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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6575
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY
Introduced by:
(PS)
AN ACT CONCERNING AC TIVE SHOOTER RESPONSE PLA NS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) (a) Not later than January 1, 1
2020, the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in 2
consultation with the Police Officer Standards and Training Council 3
established under section 7-294b of the general statutes, shall develop 4
standards that municipalities may use to develop active shooter 5
response plans. The standards shall include guidance on creating a list 6
of state and municipal agencies that could respond to calls for mutual 7
aid assistance and prioritizing requests for mutual aid depending on 8
the severity of an incident. 9
(b) The department shall make such standards available to 10
municipalities not later than January 1, 2020. The department shall 11
assist a municipality, upon the municipality's request, in developing 12
an active shooter response plan that is suitable to the municipality's 13
needs. 14
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require the Department of Emergency Services and Public
Protection, in consultation with the Police Officer Standards and
Training Council, to develop standards for active shooter response
plans and assist municipalities, upon their request, in developing such
plans.
[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. HALL, 59th Dist.; REP. SREDZINSKI, 112th Dist.
REP. CARPINO, 32nd Dist.; REP. BORER, 115th Dist.
REP. KLARIDES-DITRIA, 105th Dist.; REP. CAMILLO, 151st
Dist.
H.B. 6575