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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut requires health providers and schools to securely transmit minor mental health safety plans starting April 2027
Last action · April 20, 2026: File Number 682Sponsors: Saud Anwar and 2 others
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What This Bill Proposed
Starting April 1, 2027, health care providers in Connecticut who prepare mental health s for minors hospitalized for at least 12 consecutive days must ask for consent to share the plan with the minor's school. If consent is granted and written authorization is obtained, providers must securely transmit the plan to the school district, provided the Statewide Health Information Exchange furnishes free secure messaging accounts to the schools.
Local school districts must register for secure messaging accounts by January 1, 2027, and assign designated staff to handle confidential mental health documents, while health care providers gain a structured framework for sharing crisis prevention plans.
- The Statewide Health Information Exchange in Connecticut operates under the name Connie, facilitating health information exchange across health care settings. context
- Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) and Section 504 plans are federally mandated educational frameworks providing specialized support and accommodations for students with disabilities. context
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
Minor patients receiving inpatient behavioral health care
Minor patients receiving at least 12 consecutive days of inpatient care have their health care providers review safety plans and ask for consent to share them with their schools.
Local and regional boards of education
School boards must register for secure messaging accounts, assign designated employees, submit system addresses to the state commissioner, and provide guidance to new staff.
Health care providers
Health care providers must review safety plans with qualifying minor patients, obtain written consent, and securely transmit the documents to schools starting April 1, 2027.
Designated school employees
School nurses, counselors, social workers, and psychologists designated by school boards must access secure messaging accounts and maintain confidential files for safety plans.
Key Facts
- Beginning April 1, 2027, health care providers must review safety plans with minor patients receiving at least 12 consecutive days of inpatient behavioral health treatment, if medically appropriate.
- Providers must ask for consent to share the safety plan with the minor's school from the patient, parent, or legally authorized representative.
- Written consent is required from the parent or representative, or from the minor directly if they are 16 years of age or older.
- Transmission of safety plans must occur via a secure messaging system or in a manner compliant with the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).
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- Local and regional boards of education must ensure each school district or school signs up for a secure messaging organizational account by January 1, 2027.
- Boards of education must give at least one designated employee—including a school nurse supervisor—access to the secure messaging account.
- Designated employees must retain safety plans in a confidential file separate from cumulative academic and health records.
- Safety plan information may be used to provide interventions under an individualized education program (IEP) or Section 504 plan.
- Boards of education must submit school secure messaging addresses to the Commissioner of Education by April 1, 2027, and report changes within 30 days.
- The requirements are contingent upon the Statewide Health Information Exchange providing secure messaging organizational accounts and access at no cost to schools and designated employees.
- The State Department of Education must develop training materials and guidance for new designated employees starting in the 2027-2028 school year.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which students are covered by the safety plan transmission requirement?
Who must give consent before a safety plan is sent to a school?
Where are safety plans stored once received by a school?
Do schools have to pay for the secure messaging system?
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Tabled in the House.
Procedural history
17 actions- Apr 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 682
- Apr 20, 2026HouseTabled for the Calendar, House
- Apr 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyNew File by Committee on Education
- Apr 20, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Apr 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/20/26 12:00 PM
- Apr 8, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Apr 6, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable Substitute
- Mar 31, 2026HouseReferred by House to Committee on Education
- Mar 17, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 37
- Mar 17, 2026HouseHouse Calendar Number 55
- Mar 17, 2026HouseFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
- Mar 17, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 11, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/16/26 5:00 PM
- Mar 3, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Mar 3, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable Substitute
- Feb 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 02/18
- Feb 11, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Public Health
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Conditional Implementation Contingent on Free Exchange Services
The bill explicitly conditions its legal mandates on the Statewide Health Information Exchange providing secure messaging organizational accounts at no cost to local school districts and schools.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz35Current news / social attention level
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