---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING SNAPPING TURTLES AND RED-EARED SLIDER TURTLES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING SNAPPING TURTLES AND RED-EARED SLIDER TURTLES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5354"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5354 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Animals", "Fees", "Reptiles"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Borer, Dorinda", "Buckbee, Bill", "Carney, Devin R.", "Lesser, Matthew", "Logan, George S.", "Mushinsky, Mary M.", "Serra, Joseph C.", "Somers, Heather B.", "Urban, Diana S."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0fdef38e-3f75-4dc7-aaa0-0d303a409616"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "0b36a7aab0c25a41fba322bcede98cfdb6e72ee3f710f610fd6764774036ba94"
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 5354 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING SNAPPING TURTLES AND RED-EARED SLIDER TURTLES.

## 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-05354-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05354-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 357 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 96 AS AMENDED — **141–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Borer, Dorinda — primary (person)
- Buckbee, Bill — primary (person)
- Carney, Devin R. — primary (person)
- Lesser, Matthew — primary (person)
- Logan, George S. — primary (person)
- Mushinsky, Mary M. — primary (person)
- Serra, Joseph C. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
- Urban, Diana S. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-01** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** PUBLIC HEARING 0309
- **2018-03-14** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-22** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/27/18
- **2018-03-28** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-03-28** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-03-28** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 90
- **2018-03-28** FILE NO. 76
- **2018-04-26** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-04-26** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-04-30** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-30** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 443
- **2018-04-30** FILE NO. 659
- **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
- **2018-05-23** PUBLIC ACT 18-114 `became-law`
- **2018-05-25** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-25** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-07** 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/0fdef38e-3f75-4dc7-aaa0-0d303a409616`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).