---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE TESTIMONY OF JAILHOUSE WITNESSES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE TESTIMONY OF JAILHOUSE WITNESSES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 1098"
citation: "Connecticut SB 1098 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Prisoners", "State's attorneys", "Witnesses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Horn, Maria P.", "Stafstrom, Steven J.", "Walker, Toni E."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-20"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2313e2b1-f9bc-4c87-862d-9d409aee7922"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "cf15642d1562dd68a1f1ca6c72a6a18b5b6524ef528ac97639900d97901a66b7"
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 1098 (2019) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE TESTIMONY OF JAILHOUSE WITNESSES.

## Version chain

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

1. **JUD Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-01098-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-01098-R00-SB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Horn, Maria P. — primary (person)
- Stafstrom, Steven J. — primary (person)
- Walker, Toni E. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-20** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** PUBLIC HEARING 0325
- **2019-04-09** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-11** FILED WITH LCO
- **2019-04-22** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/29/19
- **2019-04-29** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2019-04-29** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-04-29** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 445
- **2019-04-29** FILE NO. 844
- **2019-05-23** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-05-23** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-05-24** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-05-24** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 668
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2019-06-05** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-24** PUBLIC ACT 19-131 `became-law`
- **2019-06-27** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2019-06-27** 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/2313e2b1-f9bc-4c87-862d-9d409aee7922`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).