---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL COUNSELORS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL COUNSELORS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 186"
citation: "Connecticut SB 186 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counselors", "School employees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bolinsky, Mitch", "Borer, Dorinda", "Currey, Jeff", "Fishbein, Craig C.", "Haddad, Gregory", "Lopes, Rick", "Orange, Linda A.", "Scanlon, Sean"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-21"
last_action: "2018-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d5e7831f-e66e-415f-9c71-9d985067a3c1"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "c3fced297ad77c6927b716b19750651d9ef24be6c5e8654c40f58f9b75c9faf5"
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 186 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL COUNSELORS.

## 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/s/2018SB-00186-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00186-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 127 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 252 — **146–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bolinsky, Mitch — primary (person)
- Borer, Dorinda — primary (person)
- Currey, Jeff — primary (person)
- Fishbein, Craig C. — primary (person)
- Haddad, Gregory — primary (person)
- Lopes, Rick — primary (person)
- Orange, Linda A. — primary (person)
- Scanlon, Sean — 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
- **2018-03-14** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-23** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/28/18
- **2018-03-29** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-03-29** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-03-29** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 106
- **2018-03-29** FILE NO. 131
- **2018-05-01** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-01** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-03** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-05-03** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 490
- **2018-05-07** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-07** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-14** PUBLIC ACT 18-15 `became-law`
- **2018-05-17** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-17** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-05-29** 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/d5e7831f-e66e-415f-9c71-9d985067a3c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).