General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5340
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 3260
*03260HB05340PS_*
Referred to Committee on Public Safety and Security
Introduced by:
(PS)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 5340
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 3260
*03260HB05340PS_*
Referred to Committee on Public Safety and Security
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT RENAMING THE STATE POLICE FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY AS THE "DR. HENRY C. LEE FORENSIC SCIENCE LABORATORY".
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) The State Police Forensic Science Laboratory in the city of Meriden shall be renamed the "Dr. Henry C. Lee Forensic Science Laboratory".
Sec. 2. Section 54-102l of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):
A person whose DNA profile has been included in the data bank pursuant to sections 54-102g to 54-102k, inclusive, may request expungement on the grounds that the criminal conviction or the finding of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on which the authority for including the person's DNA profile was based has been reversed and the case dismissed. The [State Police] Dr. Henry C. Lee Forensic Science Laboratory shall purge all records and identifiable information in the data bank pertaining to the person and destroy all samples from the person upon receipt of (1) a written request for expungement pursuant to this section, and (2) a certified copy of the court order reversing and dismissing the conviction or the finding of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
Sec. 2 from passage 54-102l
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
New section
Sec. 2
from passage
54-102l
Statement of Purpose:
To rename the State Police Forensic Science Laboratory in the city of Meriden in honor of Dr. Henry C. Lee for his work in the field of forensic science.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. DARGAN, 115th Dist.; REP. ORANGE, 48th Dist. REP. BOUKUS, 22nd Dist.; REP. FRITZ, 90th Dist. SEN. CASSANO, 4th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
REP. DARGAN, 115th Dist.; REP. ORANGE, 48th Dist.
REP. BOUKUS, 22nd Dist.; REP. FRITZ, 90th Dist.
SEN. CASSANO, 4th Dist.
H.B. 5340