republic-os/legislation/us/states/ct/2026/hb-5003.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE STATE."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE STATE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 5003"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5003 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Services", "Department of", "Advertising", "Appeal and review", "Assault and battery", "Assessments", "Board of Regents for Higher Education", "Boards of education", "Breast feeding", "Career education", "Children", "Civil actions", "Collective bargaining", "Community colleges", "Comptroller", "Connecticut Housing Finance Authority (CHFA)", "Connecticut State Colleges and Universities", "Consumer Protection Department", "Contractors", "Contracts", "Correctional institution employees", "Crane operators", "Crime victims", "Disabled persons", "Discrimination in employment", "Education Department", "Electronic government information", "Electronic medical records", "Electronic monitoring in the workplace", "Emergency Services and Public Protection", "Department of", "Employees", "Employers", "Employment", "Employment agencies", "Employment promissory notes", "Examining boards", "Fines (Penalties)", "Firefighters", "Governor's Workforce Council", "Grants by the state", "Health care facilities", "Health care providers", "Health insurance", "Hearings", "Human Rights and Opportunities", "Commission on", "Injuries", "Labor Department", "Labor unions", "Law enforcement", "Licenses", "Marijuana", "Minimum wages", "Mortgage assistance", "Municipal employee retirement", "Municipal employees", "Nonprofit organizations", "Notices", "Occupational licenses", "Ordinances", "Parking", "Parking tickets", "Patients", "Pensions", "Pilots", "Plans", "Police", "Pregnancy", "Prisoners of war", "Public Health", "Department of", "Public safety telecommunicators", "Public works", "Regional educational service centers", "Regional workforce development boards", "Reports", "Retirement", "Service workers", "Sexual harassment", "Spouses", "State Board of Education", "State agencies", "State employee retirement", "State employees", "State-wide Health Information Exchange", "Surveys", "Task forces", "Teacher collective bargaining", "Teacher tenure", "Teacher termination", "Teachers", "Technical Education and Career System", "Traffic violations", "Tuition waivers", "University of Connecticut", "University of Connecticut Health Center", "Veterans", "Violence", "Volunteer firefighters", "Weather", "Women's employment", "Workforce development"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Amy Morrin Bello", "Anne M. Hughes", "Anthony L. Nolan", "Aundre Bumgardner", "Bob Godfrey", "Bobby G. Gibson", "Daniel Gaiewski", "Derell Wilson", "Farley Santos", "Frank Smith", "Gary A. Turco", "Herron Gaston", "Hilda E. Santiago", "Hubert D. Delany", "Iris N Sanchez", "Jaime S. Foster", "James Sanchez", "Jane M. Garibay", "Jillian Gilchrest", "John A. Kissel", "Joshua M. Hall", "Juan R. Candelaria", "Julie Kushner", "Kai J. Belton", "Kaitlyn Shake", "Kara Rochelle", "Kate Farrar", "Kenneth Gucker", "Kevin Brown", "Laurie Sweet", "Marcus Brown", "Michael \"mj\" Shannon", "Michael D. Quinn", "Michael Digiovancarlo", "Nicholas Menapace", "Nick Gauthier", "Patricia A. Dillon", "Patricia Billie Miller", "Rebecca Martinez", "Roland J. Lemar", "Ronald A. Napoli", "Sarah Keitt", "Steven Winter", "Sujata Gadkar-wilcox", "Tammy R. Exum", "Tom Delnicki", "Toni E. Walker"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2026-02-26"
last_action: "2026-05-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e2939dc5-82b8-4560-9fbc-2f3f2f81b046"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "c25b4d18e057ba67ff69b832bd7b90378c6b379241408b30a2bc3e8d0cbbed54"
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 5003 (2026) — AN ACT CONCERNING WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AND WORKING CONDITIONS IN THE STATE.

