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Four Years of Bills
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*This report itemizes every bill that Representative Steve Weir (R-55th)
introduced or cosponsored across his four sessions in the Connecticut House
(2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026), and records the disposition of each. The
90-bill list comes from FastDemocracy's legislator export (captured August
29, 2026) and was independently cross-verified, bill for bill, against the
LegiScan API's sponsored-bills record for his legislator ID and against the
General Assembly's own member-bills page; all three sources agree exactly.
Sponsorship roles and dispositions are taken from the Connecticut bulk
legislative datasets published by LegiScan for the 2023, 2024, 2025, and
2026 sessions, which carry each bill's full sponsor list and action
history; enactments are stated by public-act number and were confirmed
against the chaptered texts on cga.ct.gov. Every row is resolved: no
disposition in this report is pending. Part 4 compares his record with
those of the 125 other House members who served the same four sessions,
computed from the same datasets by the same rules; the underlying figures
are published alongside this report as dataset.json. Part 5 also compares
him with his 2023 freshman class and with the committee ranking members of
each term, using rosters built from the Secretary of the State's Register
and Manual, the General Assembly's 2023 committee bulletin, and election
records, and checked against the 2021 and 2022 legislative datasets. Part 4
draws on a
separate public-records search of State Bond Commission agendas, state
grant award lists, and Hebron municipal minutes. Readers can verify any
row from the sources listed at the end.*
Overview
--------
Connecticut's 55th House District (Andover, Bolton, Glastonbury, Hebron,
Marlborough) has been represented by Steve Weir (R-Hebron) since January
2023. This report asks a narrow, checkable question about those four
years: what bills carry his name, and what happened to each one?
The answer divides cleanly along one line. Rep. Weir put his own name on
41 bills as an introducer across the four sessions, and not one of them
became law; 24 of those he filed entirely alone, and every one died in
its committee of reference without a vote. Separately, he added his name
as a cosponsor to 49 bills written and moved by others, and 33 of those
did become law. On all 33, the primary sponsor of record is a legislative
committee, not Rep. Weir and not any other individual member.
That split is the whole of the record, and it supports two conclusions
that pull in opposite directions. His name appears on a substantial body
of enacted Connecticut law, more than a casual reader would expect. None
of it is law he authored. Part 1 explains why that distinction is the one
that matters in Hartford; Parts 2 and 3 present the record; Part 4 asks
whether the district projects behind his local bills got funded anyway;
Part 5 measures the whole record against every other member of the House
who served the same four years, against the eleven Republicans who entered
with him in 2023, and against the committee ranking members of each term.
Part 1 — How a name gets on a Connecticut bill
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Reading a sponsorship record requires knowing that "sponsor" covers three
very different roles in Hartford.
An individual proposed bill is a short bill a single member files under
their own name. It expresses the member's own agenda. Almost all proposed
bills die when the committee of reference declines to raise them; the few
that advance do so by being absorbed into a committee bill.
A committee bill (or raised bill) is introduced by one of the joint
standing committees, drafted at the direction of its chairs, who under the
current majority are Democrats. Individual legislators can attach their
names as cosponsors. The committee, through its chairs, is the bill's
primary sponsor of record and the party that moves it.
A cosponsorship is a signature added to someone else's bill. Popular
bipartisan bills accumulate dozens of cosponsors; signing on requires only
a form. Cosponsoring is a statement of support, not authorship, and a
cosponsor may ultimately vote against the amended bill.
Because of this structure, the meaningful questions for any individual
representative are: what did they file themselves, and did any of it move?
On enacted bills carrying their name, were they the author and champion,
or one signature among many?
The tables below therefore separate the two. Within each session, bills
Rep. Weir filed himself are listed apart from bills he cosponsored, and
the cosponsored bills are split by whether they became law. Where a
cosponsor count appears, it counts legislators only: the committee that
holds the primary-sponsor slot is excluded, so "Cosponsor (2 of 4)" means
he was the second of four members to sign a committee's bill.
Part 2 — The record, session by session
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Ninety bills carry Rep. Weir's name across the four sessions: 34 in 2023,
8 in 2024, 39 in 2025, and 9 in 2026.
### 2026 session (9 bills) ###
Filed himself (4):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | --------------------------------------- | ------------------- | -------------------------- |
| HB 5104 | Repeal 1% meals sales surtax | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5105 | Sales-tax exemption, handicap ramps | Introducer (1 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5106 | Sales-tax exemption, home hospital beds | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5107 | Repeal highway use tax | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
Cosponsored, became law (5):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | --------------------- |
| HB 5493 | Civil Air Patrol stipend study | Cosponsor (12 of 12) | Became law; SA 26-31 |
| HB 5521 | Sterile cultivars / fill / housing statutes | Cosponsor (2 of 4) | Became law; PA 26-129 |
| SB 116 | Prevention of human trafficking | Cosponsor (18 of 25) | Became law; PA 26-98 |
| SB 349 | Firefighters Cancer Relief Fund reporting | Cosponsor (22 of 22) | Became law; PA 26-83 |
| SB 439 | Kiosk exemption, employee-lounge camera ban | Cosponsor (5 of 5) | Became law; PA 26-89 |
Cosponsored, did not become law (0):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ---- | ------------------- | ---- | ----------- |
> **Notes:** All five enacted bills are committee bills: the primary
> sponsor of record on each is a committee (General Law for SB 116;
> Labor and Public Employees, where Rep. Weir serves as ranking member,
> for SB 349, SB 439, and HB 5493; Environment for HB 5521), and his
> typed role on each is "Cosponsor." PA 26-129's sterile-cultivars
> content is a single section directing the Agricultural Experiment
> Station to deliver a report by January 2027; the remainder of the
> thirteen-page act concerns fill-materials permitting and revisions to
> housing statutes. On HB 5521 he is one of only four legislators to
> sign a bill led by the Environment Committee's Democratic co-chair,
> Rep. Joseph Gresko.
