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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT PROHIBITING FIRST COUSIN MARRIAGE."
+description: "AN ACT PROHIBITING FIRST COUSIN MARRIAGE."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
+legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 6918"
+citation: "Connecticut HB 6918 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Marriage"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-10"
+last_action: "2025-06-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cb8a937a-620a-4b4f-867c-7efcbed9ee77"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
+source_hash: "0771409a5bd9c00d4db89e3e274eec205ba5c5b882a24ff919dbd06034f6f75d"
+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 6918 (2025) — AN ACT PROHIBITING FIRST COUSIN MARRIAGE.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **File No. 728** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06918-R000728-FC.PDF)
+2. **JUD Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06918-R01-HB.PDF)
+3. **Public Act No. 25-72** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00072-R00HB-06918-PA.PDF)
+4. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06918-R00-HB.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- House Roll Call Vote — **139–0** (pass) · lower
+- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-10** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-02-26** PUBLIC HEARING 0303
+- **2025-04-04** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-07** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
+- **2025-04-11** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/16/25 `referral`
+- **2025-04-17** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
+- **2025-04-17** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-17** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 463
+- **2025-04-17** FILE NO. 728
+- **2025-05-15** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-05-19** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-19** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 513
+- **2025-06-02** SENATE PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-06-02** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
+- **2025-06-10** PUBLIC ACT 25-72
+- **2025-06-16** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
+- **2025-06-16** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-23** 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/cb8a937a-620a-4b4f-867c-7efcbed9ee77`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).
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