---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN RETIRED PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN RETIRED PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 556"
citation: "Connecticut SB 556 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Age", "Disability benefits", "Municipal employee salaries", "Public safety"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anwar, Saud", "Carney, Devin R.", "Dathan, Lucy", "Delnicki, Tom", "Duff, Bob", "Gibson, Bobby G.", "Gucker, Kenneth M", "Michel, David", "Santiago, Hilda E.", "Verrengia, Joe"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-01-24"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f61470fb-1a1a-419f-a458-ce0d8f5cdb6f"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "fec2a2751af46584e040d48d82da04f288259ebd47d03c8c60216c2a31822df3"
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 556 (2019) — AN ACT CONCERNING ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR CERTAIN RETIRED PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES.

## 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/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00556-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **PD Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00556-R02-SB.PDF)
3. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00556-R00-SB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Anwar, Saud — primary (person)
- Carney, Devin R. — primary (person)
- Dathan, Lucy — primary (person)
- Delnicki, Tom — primary (person)
- Duff, Bob — primary (person)
- Gibson, Bobby G. — primary (person)
- Gucker, Kenneth M — primary (person)
- Michel, David — primary (person)
- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)
- Verrengia, Joe — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-01-24** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Planning and Development `referral-committee`
- **2019-01-30** Reserved for Subject Matter Public Hearing
- **2019-02-22** PUBLIC HEARING 0227
- **2019-03-08** Vote to Draft
- **2019-03-27** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2019-03-28** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Planning and Development `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-04-01** 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., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2019-04-17** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 349
- **2019-04-17** FILE NO. 717
- **2019-05-10** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-05-10** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-05-10** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2019-05-13** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-05-13** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 574
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2019-06-05** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2019-06-20** PUBLIC ACT 19-111 `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/f61470fb-1a1a-419f-a458-ce0d8f5cdb6f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).