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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION STATUTES CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION STATUTES CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "SB 1297"
citation: "Connecticut SB 1297 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Services", "Department of", "Apprentices", "Board of Regents for Higher Education", "Boards of education", "Building Code Training Council", "College students", "Community colleges", "Connecticut State Colleges and Universities", "Downtown higher education center project", "Hartford", "Driver education", "Economic and Community Development", "Department of", "Education Department", "Elderly persons", "Enterprise zones", "Faculty", "Fees", "Fire marshals", "Gifts", "Grants by the state", "Higher Education Consolidation Committee", "Higher Education", "Office of", "Indemnity", "Institutions of higher education", "Magnet schools", "Military families", "Municipalities", "New England Board of Higher Education", "Occupational training", "Pilots", "Plans", "Priority school districts", "Regional educational service centers", "Reports", "School administrators", "School building projects", "School districts", "School safety", "School transportation", "State Board of Education", "State Building Inspector", "State Fire Marshal", "State Treasurer", "State agencies", "State bonds", "State bonds for education", "State funds", "State trust funds", "Student community services", "Technical Education and Career System", "Tuition", "Tuition waivers", "Veterans", "Volunteer firefighters", "Workforce development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 19
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-13"
last_action: "2025-06-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2965ea6d-4409-4190-8bec-ef94c8434529"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "ed46ae073bc2be80ce253443daab5064b536941c4e608eb376dd1ed8507ff302"
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 SB 1297 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO THE HIGHER EDUCATION STATUTES CONCERNING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE CONNECTICUT STATE COMMUNITY COLLEGE AND THE BOARD OF REGENTS FOR HIGHER EDUCATION.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **File No. 376** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025SB-01297-R000376-FC.PDF)
2. **HED Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01297-R01-SB.PDF)
3. **Public Act No. 25-22** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00022-R00SB-01297-PA.PDF)
4. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01297-R00-SB.PDF)
## Votes
- House Roll Call Vote — **1460** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **360** (pass) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **1124** (fail) · upper
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-13** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Higher Education and Employment Advancement `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14** PUBLIC HEARING 0220
- **2025-03-13** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-17** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-25** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/31/25 `referral`
- **2025-04-01** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-04-01** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-04-01** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 227
- **2025-04-01** FILE NO. 376
- **2025-04-30** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-failure`
- **2025-04-30** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2025-05-01** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-05-01** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 518
- **2025-05-22** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2025-05-22** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-05-30** PUBLIC ACT 25-22
- **2025-06-03** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-03** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-09** 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/2965ea6d-4409-4190-8bec-ef94c8434529`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).