---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE VOICE OF RESIDENTS AND FAMILY COUNCILS."
description: "AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE VOICE OF RESIDENTS AND FAMILY COUNCILS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 973"
citation: "Connecticut SB 973 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advisory bodies", "Long term care facilities", "Nursing home patients"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Abercrombie, Catherine F.", "Anwar, Saud", "Berger-girvalo, Aimee", "Delnicki, Tom", "Gucker, Kenneth M", "Hwang, Tony", "Kelly, Kevin C.", "Mccarty, Kathleen M.", "Mushinsky, Mary M.", "Osten, Catherine A.", "Witkos, Kevin D."]
version_count: 4
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-03-02"
last_action: "2021-07-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0cb9c59b-4490-4b56-9974-996104775a18"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "523f1443d8050d4989173037c10a7a31f21c665a13c8931ea73ae0dad47c568a"
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 973 (2021) — AN ACT STRENGTHENING THE VOICE OF RESIDENTS AND FAMILY COUNCILS.

## 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/2021/TOB/S/PDF/2021SB-00973-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **File No. 192** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/FC/PDF/2021SB-00973-R000192-FC.PDF)
3. **Public Act No. 21-194** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/ACT/PA/PDF/2021PA-00194-R00SB-00973-PA.PDF)
4. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/TOB/S/PDF/2021SB-00973-R00-SB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Abercrombie, Catherine F. — primary (person)
- Anwar, Saud — primary (person)
- Berger-girvalo, Aimee — primary (person)
- Delnicki, Tom — primary (person)
- Gucker, Kenneth M — primary (person)
- Hwang, Tony — primary (person)
- Kelly, Kevin C. — primary (person)
- Mccarty, Kathleen M. — primary (person)
- Mushinsky, Mary M. — primary (person)
- Osten, Catherine A. — primary (person)
- Witkos, Kevin D. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-03-02** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Aging `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-03** PUBLIC HEARING 0309
- **2021-03-11** Joint Favorable Substitute `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., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2021-03-29** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 154
- **2021-03-29** FILE NO. 192
- **2021-06-02** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2021-06-02** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2021-06-02** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2021-06-03** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR
- **2021-06-03** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 586
- **2021-06-09** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2021-06-09** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2021-06-09** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2021-06-28** PUBLIC ACT 21-194
- **2021-06-30** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2021-06-30** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2021-07-13** 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/0cb9c59b-4490-4b56-9974-996104775a18`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).