---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION LOCATIONS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION LOCATIONS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5426"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5426 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elections", "Registrars of voters", "Town clerks", "Voter registration"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Somers, Heather B.", "Tercyak, Peter A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-05"
last_action: "2018-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/34525884-c1f5-47e3-9f82-c14dc905448a"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "6ca0dc5c581a87e880332f3ef63fb6871c49f01a51dd58e6a32c4df604ac7e07"
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 5426 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTION DAY REGISTRATION LOCATIONS.

## Version chain

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

1. **R00** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05426-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05426-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 383 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 222 — **147–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
- Tercyak, Peter A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-05** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Government Administration and Elections `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** PUBLIC HEARING 0315
- **2018-03-23** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-06** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/11/18
- **2018-04-12** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-12** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-12** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 314
- **2018-04-12** FILE NO. 443
- **2018-05-04** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-04** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2018-05-05** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-05** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 521
- **2018-05-09** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-23** PUBLIC ACT 18-119 `became-law`
- **2018-05-25** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-25** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-07** VETOED BY GOVERNOR

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/34525884-c1f5-47e3-9f82-c14dc905448a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).