republic-os/legislation/us/states/ct/2024/hb-5498.md

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Bill	AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTION SECURITY AND TRANSPARENCY, THE COUNTING OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS, ABSENTEE VOTING FOR CERTAIN PATIENTS OF NURSING HOMES, SECURITY OF CERTAIN ELECTION WORKERS, STATE ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION COMPLAINTS, BALLOTS MADE AVAILABLE IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH AND VARIOUS OTHER REVISIONS RELATED TO ELECTION ADMINISTRATION.	AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTION SECURITY AND TRANSPARENCY, THE COUNTING OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS, ABSENTEE VOTING FOR CERTAIN PATIENTS OF NURSING HOMES, SECURITY OF CERTAIN ELECTION WORKERS, STATE ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION COMPLAINTS, BALLOTS MADE AVAILABLE IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH AND VARIOUS OTHER REVISIONS RELATED TO ELECTION ADMINISTRATION.	us/states/ct	Connecticut General Assembly	2024	HB 5498	Connecticut HB 5498 (2024)	bill	Absentee ballots Ballots Candidates Certificates and certification Complaint Confidentiality Crimes Disabled persons Disclosure Early voting Election offenses Elections Electronic surveillance Felonies Fines (Penalties) Fraud Freedom of Information Commission Municipalities Nominations Petitions Primaries Referenda Registrars of voters Secretary of the State State Elections Enforcement Commission Town clerks Voter registration Voter registry lists	enacted	Donna Veach Eric C. Berthel Greg S. Howard Holly H. Cheeseman Jeff Gordon Kathy Kennedy Lisa Seminara Martin Foncello Matt Blumenthal Patricia Billie Miller Rob Sampson Tony Hwang	5	32	6	2024-03-13	2024-06-06	openstates	ocd-bill/2468aa14-ed94-4512-95c0-4e725a37e4d5	ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv	e9225cec2ca1dc9ecd2a5fb41d6c00eab30a232f87c8e337adfd6718bb1be523	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ct

Connecticut HB 5498 (2024) — AN ACT CONCERNING ELECTION SECURITY AND TRANSPARENCY, THE COUNTING OF ABSENTEE BALLOTS, ABSENTEE VOTING FOR CERTAIN PATIENTS OF NURSING HOMES, SECURITY OF CERTAIN ELECTION WORKERS, STATE ELECTIONS ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION COMPLAINTS, BALLOTS MADE AVAILABLE IN LANGUAGES OTHER THAN ENGLISH AND VARIOUS OTHER REVISIONS RELATED TO ELECTION ADMINISTRATION.

Version chain

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

1. File No. 491 (committee substitute) — source
2. GAE Joint Favorable Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. JUD Joint Favorable (committee substitute) — source
4. Public Act No. 24-148 (committee substitute) — source
5. Raised Bill (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Roll Call Vote — 12–24 (fail) · upper
• House Roll Call Vote — 150–0 (pass) · lower
• Senate Roll Call Vote — 13–23 (fail) · upper
• Senate Roll Call Vote — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Senate Roll Call Vote — 12–24 (fail) · upper
• Senate Roll Call Vote — 11–25 (fail) · upper

Sponsors

• Donna Veach — primary (person)
• Eric C. Berthel — primary (person)
• Greg S. Howard — primary (person)
• Holly H. Cheeseman — primary (person)
• Jeff Gordon — primary (person)
• Kathy Kennedy — primary (person)
• Lisa Seminara — primary (person)
• Martin Foncello — primary (person)
• Matt Blumenthal — primary (person)
• Patricia Billie Miller — primary (person)
• Rob Sampson — primary (person)
• Tony Hwang — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-03-13 REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Government Administration and Elections referral-committee
• 2024-03-14 PUBLIC HEARING 0318
• 2024-03-26 Joint Favorable Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-27 FILED WITH LCO filing
• 2024-04-08 REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/15/24 referral
• 2024-04-15 RPTD. OUT OF LCO
• 2024-04-15 FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR reading-2
• 2024-04-15 HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 341
• 2024-04-15 FILE NO. 491
• 2024-04-25 REF. BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ON Judiciary
• 2024-04-29 Joint Favorable committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-04-29 FILED WITH LCO filing
• 2024-04-29 RPTD. OUT OF LCO
• 2024-04-29 NO NEW FILE BY COMM. ON Judiciary
• 2024-04-29 TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR reading-2
• 2024-05-03 HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A amendment-passage
• 2024-05-03 HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A passage
• 2024-05-03 IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
• 2024-05-03 FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. reading-2
• 2024-05-03 SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 442
• 2024-05-08 SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A amendment-passage
• 2024-05-08 SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. A amendment-failure
• 2024-05-08 SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. B amendment-failure
• 2024-05-08 SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. C amendment-failure
• 2024-05-08 SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. D amendment-failure
• 2024-05-08 SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. E amendment-failure
• 2024-05-08 SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A passage
• 2024-05-08 IN CONCURRENCE
• 2024-05-22 PUBLIC ACT 24-148
• 2024-05-31 TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
• 2024-05-31 TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR executive-receipt
• 2024-06-06 SIGNED BY GOVERNOR executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2468aa14-ed94-4512-95c0-4e725a37e4d5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).