---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING PROBATE COURT OPERATIONS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING PROBATE COURT OPERATIONS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 247"
citation: "Connecticut SB 247 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Conservators", "Decedents' estates", "Guardian and ward", "Probate Court fees and costs", "Tenants' possessions", "Trusts and trustees"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Morris, Bruce V.", "Witkos, Kevin D."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-05-31"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1bb08c50-19fa-4b0c-bf15-90653d9492b1"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "d134ea5deb26205eacdb9c0242a7135371be8b433f3032975ef6fa988b165851"
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 247 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING PROBATE COURT OPERATIONS.

## 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-00247-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00247-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 191 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 262 — **147–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Morris, Bruce V. — primary (person)
- Witkos, Kevin D. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-27** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-05** PUBLIC HEARING 0309
- **2018-03-28** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-09** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/16/18
- **2018-04-16** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-16** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-16** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 318
- **2018-04-16** FILE NO. 514
- **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 521
- **2018-05-08** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-08** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-17** PUBLIC ACT 18-45 `became-law`
- **2018-05-18** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-18** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-05-31** 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/1bb08c50-19fa-4b0c-bf15-90653d9492b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).