---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE STATE PERSONNEL ACT."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE STATE PERSONNEL ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5481"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5481 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["State employee examinations", "State employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gibson, Bobby G.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-07"
last_action: "2018-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2edbc231-c11e-42a6-8bca-51ae3bcc0c41"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "bfe31788aa020e01b43530ee7c1c6a91678ef3fb65b050f6466fa10ef902c67a"
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 5481 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES TO THE STATE PERSONNEL ACT.

## 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-05481-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05481-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 378 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 199 AS AMENDED — **144–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gibson, Bobby G. — primary (person)
- 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 `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-21** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-28** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/18
- **2018-04-04** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-04** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-04** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 163
- **2018-04-04** FILE NO. 204
- **2018-05-03** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-03** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-03** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2018-05-04** FILE NO. 682
- **2018-05-04** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-04** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 512
- **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
- **2018-05-24** PUBLIC ACT 18-130 `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/2edbc231-c11e-42a6-8bca-51ae3bcc0c41`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).