### 2025 session (39 bills) ###
Filed himself (27):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- |
| HB 5440 | Qualified immunity for police | Introducer (1 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5449 | Reduce motor-vehicle mill rate cap | Introducer (1 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5462 | Pontoon boat registration fee | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5801 | 1/3 state subsidy, retired teachers' health | Introducer (1 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5855 | Building-trades grant for high schools | Introducer (1 of 3) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5962 | Hospital beds tax exemption (refile) | Introducer (1 of 3) | Died in committee; hearing held, no vote |
| HB 5963 | Repeal highway use tax (refile) | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5964 | Repeal 1% meals surtax (refile) | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5965 | Handicap ramps tax exemption (refile) | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6025 | Repeal two regulations per new regulation | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6035 | Small/minority business self-certification | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6154 | "Parenting time" terminology | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6177 | Governmental immunity, state officials | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6321 | Reduce early-voting days | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6412 | Prevailing wage rate predictability | Introducer (2 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6416 | Sub-18 minimum wage reduction | Introducer (1 of 3) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6417 | Raise prevailing wage thresholds | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6538 | Raise sealed-bid threshold to $50K | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6637 | Off-duty police carry on school grounds | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6679 | Local bridge program, culvert grants | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6680 | Name West St, Bolton, for Sgt Michael Clark | Sole introducer | Died in committee; content enacted in PA 25-65 § 51 |
| HB 6769 | Gold Star spouses property tax exemption | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| SB 625 | Define "day" in paid sick leave | Introducer (2 of 3) | Died in committee, no vote |
| SB 925 | State bonds: RHAM generator/regional shelter | Introducer (2 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| SB 943 | State bonds: RHAM athletic fields | Introducer (2 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| SB 949 | State bonds: Hebron water lines | Introducer (2 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| SB 1078 | Marlborough Arts Center signage | Introducer (2 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
Cosponsored, became law (3):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | --------------------------------------- | -------------------- | --------------------- |
| HB 6075 | Airframe/powerplant program instructors | Cosponsor (1 of 5) | Became law; PA 25-128 |
| SB 721 | National Women Veterans Recognition Day | Cosponsor (6 of 26) | Became law; PA 25-20 |
| SB 1465 | Skilled-trade hiring ratio waivers | Cosponsor (29 of 36) | Became law; PA 25-47 |
Cosponsored, did not become law (9):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| HB 5026 | Sales-tax exemption, all aircraft | Cosponsor (34 of 49) | Died in committee; hearing held, no vote |
| HB 5544 | EV registration fee and charging tax | Cosponsor (10 of 12) | Died in committee; hearing held, no vote |
| HB 6338 | Squatter removal by police | Cosponsor (5 of 7) | Reported out; died without floor vote |
| HB 6392 | Psychiatric Security Review Board standards | Cosponsor (6 of 26) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 7055 | Surviving-partner abatement + vol. stipends | Cosponsor (12 of 30) | Reported out; died without floor vote |
| SB 647 | Consumer access to affordable electricity | Cosponsor (25 of 38) | Died in committee; hearing held, no vote |
| SB 980 | Campus hate/harassment response training | Cosponsor (3 of 3) | Died in committee; hearing held, no vote |
| SB 1276 | 100% disabled vets + Gold Star spouses tax | Cosponsor (2 of 23) | Passed Senate; died in House |
| SB 1310 | Hospital infant-surrender devices | Cosponsor (9 of 12) | Died in committee; hearing held, no vote |
> **Notes:** HB 6680 would have named West Street in Bolton for Sgt.
> Michael Clark. The bill itself died in the Transportation Committee
> without a hearing, but its substance became law: Section 51 of Public
> Act 25-65, the annual Department of Transportation act signed June 10,
> 2025, designates the stretch of Route 85 (West Street) from School
> Road north to State Road 534 in Bolton as the "Sergeant Michael Clark
> Memorial Highway." That is the ordinary route for road namings in
> Connecticut: 19 standalone naming bills were filed in the 2025 session,
> every one of them died as a standalone, and 15 of the 19 were folded
> into PA 25-65 the same way. The naming is a real result and a routine
> one. On HB 6075 (PA 25-128) Rep. Weir is the first legislator listed
> after the Higher Education Committee, the closest he comes in this
> session to the front of an enacted bill. SB 1276, the property tax
> exemption for totally disabled veterans and Gold Star spouses, passed
> the Senate 36-0 on May 29, 2025, was placed on the House calendar the
> next day, and never came to a House vote before adjournment.
### 2024 session (8 bills) ###
Filed himself (3):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | ------------------------------------- | ------------------- | -------------------------- |
| HB 5036 | Hospital beds tax exemption | Introducer (1 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5116 | Reduce motor-vehicle mill rate cap | Introducer (4 of 5) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5135 | 1/3 subsidy, retired teachers' health | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
Cosponsored, became law (3):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------ | --------------------- | -------------------- |
| HB 5279 | Line-of-duty death declarations (fire/EMS) | Cosponsor (40 of 58) | Became law; PA 24-16 |
| HB 5491 | Veterans P&T disability tax exemption | Cosponsor (97 of 118) | Became law; PA 24-46 |
| SB 253 | Foreign political spending | Cosponsor (4 of 11) | Became law; PA 24-28 |
Cosponsored, did not become law (2):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | ----------------------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| HB 5247 | Employee health benefit consortiums | Cosponsor (17 of 35) | Died in committee; hearing held, no vote |
| HB 5413 | Street takeovers enforcement | Cosponsor (26 of 44) | Passed House; died in Senate |
> **Notes:** HB 5279, declaring line-of-duty deaths for firefighters,
> police officers, and emergency medical personnel, became Public Act
> 24-16; Rep. Weir was one of 58 legislator cosponsors on a Public
> Safety Committee bill. HB 5413, the street-takeover enforcement bill,
> passed the House 148-0 but was never called in the Senate before
> adjournment, so its content did not become law in 2024.
