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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF ANIMALS FROM CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION."
+description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF ANIMALS FROM CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
+legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 6277"
+citation: "Connecticut HB 6277 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Adoption", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Animals", "Institutions of higher education"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 5
+action_count: 22
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-01-23"
+last_action: "2025-07-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24c8328a-6ab7-4e98-9bc8-6a7db1fbb7e2"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
+source_hash: "7e8b4ac927b9cf99961f13907603103f854860224fb73d4adc255b093214de9f"
+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 6277 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF ANIMALS FROM CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Committee Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06277-R01-HB.PDF)
+2. **ENV Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06277-R02-HB.PDF)
+3. **File No. 703** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06277-R000703-FC.PDF)
+4. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06277-R00-HB.PDF)
+5. **Public Act No. 25-129** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00129-R00HB-06277-PA.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- House Roll Call Vote — **147–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-01-23** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-10** Vote to Draft
+- **2025-03-14** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
+- **2025-03-17** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** PUBLIC HEARING 0324
+- **2025-03-28** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-31** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
+- **2025-04-08** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/14/25 `referral`
+- **2025-04-15** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
+- **2025-04-15** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-15** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 438
+- **2025-04-15** FILE NO. 703
+- **2025-06-03** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-06-03** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
+- **2025-06-03** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-03** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 619
+- **2025-06-04** SENATE PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
+- **2025-06-16** PUBLIC ACT 25-129
+- **2025-06-25** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
+- **2025-06-25** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-08** 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/24c8328a-6ab7-4e98-9bc8-6a7db1fbb7e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).
+