---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING A TWO-GENERATIONAL INITIATIVE."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING A TWO-GENERATIONAL INITIATIVE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 437"
citation: "Connecticut SB 437 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advisory bodies", "Attorney General", "Policy and Management", "Office of", "State agencies", "State aid programs", "Early Childhood", "Office of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cook, Michelle L.", "Johnson, Susan M.", "Klarides-Ditria, Nicole", "Stallworth, Charlie L.", "Wood, Terrie E."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-07"
last_action: "2018-05-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/88a3c5ae-4b51-463b-a2f9-1c66f1670e5e"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "72dac993680e3ae553c424fec780b2da71c703de92a528c007a8f3480fcaaed2"
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 437 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING A TWO-GENERATIONAL INITIATIVE.

## 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-00437-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00437-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 90 ADOPT — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 254 CONSENT CALENDAR — **149–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Cook, Michelle L. — primary (person)
- Johnson, Susan M. — primary (person)
- Klarides-Ditria, Nicole — primary (person)
- Stallworth, Charlie L. — primary (person)
- Wood, Terrie E. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-07** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** PUBLIC HEARING 0313
- **2018-03-15** PUBLIC HEARING 0320
- **2018-03-22** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-22** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-28** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/18
- **2018-04-04** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-04** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-04** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 151
- **2018-04-04** FILE NO. 227
- **2018-04-24** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-04-24** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-04-25** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-25** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 452
- **2018-05-07** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-07** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-07** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-14** PUBLIC ACT 18-19 `became-law`
- **2018-05-17** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-17** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-05-25** 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/88a3c5ae-4b51-463b-a2f9-1c66f1670e5e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).