republic-os/legislation/us/states/ct/2026/hb-5153.md

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Bill	AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RELATED STATUTES.	AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RELATED STATUTES.	us/states/ct	Connecticut General Assembly	2026	HB 5153	Connecticut HB 5153 (2026)	bill	Conservation easements Conservation restrictions Distressed municipalities Electric vehicles Energy and Environmental Protection Department of Environmental justice Hunting Hunting licenses Hybrid vehicles Protected open space and watershed land acquisition grant program Rebates Salmon School bus operators School buses School districts State grants to municipalities Targeted investment communities Vouchers	enacted	Aundre Bumgardner Brandon Chafee Farley Santos John-michael Parker Joseph P. Gresko Josh Elliott Kenneth Gucker Rob Sampson Tom Delnicki	4	21	2	2026-02-11	2026-06-04	openstates	ocd-bill/62d82775-dc3b-4246-b383-8d13d5a8a175	ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv	5db69d9a641c2d746198ec7c90b6f81fabfd2484ec15c165bdfb603def90a099	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ct

Connecticut HB 5153 (2026) — AN ACT CONCERNING MINOR REVISIONS TO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION RELATED STATUTES.

Version chain

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

1. ENV Joint Favorable Substitute (committee substitute) — source
2. File No. 87 (committee substitute) — source
3. Public Act No. 26-124 (committee substitute) — source
4. Raised Bill (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Senate Roll Call Vote — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• House Roll Call Vote — 143–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Aundre Bumgardner — primary (person)
• Brandon Chafee — primary (person)
• Farley Santos — primary (person)
• John-michael Parker — primary (person)
• Joseph P. Gresko — primary (person)
• Josh Elliott — primary (person)
• Kenneth Gucker — primary (person)
• Rob Sampson — primary (person)
• Tom Delnicki — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2026-02-11 REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment referral-committee
• 2026-02-13 PUBLIC HEARING 0220
• 2026-03-04 Joint Favorable Substitute committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-03-05 FILED WITH LCO filing
• 2026-03-13 REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/18/26 referral
• 2026-03-19 RPTD. OUT OF LCO
• 2026-03-19 FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR reading-2
• 2026-03-19 HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 79
• 2026-03-19 FILE NO. 87
• 2026-05-01 HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A amendment-passage
• 2026-05-01 HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A passage
• 2026-05-01 IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
• 2026-05-02 FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. reading-2
• 2026-05-02 SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 537
• 2026-05-06 SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A amendment-passage
• 2026-05-06 SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A passage
• 2026-05-06 ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
• 2026-05-20 PUBLIC ACT 26-124
• 2026-05-27 TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
• 2026-05-27 TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR executive-receipt
• 2026-06-04 SIGNED BY GOVERNOR executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62d82775-dc3b-4246-b383-8d13d5a8a175. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).