---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING LAW AND ORDINANCE COVERAGE."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING LAW AND ORDINANCE COVERAGE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5204"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5204 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fire insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kelly, Kevin C.", "Linares, Art", "Siegrist, Robert W.", "Somers, Heather B.", "de la Cruz, Joe"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-22"
last_action: "2018-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4d003989-4da5-4a1e-8371-dd46a63b2c24"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "2e45a112de52db0fc6a6b5a8eb7b029c87d01f1d754bb9a0cb13fb97cfcd9f16"
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 5204 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING LAW AND ORDINANCE COVERAGE.

## 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-05204-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05204-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 370 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 169 AS AMENDED — **147–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kelly, Kevin C. — primary (person)
- Linares, Art — primary (person)
- Siegrist, Robert W. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
- de la Cruz, Joe — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-22** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Insurance and Real Estate `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** PUBLIC HEARING 0227
- **2018-03-20** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-21** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-02** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/09/18
- **2018-04-09** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-09** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-09** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 204
- **2018-04-09** FILE NO. 309
- **2018-05-02** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-02** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-02** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2018-05-03** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-03** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 495
- **2018-05-03** FILE NO. 669
- **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
- **2018-05-22** PUBLIC ACT 18-105 `became-law`
- **2018-05-24** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-24** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-06** 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/4d003989-4da5-4a1e-8371-dd46a63b2c24`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).