---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING RIPARIAN AREAS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING RIPARIAN AREAS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 7174"
citation: "Connecticut HB 7174 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Buffers", "Casualty insurance", "Energy and Environmental Protection", "Department of", "Fees", "Fishways", "Inland wetlands agencies", "Municipal regulations", "Municipalities", "Ordinances", "Permits", "Plants", "Property insurance", "Violations", "Watercourses", "Waterways", "Wetlands"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44dd6f81-2009-4ae1-89ea-2dcee1b570d7"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "a825b6a09610c2f89221c95a3988934ce20914ce54ee50d7c4a0cc6fce62b79d"
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 7174 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING RIPARIAN AREAS.

## Version chain

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

1. **ENV Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07174-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 686** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-07174-R000686-FC.PDF)
3. **File No. 985** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-07174-R000985-FC.PDF)
4. **PD Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07174-R02-HB.PDF)
5. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07174-R00-HB.PDF)
6. **Special Act No. 25-12** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/SA/PDF/2025SA-00012-R00HB-07174-SA.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **146–1** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** PUBLIC HEARING 0317
- **2025-03-24** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-27** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-04-07** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/14/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-14** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-14** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-04-14** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 426
- **2025-04-14** FILE NO. 686
- **2025-04-22** REF. BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ON Planning and Development
- **2025-04-25** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-28** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-04-28** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-28** NO NEW FILE BY COMM. ON Planning and Development
- **2025-04-28** TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-05-29** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-29** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-29** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2025-05-29** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-29** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 567
- **2025-05-30** FILE NO. 985
- **2025-06-03** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-03** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-03** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-11** SPECIAL ACT 25-12
- **2025-06-23** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-23** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-24** 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/44dd6f81-2009-4ae1-89ea-2dcee1b570d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).