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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 948
January Session, 2019
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Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E RECOMMENDATIONS OF T HE
CONNECTICUT SENTENCI NG COMMISSION WITH R ESPECT TO
MISDEMEANOR SENTENCE S.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2019) (a) Notwithstanding any 1
provision of the general statutes, any offense which constitutes a 2
breach of any law of this state for which a person may be sentenced to 3
a term of imprisonment of up to but not exceeding one year shall be 4
punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed three hundred 5
sixty-four days. A misdemeanor conviction for which a person was 6
sentenced to a term of imprisonment of one year shall continue to be 7
deemed a misdemeanor conviction after the maximum term of 8
imprisonment is reduced pursuant to this section. 9
(b) The provisions of this section apply to any term of imprisonment 10
for which a person was sentenced to before, on or after July 1, 2019. 11
(c) Any person sentenced to a term of imprisonment of one year, 12
prior to July 1, 2019, for any offense previously punishable by a term of 13
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imprisonment of up to but not exceeding one year, may apply to the 14
court that entered the judgment of conviction to have the term of 15
sentence modified to the maximum term of imprisonment for a period 16
not to exceed three hundred sixty-four days. Any such application 17
may be filed at any time and the court shall issue such modification 18
regardless of the date of conviction, provided the record of such 19
sentence has not been destroyed. 20
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To enact the Connecticut Sentencing Commission's recommendations
with respect to misdemeanor offenses.
[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.]