---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD."
description: "AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5169"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5169 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child day care", "Early childhood education", "Municipal finance", "Relative caregivers", "Homeless youth", "Early Childhood", "Office of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abercrombie, Catherine F.", "Floren, Livvy R.", "Kokoruda, Noreen S.", "Lavielle, Gail", "McCarty, Kathleen M.", "Riley, Emmett D.", "Sanchez, Robert", "Santiago, Hilda E.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 26
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-21"
last_action: "2018-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb5bbbf9-4664-494b-a190-17ba59c83d48"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "93767c5943dab59956d09ab0e63fc888a6e30643c67019e63a4fd39a3afc2757"
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 HB 5169 (2018) — AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.

## 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/h/2018HB-05169-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05169-R01-HB.htm)
3. **R02** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05169-R02-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 302 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 213 AS AMENDED — **148–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Abercrombie, Catherine F. — primary (person)
- Floren, Livvy R. — primary (person)
- Kokoruda, Noreen S. — primary (person)
- Lavielle, Gail — primary (person)
- McCarty, Kathleen M. — primary (person)
- Riley, Emmett D. — primary (person)
- Sanchez, Robert — primary (person)
- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-21** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** PUBLIC HEARING 0226
- **2018-03-19** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-22** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-29** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/18
- **2018-04-05** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-05** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-05** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 165
- **2018-04-05** FILE NO. 232
- **2018-04-11** REF. BY HOUSE TO COMMITTEE ON Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-17** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-17** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-18** NO NEW FILE BY COMM. ON Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-18** TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR
- **2018-05-04** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-04** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-04** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2018-05-05** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-05** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 526
- **2018-05-09** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-30** PUBLIC ACT 18-172 `became-law`
- **2018-06-01** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-06-01** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-14** 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/eb5bbbf9-4664-494b-a190-17ba59c83d48`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).