---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING TECHNICAL AND MINOR CHANGES TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT STATUTES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING TECHNICAL AND MINOR CHANGES TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT STATUTES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5478"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5478 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Connecticut Employment and Training Commission (CETC)", "Unemployment compensation", "Connecticut Allied Health Workforce Policy Board"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-07"
last_action: "2018-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5d3139a1-1ab2-41fd-b876-2db78a294227"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "62f00cc7150ea8540eeae0158320a9c784ab35196690a3cc02c5ad5d2db2b7b7"
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 5478 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING TECHNICAL AND MINOR CHANGES TO THE LABOR DEPARTMENT STATUTES.

## 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-05478-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05478-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote 145 — **145–1** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 368 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-07** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** PUBLIC HEARING 0313
- **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 216
- **2018-04-09** FILE NO. 321
- **2018-05-01** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-03** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-03** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 489
- **2018-05-09** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-24** PUBLIC ACT 18-126 `became-law`
- **2018-05-29** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-29** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-11** 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/5d3139a1-1ab2-41fd-b876-2db78a294227`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).