---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING CONNECTICUT VALLEY AND WHITING FORENSIC HOSPITALS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING CONNECTICUT VALLEY AND WHITING FORENSIC HOSPITALS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2022"
identifier: "SB 450"
citation: "Connecticut SB 450 (2022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Services", "Department of", "Civil commitment", "Connecticut Valley Hospital", "Mental Health and Addiction Services", "Department of", "Mentally ill persons", "Psychiatric Security Review Board", "Reports", "Studies", "Task forces", "Whiting Forensic Hospital"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anwar, Saud", "Fishbein, Craig C.", "Garibay, Jane M.", "Gucker, Kenneth M", "Hwang, Tony", "Mccarty, Kathleen M.", "Michel, David", "Petit, William A.", "Santiago, Hilda E.", "Somers, Heather S.", "Williams, Quentin"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2022-03-15"
last_action: "2022-05-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/44783509-1457-4264-a91a-03ffbb979d54"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "f5e6a4c5fa470c0d29628e43fe3a3a5e74c7c54b967948925eda9b0970219359"
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 450 (2022) — AN ACT CONCERNING CONNECTICUT VALLEY AND WHITING FORENSIC HOSPITALS.

## Version chain

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

1. **File No. 522** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2022/FC/PDF/2022SB-00450-R000522-FC.PDF)
2. **PH Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2022/TOB/S/PDF/2022SB-00450-R01-SB.PDF)
3. **Public Act No. 22-45** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2022/ACT/PA/PDF/2022PA-00045-R00SB-00450-PA.PDF)
4. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2022/TOB/S/PDF/2022SB-00450-R00-SB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Anwar, Saud — primary (person)
- Fishbein, Craig C. — primary (person)
- Garibay, Jane M. — primary (person)
- Gucker, Kenneth M — primary (person)
- Hwang, Tony — primary (person)
- Mccarty, Kathleen M. — primary (person)
- Michel, David — primary (person)
- Petit, William A. — primary (person)
- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather S. — primary (person)
- Williams, Quentin — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-03-15** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-24** PUBLIC HEARING 0328
- **2022-03-30** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-03-31** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2022-04-11** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/19/22 `referral`
- **2022-04-19** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2022-04-19** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2022-04-19** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 385
- **2022-04-19** FILE NO. 522
- **2022-04-29** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2022-04-29** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2022-04-30** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2022-04-30** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 537
- **2022-05-02** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2022-05-02** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2022-05-02** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2022-05-06** PUBLIC ACT 22-45
- **2022-05-17** 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/44783509-1457-4264-a91a-03ffbb979d54`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).