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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING ISSUES RELATING TO THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE OF STUDENTS' PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES."
description: "AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING ISSUES RELATING TO THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE OF STUDENTS' PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "HB 5170"
citation: "Connecticut HB 5170 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Privacy", "Reports", "School administrators", "School employees", "Students", "Studies", "Mobile electronic device"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Elliott, Josh", "Somers, Heather B.", "Staneski, Pam", "Vail, Kurt"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-21"
last_action: "2018-06-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74bea438-ffb4-4d0c-8696-5bd84723b6c7"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "a1c834641bf4ca52c60daeae73ba3f4da0c54b0af05c30463bc36e3966a0aad0"
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 5170 (2018) — AN ACT ESTABLISHING A WORKING GROUP TO STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS CONCERNING ISSUES RELATING TO THE SEARCH AND SEIZURE OF STUDENTS' PERSONAL ELECTRONIC DEVICES.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **R00** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05170-R00-HB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/h/2018HB-05170-R01-HB.htm)
## Votes
- House Roll Call Vote 254 CONSENT CALENDAR — **1490** (pass) · lower
- Senate Roll Call Vote 325 ADOPT — **360** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Elliott, Josh — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
- Staneski, Pam — primary (person)
- Vail, Kurt — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-21** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Education `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-22** PUBLIC HEARING 0226
- **2018-03-23** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-04-02** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/09/18
- **2018-04-09** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-09** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-04-09** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 203
- **2018-04-09** FILE NO. 308
- **2018-05-07** HOUSE ADOPTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-07** HOUSE PASSED, HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-07** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-07** TRANSMITTED PURSUANT TO JOINT RULE 17
- **2018-05-07** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-05-07** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 554
- **2018-05-09** SEN. ADOPTED HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** SEN. PASSED, HO. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-09** ON CONSENT CALENDAR /IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-30** SPECIAL ACT 18-28
- **2018-06-01** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-06-01** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-13** 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/74bea438-ffb4-4d0c-8696-5bd84723b6c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).