---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING SPIN-OFF COMPANIES FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION."
description: "AN ACT AUTHORIZING SPIN-OFF COMPANIES FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 5015"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5015 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station", "Disclosure", "Inventions", "State employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aundre Bumgardner", "Ben Mcgorty", "Joe Canino", "Joseph P. Gresko", "Patricia A. Dillon", "Tom O'dea"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/82eea007-d2cc-4212-ad03-ecd08198e27f"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "b25fdb34ee69a26ca20f656cdb568b4cf53fda5e58bb6b2db00838ea00b0acf9"
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 5015 (2025) — AN ACT AUTHORIZING SPIN-OFF COMPANIES FOR EMPLOYEES OF THE CONNECTICUT AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION.

## 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-05015-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **ENV Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-05015-R02-HB.PDF)
3. **File No. 39** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-05015-R000039-FC.PDF)
4. **File No. 872** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-05015-R000872-FC.PDF)
5. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-05015-R00-HB.PDF)
6. **Public Act No. 25-10** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00010-R00HB-05015-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote — **141–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aundre Bumgardner — primary (person)
- Ben Mcgorty — primary (person)
- Joe Canino — primary (person)
- Joseph P. Gresko — primary (person)
- Patricia A. Dillon — primary (person)
- Tom O'dea — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-17** Vote to Draft
- **2025-01-23** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2025-01-24** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-27** PUBLIC HEARING 0131
- **2025-02-19** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-02-19** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-02-27** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/04/25 `referral`
- **2025-03-05** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-03-05** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 53
- **2025-03-05** FILE NO. 39
- **2025-05-08** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-08** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-12** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-12** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 461
- **2025-05-12** FILE NO. 872
- **2025-05-20** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-20** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-20** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-05-22** PUBLIC ACT 25-10
- **2025-05-27** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-05-27** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-29** 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/82eea007-d2cc-4212-ad03-ecd08198e27f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).