---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING AND PHARMACEUTICALS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING AND PHARMACEUTICALS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 7179"
citation: "Connecticut HB 7179 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advertising", "Consumer Protection Department", "Drugs", "Labeling", "Marketing", "Packaging", "Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies", "Pharmacists", "Physicians", "Public Health", "Department of", "Reports", "Sales and use tax permit", "Task forces", "Vending machines", "Veterinarians", "Violations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-03-06"
last_action: "2025-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fec989c3-3fba-4007-bf97-bce6b6db5d8a"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "e823a5509b811f97f6ed7b1841a3336d05053d07f94a193c40caf528a4914f86"
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 7179 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING PHARMACEUTICAL MARKETING AND PHARMACEUTICALS.

## Version chain

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

1. **File No. 601** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-07179-R000601-FC.PDF)
2. **GL Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07179-R01-HB.PDF)
3. **Public Act No. 25-171** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00171-R00HB-07179-PA.PDF)
4. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-07179-R00-HB.PDF)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote — **148–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON General Law `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14** PUBLIC HEARING 0319
- **2025-03-21** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-24** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-04-01** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/07/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-08** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-08** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-04-08** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 375
- **2025-04-08** FILE NO. 601
- **2025-06-04** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-04** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-04** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2025-06-04** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-06-04** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 624
- **2025-06-04** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-04** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-04** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-23** PUBLIC ACT 25-171
- **2025-06-27** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-27** 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/fec989c3-3fba-4007-bf97-bce6b6db5d8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).