---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5605"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5605 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fees", "Health care providers", "Workers' Compensation Commission Advisory Board", "Workers' compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kevin Ryan", "Larry B. Butler"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-21"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5faea693-84e4-4f93-b753-342a6bdb715e"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "9e684d77163ab8c831fb590484c62e36e709517537e6e4a0eb26aae4424db424"
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 5605 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT.

## 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/H/PDF/2025HB-05605-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 502** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-05605-R000502-FC.PDF)
3. **LAB Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-05605-R02-HB.PDF)
4. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-05605-R00-HB.PDF)
5. **Public Act No. 25-50** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00050-R00HB-05605-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote — **141–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kevin Ryan — primary (person)
- Larry B. Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-21** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-11** Reserved for Subject Matter Public Hearing
- **2025-02-14** PUBLIC HEARING 0220
- **2025-03-06** Vote to Draft
- **2025-03-18** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2025-03-19** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-20** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-28** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/02/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-03** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-03** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-04-03** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 310
- **2025-04-03** FILE NO. 502
- **2025-05-08** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2025-05-12** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-12** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 452
- **2025-05-30** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2025-05-30** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-03** PUBLIC ACT 25-50
- **2025-06-09** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-09** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-23** 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/5faea693-84e4-4f93-b753-342a6bdb715e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).