---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE COMPETENCY OF A DEFENDANT TO STAND TRIAL."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE COMPETENCY OF A DEFENDANT TO STAND TRIAL."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5557"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5557 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Competency to stand trial"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Currey, Jeff", "Delnicki, Tom", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-16"
last_action: "2018-06-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f211cbbc-487d-43ca-9b17-5d81939dffc9"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "4599d1fa654741c675127137a8bf87658c9f677e6d3ec0079962964b82c80351"
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 5557 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE COMPETENCY OF A DEFENDANT TO STAND TRIAL.

## 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-05557-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05557-R01-HB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 379 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 208 AS AMENDED — **149–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Currey, Jeff — primary (person)
- Delnicki, Tom — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-16** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** PUBLIC HEARING 0323
- **2018-04-03** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-04** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-12** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/17/18
- **2018-04-18** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-18** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-18** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 381
- **2018-04-18** FILE NO. 569
- **2018-05-03** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-03** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-03** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2018-05-04** FILE NO. 684
- **2018-05-04** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-04** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 514
- **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
- **2018-05-24** PUBLIC ACT 18-134 `became-law`
- **2018-05-29** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-29** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-11** 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/f211cbbc-487d-43ca-9b17-5d81939dffc9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).