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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 797
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on COMMITTEE ON CHILDREN
Introduced by:
(KID)
AN ACT CONCERNING CH ILDREN'S SAFETY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (Effective July 1, 2019) The Commissioner of Children and 1
Families shall conduct a study to determine whether policy and 2
procedural changes within the Department of Children and Families 3
may increase the safety of children in the care and custody of the 4
commissioner. The commissioner shall report, in accordance with the 5
provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, the findings of such 6
study to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having 7
cognizance of matters relating to children on or before January 1, 2020. 8
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 Commissioner of Children and Families to conduct a
study to determine whether policy and procedural changes within the Raised Bill No. 797
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Department of Children and Families may increase the safety of
children.
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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.]