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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5351
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 506
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. HARDING, 107
th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING A MINIMUM TERM OF IMPRISONMENT FOR A
CONVICTION FOR INJURY OR RISK OF INJURY OF A CHILD.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That section 53-21 of the general statutes be amended to provide 1
that any person convicted of injury or risk of injury of a child serve a 2
term of at least thirty consecutive days imprisonment, which term may 3
not be suspended or reduced in any manner. 4
Statement of Purpose:
To protect children by increasing the penalty for injury or risk of injury
to a child by requiring that thirty consecutive days of imprisonment
may not be suspended or reduced in any manner.