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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT LIMITING AUTO REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS COVERED UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM AND REQUIRING THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO PROVIDE CHIP DATA TO THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER."
+description: "AN ACT LIMITING AUTO REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS COVERED UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM AND REQUIRING THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO PROVIDE CHIP DATA TO THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
+legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
+session: "2018"
+identifier: "SB 246"
+citation: "Connecticut SB 246 (2018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Drugs", "Health care data", "Human Services", "Joint Committee on", "Medicaid", "Pharmacies", "Social Services", "Department of"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Santiago, Hilda E.", "Somers, Heather B."]
+version_count: 2
+action_count: 21
+vote_count: 2
+first_action: "2018-02-27"
+last_action: "2018-06-01"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bb18bb2-62d3-4b9d-b7e8-f500594dab4e"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
+source_hash: "95f02b5efc5cc35afe7d670978dc1e2754bf0ca0f84bca36bbdd8818ba0aa523"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ct"]
+---
+
+# Connecticut SB 246 (2018) — AN ACT LIMITING AUTO REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS COVERED UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM AND REQUIRING THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO PROVIDE CHIP DATA TO THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **R00** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00246-R00-SB.htm)
+2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00246-R01-SB.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Roll Call Vote 128 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- House Roll Call Vote 264 AS AMENDED — **129–19** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)
+- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-27** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Human Services `referral-committee`
+- **2018-02-28** PUBLIC HEARING 0306
+- **2018-03-15** FILED WITH LCO
+- **2018-03-16** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2018-03-26** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/18
+- **2018-04-03** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
+- **2018-04-03** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
+- **2018-04-03** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 124
+- **2018-04-03** FILE NO. 159
+- **2018-05-01** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
+- **2018-05-01** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
+- **2018-05-01** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
+- **2018-05-03** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
+- **2018-05-03** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 491
+- **2018-05-08** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
+- **2018-05-08** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
+- **2018-05-08** IN CONCURRENCE
+- **2018-05-18** PUBLIC ACT 18-77 `became-law`
+- **2018-05-22** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
+- **2018-05-22** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
+- **2018-06-01** SIGNED BY GOVERNOR `executive-signature`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0bb18bb2-62d3-4b9d-b7e8-f500594dab4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).
+