---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ALLOWING INSURANCE POLICIES IN LIEU OF SURETY BONDS."
description: "AN ACT ALLOWING INSURANCE POLICIES IN LIEU OF SURETY BONDS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 815"
citation: "Connecticut SB 815 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Bonds", "Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority", "Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority", "Insurance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hwang, Tony"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b8775507-ba85-4b9d-844d-4d33853b4e0c"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "432da350ab50f15a553d433437d0695b6a20b3e4c835f1057ade91d593be1593"
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 815 (2019) — AN ACT ALLOWING INSURANCE POLICIES IN LIEU OF SURETY BONDS.

## Version chain

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

1. **HED Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00815-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00815-R00-SB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Hwang, Tony — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Higher Education and Employment Advancement `referral-committee`
- **2019-02-08** PUBLIC HEARING 0214
- **2019-02-28** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-03-01** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-03-07** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/12/19
- **2019-03-13** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-03-13** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-03-13** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 53
- **2019-03-13** FILE NO. 58
- **2019-05-08** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2019-05-08** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2019-05-10** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-05-10** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 552
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2019-06-05** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-19** PUBLIC ACT 19-83 `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/b8775507-ba85-4b9d-844d-4d33853b4e0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).