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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION OF FARM LAND."
+description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION OF FARM LAND."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
+legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "HB 5534"
+citation: "Connecticut HB 5534 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Agricultural lands", "Property tax assessors"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Boyd, Patrick S.", "Cook, Michelle L.", "Dubitsky, Doug", "Duff, William", "Gibson, Bobby G.", "Hampton, John K.", "Orange, Linda A.", "Somers, Heather B.", "Tercyak, Peter A.", "Wood, Terrie E.", "Zawistowski, Tami"]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-03-13"
+last_action: "2018-06-13"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19ec0b68-a883-4364-b70d-0fafa247e6a1"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
+source_hash: "69fe0112cd958491eba90625a9870b19431e33bf5714abe119086bc97d58d278"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ct"]
+---
+
+# Connecticut HB 5534 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION OF FARM LAND.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **R00** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05534-R00-HB.htm)
+2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05534-R01-HB.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Roll Call Vote 386 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- House Roll Call Vote 239 AS AMENDED — **129–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Boyd, Patrick S. — primary (person)
+- Cook, Michelle L. — primary (person)
+- Dubitsky, Doug — primary (person)
+- Duff, William — primary (person)
+- Gibson, Bobby G. — primary (person)
+- Hampton, John K. — primary (person)
+- Orange, Linda A. — primary (person)
+- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
+- Tercyak, Peter A. — primary (person)
+- Wood, Terrie E. — primary (person)
+- Zawistowski, Tami — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-03-13** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Planning and Development `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-15** PUBLIC HEARING 0319
+- **2018-03-26** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-26** FILED WITH LCO
+- **2018-04-06** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/11/18
+- **2018-04-12** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
+- **2018-04-12** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
+- **2018-04-12** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 330
+- **2018-04-12** FILE NO. 458
+- **2018-05-05** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
+- **2018-05-05** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
+- **2018-05-05** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
+- **2018-05-05** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
+- **2018-05-05** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 540
+- **2018-05-09** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
+- **2018-05-09** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A
+- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
+- **2018-05-30** PUBLIC ACT 18-176 `became-law`
+- **2018-06-01** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
+- **2018-06-01** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
+- **2018-06-13** SIGNED BY GOVERNOR `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19ec0b68-a883-4364-b70d-0fafa247e6a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).
+