---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF ANIMALS FROM CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF ANIMALS FROM CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6277"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6277 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Adoption", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Animals", "Institutions of higher education"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/24c8328a-6ab7-4e98-9bc8-6a7db1fbb7e2"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "7e8b4ac927b9cf99961f13907603103f854860224fb73d4adc255b093214de9f"
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 6277 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADOPTION OF ANIMALS FROM CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.

## 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-06277-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **ENV Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06277-R02-HB.PDF)
3. **File No. 703** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06277-R000703-FC.PDF)
4. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06277-R00-HB.PDF)
5. **Public Act No. 25-129** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00129-R00HB-06277-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **147–0** (pass) · lower

## 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
- **2025-03-14** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2025-03-17** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** PUBLIC HEARING 0324
- **2025-03-28** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-31** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-04-08** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/14/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-15** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-15** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-04-15** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 438
- **2025-04-15** FILE NO. 703
- **2025-06-03** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2025-06-03** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2025-06-03** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 619
- **2025-06-04** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2025-06-04** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-16** PUBLIC ACT 25-129
- **2025-06-25** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-25** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-07-08** 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/24c8328a-6ab7-4e98-9bc8-6a7db1fbb7e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).