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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 6669
January Session, 2021
AN ACT CONCERNING JU VENILES AND MOTOR VE HICLE THEFT,
INVESTIGATIONS OF CERTAIN PENDING JUVENILE MATTERS AND
REPORTING OF REQUEST S TO DETAIN ARRESTED JUVE NILES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2021) (a) For purposes of this 1
section, "criminal act" means criminal act, as defined in section 53a-224 2
of the general statutes. 3
(b) A person is guilty of enticing a juvenile to commit a criminal act 4
if such person is eighteen years of age or older and knowingly causes, 5
encourages, solicits, recruits, intimidates or coerces a person under 6
eighteen years of age to commit or participate in the commission of a 7
criminal act. 8
(c) Enticing a juvenile to commit a criminal act is a class D felony. 9
Sec. 2. Subsection (k) of section 46b-133 of the general statutes is 10
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 11
1, 2021): 12
(k) For purposes of subsections (c) and (e) of this section, a child may 13
be determined to pose a risk to public safety if such child (1) has 14
previously been adjudicated as delinquent for or convicted of or pled 15 Substitute Bill No. 6669
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guilty or nolo contendere to two or more felony offenses, (2) has had 16
two or more prior dispositions of probation and is charged with 17
commission of a larceny under subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of 18
section 53a-122 or subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 53a-123 or 19
subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of section 53a-124, or (3) is charged with 20
stealing a firearm under section 53a-212, the commission of a violent 21
offense, including any offense committed with or involving the use of a 22
deadly weapon, as defined in section 53a-3, or a violation of section 53a-23
136a. 24
Sec. 3. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2021) The court shall order any 25
child, as defined in section 46b-120 of the general statutes, who is 26
released into the custody of his or her parent or guardian after being 27
charged with a delinquency offense involving a motor vehicle, as 28
defined in section 46b-133j of the general statutes, for which such child 29
is not yet adjudicated as delinquent, who, during the pendency of a 30
delinquency proceeding, is charged with a subsequent delinquency 31
offense involving a motor vehicle, to be electronically monitored by 32
using a global positioning system device until each such delinquency 33
proceeding is disposed of. 34
Sec. 4. Section 46b-6 of the general statutes is repealed and the 35
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2021): 36
In any pending family relations matter or juvenile matter under 37
chapter 815t in which the juvenile has previously been adjudicated as 38
delinquent for or convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendere to a 39
felony offense and is charged with (1) commission of a larceny under 40
subdivision (3) of subsection (a) of section 53a-122, subdivision (1) of 41
subsection (a) of section 53a-123 or subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of 42
section 53a-124, (2) stealing a firearm under section 53a-212, or (3) the 43
commission of a violent offense, including any offense committed with 44
or involving the use of a deadly weapon, as defined in section 53a-3, or 45
a violation of section 53a-136a, the court or any judge may cause an 46
investigation to be made with respect to any circumstance of the matter 47
which may be helpful or material or relevant to a proper disposition of 48 Substitute Bill No. 6669
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the case. Such investigation may include an examination of the 49
parentage and surroundings of any child, his age, habits and history, 50
inquiry into the home conditions, habits and character of his parents or 51
guardians and evaluation of his mental or physical condition. In any 52
action for dissolution of marriage, legal separation or annulment of 53
marriage such investigation may include an examination into the age, 54
habits and history of the parties, the causes of marital discord and the 55
financial ability of the parties to furnish support to either spouse or any 56
dependent child. 57
Sec. 5. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Judicial Branch shall 58
compile data concerning requests by an arresting police officer of a child 59
to detain such child pursuant to subdivision (3) of subsection (c) of 60
section 46b-133 of the general statutes. The Judicial Branch shall sort 61
such data by judicial district and categorize such data based on (1) how 62
many such requests were made, (2) how many such requests were 63
denied, and (3) the reasons for denying any such request. Any such data 64
shall be anonymized. 65
(b) Not later than January 15, 2022, and January fifteenth annually 66
thereafter, the Judicial Branch shall, in accordance with the provisions 67
of section 11-4a of the general statutes, report such sorted and 68
categorized data from the previous calendar year to the joint standing 69
committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 70
relating to the judiciary. 71
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021 New section
Sec. 2 October 1, 2021 46b-133(k)
Sec. 3 October 1, 2021 New section
Sec. 4 October 1, 2021 46b-6
Sec. 5 from passage New section
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Statement of Legislative Commissioners:
In Section 3, occurrences of "such case" were changed to "delinquency
proceeding" for clarity.
JUD Joint Favorable Subst.