---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES TO PHARMACY AND DRUG CONTROL STATUTES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES TO PHARMACY AND DRUG CONTROL STATUTES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 195"
citation: "Connecticut SB 195 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Controlled substances", "Drug manufacturers", "Drug wholesalers", "Fees", "Fines (Penalties)", "Pharmacies", "Pharmacists"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["General Law Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-22"
last_action: "2018-05-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c0edb4c4-dd8e-4431-bf9a-384da70ab554"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "1c2118658a744f11334a655b04778e20a4848311667a3ac56760f75e254fad61"
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 195 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING CHANGES TO PHARMACY AND DRUG CONTROL STATUTES.

## 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-00195-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00195-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote 254 CONSENT CALENDAR — **149–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 96 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- General Law Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-22** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON General Law `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-23** PUBLIC HEARING 0227
- **2018-03-15** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-16** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-26** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/18
- **2018-04-03** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-03** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-03** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 121
- **2018-04-03** FILE NO. 156
- **2018-04-25** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-04-25** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-04-26** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-26** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 457
- **2018-05-07** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-07** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-07** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-14** PUBLIC ACT 18-16 `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/c0edb4c4-dd8e-4431-bf9a-384da70ab554`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).