republic-os/legislation/us/states/ct/2026/sb-298.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE REALLOCATION OF CERTAIN STATE FUNDS AND VARIOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO EDUCATION, PUBLIC SAFETY, GENERAL GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS, INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES AND WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS."
description: "AN ACT CONCERNING THE REALLOCATION OF CERTAIN STATE FUNDS AND VARIOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO EDUCATION, PUBLIC SAFETY, GENERAL GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS, INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES AND WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ct"
legislature: "Connecticut General Assembly"
session: "2026"
identifier: "SB 298"
citation: "Connecticut SB 298 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Alternative educational opportunities for expelled students", "Appropriations", "Audits", "Ballots", "Bilingual education", "Boards of education", "Cancer", "Certificates and certification", "Child support enforcement", "Citizens and citizenship", "Codes and Standards Committee", "Comptroller", "Deaf and hearing impaired persons", "Disability benefits", "Disabled persons", "Discrimination in employment", "Early voting", "Education Department", "Elections", "Electronic data", "Electronic government information", "Electronic monitoring in the workplace", "Emergencies", "Employees", "Employers", "Eye care", "Fees", "Fines (Penalties)", "Firefighters", "Grants by the state", "Health care facilities certificate of need process", "Intellectual disabilities", "persons with", "Interdistrict public school attendance program", "Investigations", "Judges", "Law enforcement", "Maintenance and repair", "Mental health facilities", "Multicultural education", "Municipal elections", "Municipal employee political activity", "Municipal employee retirement", "Municipal health departments", "Municipalities", "Nominations", "Occupational training", "Pensions", "Petitions", "Physical examinations", "Police", "Police Officer Standards and Training Council", "Political conventions", "Political parties", "Polling places", "Primaries", "Public Health", "Department of", "Public hearings", "Racial imbalance in schools", "Regional educational service centers", "Regional schools", "Registrars of voters", "Rent", "Reports", "School building projects", "School districts", "School health services", "School safety", "Schools", "Secretary of the State", "State Board of Education", "State Building Code", "State Building Inspector", "State Education Resource Center", "State Elections Enforcement Commission", "State Fire Safety Code", "State Properties Review Board", "State Supreme Court", "State agencies", "State budget", "State funds", "Student performance", "Student suspensions", "Students", "Studies", "Teachers", "Telecommunications companies", "Town clerks", "Violations", "Voter registration", "Voters", "Voting districts", "Voting tabulators", "Warehouses"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bob Duff", "Hilda E. Santiago", "Jason Rojas", "Martin M. Looney", "Matthew Ritter"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 13
first_action: "2026-02-24"
last_action: "2026-05-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/05211788-2cd7-4d60-a9a2-7e719f739731"
source_url: "ftp://ftp.cga.ct.gov/pub/data/bill_info.csv"
source_hash: "7d4b9908df0f41617aaeea055d652a6bf14abb4142cc3d5d2e8ac9d4d79eca2c"
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 298 (2026) — AN ACT CONCERNING THE REALLOCATION OF CERTAIN STATE FUNDS AND VARIOUS PROVISIONS RELATING TO EDUCATION, PUBLIC SAFETY, GENERAL GOVERNMENT, ELECTIONS, INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES AND WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS.

## Version chain

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

1. **New Bill** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/TOB/S/PDF/2026SB-00298-R00-SB.PDF)
2. **Public Act No. 26-1** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.cga.ct.gov/2026/ACT/PA/PDF/2026PA-00001-R00SB-00298-PA.PDF)

## Votes

- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **9–26** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **26–10** (pass) · upper
- Senate Roll Call Vote — **11–25** (fail) · upper
- House Roll Call Vote — **54–91** (fail) · lower
- House Roll Call Vote — **47–97** (fail) · lower
- House Roll Call Vote — **47–98** (fail) · lower
- House Roll Call Vote — **46–97** (fail) · lower
- House Roll Call Vote — **96–48** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bob Duff — primary (person)
- Hilda E. Santiago — primary (person)
- Jason Rojas — primary (person)
- Martin M. Looney — primary (person)
- Matthew Ritter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2026-02-24** EMERGENCY CERTIFICATION
- **2026-02-25** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-25** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. B `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-25** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. C `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-25** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. D `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-25** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. E `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-25** SEN. REJ. SEN. AMEND. SCH. F `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-25** SENATE PASSED `passage`
- **2026-02-25** IMMEDIATE TRANSMITTAL TO THE HOUSE
- **2026-02-26** HOUSE REJECTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. A `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-26** HOUSE REJECTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. B `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-26** HOUSE REJECTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. C `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-26** HOUSE REJECTED HOUSE AMEND. SCH. D `amendment-failure`
- **2026-02-26** HOUSE PASSED `passage`
- **2026-02-26** IN CONCURRENCE
- **2026-02-27** RULES SUSPENDED, TRANSMITTED TO THE GOVERNOR
- **2026-03-03** LINE ITEM VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR, SECTION(S): `executive-veto-line-item`
- **2026-03-03** SIGNED BY GOVERNOR IN ORIGINAL `executive-signature`
- **2026-03-05** PUBLIC ACT 26-1
- **2026-05-15** TRANSMITTED TO SECRETARY OF THE STATE

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/05211788-2cd7-4d60-a9a2-7e719f739731`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Connecticut legislature records).