---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 521"
citation: "Connecticut SB 521 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Correction Department", "Correctional institution employees", "Policy and Management", "Office of", "Prisoners", "Release (Criminal procedure)", "State contracts", "State funds", "State regulations", "specific", "Youth in crisis", "Benefit corporations"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Serra, Joseph C.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-03-20"
last_action: "2018-06-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/38018bc4-0607-4585-acca-629b60df1a2a"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "5b9a9ba8174c6cc1bc36cc5566cfa15cbb1517760260b7c2fba2206c4f6238c2"
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 521 (2018) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION.

## 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-00521-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00521-R01-SB.htm)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote 296 ADOPT — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 302 CONSENT CALENDAR — **148–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Serra, Joseph C. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-03-20** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** PUBLIC HEARING 0326
- **2018-04-03** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-04-04** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-11** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/16/18
- **2018-04-17** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-17** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-17** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 341
- **2018-04-17** FILE NO. 556
- **2018-05-09** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-09** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2018-05-09** RULES SUSPENDED
- **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 18-155 `became-law`
- **2018-05-31** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-31** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-14** 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/38018bc4-0607-4585-acca-629b60df1a2a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).