---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING DENTAL PRACTITIONERS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING DENTAL PRACTITIONERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "HB 7303"
citation: "Connecticut HB 7303 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Continuing education", "Dental care", "Dental hygienists", "Dentists", "Diabetes", "Felonies", "Fines (Penalties)", "Medical tests", "Occupational licenses", "Public Health", "Joint Committee on", "Reports", "Dental assistants"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arnone, Tom", "Gibson, Bobby G.", "Michel, David", "Phipps, Quentin W.", "Serra, Joseph C.", "Somers, Heather S.", "Young, Philip L."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-06"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46ae8760-aa25-4c35-a981-5f7298bc405a"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "ff6259b4c3b3c868a7cb40a4e142e8e388ee9c2fa1fa2229f67d91daeb1aa2e8"
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 7303 (2019) — AN ACT CONCERNING DENTAL PRACTITIONERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **PH Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-07303-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/h/pdf/2019HB-07303-R00-HB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Arnone, Tom — primary (person)
- Gibson, Bobby G. — primary (person)
- Michel, David — primary (person)
- Phipps, Quentin W. — primary (person)
- Serra, Joseph C. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather S. — primary (person)
- Young, Philip L. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Public Health `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-08** PUBLIC HEARING 0313
- **2019-04-01** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-03** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-04-11** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/16/19
- **2019-04-17** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-04-17** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-04-17** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 432
- **2019-04-17** FILE NO. 696
- **2019-06-04** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-04** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2019-06-04** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2019-06-04** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-06-04** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 678
- **2019-06-04** RULES SUSPENDED
- **2019-06-04** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-04** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-04** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-18** PUBLIC ACT 19-72 `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/46ae8760-aa25-4c35-a981-5f7298bc405a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).