---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO RECORDINGS AND IMAGES FROM TECHNOLOGY USED BY NURSING HOME RESIDENTS FOR VIRTUAL VISITATION AND VIRTUAL MONITORING."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO RECORDINGS AND IMAGES FROM TECHNOLOGY USED BY NURSING HOME RESIDENTS FOR VIRTUAL VISITATION AND VIRTUAL MONITORING."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "HB 6457"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6457 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electronic surveillance", "Nursing home employees", "Nursing homes", "Reports", "Social Services", "Department of", "Studies", "Technology"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Cheeseman, Holly H.", "Delnicki, Tom", "Foster, Jaime S.", "Gonzalez, Minnie", "Goupil, Christine", "Gucker, Kenneth M", "Parker, John-michael", "Sampson, Rob", "Santiago, Hilda E."]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-02-17"
last_action: "2021-07-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9d8a516b-48a8-4b56-ad64-9ea0027d67f7"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "e3890908a647a1957a2d20419569ed6ffb78495db77efb38e884a07a6e48ac4a"
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 6457 (2021) — AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO RECORDINGS AND IMAGES FROM TECHNOLOGY USED BY NURSING HOME RESIDENTS FOR VIRTUAL VISITATION AND VIRTUAL MONITORING.

## Version chain

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

1. **AGE Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/TOB/H/PDF/2021HB-06457-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 162** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/FC/PDF/2021HB-06457-R000162-FC.PDF)
3. **File No. 792** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/FC/PDF/2021HB-06457-R000792-FC.PDF)
4. **Public Act No. 21-160** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/ACT/PA/PDF/2021PA-00160-R00HB-06457-PA.PDF)
5. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/TOB/H/PDF/2021HB-06457-R00-HB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Cheeseman, Holly H. — primary (person)
- Delnicki, Tom — primary (person)
- Foster, Jaime S. — primary (person)
- Gonzalez, Minnie — primary (person)
- Goupil, Christine — primary (person)
- Gucker, Kenneth M — primary (person)
- Parker, John-michael — primary (person)
- Sampson, Rob — primary (person)
- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-17** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Aging `referral-committee`
- **2021-02-18** PUBLIC HEARING 0223
- **2021-03-11** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-12** FILED WITH LCO
- **2021-03-22** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/29/21
- **2021-03-29** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2021-03-29** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR
- **2021-03-29** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 151
- **2021-03-29** FILE NO. 162
- **2021-06-04** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2021-06-04** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2021-06-04** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE SENATE
- **2021-06-05** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2021-06-05** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 559
- **2021-06-05** FILE NO. 792
- **2021-06-09** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2021-06-09** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2021-06-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2021-06-24** PUBLIC ACT 21-160
- **2021-06-28** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2021-06-28** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2021-07-12** 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/9d8a516b-48a8-4b56-ad64-9ea0027d67f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).