---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING OUTPATIENT CLINICS, URGENT CARE CENTERS AND FREESTANDING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING OUTPATIENT CLINICS, URGENT CARE CENTERS AND FREESTANDING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 303"
citation: "Connecticut SB 303 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Health Care Access", "Office of", "Health care facilities", "Hospital costs", "Hospital emergency rooms", "Medical expenses", "Outpatient clinics", "State regulations", "specific", "Health Strategy", "Office of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Looney, Martin M.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa3a2cc6-2e81-4f43-982e-bc0fa07a23d8"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "7ae56987496eadc153db5c8d363f1f927e9b6a3530a09652956ef6fa7ff066f8"
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 303 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING OUTPATIENT CLINICS, URGENT CARE CENTERS AND FREESTANDING EMERGENCY DEPARTMENTS.

## 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-00303-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00303-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote 302 CONSENT CALENDAR — **148–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 190 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Looney, Martin M. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-28** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-01** PUBLIC HEARING 0305
- **2018-03-23** Vote to Hold until next meeting
- **2018-03-26** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-27** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-06** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/11/18
- **2018-04-12** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-12** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-12** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 301
- **2018-04-12** FILE NO. 468
- **2018-05-03** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-03** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-03** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-05** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-05-05** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 527
- **2018-05-09** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-09** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-25** PUBLIC ACT 18-149 `became-law`
- **2018-05-31** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-31** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-12** 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/fa3a2cc6-2e81-4f43-982e-bc0fa07a23d8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).