---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE TAKING OF EASTERN OYSTERS AND INVASIVE AQUATIC SPECIES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE TAKING OF EASTERN OYSTERS AND INVASIVE AQUATIC SPECIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6222"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6222 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture", "Department of", "Aquaculture", "Energy and Environmental Protection", "Department of", "Invasive species", "Licenses", "Misdemeanors", "Oysters", "Recycling", "Reports", "Restaurants", "Revenue Services", "Department of", "Shellfish", "State regulations", "generally", "Studies", "Tax credits", "Violations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-06-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80701768-79ba-4489-9159-cb4986419360"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "592f6a3687e2b7e4a2be3924434122be3f603144ed9b055e9d81cc983edba4f1"
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 6222 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE TAKING OF EASTERN OYSTERS AND INVASIVE AQUATIC SPECIES.

## 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-06222-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **ENV Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06222-R02-HB.PDF)
3. **File No. 715** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06222-R000715-FC.PDF)
4. **File No. 922** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06222-R000922-FC.PDF)
5. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06222-R00-HB.PDF)
6. **Public Act No. 25-14** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00014-R00HB-06222-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote — **144–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-10** Vote to Draft
- **2025-03-05** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2025-03-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07** PUBLIC HEARING 0317
- **2025-03-28** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-04-10** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/15/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-16** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-16** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-04-16** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 446
- **2025-04-16** FILE NO. 715
- **2025-05-13** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-13** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-15** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-15** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 486
- **2025-05-15** FILE NO. 922
- **2025-05-22** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-22** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-22** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-05-30** PUBLIC ACT 25-14
- **2025-06-02** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-02** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-03** 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/80701768-79ba-4489-9159-cb4986419360`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).