---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING A COMMUNITY OMBUDSMAN."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING A COMMUNITY OMBUDSMAN."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 804"
citation: "Connecticut SB 804 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Complaint", "Home health care", "Long term care", "Long Term Care Ombudsman", "Office of", "Reports", "Residents' advocates", "Social Services", "Department of", "Community-based health care services"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abercrombie, Catherine F.", "Genga, Henry J.", "Hwang, Tony", "Kelly, Kevin C.", "Serra, Joseph C."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-06"
last_action: "2019-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c40fb97f-2383-472c-901e-3e90c65c5dee"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "1e0d886eaabc64ba4bb8599dfaf26e2de4b7f47d362fa6f87f3a88a6ebd9505c"
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 804 (2019) — AN ACT CONCERNING A COMMUNITY OMBUDSMAN.

## Version chain

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

1. **AGE Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00804-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00804-R00-SB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Abercrombie, Catherine F. — primary (person)
- Genga, Henry J. — primary (person)
- Hwang, Tony — primary (person)
- Kelly, Kevin C. — primary (person)
- Serra, Joseph C. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Aging `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-13** PUBLIC HEARING 0219
- **2019-02-26** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-02-27** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-03-01** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/06/19
- **2019-03-07** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-03-07** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-03-07** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 38
- **2019-03-07** FILE NO. 39
- **2019-05-16** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-05-16** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-05-16** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2019-05-17** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-05-17** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 614
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2019-06-05** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2019-06-05** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-20** SPECIAL ACT 19-18
- **2019-06-24** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2019-06-24** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2019-07-01** 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/c40fb97f-2383-472c-901e-3e90c65c5dee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).