---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO VARIOUS STATUTES CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND REVISING PROVISIONS CONCERNING JAILHOUSE WITNESSES."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO VARIOUS STATUTES CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND REVISING PROVISIONS CONCERNING JAILHOUSE WITNESSES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2019"
identifier: "SB 996"
citation: "Connecticut SB 996 (2019)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Chief State's Attorney", "Emancipation of minors", "Felonies", "Highway construction", "Landlord and tenant", "Municipal officials", "Prisoners", "Wiretapping", "Witnesses", "Firearms offenses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Judiciary Committee"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-03-04"
last_action: "2019-07-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1e09e59f-667c-4589-b238-0c18e0bb51be"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "31a376c39170960c5f1a081b87d5890e7db70f03b77bf19b821a659361bf788a"
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 996 (2019) — AN ACT CONCERNING REVISIONS TO VARIOUS STATUTES CONCERNING THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM AND REVISING PROVISIONS CONCERNING JAILHOUSE WITNESSES.

## Version chain

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

1. **JUD Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00996-R01-SB.PDF)
2. **Raised Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2019/TOB/s/pdf/2019SB-00996-R00-SB.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Judiciary Committee — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-03-04** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-21** PUBLIC HEARING 0325
- **2019-04-09** Joint Favorable Substitute `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 442
- **2019-04-29** FILE NO. 841
- **2019-06-05** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-05** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2019-06-05** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2019-06-05** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2019-06-05** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 730
- **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 19-132 `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/1e09e59f-667c-4589-b238-0c18e0bb51be`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).