---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY REMEDIES AND POTENTIAL LIABILITY FOR UNREASONABLY CONTESTED OR DELAYED WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIMS."
description: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY REMEDIES AND POTENTIAL LIABILITY FOR UNREASONABLY CONTESTED OR DELAYED WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIMS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 6916"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6916 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Reports", "Studies", "Task forces", "Workers' compensation", "Workers' compensation insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arnone, Tom", "Blumenthal, Matt", "Currey, Jeff", "Floren, Livvy R.", "Johnson, Susan M.", "Moore, Marilyn V.", "Serra, Joseph C.", "Winkler, Michael A."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-06-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4a27e6ff-4f1c-41d7-9efa-aa798c85d31e"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "a03dcc42bcf151bf9b44a2a825b51eaf22a51ad6c92c4fce6318391e30bc7f7c"
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 HB 6916 (2019) — AN ACT ESTABLISHING A TASK FORCE TO STUDY REMEDIES AND POTENTIAL LIABILITY FOR UNREASONABLY CONTESTED OR DELAYED WORKERS' COMPENSATION CLAIMS.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-06916-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **LAB Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-06916-R02-HB.PDF)
3. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-06916-R00-HB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Arnone, Tom — primary (person)
- Blumenthal, Matt — primary (person)
- Currey, Jeff — primary (person)
- Floren, Livvy R. — primary (person)
- Johnson, Susan M. — primary (person)
- Moore, Marilyn V. — primary (person)
- Serra, Joseph C. — primary (person)
- Winkler, Michael A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-30** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-07** Reserved for Subject Matter Public Hearing
- **2019-02-22** PUBLIC HEARING 0226
- **2019-03-05** Vote to Draft
- **2019-03-18** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2019-03-19** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-22** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-04-01** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/08/19
- **2019-04-08** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-04-08** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-04-08** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 300
- **2019-04-08** FILE NO. 475
- **2019-05-22** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-05-22** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2019-05-24** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-05-24** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 605
- **2019-05-24** FILE NO. 990
- **2019-06-04** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-04** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-04** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-13** SPECIAL ACT 19-10
- **2019-06-17** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2019-06-17** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2019-06-21** 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/4a27e6ff-4f1c-41d7-9efa-aa798c85d31e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).