2022 State Budget

Tax relief
May 7, 2022

The budget proposal we approved offers Connecticut tax payers $600 million in tax cuts. This budget provides historic tax relief for parents, retirees, workers, and property owners. Please continue reading below for more details.

Investing in Kids' Mental Health:

  • Expanding 24/7 emergency mental health response
  • Creating the Healthcare Advocate Position to help families navigate care for children and adolescents
  • Expanding mentorship opportunities
  • Creating new walk-ins for mental health emergencies
  • Providing mental health training to parents, students, and pediatricians

Addressing Crime:

  • Toughening penalties for vehicle thefts
  • Expanding alternatives to incarceration
  • More hands-on training for police
  • Addressing laboratory and case backlogs
  • More crisis training for our police 

Responding to the Climate Change Crises:

  • Establishing an Office of Aquatic Invasive Species
  • More sophisticated testing of shellfish
  • Repopulating native salmon and eel populations
  • New waste management programming
  • New incentives for consumer and commercial electric vehicles 

Meaningful Investments in Childcare:

  • Increasing funding for infant and toddler care programs
  • Increased pay to childcare workers to attract and retain more educators
  • Expanding the successful Birth to Three Program
  • Assisting local childcare facilities with renovations
  • Approving state tax credit for childcare 

Supporting Our Workers:

  • Expanding the Manufacturing Pipeline program
  • Increasing work opportunities for young adults
  • Creating a new paid internship program at DOT
  • Establishing a HVAC pipeline training program 

Supporting our Schools:

  • Stabilizing funding for CT colleges and Universities
  • Expanding the successful LEAP attendance program
  • Expanding school choice opportunities
  • Helping schools develop mental health programming
  • Assisting schools in expanding mental health care staff 

A Budget Focused on Keeping CT Healthy:

  • More tobacco prevention funding
  • Expanding screenings for breast and cervical cancer
  • Increasing funding to our specialty care hospitals
  • Ensuring more psychiatric treatment beds
  • Continuing telehealth options  

Maintaining CT's Economic Recovery:

  • Making direct investments in community nonprofits
  • Helping community providers keep up with inflation
  • Supporting museums, theaters, and other CT attractions
  • Creating more student loan assistance programs
  • Approving economic incentives for Sikorsky