republic-os/legislation/us/states/ct/2025/hb-5916.md

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Bill	AN ACT REQUIRING SOLAR DEVELOPERS TO PROVIDE FARMLAND RESTORATION BONDS FOR BOTH PETITION AND APPLICATION PROJECTS APPROVED BY THE SITING COUNCIL.	AN ACT REQUIRING SOLAR DEVELOPERS TO PROVIDE FARMLAND RESTORATION BONDS FOR BOTH PETITION AND APPLICATION PROJECTS APPROVED BY THE SITING COUNCIL.	us/states/ct	Connecticut General Assembly	2025	HB 5916	Connecticut HB 5916 (2025)	bill	Agricultural lands Connecticut Siting Council Eminent domain Soil conservation Soil testing Solar electricity work	enacted	Doug Dubitsky Heather S. Somers Mark W. Anderson Nicholas Menapace Patrick E. Callahan Saud Anwar Tammy Nuccio Tim Ackert	5	22	2	2025-01-22	2025-07-08	openstates	ocd-bill/592dc567-7169-4412-9708-abb35f9cacbf	ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv	c48462da8425e1a1729efcf648f4ceb41373e7b5db8673a1c268327878f5cc29	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ct

Connecticut HB 5916 (2025) — AN ACT REQUIRING SOLAR DEVELOPERS TO PROVIDE FARMLAND RESTORATION BONDS FOR BOTH PETITION AND APPLICATION PROJECTS APPROVED BY THE SITING COUNCIL.

Version chain

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

1. Committee Bill (committee substitute) — source
2. ENV Joint Favorable Substitute (committee substitute) — source
3. File No. 452 (committee substitute) — source
4. Proposed Bill (committee substitute) — source
5. Public Act No. 25-127 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• House Roll Call Vote — 146–1 (pass) · lower
• Senate Roll Call Vote — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Doug Dubitsky — primary (person)
• Heather S. Somers — primary (person)
• Mark W. Anderson — primary (person)
• Nicholas Menapace — primary (person)
• Patrick E. Callahan — primary (person)
• Saud Anwar — primary (person)
• Tammy Nuccio — primary (person)
• Tim Ackert — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-22 REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment referral-committee
• 2025-01-24 Vote to Draft
• 2025-02-07 DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
• 2025-02-10 REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment referral-committee
• 2025-02-11 PUBLIC HEARING 0219
• 2025-03-14 Joint Favorable Substitute 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 282
• 2025-04-02 FILE NO. 452
• 2025-06-03 HOUSE PASSED passage
• 2025-06-03 TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
• 2025-06-03 FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. reading-2
• 2025-06-03 SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 618
• 2025-06-04 SENATE PASSED passage
• 2025-06-04 ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
• 2025-06-16 PUBLIC ACT 25-127
• 2025-06-25 TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
• 2025-06-25 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; origin ocd-bill/592dc567-7169-4412-9708-abb35f9cacbf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).