---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING QUALIFIED FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING QUALIFIED FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 5455"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5455 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Firefighters", "Forest fires"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd, Patrick S.", "Buckbee, Bill", "Carpino, Christie M.", "Delnicki, Tom", "Ferraro, Charles J.", "Haines, Irene M.", "Kennedy, Kathy", "Klarides-Ditria, Nicole", "MacLachlan, Jesse", "McGorty, Ben", "Michel, David", "Rutigliano, David", "Santiago, Hilda E.", "Serra, Joseph C.", "Sredzinski, J.P.", "Verrengia, Joe", "Yaccarino, Dave W."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-16"
last_action: "2019-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0c88fa43-6903-48ba-88de-5931f860d2b3"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "23af84ed635fa2b8f520fa78175a715a845bf50222bcb96ed9bf168c7b57cb3c"
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 5455 (2019) — AN ACT CONCERNING QUALIFIED FOREST FIRE FIGHTERS.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-05455-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **PS Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-05455-R02-HB.PDF)
3. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-05455-R00-HB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Boyd, Patrick S. — primary (person)
- Buckbee, Bill — primary (person)
- Carpino, Christie M. — primary (person)
- Delnicki, Tom — primary (person)
- Ferraro, Charles J. — primary (person)
- Haines, Irene M. — primary (person)
- Kennedy, Kathy — primary (person)
- Klarides-Ditria, Nicole — primary (person)
- MacLachlan, Jesse — primary (person)
- McGorty, Ben — primary (person)
- Michel, David — primary (person)
- Rutigliano, David — primary (person)
- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)
- Serra, Joseph C. — primary (person)
- Sredzinski, J.P. — primary (person)
- Verrengia, Joe — primary (person)
- Yaccarino, Dave W. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-16** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Public Safety and Security `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Reserved for Subject Matter Public Hearing
- **2019-02-08** PUBLIC HEARING 0214
- **2019-02-28** Vote to Draft
- **2019-03-12** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2019-03-13** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Public Safety and Security `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-19** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-21** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-03-29** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/19
- **2019-04-04** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-04-04** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-04-04** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 244
- **2019-04-04** FILE NO. 391
- **2019-05-14** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2019-05-16** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-05-16** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 511
- **2019-06-04** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2019-06-04** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-12** PUBLIC ACT 19-37 `became-law`
- **2019-06-17** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2019-06-17** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2019-06-21** 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/0c88fa43-6903-48ba-88de-5931f860d2b3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).