowing increases up to a two-thirds majority

Grandfathers municipalities that adopted vote requirements greater than simple majority for eminent domain or property disposition before July 1, 2023, allowing them to maintain or reduce (but not increase beyond two-thirds) those requirements

Effective date: October 1, 2025