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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 996
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 5234
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING RE VISIONS TO VARIOUS STATUTES
CONCERNING THE CRIMI NAL JUSTICE SYSTEM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 1-102 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 2
No person, committee, association, organization or corporation shall 3
employ any salaried commissioner or deputy commissioner of this 4
state, or any person receiving a salary or pay from the state for services 5
rendered and performed at Hartford, or shall give to any such person 6
any advantage, aid, emolument, entertainment, money or other 7
valuable thing for appearing for, on behalf of or in opposition to, any 8
measure, bill, resolution or petition pending before the General 9
Assembly or any committee thereof, or for advancing, supporting, 10
advocating, or seeking to secure the passage, defeat or amendment of 11
any such measure, bill, resolution or petition pending in or before the 12
General Assembly or any committee thereof; nor shall any such 13
salaried commissioner, deputy commissioner or other person 14
described in this section accept any such employment or perform any 15 Raised Bill No. 996
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such service for another, or accept aid, emolument, entertainment, 16
money, advantage or other valuable thing for or in consideration of 17
any such service. Any person, committee, association, organization or 18
corporation, or any such salaried commissioner, deputy commissioner 19
or person receiving a salary or pay from the state for services rendered 20
and performed at Hartford, who violates any of the provisions of this 21
section, shall be fined not less than one hundred or more than one 22
thousand dollars. All complaints for the violation of this section shall 23
be made to the [state's attorney for the judicial district of New Britain, 24
and said state's attorney] Chief State's Attorney, who shall, upon proof 25
of probable guilt being shown, cause the arrest of any such offender 26
and present such offender or cause such offender to be presented for 27
trial before the [superior court for the judicial district of New Britain] 28
Superior Court. 29
Sec. 2. Section 46b-150d of the general statutes is repealed and the 30
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 31
An order that a minor is emancipated shall have the following 32
effects: (1) The minor may consent to medical, dental or psychiatric 33
care, without parental consent, knowledge or liability; (2) the minor 34
may enter into a binding contract; (3) the minor may sue and be sued 35
in such minor's own name; (4) the minor shall be entitled to such 36
minor's own earnings and shall be free of control by such minor's 37
parents or guardian; (5) the minor may establish such minor's own 38
residence; (6) the minor may buy and sell real and personal property; 39
(7) the minor may not thereafter be the subject of (A) a petition under 40
section 46b-129 as an abused, neglected or uncared for child or youth, 41
(B) a petition under section 46b-128 or 46b-133 as a delinquent child for 42
any act committed before the date of the order, or (C) a petition under 43
section 46b-149 alleging that the minor is a child from a family with 44
service needs; (8) the minor may enroll in any school or college, 45
without parental consent; (9) the minor shall be deemed to be over 46
eighteen years of age for purposes of securing an operator's license 47
under section 14-36 and a marriage license under section 46b-20a; (10) 48
the minor shall be deemed to be over eighteen years of age for 49 Raised Bill No. 996
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purposes of registering a motor vehicle under section 14-12; (11) the 50
parents of the minor shall no longer be the guardians of the minor 51
under section 45a-606; (12) the parents of a minor shall be relieved of 52
any obligations respecting such minor's school attendance under 53
section 10-184; (13) the parents shall be relieved of all obligation to 54
support the minor; (14) the minor shall be emancipated for the 55
purposes of parental liability for such minor's acts under section 52-56
572; [(15) the minor may execute releases in such minor's own name 57
under section 14-118; (16)] (15) the minor may enlist in the armed 58
forces of the United States without parental consent; and [(17)] (16) the 59
minor may access or obtain a certified copy of a birth certificate under 60
section 7-51. 61
Sec. 3. Subdivision (1) of subsection (b) of section 52-570d of the 62
general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 63
thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 64
(1) Any federal, state or local criminal law enforcement official or 65
agent of any such official who in the lawful performance of [his duties] 66
such official or agent's duties, or at the request or direction of such 67
official or agent in the performance of such official or agent's duties, 68
records telephonic communications; 69
Sec. 4. Subsection (b) of section 53a-60a of the general statutes is 70
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective 71
October 1, 2019): 72
(b) Assault in the second degree with a firearm is a class D felony or, 73
if the offense resulted in serious physical injury, a class C felony, for 74
which in either case one year of the sentence imposed may not be 75
suspended or reduced by the court. 76
Sec. 5. Section 53a-214 of the general statutes is repealed and the 77
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2019): 78
(a) A landlord or lessor of a [dwelling] residential or nonresidential 79
unit subject to the provisions of chapter 830 or 832, or an owner of such 80 Raised Bill No. 996
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a unit, or the agent of such landlord, lessor or owner is guilty of 81
criminal lockout when, without benefit of a court order, he or she 82
deprives a tenant, as defined in subsection (l) of section 47a-1, or a 83
lessee of a nonresidential unit, of access to [his dwelling] his or her 84
residential or nonresidential unit or his [personal] or her possessions. 85
(b) Criminal lockout is a class C misdemeanor. 86
Sec. 6. Sections 7-22, 7-81, 13a-69 and 13b-305 of the general statutes 87
are repealed. (Effective October 1, 2019) 88
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 1-102
Sec. 2 October 1, 2019 46b-150d
Sec. 3 October 1, 2019 52-570d(b)(1)
Sec. 4 October 1, 2019 53a-60a(b)
Sec. 5 October 1, 2019 53a-214
Sec. 6 October 1, 2019 Repealer section
Statement of Purpose:
To provide for more appropriate enforcement of statute concerning
unlawful employment of state officers or employees to influence
legislation, to make a technical correction, to clarify provisions
regarding the recording of telephone conversations at the behest of law
enforcement, to provide an enhanced penalty in the case of second
degree assault with a firearm, to extend protections against lockout to
additional tenants and lessees, to repeal obsolete provisions
concerning the state's attorney's role in the removal of town clerks and
town treasurers and to repeal obsolete provisions regarding the role of
the state's attorney with regard to highway construction and neglect of
a highway.
[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.]