---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CREATING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY HOUSING OPTIONS FOR PERSONS REENTERING THE COMMUNITY AFTER INCARCERATION."
description: "AN ACT CREATING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY HOUSING OPTIONS FOR PERSONS REENTERING THE COMMUNITY AFTER INCARCERATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5375"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5375 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Housing", "Reports", "Studies", "Ex-offenders", "Equity and Opportunity", "Commission on"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adams, Terry B.", "Butler, Larry B.", "Floren, Livvy R.", "Hall, Joshua Malik", "Kokoruda, Noreen S.", "McGee, Brandon L.", "Miller, Patricia Billie", "Simanski, Bill", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a26415bc-71bd-41c4-8e60-91bfec58bdb6"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "810109932d87b0771e9c10d4e7236133a73563556a98c931e43497bf039ab812"
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 5375 (2018) — AN ACT CREATING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY HOUSING OPTIONS FOR PERSONS REENTERING THE COMMUNITY AFTER INCARCERATION.

## 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-05375-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05375-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote 28 — **131–11** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 346 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adams, Terry B. — primary (person)
- Butler, Larry B. — primary (person)
- Floren, Livvy R. — primary (person)
- Hall, Joshua Malik — primary (person)
- Kokoruda, Noreen S. — primary (person)
- McGee, Brandon L. — primary (person)
- Miller, Patricia Billie — primary (person)
- Simanski, Bill — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-01** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Housing `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** PUBLIC HEARING 0306
- **2018-03-14** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-19** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/26/18
- **2018-03-26** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-03-26** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-03-26** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 64
- **2018-03-26** FILE NO. 44
- **2018-04-10** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-04-12** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-12** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 270
- **2018-05-09** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-23** SPECIAL ACT 18-14
- **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/a26415bc-71bd-41c4-8e60-91bfec58bdb6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).