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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 2189 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5895 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2019 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 2189 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on PUBLIC HEALTH | |
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| 12 | 12 | ||
| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | REP. HALL, 59th Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT ALLOWING A POLICE OFFICER TO TAKE CERTAIN | |
| 19 | 19 | PERSONS INTO CUSTODY FOR AN EMERGENCY EXAMINATION. | |
| 20 | 20 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 21 | 21 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 23 | 23 | That section 17a-503 of the general statutes be amended to permit a 1 | |
| 24 | 24 | police officer to take any person such officer has reasonable cause to 2 | |
| 25 | 25 | believe suffered from an overdose of an opioid drug that necessitates 3 | |
| 26 | 26 | emergency medical intervention, including, but not limited to, through 4 | |
| 27 | 27 | the successful administration of an opioid antagonist to such person, 5 | |
| 28 | 28 | into custody or to take or cause such person to be taken to a general 6 | |
| 29 | 29 | hospital for emergency examination, provided such person is not held 7 | |
| 30 | 30 | for more than seventy-two hours unless committed under an 8 | |
| 31 | 31 | emergency certificate. 9 | |
| 32 | 32 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 33 | 33 | To allow a police officer to take a person into custody when the officer | |
| 34 | 34 | has reasonable cause to believe such person suffered from an opioid | |
| 35 | 35 | drug overdose that necessitates emergency medical intervention. |