General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5814
January Session, 2011 LCO No. 2288
Referred to Committee on Select Committee on Children
Introduced by:
REP. URBAN, 43rd Dist.
General Assembly
Proposed Bill No. 5814
January Session, 2011
LCO No. 2288
Referred to Committee on Select Committee on Children
Introduced by:
REP. URBAN, 43rd Dist.
AN ACT REQUIRING COUNSELING FOR JUVENILES AND YOUTHFUL OFFENDERS CONVICTED OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
That subsection (c) of section 46b-140 of the general statutes and subsection (b) of section 54-76j of the general statutes be amended to require a court to order psychiatric or psychological counseling for any child convicted as delinquent or adjudicated as a youthful offender of a "cruelty to animal" crime pursuant to section 53-247 of the general statutes.
Statement of Purpose:
To make it mandatory that children convicted of cruelty to animals undergo psychiatric or psychological counseling, rather than giving the court the option to order counseling as under existing law.