### 2023 session (34 bills) ###
Filed himself (7):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | -------------------------------------------- | ------------------- | -------------------------- |
| HB 5173 | Streamline agency regulations | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5650 | Repeal highway use tax (first filing) | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 5651 | Repeal 1% meals surtax (first filing) | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6276 | Sub-18 minimum wage reduction (first filing) | Introducer (1 of 2) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6361 | Bar minimum-wage class actions | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6404 | Brainard Airport development zone | Introducer (2 of 3) | Died in committee, no vote |
| HB 6451 | Restore qualified immunity (first filing) | Sole introducer | Died in committee, no vote |
Cosponsored, became law (22):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | --------------------- |
| HB 5001 | Services for persons with I/DD | Cosponsor (83 of 93) | Became law; PA 23-137 |
| HB 5049 | Military child-care licensing exemption | Cosponsor (21 of 21) | Became law; PA 23-29 |
| HB 5317 | Online building permit applications | Cosponsor (6 of 7) | Became law; PA 23-114 |
| HB 5510 | Add Space Force to "armed forces" | Cosponsor (16 of 16) | Became law; PA 23-71 |
| HB 5628 | Hydropower assets task force | Cosponsor (15 of 16) | Became law; SA 23-8 |
| HB 6489 | Retired members, Teachers' Retirement Board | Cosponsor (35 of 49) | Became law; PA 23-63 |
| HB 6549 | Labor Dept obsolete statute cleanup | Cosponsor (2 of 2) | Became law; PA 23-117 |
| HB 6621 | Surplus lines insurance renewals | Cosponsor (2 of 3) | Became law; PA 23-65 |
| HB 6631 | Common Interest Ownership Act notices | Cosponsor (3 of 3) | Became law; PA 23-119 |
| HB 6653 | Email notice, firearm permit expiration | Cosponsor (6 of 6) | Became law; PA 23-73 |
| HB 6714 | Animal cruelty reporting and penalties | Cosponsor (34 of 48) | Became law; PA 23-149 |
| HB 6725 | Agriculture/aquaculture program revisions | Cosponsor (4 of 6) | Became law; PA 23-184 |
| HB 6737 | Crime of harmful communication with a minor | Cosponsor (26 of 32) | Became law; PA 23-123 |
| HB 6746 | Wrong-way driving detection | Cosponsor (34 of 39) | Became law; PA 23-51 |
| HB 6756 | Historic preservation review working group | Cosponsor (1 of 1) | Became law; SA 23-15 |
| HB 6839 | Tribal police pistol permits | Cosponsor (5 of 6) | Became law; PA 23-130 |
| HB 6875 | ID cards at correctional discharge | Cosponsor (15 of 23) | Became law; PA 23-88 |
| HB 6895 | Firearms and street takeovers study | Cosponsor (7 of 9) | Became law; PA 23-203 |
| HB 6903 | Port Authority contract oversight | Cosponsor (9 of 10) | Became law; PA 23-91 |
| SB 2 | Children's mental/physical wellness omnibus | Cosponsor (37 of 45) | Became law; PA 23-101 |
| SB 1017 | Firefighter/EMS shortage task force | Cosponsor (16 of 23) | Became law; SA 23-1 |
| SB 1133 | Child neglect finding limits | Cosponsor (9 of 15) | Became law; PA 23-176 |
Cosponsored, did not become law (5):
| Bill | Subject (condensed) | Role | Disposition |
| ------- | ------------------------------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------- |
| HB 5048 | Free veterans' specialty plates | Cosponsor (17 of 19) | Passed House; died in Senate |
| HB 5205 | Veterans Passport-to-Parks fee exemption | Cosponsor (21 of 21) | Passed House; died in Senate |
| HB 6011 | Tax deduction, military funeral honor guard | Cosponsor (21 of 21) | Passed House; died in Senate |
| HB 6567 | Campus free-expression policies | Cosponsor (16 of 22) | Passed House; died in Senate |
| HB 6738 | Compassionate/medical parole reform | Cosponsor (4 of 7) | Passed House; died in Senate |
> **Notes:** 2023 is the session that produced most of Rep. Weir's
> enacted-law footprint: 22 of the 33 laws bearing his name date from his
> first year. All 22 are committee bills he cosponsored. Two are unusually
> short-listed. On HB 6756, which became Special Act 23-15 and created a
> working group on the State Historic Preservation Officer's role, he is
> the only legislator on the bill, cosponsoring a Commerce Committee bill
> nobody else signed. On HB 6549 (PA 23-117), a Labor Committee statute
> cleanup, he is one of two. SB 2, the Senate majority's 2023 priority
> bill on children's wellness, passed both chambers without a dissenting
> vote and was signed June 26, 2023; Section 2(i) of the enacted text,
> Public Act 23-101, bars a public library from receiving its state grant
> unless it maintains board-approved collection development, management,
> and reconsideration policies, and provides that "in the instance of a
> book challenge, these policies shall govern." Rep. Weir is one of 45
> legislators who cosponsored that act.
