republic-os/legislation/us/states/ct/2021/sb-2.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL EQUITY AND THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL EQUITY AND THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2021"
identifier: "SB 2"
citation: "Connecticut SB 2 (2021)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Age", "Birth-to-three early intervention system", "Bridgeport", "Cheshire", "Child abuse and neglect reports of cases", "Child mental health services", "Child mental", "emotional and behavioral health", "Child welfare", "Children and Families", "Department of", "Children in custody or care of Department of Children and Families", "Continuing education", "Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)", "Distance learning", "District departments of health", "Early Childhood", "Office of", "East Hartford", "Education", "Education Department", "Electronic data processing", "Emergencies", "Grants by the state", "Health care providers", "High schools", "Internet", "Killingworth", "Orange", "Parent-school relationships", "Parental notification", "Professional licenses", "Public health", "Public school information system", "Reports", "School attendance", "School meals", "South Windsor", "State Board of Education", "Strategic school profile reports", "Studies", "Suicide", "Task forces", "Teachers", "Visitation rights"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Anwar, Saud", "Bradley, Dennis A.", "Cabrera, Jorge", "Candelaria, Juan R.", "Cassano, Steve", "Cohen, Christine", "Conley, Christine", "Dathan, Lucy", "Daugherty Abrams, Mary", "Duff, Bob", "Flexer, Mae", "Haskell, Will", "Johnson, Susan M.", "Kavros Degraw, Eleni", "Kushner, Julie", "Lesser, Matthew L.", "Looney, Martin M.", "Lopes, Rick", "Mccarthy Vahey, Cristin", "Mccrory, Douglas", "Miller, Patricia Billie", "Moore, Marilyn V.", "Morrin Bello, Amy", "Nolan, Anthony L.", "Osten, Catherine A.", "Parker, John-michael", "Phipps, Quentin W.", "Reyes, Geraldo C.", "Santiago, Hilda E.", "Simms, Travis", "Slap, Derek", "Smith, Brian T.", "Turco, Gary A.", "Winfield, Gary A."]
version_count: 6
action_count: 33
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2021-01-08"
last_action: "2021-06-16"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/192c16fc-bd5e-41e4-8f2d-acc68300577a"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "825600a419d17ec5271dbf734d2af144dcecbdd400653849b6c75bb92530b063"
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 2 (2021) — AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL EQUITY AND THE HEALTH, SAFETY AND EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.

## Version chain

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

1. **APP Joint Favorable** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/TOB/S/PDF/2021SB-00002-R03-SB.PDF)
2. **Committee Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/TOB/S/PDF/2021SB-00002-R01-SB.PDF)
3. **File No. 246** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/FC/PDF/2021SB-00002-R000246-FC.PDF)
4. **KID Joint Favorable Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/TOB/S/PDF/2021SB-00002-R02-SB.PDF)
5. **Proposed Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/TOB/S/PDF/2021SB-00002-R00-SB.PDF)
6. **Public Act No. 21-46** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2021/ACT/PA/PDF/2021PA-00046-R00SB-00002-PA.PDF)

## Sponsors

- Anwar, Saud — primary (person)
- Bradley, Dennis A. — primary (person)
- Cabrera, Jorge — primary (person)
- Candelaria, Juan R. — primary (person)
- Cassano, Steve — primary (person)
- Cohen, Christine — primary (person)
- Conley, Christine — primary (person)
- Dathan, Lucy — primary (person)
- Daugherty Abrams, Mary — primary (person)
- Duff, Bob — primary (person)
- Flexer, Mae — primary (person)
- Haskell, Will — primary (person)
- Johnson, Susan M. — primary (person)
- Kavros Degraw, Eleni — primary (person)
- Kushner, Julie — primary (person)
- Lesser, Matthew L. — primary (person)
- Looney, Martin M. — primary (person)
- Lopes, Rick — primary (person)
- Mccarthy Vahey, Cristin — primary (person)
- Mccrory, Douglas — primary (person)
- Miller, Patricia Billie — primary (person)
- Moore, Marilyn V. — primary (person)
- Morrin Bello, Amy — primary (person)
- Nolan, Anthony L. — primary (person)
- Osten, Catherine A. — primary (person)
- Parker, John-michael — primary (person)
- Phipps, Quentin W. — primary (person)
- Reyes, Geraldo C. — primary (person)
- Santiago, Hilda E. — primary (person)
- Simms, Travis — primary (person)
- Slap, Derek — primary (person)
- Smith, Brian T. — primary (person)
- Turco, Gary A. — primary (person)
- Winfield, Gary A. — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-08** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Committee on Children `referral-committee`
- **2021-01-21** Vote to Draft
- **2021-03-02** DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
- **2021-03-03** REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Committee on Children `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-04** PUBLIC HEARING 0309
- **2021-03-15** Joint Favorable Substitute `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-16** FILED WITH LCO
- **2021-03-26** REFERRED TO Office of Legislative Research AND Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/31/21
- **2021-04-01** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2021-04-01** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2021-04-01** SENATE CALENDAR NUMBER 175
- **2021-04-01** FILE NO. 246
- **2021-04-28** REF. BY SEN. TO COMM. ON Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-03** Joint Favorable `committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-04** FILED WITH LCO
- **2021-05-04** RPTD. OUT OF LCO
- **2021-05-04** NO NEW FILE BY COMM. ON Appropriations `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-04** FAV. RPT., TAB. FOR CAL., SEN.
- **2021-05-05** SEN. ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2021-05-05** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. B
- **2021-05-05** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. C
- **2021-05-05** SEN. PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2021-05-06** FAV. RPT., TABLED FOR HOUSE CALENDAR
- **2021-05-06** HOUSE CALENDAR NUMBER 454
- **2021-06-02** HOUSE ADOPTED SEN. AMEND. SCH. A
- **2021-06-02** HOUSE REJECTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A
- **2021-06-02** HOUSE REJECTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. B
- **2021-06-02** HOUSE PASSED, SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `passage`
- **2021-06-02** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2021-06-09** PUBLIC ACT 21-46
- **2021-06-10** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE
- **2021-06-10** TRANSMITTED BY SECRETARY OF THE STATE TO GOVERNOR
- **2021-06-16** 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/192c16fc-bd5e-41e4-8f2d-acc68300577a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).