---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT REQUIRING BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS TO BE MANDATED REPORTERS OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT."
description: "AN ACT REQUIRING BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS TO BE MANDATED REPORTERS OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 244"
citation: "Connecticut SB 244 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Child abuse and neglect reports of cases", "Behavioral health services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Case, Jay M.", "Cassano, Steve", "Duff, Bob", "Looney, Martin M.", "Martin, Henri", "Osten, Catherine A.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9262faf1-f51c-4d78-8bc5-91ced53ffae1"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "bd2929c7c831f9db7748b42c4d3821fbf42e57ef1ee60b16b0652a25edbe20d6"
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 244 (2018) — AN ACT REQUIRING BEHAVIOR ANALYSTS TO BE MANDATED REPORTERS OF SUSPECTED CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT.

## 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-00244-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00244-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 89 ADOPT — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 254 CONSENT CALENDAR — **149–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Case, Jay M. — primary (person)
- Cassano, Steve — primary (person)
- Duff, Bob — primary (person)
- Looney, Martin M. — primary (person)
- Martin, Henri — primary (person)
- Osten, Catherine A. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-27** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** PUBLIC HEARING 0315
- **2018-03-20** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-20** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-27** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/18
- **2018-04-04** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-04** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-04** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 148
- **2018-04-04** FILE NO. 212
- **2018-04-24** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-04-24** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-04-25** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-25** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 450
- **2018-05-07** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-07** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-07** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-14** PUBLIC ACT 18-17 `became-law`
- **2018-05-17** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-17** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-05-25** 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/9262faf1-f51c-4d78-8bc5-91ced53ffae1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).