Connecticut 2025 2025 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB00072 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/07/2025

                     
 
LCO No. 693   	1 of 1 
 
General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 72  
January Session, 2025  
LCO No. 693 
 
 
Referred to Committee on ENVIRONMENT  
 
 
Introduced by:  
SEN. HARDING, 30
th Dist. 
 
 
 
 
 
AN ACT REQUIRING LEGISLATIVE APPROVAL OF THE 
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION'S 
EVICTION OF FARMERS CONDUCTING FARMING ON STATE -
OWNED PROPERTY. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General 
Assembly convened: 
 
That the general statutes be amended to require legislative approval 1 
of the decision of the Department of Energy and Environmental 2 
Protection to evict any farmer who is conducting farming on state-3 
owned property under an agreement with the state.  4 
Statement of Purpose:   
To protect farmers who permissibly farm on state-owned land.