---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING EMPLOYEES' LOSS OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE AS A RESULT OF A LABOR DISPUTE."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING EMPLOYEES' LOSS OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE AS A RESULT OF A LABOR DISPUTE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2023"
identifier: "SB 228"
citation: "Connecticut SB 228 (2023)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange", "Employees", "Labor disputes"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anwar, Saud", "Gaston, Herron", "Kushner, Julie", "Looney, Martin M.", "Sanchez, Robert", "Santos, Farley"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2023-01-17"
last_action: "2023-06-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/eb53f492-7971-4db7-be95-9522e2619713"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "8d838c891e7718cf36aa7cf4827f96703b6446ebc35479c69f5d2f2e4bc5cd7a"
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 228 (2023) — AN ACT CONCERNING EMPLOYEES' LOSS OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE AS A RESULT OF A LABOR DISPUTE.

## 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/2023/TOB/S/PDF/2023SB-00228-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **File No. 463** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/FC/PDF/2023SB-00228-R000463-FC.PDF)
3. **LAB Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/TOB/S/PDF/2023SB-00228-R02-SB.PDF)
4. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/TOB/S/PDF/2023SB-00228-R00-SB.PDF)
5. **Public Act No. 23-172** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2023/ACT/PA/PDF/2023PA-00172-R00SB-00228-PA.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Anwar, Saud — primary (person)
- Gaston, Herron — primary (person)
- Kushner, Julie — primary (person)
- Looney, Martin M. — primary (person)
- Sanchez, Robert — primary (person)
- Santos, Farley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-17** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees `referral-committee`
- **2023-01-19** Reserved for Subject Matter Public Hearing
- **2023-01-27** PUBLIC HEARING 0131
- **2023-02-16** Vote to Draft
- **2023-03-17** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2023-03-20** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-03-22** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2023-03-31** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/05/23 `referral`
- **2023-04-06** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2023-04-06** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2023-04-06** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 268
- **2023-04-06** FILE NO. 463
- **2023-05-03** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2023-05-03** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2023-05-05** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2023-05-05** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 478
- **2023-06-07** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2023-06-07** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2023-06-21** PUBLIC ACT 23-172
- **2023-06-22** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2023-06-22** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2023-06-28** 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/eb53f492-7971-4db7-be95-9522e2619713`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).