Part 3 — Patterns in the record
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### Nothing he filed himself ever moved ###
Across four sessions Rep. Weir put his name at the top of 41 bills. None
received a floor vote in either chamber, and none became law. Of the 24
he filed entirely alone, every one died in its committee of reference
without so much as a public hearing. This is the single most consistent
fact in the record, and it does not vary by session, subject, or
committee.
### Refiling did not change the outcome ###
Eight of his proposals were filed in two or three separate sessions and
died each time: repeal of the highway use tax (2023, 2025, 2026), repeal
of the 1% meals surtax (2023, 2025, 2026), the home-hospital-bed tax
exemption (2024, 2025, 2026), the handicap-ramp exemption (2025, 2026),
the retired-teachers insurance subsidy (2024, 2025), the motor-vehicle
mill rate cap (2024, 2025), the sub-18 minimum wage reduction (2023,
2025), and qualified immunity for police (2023, 2025). Whether a reader
sees persistence or futility in that pattern, the legislative outcome is
the same in every case.
### His enacted footprint is real, and it is entirely cosponsorship ###
Thirty-three laws carry Rep. Weir's name. That is a larger number than
the shape of his own filings would suggest, and it is worth stating
plainly rather than minimizing. On every one of the 33, the primary
sponsor of record is a joint standing committee. On none of them is Rep.
Weir, or any other individual legislator, the primary sponsor.
The 33 vary widely in how crowded they are. At one end are mass-signed
bipartisan measures where he is one signature among a hundred, such as
PA 24-46 with 118 legislator cosponsors, or PA 23-137 with 93. At the
other end are a handful of quiet committee bills with almost no one on
them: Special Act 23-15, where he is the only legislator to sign a
Commerce Committee bill; PA 23-117, where he is one of two on a Labor
Committee cleanup; PA 25-128, where he is the first of five names after
the Higher Education Committee; and PA 26-129, where he is one of four.
These are the strongest associations between Rep. Weir and an enacted law
that the record contains. They are also, in every case, bills a committee
drafted and its majority chairs moved.
### The district bills split two ways ###
The 2025 filings include four local items that died in committee without
a vote: bond authorizations for a RHAM regional-shelter generator, RHAM
athletic fields, and Hebron water lines, plus signage for the Marlborough
Arts Center. On all four, Sen. Catherine Osten (D-19th) is the
first-listed introducer and Rep. Weir the second name. Individual bond
bills conventionally die this way, with projects funded, if at all,
through the State Bond Commission. Part 4 traces what became of each of
the four projects. The fifth
local item, the naming of West Street in Bolton for Sgt. Michael Clark,
did become law, as Section 51 of PA 25-65. Constituents who care about
that naming got the result; the mechanism was the Transportation
Committee's annual omnibus, which absorbed 15 of the session's 19 naming
bills.
Part 4 — The district projects, and whether they got funded
-----------------------------------------------------------
A bill dying is not the same as a project dying. Four of the 2025 filings
carrying Rep. Weir's name asked the state to pay for specific things in
this district, and all four died in the Finance, Revenue and Bonding
Committee without a vote. The question a resident actually cares about is
whether the generator, the fields, the water line, and the signs happened
anyway. This part answers that from public records.
One structural point first. On all four of these bills the first-listed
introducer is Sen. Catherine Osten (D-19th), whose district adjoins this
one and includes part of the RHAM region; Rep. Weir is the second name.
They are her bond bills, joined by him, rather than measures he
originated. That is the ordinary way a House member attaches to a Senate
bond filing, and it matters only because it bears on who could claim
delivery if any of them had produced money.
### The four projects ###
| Project | Bill | State funding found | What actually happened |
| ---------------------------------- | ------- | ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| RHAM emergency generator, Hebron | SB 925 | None | Being built with town money, not state money |
| RHAM athletic field improvements | SB 943 | None | No state award; a district-level procurement only |
| Hebron water lines, Amston Village | SB 949 | None | STEAP application filed for $665,000; not awarded |
| Marlborough Arts Center signage | SB 1078 | None | No state award found |
> **Notes:** "State funding found" means no State Bond Commission agenda
> item or minute, no STEAP or Community Investment Fund award, and no
> enacted bond-act line naming the project could be located in 2024-2026
> public records. Absence of a public record is strong evidence but not
> absolute proof; the standard that would reverse any row is stated at the
> end of this part.
### The generator: a real project, paid for locally ###
The RHAM generator is the one project of the four that is actually being
built, and its funding history is the clearest illustration in this report
of what a failed bond bill does and does not accomplish.
The state was asked three times. Sen. Osten first filed for it in 2022 as
SB 95, seeking up to $2 million for the generator, installation, and
related equipment; it moved from Appropriations to Finance and went no
further. In 2025 she and Rep. Weir filed SB 925, which died in Finance
without a hearing. In 2026 she filed the measure again, alone, as SB 141;
Rep. Weir's name is not on the 2026 refiling, and that bill died as well.
The fact that the project needed refiling in 2026 "to complete the
installation" is itself evidence that the earlier bills delivered no
money.
Meanwhile the work proceeded on local funds. The Hebron Public Building
Committee is administering the generator upgrade on behalf of the Town of
Hebron and Regional School District No. 8, with the Town pre-purchasing
the generator itself. The Town Council awarded the Phase 1 construction
bid to R & C Electric, LLC of Bristol in December 2025, and on April 9,
2026 awarded a Phase 1 testing and inspection contract to Tri State
Materials Testing Lab, LLC of Berlin, not to exceed $9,500.
So the emergency shelter generator is getting installed, and Hebron
taxpayers are paying for it. No legislator of either party has a
verifiable public claim to having delivered state funding for it.
