General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 483
February Session, 2018 *_____SB00483JUD___032918____*
General Assembly
Substitute Bill No. 483
February Session, 2018
*_____SB00483JUD___032918____*
AN ACT CONCERNING THE FEASIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING OPIOID INTERVENTION COURTS IN THE STATE.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective from passage) (a) The Chief Court Administrator or his or her designee, in consultation with the Chief Public Defender, Chief State's Attorney and the dean of The University of Connecticut School of Law, or their respective designees, shall study the feasibility of establishing one or more courts that specialize in the hearing of criminal or juvenile matters in which a defendant is an opioid-dependent person, who could benefit from intensive court monitoring and placement in a substance abuse treatment program.
(b) The study shall include an examination of: (1) The testing of certain arrestees for opioid use and the timing of such testing, (2) innovative and different treatment placement options for opioid-dependent arrestees, (3) the development of a rapid integration team of individuals who focus on meeting the treatment needs of opioid-dependent arrestees, (4) the development of judicial processes that include daily court monitoring of opioid-dependent arrestees, and (5) the use of curfews and electronic-monitoring tools as a means of facilitating success completion of a substance abuse treatment program.
(c) The Chief Court Administrator, or his or her designee, shall report on the results of such study to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the judiciary, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, not later than January 1, 2019.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 from passage New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
from passage
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Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Section 1(c), the phrase "to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to the judiciary" was added for consistency with standard drafting conventions.
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