republic-os/legislation/us/states/ct/2024/hb-5523.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING ALLOCATIONS OF FEDERAL AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO GENERAL GOVERNMENT, HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION AND THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2025."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING ALLOCATIONS OF FEDERAL AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO GENERAL GOVERNMENT, HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION AND THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2024"
identifier: "HB 5523"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5523 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Abandoned property", "Administrative Services", "Department of", "Advisory bodies", "Aging and Disability Services", "Department of", "Agricultural science and technology education", "Agriculture", "Department of", "Audits", "Autism spectrum disorders", "Biomedical Research Trust Fund", "Board of Regents for Higher Education", "Boards of education", "Capital Equipment Purchase Fund", "Career education", "Career entry and mobility program", "Charter schools", "Child mental", "emotional and behavioral health", "Children", "Children and Families", "Department of", "Cigarettes", "Claims by the state", "Community colleges", "Comptroller", "Connecticut Airport Authority", "Connecticut Green Bank", "Connecticut Higher Education Trust (CHET)", "Connecticut Municipal Redevelopment Authority", "Connecticut Port Authority", "Connecticut State Colleges and Universities", "Connecticut State Library", "Connecticut Television Network", "Consumer Protection Department", "Correction Department", "Correctional institutions", "Criminal Justice Division", "Deaf and hearing impaired persons", "Developmental Services", "Department of", "Developmental disabilities", "persons with", "Disclosure", "Distressed municipalities", "Drugs", "Early Childhood", "Office of", "Economic and Community Development", "Department of", "Economic planning and development", "Education", "Education Department", "Education equalization (Education cost sharing)", "Elderly persons", "Electric vehicles", "Electronic government information", "Emergency Services and Public Protection", "Department of", "Emergency medical responders", "Endowment funds (Public colleges and universities)", "Energy and Environmental Protection", "Department of", "Federal aid", "Finance Advisory Committee", "Fringe benefits", "Governor", "Grants by the state", "Hartford", "Health Care Cabinet", "Health Strategy", "Office of", "Health Systems Planning Unit", "Health care facilities certificate of need process", "Health insurance", "Heritage parks", "Higher Education Department", "Higher Education", "Office of", "Home care program for the elderly", "Home health care", "Hospitals", "Housing", "Department of", "Inheritance", "Institutions of higher education", "Intellectual disabilities", "persons with", "Interdistrict public school attendance program", "Intimate partner violence", "Judicial Department", "Labor Department", "Law enforcement", "Legislative Management", "Office of", "Long term care facilities", "Magnet schools", "Maternal and child health protection programs", "Maternity homes and hospitals", "Medicaid", "Medical care", "Medical examiners", "Mental Health and Addiction Services", "Department of", "Mental health", "Missing persons", "Motor Vehicle Department", "Motor vehicle registration", "Municipalities", "Ordinances", "Outpatient surgical facilities", "Pharmaceutical manufacturing companies", "Pharmacists", "Police Officer Standards and Training Council", "Policy and Management", "Office of", "Prisoner education-release program", "Prisoners", "Probate Court Administration Fund", "Public Defender Services Commission", "Public Health", "Department of", "Rebates", "Regional educational service centers", "Reports", "Revenue Services", "Department of", "Roberta B. Willis Scholarship program", "School choice", "Secretary of the State", "Sewers", "Small town economic assistance", "Social Services", "Department of", "Social services", "Solid waste facilities", "Special education", "State Board of Education", "State Capitol", "State Education Resource Center", "State Elections Enforcement Commission", "State Employees' Retirement Commission", "State Treasurer", "State agencies", "State employee vacations", "State humane institution patients", "State medical assistance program", "State parks", "State-wide Health Information Exchange", "Students", "Studies", "Tobacco", "Tobacco Settlement Fund", "Tobacco and Health Trust Fund", "Transportation", "Transportation Department", "Tuition waivers", "University of Connecticut", "University of Connecticut Health Center", "Veterans Affairs", "Department of", "Wetlands", "Women", "Children", "Seniors", "Equity and Opportunity", "Commission on", "Workforce Strategy", "Office of", "XL Center", "Hartford", "Youth in crisis"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Duff", "Bobby G. Gibson", "Christopher Rosario", "David Michel", "Farley Santos", "Henry J. Genga", "Hilda E. Santiago", "Hubert D. Delany", "James Sanchez", "Jason Rojas", "Juan R. Candelaria", "Kara Rochelle", "Kevin C. Kelly", "Larry B. Butler", "Martin M. Looney", "Matt Blumenthal", "Matthew Ritter", "Michael D Quinn", "Patricia Billie Miller"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 12
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-05-06"
last_action: "2024-05-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/177609c0-c8d5-4d1a-b034-b29afcb3a400"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "a735718ad3ab0afb2b38c250cfb7b7ac61e2cb536b9eb0ee87094de60b01a1c4"
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 5523 (2024) — AN ACT CONCERNING ALLOCATIONS OF FEDERAL AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDS AND PROVISIONS RELATED TO GENERAL GOVERNMENT, HUMAN SERVICES, EDUCATION AND THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE 30, 2025.

## Version chain

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

1. **New Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2024/TOB/H/PDF/2024HB-05523-R00-HB.PDF)
2. **Public Act No. 24-81** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2024/ACT/PA/PDF/2024PA-00081-R00HB-05523-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **26–10** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **103–48** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Duff — primary (person)
- Bobby G. Gibson — primary (person)
- Christopher Rosario — primary (person)
- David Michel — primary (person)
- Farley Santos — primary (person)
- Henry J. Genga — primary (person)
- Hilda E. Santiago — primary (person)
- Hubert D. Delany — primary (person)
- James Sanchez — primary (person)
- Jason Rojas — primary (person)
- Juan R. Candelaria — primary (person)
- Kara Rochelle — primary (person)
- Kevin C. Kelly — primary (person)
- Larry B. Butler — primary (person)
- Martin M. Looney — primary (person)
- Matt Blumenthal — primary (person)
- Matthew Ritter — primary (person)
- Michael D Quinn — primary (person)
- Patricia Billie Miller — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-05-06** EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION
- **2024-05-07** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-07** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2024-05-07** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2024-05-07** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2024-05-07** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2024-05-07** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2024-05-07** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2024-05-17** PUBLIC ACT 24-81
- **2024-05-23** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2024-05-23** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2024-05-30** 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/177609c0-c8d5-4d1a-b034-b29afcb3a400`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).