---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT REQUIRING THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO EVALUATE ISSUES CONCERNING POLYPHARMACY AND MEDICATION RECONCILIATION."
description: "AN ACT REQUIRING THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO EVALUATE ISSUES CONCERNING POLYPHARMACY AND MEDICATION RECONCILIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 217"
citation: "Connecticut SB 217 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drugs", "Health care data", "Medical records", "Reports", "Studies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kennedy, Ted", "Osten, Catherine A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-22"
last_action: "2018-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ab3f446f-e5b8-4d9a-b7aa-f90178e1fd64"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "448710b3a870320ef4b6a3a54ac3cbd173ce613c5f2a328c3385b5fb93e06183"
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 217 (2018) — AN ACT REQUIRING THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER TO ESTABLISH A WORKING GROUP TO EVALUATE ISSUES CONCERNING POLYPHARMACY AND MEDICATION RECONCILIATION.

## 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-00217-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00217-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote 302 CONSENT CALENDAR — **148–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 187 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kennedy, Ted — primary (person)
- Osten, Catherine A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-22** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** PUBLIC HEARING 0316
- **2018-03-23** Joint Favorable `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., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-11** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 244
- **2018-04-11** FILE NO. 419
- **2018-05-03** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-03** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-05** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-05-05** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 525
- **2018-05-09** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-09** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-18** SPECIAL ACT 18-6
- **2018-05-22** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-22** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-01** 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/ab3f446f-e5b8-4d9a-b7aa-f90178e1fd64`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).