---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY MAKERSPACE INITIATIVE PROGRAM."
description: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY MAKERSPACE INITIATIVE PROGRAM."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1179"
citation: "Connecticut SB 1179 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Connecticut Manufacturing Innovation Fund", "Economic and Community Development", "Department of", "Entrepreneurs", "Grants by the state", "Nonprofit organizations", "Occupational training", "Pilots", "Reports", "State funds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-29"
last_action: "2025-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8200250d-5644-4337-b89a-aeb48ace2270"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "711412cfa0ce8e85109a58021a54542de61a0728e79693d050d8b41279afbe1e"
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 SB 1179 (2025) — AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY MAKERSPACE INITIATIVE PROGRAM.

## Version chain

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

1. **CE Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01179-R02-SB.PDF)
2. **Committee Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01179-R01-SB.PDF)
3. **File No. 533** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025SB-01179-R000533-FC.PDF)
4. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01179-R00-SB.PDF)
5. **Public Act No. 25-149** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00149-R00SB-01179-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote — **139–6** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **35–1** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-29** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-30** Reserved for Subject Matter Public Hearing
- **2025-02-06** PUBLIC HEARING 0211
- **2025-02-20** Vote to Draft
- **2025-03-18** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2025-03-19** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-31** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/07/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-07** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-07** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-07** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 298
- **2025-04-07** FILE NO. 533
- **2025-05-15** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-15** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-16** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-05-16** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 615
- **2025-06-04** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-04** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-04** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-17** PUBLIC ACT 25-149
- **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/8200250d-5644-4337-b89a-aeb48ace2270`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).