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HB 6914 Connecticut House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO THE HARBOR MANAGEMENT ACT.

HB 6914 revises Connecticut's Harbor Management Act to clarify that state and municipal officials must consider written recommendations from harbor management commissions (e.g., in comment letters) when making regulatory decisions or approving development in a harbor's jurisdiction. This applies only to recommendations derived from an already-approved harbor management plan, which already binds officials to follow its content unless they demonstrate cause for deviation. The bill does not create new regulations but ensures existing plan recommendations are formally considered in future decisions. It has no fiscal impact on state or municipal budgets, as confirmed by the bill analysis.
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Feb 10, 2025 Last action Apr 1, 2025
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Raised Bill → ENV Joint Favorable Substitute · 3 edits
MINOR
This bill revision reorganizes the Harbor Management Act to clarify how the Harbor Commission's recommendations affect state and local regulatory decisions. The changes streamline the binding nature of commission recommendations and add requirements for written documentation of those recommendations.
Scope change
The bill's scope remains focused on harbor management and commission authority, but the procedural requirements for how recommendations are made and enforced have been modified.
REQUIREMENT

Added a requirement that commission recommendations must be in written documents (such as comment letters) and must arise from content already included in the harbor management plan to be considered by officials.

Reorganized the structure of the bill from a 'Raised Bill' to a 'Substitute Bill' and changed the committee reference from 'ENVIRONMENT' to 'ENV Joint Favorable Substitute'.

TECHNICAL

Adjusted page numbering and formatting throughout the document, including changing the total page count from 3 pages to 2 pages.

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Committee
2
Mar 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
Joint Favorable Substitute
lower
Feb 10, 2025
Committee
REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Environment
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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