---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIEW PROGRAM AND COMMITTEE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH."
description: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIEW PROGRAM AND COMMITTEE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 304"
citation: "Connecticut SB 304 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Death", "Medical records", "Mothers", "Pregnancy", "Public Health", "Department of", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dillon, Patricia A.", "Linares, Art", "Morris, Bruce V.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-28"
last_action: "2018-06-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73984ba8-3236-4263-b6a5-220af0f17430"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "a798b6274d6f81160e4618f6ce48ffc06c353cb7957570f4da0c29567ba21a5d"
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 304 (2018) — AN ACT ESTABLISHING A MATERNAL MORTALITY REVIEW PROGRAM AND COMMITTEE WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH.

## 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-00304-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00304-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 256 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 302 CONSENT CALENDAR — **148–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dillon, Patricia A. — primary (person)
- Linares, Art — primary (person)
- Morris, Bruce V. — 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
- **2018-03-19** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-22** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-02** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/09/18
- **2018-04-09** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-09** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-09** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 204
- **2018-04-09** FILE NO. 345
- **2018-05-07** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-07** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-07** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2018-05-08** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-05-08** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 579
- **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 18-150 `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/73984ba8-3236-4263-b6a5-220af0f17430`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).