All Roll Calls
Yes: 196 • No: 0
ConnecticutSB 014042025 Regular SessionSenate
AN ACT CONCERNING CONFORMING ADJUSTMENTS TO SUPPORT THE TRANSITION TO A RELEASED-BASED CLEANUP PROGRAM.
Sponsored By: Commerce Committee
Signed by Governor
Summary
To establish a transition period from the Transfer Act to regulations that provide for release-based cleanup remediation standards.
commerce
Personalized for You
How does this bill affect your finances?
Personalize government policy and PRIA will tell you what this bill means for your household, plus every other piece of legislation we track. PRIA reads each provision against your financial profile to show you exactly what matters to your wallet.
Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
4 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
Fewer transfer requirements for cleanup properties
Qualifying property acquisitions and later transfers are excluded from the state's establishment-transfer requirements. The exclusions cover properties in specified cleanup or liability-relief programs, including the voluntary cleanup program. For that voluntary-program exclusion, the seller must be meeting program requirements at transfer or have completed them. The law uses the new cleanup regulations' effective date to set the timing for these exclusions.
More time and protection for cleanup
Qualifying releases found through parcel-wide assessments are grouped into the professionally supervised cleanup tier with the longest timeline. Their regulatory cleanup deadlines get one extra year, without changing cleanup standards. Grouped releases count as one release for regulatory fees, which can lower charges depending on the fee rules. Remediated parcels also become eligible for a state covenant not to sue, providing protection from certain lawsuits. Eligibility requires commissioner approval of a detailed written cleanup plan meeting the new regulatory standards; protection is not automatic.
New cleanup duties and narrower reporting
Once the new cleanup regulations take effect, people who create or maintain pollution releases must clean them to state standards. They must also report releases when those regulations require it. Those who fail to comply are liable for state or third-party costs to contain, remove, or reduce the pollution. Beginning October 1, 2025, once the regulations are effective, the older reporting requirements have a narrower reach. They cover releases excluded from the new framework and hazards municipalities or Connecticut brownfield land banks must report.
New property cleanup option with deadlines
Once the new regulations take effect, licensed environmental professionals can lead investigations through a voluntary parcel-wide cleanup program. Parcels cannot already face specified transfer-related cleanup duties or release-related commissioner orders, consent orders, or court judgments. The Phase II assessment must start before a covered release is discovered or within 60 days afterward. Required immediate actions remain due on time; professionals must notify the commissioner by the earliest release-reporting deadline, identifying the assessment and releases. They must submit the investigation and site details needed to assign a cleanup tier within two years after assessment begins.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Commerce Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/20/2025
House Roll Call Vote 75 AS AMENDED
Yes: 140 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/20/2025
Senate Roll Call Vote 103
Yes: 36 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/20/2025
CE Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Yes: 20 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Transmitted to the Secretary of State
5/15/2025legislaturePublic Act 25-6
5/14/2025legislatureSigned by Governor in Original
5/13/2025legislatureRules Suspended, Transmitted to the Governor
5/8/2025legislatureIn Concurrence
5/8/2025legislatureHouse Passed as Amended by Senate Amendment Schedule A
5/8/2025HouseHouse Adopted Senate Amendment Schedule A
5/8/2025HouseHouse Calendar Number 513
5/1/2025HouseFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
5/1/2025HouseRules Suspended, Transmitted to the House
4/30/2025HouseSenate Passed as Amended by Senate Amendment Schedule A
4/30/2025SenateSenate Adopted Senate Amendment Schedule A 7505
4/30/2025SenateFile Number 488
4/3/2025legislatureSenate Calendar Number 282
4/3/2025SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
4/3/2025SenateReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
4/3/2025legislatureReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/02/25 5:00 PM
3/28/2025legislatureFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
3/20/2025legislatureJoint Favorable
3/20/2025legislaturePublic Hearing 03/04
2/28/2025legislatureReferred to Joint Committee on Commerce
2/27/2025legislature
Bill Text
Public Act No. 25-6
4/30/2025
File No. 488
4/3/2025
CE Joint Favorable
3/20/2025
Raised Bill
2/27/2025
Bill Analysis For File Copy 488
Bill Analysis for SB-1404, as amended by Senate "A"
CE Joint Fav. Rpt
CE Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Fiscal Note For File Copy 488
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 7505 (No Fiscal Impact)
Fiscal Note for SB-1404, As Amended by Senate "A" (LCO 7505)
House Roll Call Vote 75 AS AMENDED
Senate Roll Call Vote 103
Senate Schedule A LCO# 7505 (J)
Summary for Public Act No. 25-6
Related Bills
HB 05013, AN ACT ADDING CERTAIN PLANTS TO THE INVASIVE PLANTS LIST.
To prohibit the sale, use and distribution of certain invasive plants in the state.
SB 01558, AN ACT CONCERNING INCOME TAXES IMPOSED BY OTHER JURISDICTIONS ON RESIDENTS OF THE STATE.
To (1) reduce a portion of the amount of the credit for income taxes paid to other states, (2) require the Attorney General to study ways to defend residents from having income tax imposed by other jurisdictions on income derived from services rendered while such resident was within this state, and (3) provide a credit to residents who file an appeal protesting the tax imposed by such other jurisdiction.
SB 01396, AN ACT CONCERNING EARNED BUT UNPAID WAGE OR SALARY INCOME ADVANCES.
To establish various requirements concerning earned but unpaid wage or salary income advances.
SB 01187, AN ACT CONCERNING FORECLOSURE, ASSIGNMENT AND OTHER ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS FOR UNPAID SEWER ASSESSMENTS AND OTHER FEES AND CHARGES.
To prohibit foreclosure, assignment and other enforcement actions for unpaid sewer assessments and other fees and charges in the case of owner-occupied real property for which the principal of such unpaid assessments, fees and charges is less than three thousand dollars unless three years have elapsed from the date any lien was filed and such lien remains unpaid.
HB 07236, AN ACT CONCERNING HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIMS.
To amend the membership of the trafficking in persons council, add victims of sexual assault and victims of trafficking in persons as protected classes for purposes of certain anti-discrimination statutes, create an affirmative defense for misdemeanor offenses for young victims of trafficking in persons and eliminate the requirement that training in identification and reporting of trafficking in persons be presented in a video format.
HB 07192, AN ACT IMPLEMENTING RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE BIPARTISAN DRUG TASK FORCE.
To implement recommendations of the bipartisan drug task force.