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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT CONCERNING FINANCIAL AID FOR STUDENTS IN PARAMEDIC CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS."
+description: "AN ACT CONCERNING FINANCIAL AID FOR STUDENTS IN PARAMEDIC CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
+legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "HB 7131"
+citation: "Connecticut HB 7131 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Certificates and certification", "Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority", "Electronic government information", "Occupational training", "Paramedics", "Student financial aid", "Workforce Strategy", "Office of"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2025-02-28"
+last_action: "2025-06-30"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6931f88f-6f30-4c88-83c9-53210b39337e"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
+source_hash: "ff349a2e8cec89b1fc4fb04878c47d85d9eb597006731bc870271214bacfc815"
+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 7131 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING FINANCIAL AID FOR STUDENTS IN PARAMEDIC CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **File No. 411** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-07131-R000411-FC.PDF)
+2. **HED Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07131-R01-HB.PDF)
+3. **Public Act No. 25-158** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00158-R00HB-07131-PA.PDF)
+4. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07131-R00-HB.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- House Roll Call Vote — **148–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-28** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Higher Education and Employment Advancement `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-03** PUBLIC HEARING 0307
+- **2025-03-13** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-17** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
+- **2025-03-25** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/31/25 `referral`
+- **2025-04-01** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
+- **2025-04-01** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-01** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 272
+- **2025-04-01** FILE NO. 411
+- **2025-05-29** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-05-29** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
+- **2025-05-29** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
+- **2025-05-29** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-29** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 563
+- **2025-06-04** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-04** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
+- **2025-06-23** PUBLIC ACT 25-158
+- **2025-06-27** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
+- **2025-06-27** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-06-30** 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/6931f88f-6f30-4c88-83c9-53210b39337e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).
+