---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ENHANCING ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING PREDICTABILITY."
description: "AN ACT ENHANCING ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING PREDICTABILITY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6868"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6868 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Conservation easements", "Electronic government information", "Energy and Environmental Protection", "Department of", "Environmental permits", "Hazard mitigation and floodplain management", "Hearings", "Licenses", "Permits", "Petitions", "Public hearings", "Reports", "Watersheds"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-02-06"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/411a6e6e-046d-4c3d-9d0a-36456f7e18d8"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "32b9b94283368bfad5b8b14d170a404ef81a3bb6d07215817b71bf244117dc33"
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 6868 (2025) — AN ACT ENHANCING ENVIRONMENTAL PERMITTING PREDICTABILITY.

## Version chain

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

1. **ENV Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06868-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 456** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06868-R000456-FC.PDF)
3. **File No. 946** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06868-R000946-FC.PDF)
4. **Governor's Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06868-R00-HB.PDF)
5. **Public Act No. 25-84** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00084-R00HB-06868-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **144–3** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-25** PUBLIC HEARING 0303
- **2025-03-14** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-27** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/01/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-02** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-02** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-04-02** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 286
- **2025-04-02** FILE NO. 456
- **2025-05-20** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-20** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-22** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-22** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 534
- **2025-05-22** FILE NO. 946
- **2025-06-03** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-03** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-03** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-10** PUBLIC ACT 25-84
- **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/411a6e6e-046d-4c3d-9d0a-36456f7e18d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).