### The water line: applied for, not awarded ###
Hebron did pursue the water-main project through the grant channel that
exists for it. The Board of Selectmen approved a 2025 Small Town Economic
Assistance Program application for the Amston Village Water Main Extension
in the amount of $665,000. When the Governor announced the 2025 STEAP
awards on May 28, 2025, releasing $30 million across 46 small towns,
Hebron was not among them.
One nearby award should not be confused with this one. The Department of
Economic and Community Development awarded $2.1 million to the Town of
Hebron to build community wells serving the Church Street Commons housing
development. That is a different project with a different purpose, and it
is not the Amston water main that SB 949 addressed.
### How a reader can check this ###
The State Bond Commission, chaired by the Governor, approves STEAP grants
and most local bond grants; the Office of Policy and Management serves as
its secretary and publishes agendas and minutes. Those are the records to
pull.
- Generator: Hebron Town Council minutes for December 2025 and April 9,
2026, and the Public Building Committee's generator solicitation on
hebronct.com. For the state side, search Bond Commission agendas from
2024 through 2026 for "Hebron," "RHAM," or "Region 8."
- Athletic fields: the same Bond Commission agendas and the OPM award
lists, searching "Region 8" or "RHAM."
- Water line: the Board of Selectmen resolution approving the $665,000
STEAP application, against the Governor's May 28, 2025 award list.
- Signage: OPM and DECD grant announcements and Bond Commission agendas.
Any one of three things would reverse a "none" in the table above: a Bond
Commission agenda item naming the town, grantee, amount, and statutory
authority; an OPM award-list entry; or an enacted bond-act section naming
Hebron, Marlborough, or Region 8 for the specific project. Readers who
find one should weigh it against this report, which is current as of late
August 2026.
Part 5 — How the record compares
--------------------------------
A count means nothing without a baseline. Rep. Weir filed 41 bills and none
became law; whether that is a failing, a structural fact, or simply normal
depends entirely on what happened to everyone else's bills. So this part
computes the same measures for his colleagues from the same data.
The comparison group is every member of the House who served all four
sessions, 2023 through 2026: 126 members, 43 Republicans and 83 Democrats.
Holding tenure constant matters, because a member who arrived in 2025 has
had half as many chances to file anything. Rep. Weir served exactly these
four sessions, so every member of the cohort had exactly his opportunity.
### Almost nobody in Connecticut is the lead sponsor of a law ###
Start with the measure that sounds most damning and turns out to be the
least informative. Across the four sessions the General Assembly enacted
793 bills. Here is who held the primary-sponsor slot on them.
| Every law passed in the four sessions | Bills | Share |
| ------------------------------------- | ----- | ----- |
| Enacted 2023-2026 | 793 | |
| Primary sponsor is a committee | 756 | 95.3% |
| No primary sponsor recorded | 19 | 2.4% |
| Primary sponsor is a legislator | 18 | 2.3% |
The 18 exceptions are not ordinary legislation. They are the budget acts,
the bonding acts, the federal-funds allocations, and the emergency-certified
bills, and they carry the same four names each time: House Speaker Matthew
Ritter, House Majority Leader Jason Rojas, Senate President Pro Tempore
Martin Looney, and Senate Majority Leader Robert Duff. One of the 18,
Public Act 23-1 on school lunch funding, adds the two Republican leaders,
House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora and Senate Minority Leader Kevin
Kelly.
So six legislators out of roughly 180 have held the lead slot on any
enacted bill in four years, and five of the six hold a chamber leadership
title. "Never the lead sponsor of a law that passed" describes Rep. Weir.
It also describes 42 of the 43 Republicans in his cohort, every rank-and-
file Democrat, and every committee chair in the building. Readers should
give the fact no weight at all as a measure of one member, and this report
records it only because leaving it out would invite someone else to
present it as though it meant something.
### What does vary is how far a member's own bills travel ###
The informative measure is what happens to bills a member files. Almost
all of them die, for members of both parties. But they die at different
stages, and the gap between the caucuses is the real finding.
| What happened to bills members filed themselves | Republicans (43) | Democrats (83) |
| ----------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | -------------- |
| Bills filed | 2,626 | 3,225 |
| Got a public hearing | 118 (4.5%) | 373 (11.6%) |
| Reported out of committee | 0 (0.0%) | 2 (0.1%) |
| Received a floor vote | 1 (0.0%) | 44 (1.4%) |
| Signed into law | 1 (0.0%) | 36 (1.1%) |
A Republican's filed bill was less than half as likely as a Democrat's to
get so much as a public hearing, and past that point the Republican
pipeline is essentially closed: zero of 2,626 bills reported out of
committee, and the single Republican bill that reached the floor and became
law is Public Act 23-1, the bipartisan emergency school-lunch bill led by
all six chamber leaders. On the Democratic side the numbers are larger but
concentrated rather than broad: the 36 enacted are the leadership vehicles
described above, filed by Speaker Ritter and Majority Leader Rojas, not the
work of 83 individual members.
The honest reading is that in Connecticut an individual member's own bill
is not the instrument through which law gets made, in either party. Ideas
that survive are absorbed into committee bills, and the committee becomes
the sponsor of record. That is the system working as designed, and it is
the strongest thing that can be said in Rep. Weir's defense on this
record.
