---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT MAKING CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRIVATE OCCUPATIONAL SCHOOLS INELIGIBLE FOR PUBLIC FUNDS AND LICENSURE."
description: "AN ACT MAKING CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRIVATE OCCUPATIONAL SCHOOLS INELIGIBLE FOR PUBLIC FUNDS AND LICENSURE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 81"
citation: "Connecticut SB 81 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Colleges and universities", "Private occupational schools", "State aid to education", "Higher Education", "Office of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gucker, Kenneth M", "Lesser, Matthew L.", "O'Neill, Arthur J."]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-17"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00e9a802-bd9c-4284-9986-9eb77cf00a86"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "d951ed2724a216adb42392cdf83ae25ac27f67de4730258559ac857e778c9a8a"
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 81 (2019) — AN ACT MAKING CERTAIN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION AND PRIVATE OCCUPATIONAL SCHOOLS INELIGIBLE FOR PUBLIC FUNDS AND LICENSURE.

## 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/s/pdf/2019SB-00081-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **HED Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00081-R02-SB.PDF)
3. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00081-R00-SB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Gucker, Kenneth M — primary (person)
- Lesser, Matthew L. — primary (person)
- O'Neill, Arthur J. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-17** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Higher Education and Employment Advancement `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-24** Reserved for Subject Matter Public Hearing
- **2019-02-01** PUBLIC HEARING 0205
- **2019-02-07** Vote to Draft
- **2019-03-06** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2019-03-07** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Higher Education and Employment Advancement `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-15** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-03-20** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/25/19
- **2019-03-26** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-03-26** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-03-26** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 96
- **2019-03-26** FILE NO. 155
- **2019-04-17** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-04-17** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-04-17** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2019-04-18** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-04-18** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 457
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2019-06-05** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-19** PUBLIC ACT 19-87 `became-law`
- **2019-06-24** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2019-06-24** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2019-07-08** 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/00e9a802-bd9c-4284-9986-9eb77cf00a86`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).