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+type: "Bill"
+title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF HANDCUFFS ON YOUNG CHILDREN."
+description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF HANDCUFFS ON YOUNG CHILDREN."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
+legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
+session: "2025"
+identifier: "SB 1542"
+citation: "Connecticut SB 1542 (2025)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Arrest", "Children", "Felonies", "Juvenile delinquents", "Juvenile probation", "Physical restraint", "Police", "Violations"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: []
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 23
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2025-03-20"
+last_action: "2025-07-08"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/060738a2-2af2-4695-843e-1ad539ec73e3"
+source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
+source_hash: "abddb69fe684483f7d577a8dad98d0b7e4dd1cd694d4729494c9b8a2f16500e3"
+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 1542 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF HANDCUFFS ON YOUNG CHILDREN.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **File No. 778** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025SB-01542-R000778-FC.PDF)
+2. **JUD Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01542-R01-SB.PDF)
+3. **Public Act No. 25-163** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00163-R00SB-01542-PA.PDF)
+4. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/S/PDF/2025SB-01542-R00-SB.PDF)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper
+- Senate Roll Call Vote — **35–0** (pass) · upper
+- House Roll Call Vote — **99–49** (pass) · lower
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-03-20** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-21** PUBLIC HEARING 0326
+- **2025-04-10** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-11** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
+- **2025-04-21** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/28/25 `referral`
+- **2025-04-28** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
+- **2025-04-28** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-28** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 411
+- **2025-04-28** FILE NO. 778
+- **2025-05-20** SENATE PASSED `passage`
+- **2025-05-22** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-22** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 630
+- **2025-06-03** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-03** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
+- **2025-06-03** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
+- **2025-06-03** DISAGREEING ACTION,TABLED FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
+- **2025-06-04** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-06-04** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
+- **2025-06-04** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
+- **2025-06-23** PUBLIC ACT 25-163
+- **2025-06-27** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
+- **2025-06-27** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
+- **2025-07-08** 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/060738a2-2af2-4695-843e-1ad539ec73e3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).
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