### Within his own caucus, his numbers are ordinary ###
Against the 43 Republicans who served the same four sessions:
| Measure | Weir | Cohort median | Cohort high | His rank |
| ------------------------------------------ | ---- | ------------- | ----------- | ---------------- |
| Bills filed himself | 41 | 39 | 190 | 19 of 43 |
| Of those, filed as first-listed introducer | 33 | 28 | 125 | 17 of 43 |
| Of those, filed entirely alone | 24 | 16 | 69 | 14 of 43 |
| Filed bills that got a public hearing | 1 | 1 | 15 | 21 of 43 |
| Filed bills reported out of committee | 0 | 0 | 0 | all 43 at zero |
| Filed bills that became law | 0 | 0 | 1 | 42 of 43 at zero |
| Bills he cosponsored | 49 | 74 | 689 | 33 of 43 |
| Cosponsored bills that became law | 33 | 32 | 263 | 19 of 43 |
He files slightly more bills than the median Republican and stands 19th of
43 in volume. He files alone more often than most, 14th of 43, which is
consistent with a member working his own list rather than joining
colleagues' bills. The outcome measures do not distinguish him from anyone,
because the outcomes are zero across the caucus.
The one measure on which he is genuinely below his caucus is cosponsorship:
49 bills signed against a caucus median of 74, ranking 33rd of 43. Members
who sign hundreds of bills accumulate large enacted-law counts without
having done more legislative work, so a low number here is not a criticism
and a high one is not an achievement. It does mean that Rep. Weir's 33
enacted cosponsorships came from a comparatively small number of
signatures, and that his name appears on fewer of his colleagues' bills
than most Republicans' do.
### Against the members who started when he did ###
Eleven Republicans entered the House with Rep. Weir in January 2023, first
elected that November with no prior House service. This is the tightest
comparison the record allows: identical starting point, identical years,
identical minority status. Three of the eleven lost in 2024 and served only
the first term, so the four-session comparison runs across the eight who
stayed.
| Member | District | Bills filed | Filed alone | Hearings | Became law |
| ----------------------- | -------- | ----------- | ----------- | -------- | ---------- |
| Steve Weir | HD-055 | 41 | 24 | 1 | 0 |
| Martin Foncello | HD-107 | 40 | 22 | 0 | 0 |
| Joe Hoxha | HD-078 | 39 | 31 | 1 | 0 |
| Seth Bronko | HD-070 | 31 | 18 | 0 | 0 |
| Mark DeCaprio | HD-048 | 25 | 12 | 0 | 0 |
| Tracy Marra | HD-141 | 25 | 13 | 4 | 0 |
| Karen Reddington-Hughes | HD-066 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Chris Aniskovich | HD-035 | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 |
He filed more bills than anyone else in his freshman class, and filed alone
more often than all but one. On the outcome column the class is uniform:
none of the eleven, in either the four-session group or the three who
served one term, had a bill of their own become law.
The freshman roster was assembled from election records and member
biographies, then checked independently against the 2021 and 2022
legislative datasets: every one of the eleven is absent from both earlier
sessions, and no twelfth Republican in the 2023 House is missing from them.
The two methods agree exactly.
### Does a ranking-member post change anything? ###
Rep. Weir is the ranking Republican on the Labor and Public Employees
Committee, the minority party's senior position on that committee. He has
held it since 2025. In the 2023-24 term the Labor ranking member was Rep.
Tim Ackert of the 8th District, and Rep. Weir sat as a rank-and-file member
of Labor, Housing, and Higher Education. Because the post changed hands
partway through the period, the comparison has to run term by term.
| Term | House Republicans | Members | Median bills filed | Hearings won | Bills enacted |
| ------- | ---------------------- | ------- | ------------------ | ------------ | ------------- |
| 2023-24 | With a ranking post | 23 | 21 | 47 | 1 |
| 2023-24 | Without a ranking post | 29 | 16 | 35 | 0 |
| 2025-26 | With a ranking post | 27 | 22 | 28 | 0 |
| 2025-26 | Without a ranking post | 22 | 17 | 18 | 0 |
Holding a ranking post is worth something, and not much. Ranking members
file more bills than their colleagues without a post, about a third more at
the median in both terms, and in 2023-24 they won more hearings. What the
post does not do is get bills passed. The single enacted bill in the table
is Public Act 23-1, the bipartisan emergency school-lunch act filed by
House Minority Leader Vincent Candelora together with the other five
chamber leaders. Across both terms, no other House Republican, with or
without a ranking post, had a bill of their own signed into law.
### His own two terms differ more than his cohort does ###
| Term | His role | Bills filed | Rank for filing | Bills cosponsored | Rank for cosponsoring | Bills enacted |
| ------- | -------------------- | ----------- | --------------- | ----------------- | --------------------- | ------------- |
| 2023-24 | Rank-and-file | 10 | 37 of 52 | 32 | 28 of 52 | 0 |
| 2025-26 | Labor ranking member | 31 | 14 of 49 | 17 | 39 of 49 | 0 |
The clearest thing the roster data adds is a change in Rep. Weir himself.
In his first term he was a low-volume filer, 37th of 52 House Republicans.
In his second, holding the Labor ranking post, he filed three times as many
bills and moved to 14th of 49, and 9th of the 27 ranking members. Whatever
else the record shows, he became a markedly more active legislator after
2024.
His cosponsorship moved the other way, from 32 bills signed in the first
term to 17 in the second, dropping from 28th to 39th among House
Republicans. He is spending more effort on his own filings and less on
signing his colleagues'. The enacted column stays at zero in both terms,
as it does for almost everyone.
### What the comparison still cannot settle ###
Two committee ranking-member posts for the 2023-24 term, Planning and
Development and Veterans' Affairs, could not be established from the
sources consulted and are absent from that term's cohort of 23. Both are
recoverable from the archived 2024 State Register and Manual. Neither could
change the finding, because the enactment count for the entire House
Republican caucus in that term is one bill, filed by the minority leader.
Rep. Amy Romano, who won an April 2025 special election in the 113th
District, is excluded from the 2025-26 cohorts because she served only part
of the term and a partial tenure would not be comparable.
