---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ELIMINATING THE REQUIREMENT THAT A MORTGAGOR REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL ATTEND THE FIRST FORECLOSURE MEDIATION SESSION IN PERSON."
description: "AN ACT ELIMINATING THE REQUIREMENT THAT A MORTGAGOR REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL ATTEND THE FIRST FORECLOSURE MEDIATION SESSION IN PERSON."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 391"
citation: "Connecticut SB 391 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foreclosure", "Mortgages"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hall, Joshua Malik", "Miller, Patricia Billie", "Tercyak, Peter A.", "Winfield, Gary A."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-01"
last_action: "2018-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4784d710-ad10-4ab4-b55a-efc4d1a4b417"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "2887f7e76fc844a6d2f0a421d94cd677a561938d69f2bf02320c09e85eae5208"
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 391 (2018) — AN ACT ELIMINATING THE REQUIREMENT THAT A MORTGAGOR REPRESENTED BY COUNSEL ATTEND THE FIRST FORECLOSURE MEDIATION SESSION IN PERSON.

## 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-00391-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00391-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 98 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 266 CONSENT CALENDAR — **150–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hall, Joshua Malik — primary (person)
- Miller, Patricia Billie — primary (person)
- Tercyak, Peter A. — primary (person)
- Winfield, Gary A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-01** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Banking `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** PUBLIC HEARING 0306
- **2018-03-20** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-21** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-29** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/04/18
- **2018-04-05** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-05** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-05** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 166
- **2018-04-05** FILE NO. 294
- **2018-04-25** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-04-25** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-04-26** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-26** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 464
- **2018-05-08** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-08** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-08** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-18** PUBLIC ACT 18-53 `became-law`
- **2018-05-22** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-22** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-01** 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/4784d710-ad10-4ab4-b55a-efc4d1a4b417`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).