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HB 6186 Connecticut House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT CONCERNING MEDICAL RECORDS PERTAINING TO PRENATAL CARE AND MANDATED REPORTS.

HB 6186 prohibits mandated reporters (such as healthcare providers, teachers, and social workers) from including a mother’s prenatal care medical records in reports of suspected child abuse or neglect. This directly affects mothers seeking prenatal care and mandated reporters, who must now exclude all prenatal health information from their reports. The bill amends reporting requirements under Connecticut General Statutes §17a-101d to explicitly ban such records, while maintaining other mandatory reporting details like child injury descriptions and suspected abusers. It takes effect October 1, 2025, with no fiscal impact.
Issues: ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareProhibits mandated reporters from including prenatal medical records in abuse reports, protecting patient privacy and encouraging prenatal care access without fear of disclosure.95% confidence
Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Floor Vote
Governor
Introduced Jan 22, 2025 Last action Mar 20, 2025
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What changed between versions

Proposed Bill → Committee Bill · 3 edits
MINOR
The bill was renumbered from a proposed bill to a committee bill with a new legislative committee number. The substantive content regarding mandated reporter requirements and the exclusion of prenatal medical records from abuse reports remains unchanged, though the text was reformatted and expanded with additional reporting requirements.
Scope change
No substantive change to the bill's scope or applicability; only formatting and numbering updates occurred during committee review.
TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from Proposed Bill No. 6186 to Committee Bill No. 6186 with new Legislative Committee Office (LCO) number 5221.

Sponsor information was updated to include additional co-sponsors (REP. SWEET, REP. KEITT, REP. MCGEE T.) alongside the original sponsor REP. BELTON.

The bill text was reformatted with new section numbering and expanded to include additional reporting requirements for child abuse cases, though the core provision excluding prenatal medical records remains intact.

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Actions timeline

Total actions
13
Key actions
2
Committee
4
Mar 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
Joint Favorable
lower
Feb 25, 2025
Committee
REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Committee on Children
lower
Feb 24, 2025
Lower · Passed
DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE
lower
Jan 22, 2025
Committee
REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Committee on Children
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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