---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING COURTHOUSE SECURITY."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING COURTHOUSE SECURITY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5247"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5247 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Chief Court Administrator", "Courthouse security", "Reports", "Studies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carpino, Christie M.", "Cummings, Stephanie E.", "Doyle, Paul R.", "McLachlan, Michael A.", "Morris, Bruce V.", "Sampson, Robert C.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-23"
last_action: "2018-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dba61e26-aa77-4f65-8fb9-5846d0065c55"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "b1ddf66bde71fa5466986dd40aac6098ea497732263704a15c8bb5f3459d6d63"
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 5247 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING COURTHOUSE SECURITY.

## 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-05247-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05247-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 388 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 249 — **144–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carpino, Christie M. — primary (person)
- Cummings, Stephanie E. — primary (person)
- Doyle, Paul R. — primary (person)
- McLachlan, Michael A. — primary (person)
- Morris, Bruce V. — primary (person)
- Sampson, Robert C. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-23** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** PUBLIC HEARING 0309
- **2018-04-02** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-03** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-09** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/16/18
- **2018-04-16** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-16** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-16** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 335
- **2018-04-16** FILE NO. 492
- **2018-05-07** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-07** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2018-05-07** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-07** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 546
- **2018-05-09** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-22** SPECIAL ACT 18-11
- **2018-05-23** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-23** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-06** 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/dba61e26-aa77-4f65-8fb9-5846d0065c55`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).