A long, repeated legislative effort
Connecticut has not adopted the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, despite trying repeatedly. The General Assembly has considered it across at least six legislative sessions since 2017: HB 6448 in 2017, HB 5433 and HB 7096 in 2019, HB 6115 in 2023, HB 5181, HB 6896, and SB 211 in 2025, and HB 5266 in 2026. Every one of these bills has died in committee without becoming law.
The 2026 attempt: a hearing, then adjournment
The most recent bill, HB 5266, titled "An Act Adopting the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act," received a public hearing on February 27, 2026. The legislative session adjourned on May 6, 2026 without the bill advancing any further — joining every prior attempt in dying without a vote.
No deed-based workaround, either
Connecticut also doesn't recognize the Lady Bird deed (also called an enhanced life estate deed), which owners in some other TOD-deed-less states use as a substitute. And because Connecticut applies the law of the property's own location to real estate transfers, a TOD deed signed under another state's law has no effect on real property actually located in Connecticut — there's no recognizing statute that would give an out-of-state deed any force here.
The small estate affidavit doesn't cover real property at all
Connecticut's simplified small estate affidavit process, using Form PC-212, is available only for solely owned personal property up to a set dollar limit — and it's unavailable entirely if the decedent had any solely owned Connecticut real property, however small. This makes the affidavit route a non-option for anyone whose estate includes even a modest piece of real estate titled solely in their own name.
What Connecticut owners actually use
Without a TOD deed, Connecticut owners rely on a handful of established alternatives: joint tenancy with right of survivorship, other survivorship deed forms (including survivor life-estate and remainder arrangements), a traditional life estate deed, or a revocable living trust. Each of these keeps real estate out of probate, though setting one up during life takes more planning than simply recording a beneficiary-designation deed would.
Watch for another attempt
Given how many times this bill has been reintroduced — and that the 2026 version at least reached a public hearing — it's reasonable to expect Connecticut lawmakers will bring a version of this back again in a future session. Until one actually clears both chambers and gets signed into law, Connecticut real estate has no statutory transfer-on-death option.