---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE TERMS OF THE STATE POET LAUREATE AND THE STATE TROUBADOUR."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE TERMS OF THE STATE POET LAUREATE AND THE STATE TROUBADOUR."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5274"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5274 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State Poet Laureate", "State Troubadour"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McCarty, Kathleen M.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0d8b2dbe-3520-4ec4-9356-d66656db4d80"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "0b5ac84128250935423206c462af71f2b4e43a6d72ed9990349fc84296d645de"
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 5274 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE TERMS OF THE STATE POET LAUREATE AND THE STATE TROUBADOUR.

## 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-05274-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05274-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote 217 AS AMENDED — **146–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 381 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- McCarty, Kathleen M. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-28** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** PUBLIC HEARING 0308
- **2018-03-22** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-03** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/09/18
- **2018-04-10** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-10** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-10** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 230
- **2018-04-10** FILE NO. 356
- **2018-05-04** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-04** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-04** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2018-05-05** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-05** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 519
- **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 18-162 `became-law`
- **2018-05-31** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-31** 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/0d8b2dbe-3520-4ec4-9356-d66656db4d80`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).