---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING WATER UTILITY SYSTEMS AND WATER QUALITY AND TREATMENT SURCHARGES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING WATER UTILITY SYSTEMS AND WATER QUALITY AND TREATMENT SURCHARGES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6777"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6777 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drinking water", "Fees", "Negotiable instruments", "Public Utilities Regulatory Authority", "Reports", "Water companies", "Water treatment facilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d142dc2-233f-4c6b-aae8-062335d4f236"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "66576b8333f225a6d7e01362ac9adea9e3154e555800a194b11798ce70c82be7"
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 6777 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING WATER UTILITY SYSTEMS AND WATER QUALITY AND TREATMENT SURCHARGES.

## Version chain

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

1. **APP Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06777-R02-HB.PDF)
2. **ET Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06777-R01-HB.PDF)
3. **File No. 345** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06777-R000345-FC.PDF)
4. **Public Act No. 25-142** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00142-R00HB-06777-PA.PDF)
5. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06777-R00-HB.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **34–1** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **144–1** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Energy and Technology `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-31** PUBLIC HEARING 0204
- **2025-03-13** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-14** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-24** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/31/25 `referral`
- **2025-03-31** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-03-31** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-03-31** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 227
- **2025-03-31** FILE NO. 345
- **2025-04-29** REF. BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ON Appropriations
- **2025-05-05** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-05-06** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-05-06** NO NEW FILE BY COMM. ON Appropriations
- **2025-05-06** TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-05-31** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-31** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-31** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2025-06-01** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-06-01** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 575
- **2025-06-04** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-04** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-04** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-17** PUBLIC ACT 25-142
- **2025-06-25** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-25** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-01** 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/9d142dc2-233f-4c6b-aae8-062335d4f236`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).