---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING HIGHER EDUCATION MANAGEMENT AND FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING HIGHER EDUCATION MANAGEMENT AND FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6887"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6887 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Audits", "Board of Regents for Higher Education", "Comptroller", "Connecticut State Colleges and Universities", "Electronic data", "Electronic government information", "Occupational training", "Reports", "Residency", "State motor vehicles", "State purchasing", "University of Connecticut"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e01322cd-cdcc-4f7c-9ffd-66ad18d25ae0"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "e8a039c8804efd2bbeb7e5d84080a6b48616892a68a1fd6b0748e3f7b587cadc"
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 6887 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING HIGHER EDUCATION MANAGEMENT AND FISCAL ACCOUNTABILITY.

## 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-06887-R02-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 158** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06887-R000158-FC.PDF)
3. **File No. 980** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06887-R000980-FC.PDF)
4. **HED Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06887-R01-HB.PDF)
5. **Public Act No. 25-71** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00071-R00HB-06887-PA.PDF)
6. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06887-R00-HB.PDF)

## Votes

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

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Higher Education and Employment Advancement `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** PUBLIC HEARING 0211
- **2025-02-27** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-05** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-14** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/19/25 `referral`
- **2025-03-20** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-03-20** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 130
- **2025-03-20** FILE NO. 158
- **2025-04-29** REF. BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ON Appropriations
- **2025-05-05** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-06** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-05-06** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-05-06** NO NEW FILE BY COMM. ON Appropriations
- **2025-05-06** TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-05-28** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-28** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-28** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2025-05-29** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-29** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 554
- **2025-05-29** FILE NO. 980
- **2025-06-02** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-02** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-02** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-10** PUBLIC ACT 25-71
- **2025-06-16** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-16** 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/e01322cd-cdcc-4f7c-9ffd-66ad18d25ae0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).