---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE STATE OVERSIGHT COUNCIL ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES."
description: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE STATE OVERSIGHT COUNCIL ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "Connecticut SB 188 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "Joint Committee On", "Child services", "Children and Families", "Department of", "Councils", "Family services", "Reports", "Children", "Joint Committee on"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Fasano, Leonard A.", "Fishbein, Craig C.", "Martin, Henri", "Polletta, Joe", "Simanski, Bill", "Suzio, Len", "Witkos, Kevin D.", "Zupkus, Lezlye"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2018-02-22"
last_action: "2018-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/12e11ae5-59bc-4ab7-93c4-8f65b9d0e7ce"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "49a9bea494f3ede36957d4f2b27dfe4e2d0ff67e1ce3be98f64082c8f5d11765"
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 188 (2018) — AN ACT ESTABLISHING THE STATE OVERSIGHT COUNCIL ON CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.

## 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-00188-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00188-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 203 PASS AS AMENDED BY SEN A — **33–3** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 289 AS AMENDED — **142–6** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 395 REPASS — **16–15** (fail) · upper

## Sponsors

- Fasano, Leonard A. — primary (person)
- Fishbein, Craig C. — primary (person)
- Martin, Henri — primary (person)
- Polletta, Joe — primary (person)
- Simanski, Bill — primary (person)
- Suzio, Len — primary (person)
- Witkos, Kevin D. — primary (person)
- Zupkus, Lezlye — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-22** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Committee on Children `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** PUBLIC HEARING 0227
- **2018-03-15** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-22** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/27/18
- **2018-03-28** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-03-28** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-03-28** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 76
- **2018-03-28** FILE NO. 92
- **2018-05-04** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-04** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-06** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-05-06** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 533
- **2018-05-09** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-09** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-24** PUBLIC ACT 18-140 `became-law`
- **2018-05-29** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-29** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-13** VETOED BY GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-25** SENATE RECONSIDERED
- **2018-06-25** VETO SUSTAINED, SENATE

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/12e11ae5-59bc-4ab7-93c4-8f65b9d0e7ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).