## Version chain

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

1. **APP Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/TOB/H/PDF/2026HB-05003-R02-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 400** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/FC/PDF/2026HB-05003-R000400-FC.PDF)
3. **File No. 709** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/FC/PDF/2026HB-05003-R000709-FC.PDF)
4. **File No. 745** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/FC/PDF/2026HB-05003-R000745-FC.PDF)
5. **LAB Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/TOB/H/PDF/2026HB-05003-R01-HB.PDF)
6. **Public Act No. 26-12** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00012-R00HB-05003-PA.PDF)
7. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/TOB/H/PDF/2026HB-05003-R00-HB.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–24** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **12–24** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **28–7** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **117–29** (pass) · lower
- House Roll Call Vote — **47–100** (fail) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Amy Morrin Bello — primary (person)
- Anne M. Hughes — primary (person)
- Anthony L. Nolan — primary (person)
- Aundre Bumgardner — primary (person)
- Bob Godfrey — primary (person)
- Bobby G. Gibson — primary (person)
- Daniel Gaiewski — primary (person)
- Derell Wilson — primary (person)
- Farley Santos — primary (person)
- Frank Smith — primary (person)
- Gary A. Turco — primary (person)
- Herron Gaston — primary (person)
- Hilda E. Santiago — primary (person)
- Hubert D. Delany — primary (person)
- Iris N Sanchez — primary (person)
- Jaime S. Foster — primary (person)
- James Sanchez — primary (person)
- Jane M. Garibay — primary (person)
- Jillian Gilchrest — primary (person)
- John A. Kissel — primary (person)
- Joshua M. Hall — primary (person)
- Juan R. Candelaria — primary (person)
- Julie Kushner — primary (person)
- Kai J. Belton — primary (person)
- Kaitlyn Shake — primary (person)
- Kara Rochelle — primary (person)
- Kate Farrar — primary (person)
- Kenneth Gucker — primary (person)
- Kevin Brown — primary (person)
- Laurie Sweet — primary (person)
- Marcus Brown — primary (person)
- Michael "mj" Shannon — primary (person)
- Michael D. Quinn — primary (person)
- Michael Digiovancarlo — primary (person)
- Nicholas Menapace — primary (person)
- Nick Gauthier — primary (person)
- Patricia A. Dillon — primary (person)
- Patricia Billie Miller — primary (person)
- Rebecca Martinez — primary (person)
- Roland J. Lemar — primary (person)
- Ronald A. Napoli — primary (person)
- Sarah Keitt — primary (person)
- Steven Winter — primary (person)
- Sujata Gadkar-wilcox — primary (person)
- Tammy R. Exum — primary (person)
- Tom Delnicki — primary (person)
- Toni E. Walker — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-26** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-27** PUBLIC HEARING 0303
- **2026-03-17** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-03-18** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2026-03-27** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/01/26 `referral`
- **2026-04-02** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2026-04-02** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2026-04-02** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 258
- **2026-04-02** FILE NO. 400
- **2026-04-07** REF. BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ON Appropriations
- **2026-04-13** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2026-04-14** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2026-04-15** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/20/26 `referral`
- **2026-04-21** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2026-04-21** NEW FILE BY COMM. ON Appropriations
- **2026-04-21** TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2026-04-21** FILE NO. 709
- **2026-04-28** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2026-04-28** HOUSE REJECTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. B `amendment-failure`
- **2026-04-28** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2026-04-28** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2026-04-29** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2026-04-29** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 481
- **2026-04-29** FILE NO. 745
- **2026-05-01** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2026-05-01** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-failure`
- **2026-05-01** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. B `amendment-failure`
- **2026-05-01** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. C `amendment-failure`
- **2026-05-01** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. D `amendment-failure`
- **2026-05-01** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. E `amendment-failure`
- **2026-05-01** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2026-05-01** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2026-05-04** PUBLIC ACT 26-12
- **2026-05-06** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2026-05-06** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2026-05-11** 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/e2939dc5-82b8-4560-9fbc-2f3f2f81b046`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).