---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION OF FARM LAND."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION OF FARM LAND."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5534"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5534 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural lands", "Property tax assessors"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Boyd, Patrick S.", "Cook, Michelle L.", "Dubitsky, Doug", "Duff, William", "Gibson, Bobby G.", "Hampton, John K.", "Orange, Linda A.", "Somers, Heather B.", "Tercyak, Peter A.", "Wood, Terrie E.", "Zawistowski, Tami"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-13"
last_action: "2018-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19ec0b68-a883-4364-b70d-0fafa247e6a1"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "69fe0112cd958491eba90625a9870b19431e33bf5714abe119086bc97d58d278"
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 5534 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE CLASSIFICATION OF FARM LAND.

## 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-05534-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05534-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 386 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 239 AS AMENDED — **129–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Boyd, Patrick S. — primary (person)
- Cook, Michelle L. — primary (person)
- Dubitsky, Doug — primary (person)
- Duff, William — primary (person)
- Gibson, Bobby G. — primary (person)
- Hampton, John K. — primary (person)
- Orange, Linda A. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
- Tercyak, Peter A. — primary (person)
- Wood, Terrie E. — primary (person)
- Zawistowski, Tami — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-13** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Planning and Development `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** PUBLIC HEARING 0319
- **2018-03-26** 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 330
- **2018-04-12** FILE NO. 458
- **2018-05-05** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-05** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-05** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2018-05-05** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-05** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 540
- **2018-05-09** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-30** PUBLIC ACT 18-176 `became-law`
- **2018-06-01** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-06-01** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-13** 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/19ec0b68-a883-4364-b70d-0fafa247e6a1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).