Beyond that, sponsorship data cannot show why a bill died, what a member
argued for in a closed committee negotiation, or whether an idea survived
inside someone else's bill.
### The exception that shows what driving a bill looks like ###
Minority legislators are not barred from authoring law; they are only very
unlikely to do it through their own filed bills. The clearest recent
example touching this district's news cycle is Senator Tony Hwang
(R-Fairfield), the publicly credited champion of the 2025 library e-book
licensing law (SB 1234, now Public Act 25-9), a first-in-the-nation measure
he worked on for four years before its 35-1 Senate passage. That work is
visible in committee records, testimony, and press coverage rather than in
a sponsor field, which is precisely the point: the sponsorship data in this
report can show that a member did not lead a bill to passage, but only
narrative records can show that one did.
Summary
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| Question | Answer |
| -------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------ |
| Bills carrying Rep. Weir's name, 2023-2026 | 90 (34 + 8 + 39 + 9 by session) |
| Bills he filed himself as an introducer | 41 |
| Of those, bills that became law | 0 |
| Of those, bills that received any floor vote | 0 |
| Bills he filed entirely alone | 24, all dead in committee without a hearing |
| Bills he cosponsored | 49 |
| Of those, bills that became law | 33 |
| Enacted laws where he is the primary sponsor of record | 0; a committee holds that slot on all 33 |
| Enacted laws where he is the only legislator on the bill | 1 (SA 23-15, a Commerce Committee working group) |
| His own proposals whose substance became law anyway | 1 (HB 6680, enacted as Sec. 51 of PA 25-65) |
| Own proposals refiled in multiple sessions | 8 concepts, all died each time |
| Dispositions still pending confirmation | 0 |
| Laws enacted 2023-2026 with a legislator as lead sponsor | 18 of 793; six legislators, five of them leaders |
| Bills filed by his 43-member cohort that became law | 1 of 2,626, a bipartisan emergency act |
| His rank among those 43 for bills filed | 19th |
| His rank among those 43 for bills cosponsored | 33rd, below the caucus median |
| District projects in his 2025 bond bills | 4, all bills dead in committee |
| Of those, projects with state funding found | 0 |
| Of those, projects built anyway | 1, the RHAM generator, on Hebron town money |
| Republicans who entered the House with him in 2023 | 11; 8 served all four sessions |
| His rank among those 8 for bills filed | 1st, the most of any of them |
| Of those 8, members with a bill of their own enacted | 0 |
| His committee ranking post | Labor and Public Employees, 2025-26 only |
| His rank among House Republicans for filing, by term | 37th of 52 in 2023-24; 14th of 49 in 2025-26 |
Key Observations
----------------
**The record's headline is a clean split.** Every bill Rep. Weir filed
himself died, without exception and without a floor vote. Every law
bearing his name is one he cosponsored, moved by a committee.
**His enacted footprint is larger than the split implies.** Thirty-three
public and special acts carry his name, 22 of them from his first
session. A reader told only that he "has no laws" would be misled; the
accurate statement is that he has no laws he authored.
**On a few enacted bills he is nearly alone.** Special Act 23-15 carries
one legislator's name, his. PA 23-117 carries two. PA 25-128 lists him
first among five. These are the closest he comes to an enacted bill, and
each is still a committee's bill.
**The Bolton street naming succeeded.** His bill for it died, but the
naming is law, folded into the annual transportation act along with most
of that session's namings. It is the one instance in four years where
something he filed reached the statute book in any form.
**The district projects did not get state money.** None of the four local
projects behind his 2025 bond bills can be shown to have received a State
Bond Commission approval, a state grant, or a bond-act line. The one that
is being built, the RHAM emergency generator, is being paid for by the
Town of Hebron. Hebron's water-main application went in for $665,000 and
was not among the 46 towns funded in the 2025 STEAP round.
**The refiled tax bills define his own agenda, and its fate.** Repealing
the highway use tax and the meals surtax, and a set of targeted sales-tax
exemptions, were filed session after session and never received a
committee vote.
**"Never the lead sponsor of a law" describes almost the whole
legislature.** Of 793 laws enacted in these four sessions, 756 are led by
a committee. Just six legislators have ever held the lead slot, five of
them chamber leaders, and only on budget and emergency bills. The fact is
true of Rep. Weir and carries no information about him specifically.
**What separates the caucuses is how far a member's bill travels.** A
Republican's filed bill was less than half as likely as a Democrat's to
receive a public hearing, and none of the 2,626 bills his cohort filed was
reported out of committee. That is a structural finding about the minority
party, not a personal one.
**Within his caucus he is unremarkable.** He files a little more than the
median Republican, files alone more often than most, and ranks 19th of 43
in volume. His zero enacted bills is the number 42 of his 43 colleagues
also posted.
**He files the most bills of anyone in his freshman class.** Of the eight
Republicans who entered with him in 2023 and served all four sessions, he
filed the most, 41, and filed alone more often than all but one. None of
the eight had a bill of their own become law.
**He became substantially more active in his second term.** As a
rank-and-file member in 2023-24 he ranked 37th of 52 House Republicans for
bills filed. Holding the Labor ranking post in 2025-26 he filed three times
as many and ranked 14th of 49. The ranking post came with more filing, more
hearings across the cohort, and no additional laws.
**He signs onto fewer bills than most of his caucus.** At 49
cosponsorships against a median of 74, he ranks 33rd of 43. Cosponsorship
volume measures willingness to sign, not legislative work, so this is
neither credit nor criticism; it does mean his 33 enacted cosponsorships
came from comparatively few signatures.
