---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION REGARDING THE SAFETY OF SPORTS HELMETS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION REGARDING THE SAFETY OF SPORTS HELMETS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5291"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5291 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Children", "Education Department", "Helmets", "Public Health", "Department of", "Reports", "Sports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckbee, Bill", "Butler, Larry B.", "Devlin, Laura M.", "Kelly, Kevin C.", "Klarides, Themis", "Klarides-Ditria, Nicole", "Kokoruda, Noreen S.", "Logan, George S.", "Petit, William A.", "Riley, Emmett D.", "Somers, Heather B.", "Wilms, Fred", "Zawistowski, Tami"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-06-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/56377609-9ed7-4d44-bc88-3f068218b9b0"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "d6a65ff86df92c9bcafc37629d85fc405355a93dea552546b1d5fe866e7b0b21"
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 5291 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING A STUDY ON ACCESS TO INFORMATION REGARDING THE SAFETY OF SPORTS HELMETS.

## 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-05291-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05291-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 320 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 141 AS AMENDED — **142–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buckbee, Bill — primary (person)
- Butler, Larry B. — primary (person)
- Devlin, Laura M. — primary (person)
- Kelly, Kevin C. — primary (person)
- Klarides, Themis — primary (person)
- Klarides-Ditria, Nicole — primary (person)
- Kokoruda, Noreen S. — primary (person)
- Logan, George S. — primary (person)
- Petit, William A. — primary (person)
- Riley, Emmett D. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
- Wilms, Fred — primary (person)
- Zawistowski, Tami — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-28** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** PUBLIC HEARING 0316
- **2018-03-23** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-05** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/10/18
- **2018-04-11** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-11** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-11** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 263
- **2018-04-11** FILE NO. 414
- **2018-04-30** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-04-30** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-02** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-02** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 477
- **2018-05-02** FILE NO. 667
- **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
- **2018-05-23** SPECIAL ACT 18-15
- **2018-05-25** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-25** 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/56377609-9ed7-4d44-bc88-3f068218b9b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).