---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE AND ILLEGAL RACING."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE AND ILLEGAL RACING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 7378"
citation: "Connecticut HB 7378 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor vehicle fines", "Motor vehicle racing", "Negligent homicide with motor vehicle", "Sentence and punishment"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bizzarro, Gennaro", "Blumenthal, Matt", "Candelaria, Juan R.", "Concepcion, Julio A.", "Cummings, Stephanie E.", "Currey, Jeff", "Felipe, Antonio", "Ferraro, Charles J.", "Kelly, Kevin C.", "Logan, George S.", "Miller, Patricia Billie", "Pavalock-D'Amato, Cara Christine", "Petit, William A.", "Porter, Robyn A.", "Rosario, Christopher", "Santiago, Hilda E.", "Serra, Joseph C."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-19"
last_action: "2019-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4693a91f-5c9d-4262-bb7d-16494721b3ef"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "7212481439c049d3aad8e0f70d0cdf9e12fffba1b0756ea45ebf6b4270dac659"
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 7378 (2019) — AN ACT CONCERNING NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE WITH A MOTOR VEHICLE AND ILLEGAL RACING.

## Version chain

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

1. **JUD Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-07378-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-07378-R00-HB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Bizzarro, Gennaro — primary (person)
- Blumenthal, Matt — primary (person)
- Candelaria, Juan R. — primary (person)
- Concepcion, Julio A. — primary (person)
- Cummings, Stephanie E. — primary (person)
- Currey, Jeff — primary (person)
- Felipe, Antonio — primary (person)
- Ferraro, Charles J. — primary (person)
- Kelly, Kevin C. — primary (person)
- Logan, George S. — primary (person)
- Miller, Patricia Billie — primary (person)
- Pavalock-D'Amato, Cara Christine — primary (person)
- Petit, William A. — primary (person)
- Porter, Robyn A. — primary (person)
- Rosario, Christopher — primary (person)
- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)
- Serra, Joseph C. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-19** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** PUBLIC HEARING 0325
- **2019-04-09** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-11** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-04-18** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/24/19
- **2019-04-25** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-04-25** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-04-25** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 497
- **2019-04-25** FILE NO. 789
- **2019-05-08** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2019-05-10** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-05-10** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 479
- **2019-06-04** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2019-06-04** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-13** PUBLIC ACT 19-53 `became-law`
- **2019-06-19** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2019-06-19** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2019-06-26** 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/4693a91f-5c9d-4262-bb7d-16494721b3ef`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).