l9n/ Connecticut

2025 Regular Session

House Bill 5925

AN ACT PROHIBITING THE CLEARING OF FOREST LAND FOR GRID-SCALE SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAIC PROJECTS.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Energy and Technology Committee on January 22, 2025. The 2025 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) prohibit the clearing of such land for the purpose of developing grid-scale solar photovoltaic projects, and (2) encourage the siting of such projects on canopies, roofs, brownfields or on existing developed land uses.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the House of Representatives

2 co-sponsors

Laurie Sweet, Michael "MJ" Shannon Jr.

In the Senate

    1 co-sponsor

    Jorge Cabrera

    Its course

    January 22 to January 22, 2025, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action1 action on 1 day

    In the House of RepresentativesJan 22 to Jan 22 · stopped0 days

    Energy and Technology CommitteeJan 22 to Jan 22 · stopped0 days

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the House of Representatives Jan 22

    1. Introduced and sent to Energy and Technology Committee
    All 1 actions, as published