---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT REPORT FOR AN ACCIDENT IN WHICH A PERSON WAS KILLED."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT REPORT FOR AN ACCIDENT IN WHICH A PERSON WAS KILLED."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 471"
citation: "Connecticut SB 471 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Motor vehicle accident reports", "Motor vehicle fatalities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Adams, Terry B.", "Morris, Bruce V.", "Ryan, Kevin"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-07"
last_action: "2018-05-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c37e277d-f026-4052-8f82-7a8453c25e8a"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "1785e0920ecb62c54d60aa1b5a8d56acfa02ff4c0d54538a9f750ccb1f7f6e26"
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 471 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING A MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENT REPORT FOR AN ACCIDENT IN WHICH A PERSON WAS KILLED.

## 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-00471-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00471-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote 154 — **148–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 91 ADOPT — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Adams, Terry B. — primary (person)
- Morris, Bruce V. — primary (person)
- Ryan, Kevin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-07** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-09** PUBLIC HEARING 0314
- **2018-03-28** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-29** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-09** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/16/18
- **2018-04-16** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-16** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-16** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 328
- **2018-04-16** FILE NO. 523
- **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 454
- **2018-05-02** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2018-05-02** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-07** PUBLIC ACT 18-3 `became-law`
- **2018-05-08** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-08** 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/c37e277d-f026-4052-8f82-7a8453c25e8a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).