---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ALIGNING THE OFFICE OF THE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN WITH THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT."
description: "AN ACT ALIGNING THE OFFICE OF THE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN WITH THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 309"
citation: "Connecticut SB 309 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Long Term Care Ombudsman", "Office of", "State government", "Rehabilitation Services", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buckbee, Bill", "Cook, Michelle L.", "Cummings, Stephanie E.", "Hampton, John K.", "McCarty, Kathleen M.", "Miller, Patricia Billie", "Orange, Linda A.", "Tercyak, Peter A.", "Yaccarino, Dave W."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ea976daf-f7db-43e5-90d5-5b3cca4cef5e"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "f1deb7b7a33c34a7169013c825b9b5e24665112f0ef2cab7a03509d6e4ccb0c8"
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 309 (2018) — AN ACT ALIGNING THE OFFICE OF THE LONG-TERM CARE OMBUDSMAN WITH THE OLDER AMERICANS ACT.

## 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-00309-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00309-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote 220 — **148–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 81 ADOPT — **33–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Buckbee, Bill — primary (person)
- Cook, Michelle L. — primary (person)
- Cummings, Stephanie E. — primary (person)
- Hampton, John K. — primary (person)
- McCarty, Kathleen M. — primary (person)
- Miller, Patricia Billie — primary (person)
- Orange, Linda A. — primary (person)
- Tercyak, Peter A. — primary (person)
- Yaccarino, Dave W. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-01** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Aging `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** PUBLIC HEARING 0308
- **2018-03-15** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-15** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-22** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/27/18
- **2018-03-28** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-03-28** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-03-28** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 91
- **2018-03-28** FILE NO. 107
- **2018-04-18** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-04-18** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-04-19** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-19** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 411
- **2018-05-04** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-04** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-08** PUBLIC ACT 18-6 `became-law`
- **2018-05-09** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-09** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-05-14** 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/ea976daf-f7db-43e5-90d5-5b3cca4cef5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).