---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE APPOINTMENT OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE APPOINTMENT OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2025"
identifier: "HB 6183"
citation: "Connecticut HB 6183 (2025)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Advisory bodies", "Appointments", "Child Advocate", "Office of", "Electronic government information", "Reports"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-22"
last_action: "2025-06-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/46f06320-b039-4683-9629-56e9334592ff"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "65d2a6078c597104b34ef116dc4ffacb88412dff4b474d686d6c54de3b8ed5c4"
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 6183 (2025) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE APPOINTMENT OF THE CHILD ADVOCATE.

## 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/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06183-R01-HB.PDF)
2. **File No. 154** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06183-R000154-FC.PDF)
3. **File No. 928** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/FC/PDF/2025HB-06183-R000928-FC.PDF)
4. **KID Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06183-R02-HB.PDF)
5. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/TOB/H/PDF/2025HB-06183-R00-HB.PDF)
6. **Public Act No. 25-68** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2025/ACT/PA/PDF/2025PA-00068-R00HB-06183-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- House Roll Call Vote — **147–0** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-22** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Committee on Children `referral-committee`
- **2025-01-28** Vote to Draft
- **2025-02-05** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2025-02-06** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Committee on Children `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07** PUBLIC HEARING 0213
- **2025-03-06** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-10** FILED WITH LCO `filing`
- **2025-03-14** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/19/25 `referral`
- **2025-03-20** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2025-03-20** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR `reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 126
- **2025-03-20** FILE NO. 154
- **2025-05-14** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-05-14** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-05-16** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN. `reading-2`
- **2025-05-16** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 501
- **2025-05-16** FILE NO. 928
- **2025-06-02** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-passage`
- **2025-06-02** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2025-06-02** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2025-06-10** PUBLIC ACT 25-68
- **2025-06-16** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2025-06-16** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR `executive-receipt`
- **2025-06-23** 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/46f06320-b039-4683-9629-56e9334592ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).