---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025, AND COMPENSATION PAID TO INJURED EMPLOYEES AND THE PARENTS OF A DECEASED EMPLOYEE UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025, AND COMPENSATION PAID TO INJURED EMPLOYEES AND THE PARENTS OF A DECEASED EMPLOYEE UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6863"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6863 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Deficiency appropriations", "Disability benefits", "Employees", "Governor's bills", "Injuries", "Rehabilitation of the disabled", "Reports", "State budget", "Studies", "Workers' compensation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-06-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83e1c07f-0f8f-4310-bb03-6310226021b4"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "ad8b5592114941253cdbdcd14055a4a52910585e72b6c5ab92574e5cb1d16037"
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 6863 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING DEFICIENCY APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 2025, AND COMPENSATION PAID TO INJURED EMPLOYEES AND THE PARENTS OF A DECEASED EMPLOYEE UNDER THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION ACT.

## Version chain

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

1. **APP Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06863-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 817** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06863-R000817-FC.PDF)
3. **Governor's Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06863-R00-HB.PDF)
4. **Public Act No. 25-12** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00012-R00HB-06863-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **24–10** (pass) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **10–24** (fail) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **98–46** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-31** PUBLIC HEARING 0410
- **2025-04-22** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-04-25** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/30/25 `referral`
- **2025-05-01** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-05-01** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-05-01** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 511
- **2025-05-01** FILE NO. 817
- **2025-05-19** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-19** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-19** RULES SUSPENDED, TRANSMITTED TO SENATE
- **2025-05-19** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-19** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 515
- **2025-05-19** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2025-05-19** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-19** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-failure`
- **2025-05-19** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-19** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-05-19** RULES SUSPENDED, TRANSMITTED TO THE GOVERNOR
- **2025-05-20** SIGNED BY GOVERNOR IN ORIGINAL `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-30** PUBLIC ACT 25-12
- **2025-06-02** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83e1c07f-0f8f-4310-bb03-6310226021b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).