---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES TO CONFER DEGREES."
description: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES TO CONFER DEGREES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1424"
citation: "Connecticut SB 1424 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Academic degrees", "Colleges and universities", "Groton", "Higher Education", "Office of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-27"
last_action: "2025-05-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e1f4e75-a6e7-45a0-b315-6d10067f7ba1"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "7f46dc30466d9f32f11f689ca225f0320f249ebfeebd24d2823564cb72482385"
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 1424 (2025) — AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONAUTICAL SCIENCES TO CONFER DEGREES.

## Version chain

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

1. **File No. 221** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025SB-01424-R000221-FC.PDF)
2. **HED Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01424-R01-SB.PDF)
3. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01424-R00-SB.PDF)
4. **Special Act No. 25-5** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/SA/PDF/2025SA-00005-R00SB-01424-SA.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **145–0** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-27** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Higher Education and Employment Advancement `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28** PUBLIC HEARING 0304
- **2025-03-11** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-11** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-18** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/24/25 `referral`
- **2025-03-25** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-03-25** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 171
- **2025-03-25** FILE NO. 221
- **2025-04-09** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2025-04-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2025-04-10** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-04-10** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 414
- **2025-05-20** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2025-05-20** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-05-20** RULES SUSPENDED, TRANSMITTED TO THE GOVERNOR
- **2025-05-21** SIGNED BY GOVERNOR IN ORIGINAL `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-22** SPECIAL ACT 25-5
- **2025-05-27** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5e1f4e75-a6e7-45a0-b315-6d10067f7ba1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).