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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT LIMITING AUTO REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS COVERED UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM AND REQUIRING THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO PROVIDE CHIP DATA TO THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER."
description: "AN ACT LIMITING AUTO REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS COVERED UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM AND REQUIRING THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO PROVIDE CHIP DATA TO THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2018"
identifier: "SB 246"
citation: "Connecticut SB 246 (2018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Drugs", "Health care data", "Human Services", "Joint Committee on", "Medicaid", "Pharmacies", "Social Services", "Department of"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Santiago, Hilda E.", "Somers, Heather B."]
version_count: 2
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-06-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0bb18bb2-62d3-4b9d-b7e8-f500594dab4e"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "95f02b5efc5cc35afe7d670978dc1e2754bf0ca0f84bca36bbdd8818ba0aa523"
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 246 (2018) — AN ACT LIMITING AUTO REFILLS OF PRESCRIPTION DRUGS COVERED UNDER THE MEDICAID PROGRAM AND REQUIRING THE COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES TO PROVIDE CHIP DATA TO THE HEALTH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY OFFICER.
## 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/s/2018SB-00246-R00-SB.htm)
2. **R01** (committee substitute) — [source](ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/2018/tob/s/2018SB-00246-R01-SB.htm)
## Votes
- Senate Roll Call Vote 128 ADOPT — **360** (pass) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote 264 AS AMENDED — **12919** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)
- Somers, Heather B. — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-27** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Human Services `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-28** PUBLIC HEARING 0306
- **2018-03-15** FILED WITH LCO
- **2018-03-16** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2018-03-26** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/03/18
- **2018-04-03** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2018-04-03** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2018-04-03** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 124
- **2018-04-03** FILE NO. 159
- **2018-05-01** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-01** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-01** ON CONSENT CALENDAR
- **2018-05-03** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDER
- **2018-05-03** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 491
- **2018-05-08** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2018-05-08** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2018-05-08** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2018-05-18** PUBLIC ACT 18-77 `became-law`
- **2018-05-22** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2018-05-22** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2018-06-01** 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/0bb18bb2-62d3-4b9d-b7e8-f500594dab4e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).