---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP ON THE RESTORATION OF EEL GRASS."
description: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP ON THE RESTORATION OF EEL GRASS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "HB 6480"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6480 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Environment", "Joint Committee on", "Reports", "Seaweed", "Studies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bumgardner, Aundre", "Chafee, Brandon", "Delnicki, Tom", "Dillon, Patricia A.", "Ferraro, Charles J.", "Gibson, Bobby G.", "Gresko, Joseph P.", "Haines, Irene M.", "Kelly, Kevin C.", "Kennedy, Kathy", "Michel, David", "Somers, Heather S.", "Winfield, Gary A."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-24"
last_action: "2023-06-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3a724312-b9b7-4e5c-8b43-065e73cbad8b"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "0124a21ffd2cb37f08ab83b5dfd71c02e82a9a3cc41c036c1f7207bf3ce121bd"
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 6480 (2023) — AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP ON THE RESTORATION OF EEL GRASS.

## Version chain

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

1. **ENV Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/TOB/H/PDF/2023HB-06480-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 24** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/FC/PDF/2023HB-06480-R000024-FC.PDF)
3. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/TOB/H/PDF/2023HB-06480-R00-HB.PDF)
4. **Special Act No. 23-7** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/ACT/SA/PDF/2023SA-00007-R00HB-06480-SA.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Bumgardner, Aundre — primary (person)
- Chafee, Brandon — primary (person)
- Delnicki, Tom — primary (person)
- Dillon, Patricia A. — primary (person)
- Ferraro, Charles J. — primary (person)
- Gibson, Bobby G. — primary (person)
- Gresko, Joseph P. — primary (person)
- Haines, Irene M. — primary (person)
- Kelly, Kevin C. — primary (person)
- Kennedy, Kathy — primary (person)
- Michel, David — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather S. — primary (person)
- Winfield, Gary A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-24** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-25** PUBLIC HEARING 0130
- **2023-02-17** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-02-21** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2023-03-01** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/06/23 `referral`
- **2023-03-07** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2023-03-07** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2023-03-07** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 40
- **2023-03-07** FILE NO. 24
- **2023-05-03** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2023-05-05** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2023-05-05** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 443
- **2023-06-05** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2023-06-05** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2023-06-12** SPECIAL ACT 23-7
- **2023-06-14** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2023-06-14** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-26** 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/3a724312-b9b7-4e5c-8b43-065e73cbad8b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).