**Structure explains much, but not all.** Minority members rarely pass
bills in Connecticut; some nonetheless do, by authoring and championing
bipartisan measures over multiple years. No bill in this record shows
Rep. Weir in that role.
What this report does not show
------------------------------
- Floor speeches, amendments offered, or committee negotiation, none of
which appear in sponsorship data. A separate review of transcripts
would be required to credit or rule out those forms of legislative
work.
- Whether Rep. Weir advocated privately for any bill he did not sign, or
for the projects behind his bond bills, which may be funded through the
State Bond Commission without legislation.
- Two 2023-24 committee ranking posts, Planning and Development and
Veterans' Affairs, which could not be established from the sources
consulted and are missing from that term's cohort. Part 5 explains why
neither could change the finding.
- Why a given bill died. The data records that a bill stopped, not the
negotiation, redrafting, or absorption into a committee bill that may
lie behind it.
- Proof that the district projects received no state money. Part 4
reports that no award could be found in the public records searched,
which is strong evidence and not the same as proof of absence. The
specific records that would reverse each finding are named there.
- Advocacy that leaves no paper trail. A legislator may press an agency
or the Bond Commission for a project without appearing in any record
this report can search.
- Constituent service, which is a real part of the job and invisible in
bill records.
- Voting record and ideological position, covered in this site's
companion report on Rep. Weir's roll-call votes.
- Whether cosponsoring a bill implies support for every provision of the
final amended act; it does not, and cosponsors sometimes vote against
amended bills.
Sources
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Sponsorship lists:
- FastDemocracy legislator export for Rep. Steve Weir, 90 entries, all
sessions, captured August 29, 2026:
[fastdemocracy.com](https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/ct/legislators/CTL000385/)
- LegiScan API getSponsoredList, people_id 23846, captured August 29,
2026; identical 90-bill list (JSON on file):
[legiscan.com](https://legiscan.com/CT/people/stephen-weir/id/23846)
- CGA member bills page, 2026 session, captured August 29, 2026:
[cga.ct.gov](https://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/CGABillStatus/CGAMemberBills.asp?dist_code=055)
Roles and dispositions:
- LegiScan Connecticut bulk datasets, JSON variant, for the 2023, 2024,
2025, and 2026 General Assembly sessions (session IDs 2018, 2117,
2174, 2244), which supply each bill's sponsor list with sponsor type
and order, its progress history, and its final status. Every row in
the tables above derives from these files:
[legiscan.com/CT/datasets](https://legiscan.com/CT/datasets)
Peer comparison:
- dataset.json, published with this report: the cohort definitions, the
per-member counts for all 126 four-session House members, and the list
of every enacted bill with a legislator in the lead-sponsor slot. Every
figure in Part 4 derives from this file.
[dataset.json](dataset.json)
Committee rosters and the freshman class (Part 5):
- Connecticut Secretary of the State, State Register and Manual,
legislative committee assignments, for the 2025-26 ranking members:
[portal.ct.gov/SOTS](https://portal.ct.gov/SOTS/Register-Manual/Section-III/Committee-Assignments)
- Connecticut General Assembly Bulletin No. 68, April 13, 2023, committee
rosters carrying the ranking-member designations for 2023-24:
[cga.ct.gov](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/bul/pdf/2023BUL00413-R00-BUL.pdf)
- CT News Junkie committee-leadership reports of December 12, 2022 and
December 13, 2024, used to corroborate the ranking-member rows:
[ctnewsjunkie.com](https://ctnewsjunkie.com/2024/12/13/republican-leadership-announces-committee-assignments-for-upcoming-session/)
- The 2023 freshman class was identified from election records and member
biographies, then verified against the LegiScan Connecticut datasets for
the 2021 and 2022 sessions: all eleven are absent from both, and no other
2023 House Republican is.
District project funding (Part 4):
- State Bond Commission agendas and minutes, published by the Office of
Policy and Management, searched 2024-2026 for Hebron, Marlborough, RHAM
and Region 8:
[portal.ct.gov/opm](https://portal.ct.gov/opm)
- Governor's announcement of the 2025 Small Town Economic Assistance
Program awards, May 28, 2025, $30 million to 46 towns; Hebron does not
appear:
[portal.ct.gov/governor](https://portal.ct.gov/governor)
- Town of Hebron: Public Building Committee generator solicitation, and
Town Council minutes of December 2025 (Phase 1 construction award to
R & C Electric, LLC) and April 9, 2026 (Phase 1 testing and inspection
award to Tri State Materials Testing Lab, LLC, not to exceed $9,500):
[hebronct.com](https://www.hebronct.com)
- Hebron Board of Selectmen resolution approving the 2025 STEAP
application for the Amston Village Water Main Extension, $665,000:
[hebronct.com](https://www.hebronct.com)
Enacted texts:
- Public Act 25-65 (SB 1377), Sec. 51, the Bolton naming:
[cga.ct.gov](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00065-R00SB-01377-PA.PDF)
- Public Act 23-101 (SB 2), Sec. 2(i), library collection-reconsideration
policies:
[cga.ct.gov](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/ACT/PA/PDF/2023PA-00101-R00SB-00002-PA.PDF)
- Public Act 26-129, chaptered text:
[cga.ct.gov](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00129-R00HB-05521-PA.PDF)
- Governor's Bill Notification 2026-11 (SB 116 as PA 26-98):
[portal.ct.gov](https://portal.ct.gov/governor/-/media/office-of-the-governor/bill-notifications/2026/bill-notification-2026-11.pdf?rev=ad8315ea7f1a4afda0d85c5c1f828d33)
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freshman rosters, and every enacted bill with a legislator as lead sponsor):
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