---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR AND TECHNICAL CHANGES TO COMMERCE-RELATED STATUTES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR AND TECHNICAL CHANGES TO COMMERCE-RELATED STATUTES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5438"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5438 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Technical corrections bills"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 18
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-07"
last_action: "2018-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/048756c0-2d76-4b45-84c6-bdbcf3225f62"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "47f477ca88850d3d4d88dee0a65c1d401e88b7b82c65620f30277dc29345619b"
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 5438 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR AND TECHNICAL CHANGES TO COMMERCE-RELATED STATUTES.

## 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-05438-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05438-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 355 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 56 — **144–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-07** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Commerce `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** PUBLIC HEARING 0320
- **2018-03-22** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-03** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/09/18
- **2018-04-10** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-10** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-10** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 244
- **2018-04-10** FILE NO. 370
- **2018-04-24** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-04-26** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-26** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 433
- **2018-05-09** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-23** PUBLIC ACT 18-122 `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** 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/048756c0-2d76-4b45-84c6-bdbcf3225f62`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).