---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT REQUIRING A PLAN FOR BENEFICIAL USE DREDGING."
description: "AN ACT REQUIRING A PLAN FOR BENEFICIAL USE DREDGING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 59"
citation: "Connecticut SB 59 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Dredging", "Energy and Environmental Protection", "Department of", "Plans", "Waterways", "Wetlands"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36f89e07-c148-4d76-96dd-6334c20b3363"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "c1c90a7ecbeae2de71de65ae4e9b2e885b5e98b30eac2c63ea57697d0712b181"
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 59 (2025) — AN ACT REQUIRING A PLAN FOR BENEFICIAL USE DREDGING.

## Version chain

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

1. **Committee Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-00059-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **ENV Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-00059-R02-SB.PDF)
3. **File No. 368** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025SB-00059-R000368-FC.PDF)
4. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-00059-R00-SB.PDF)
5. **Special Act No. 25-17** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/SA/PDF/2025SA-00017-R00SB-00059-SA.PDF)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote — **147–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Vote to Draft
- **2025-01-23** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2025-01-24** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** PUBLIC HEARING 0131
- **2025-03-14** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-26** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/31/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-01** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-01** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 219
- **2025-04-01** FILE NO. 368
- **2025-05-08** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-08** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-09** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-05-09** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 570
- **2025-06-03** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-03** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-03** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-16** SPECIAL ACT 25-17
- **2025-06-25** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-25** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-08** 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/36f89e07-c148-4d76-96dd-6334c20b3363`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).