2025 Regular Session • Connecticut Legislature
HB05557: An Act Designating A Certain Day Of Each Year For Celebration Of Diwali, The Festival Of Lights.
Legislative Summary
To designate the fifteenth day of the month of Kartik in the Hindu lunar calendar of each year as Diwali.
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Bill History
1/21/2025
Referred to Joint Committee on Government Administration and Elections
House of Representatives
Status Information
Current Status
Introduced(1/21/2025)
Chamber
House of Representatives
Committee
Government Administration and Elections(Joint Conference)
Sponsors
Democrat: 49
Republican: 7
Primary Sponsor
Joshua Elliott
Democrat
Co-Sponsors (55)
Emmanuel Sanchez
Democrat
Kadeem Roberts
Democrat
Corey Paris
Democrat
Hilda Santiago
Democrat
Savet Constantine
Democrat
Jonathan Jacobson
Democrat
Kate Farrar
Democrat
Gary Turco
Democrat
Sujata Gadkar-Wilcox
Democrat
Derek Slap
Democrat
William Heffernan
Democrat
Michael Shannon
Democrat
Nick Menapace
Democrat
Julie Kushner
Democrat
Matthew Lesser
Democrat
David Rutigliano
Republican
Cici Maher
Democrat
Christine Cohen
Democrat
Paul Honig
Democrat
MD Rahman
Democrat
Kerry Szeps Wood
Democrat
Jennifer Leeper
Democrat
Patrick Biggins
Democrat
Amy Morrin Bello
Democrat
Patricia Dillon
Democrat
Joseph Gresko
Democrat
Tom Delnicki
Republican
Mike Demicco
Democrat
Sarah Keitt
Democrat
Kaitlyn Shake
Democrat
Saud Anwar
Democrat
Kai Belton
Democrat
Anthony Nolan
Democrat
Anne Hughes
Democrat
Christine Pavalock-D'Amato
Republican
Eleni Kavros DeGraw
Democrat
Robin Comey
Democrat
Dominique Johnson
Democrat
Jillian Gilchrest
Democrat
Tracy Marra
Republican
Lucy Dathan
Democrat
Jaime Foster
Democrat
Aimee Berger-Girvalo
Democrat
Jane Garibay
Democrat
Travis Simms
Democrat
Frank Smith
Democrat
Robert Sampson
Republican
Jill Barry
Democrat
Hector Arzeno
Democrat
James Sanchez
Democrat
Tammy Exum
Democrat
Eilish Collins Main
Democrat
Martin Looney
Democrat
Tina Courpas
Republican
Paul Cicarella
Republican