OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS Legislative Office Building, Room 5200 Hartford, CT 06106 (860) 240-0200 http://www.cga.ct.gov/ofa sSB-120 AN ACT ALLOWING POLICE OFFICERS TO WEAR RELIGIOUS HEAD COVERINGS AS PART OF A POLICE UNIFORM. AMENDMENT LCO No.: 8435 File Copy No.: 275 Senate Calendar No.: 197 Primary Analyst: ME 5/12/21 Contributing Analyst(s): (NF) OFA Fiscal Note No Fiscal Impact The amendment strikes the underlying bill and its associated fiscal impact resulting in the following impact. This amendment requires law enforcement units to permit officers to wear religious head coverings and requires the Police Officer Standards and Training Council to develop a social media policy resulting in no fiscal impact to the state. The preceding Fiscal Impact statement is prepared for the benefit of the members of the General Assembly, solely for the purposes of information, summarization and explanation and does not represent the intent of the General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose. In general, fiscal impacts are based upon a variety of informational sources, including the analyst’s professional knowledge. Whenever applicable, agency data is consulted as part of the analysis, however final products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any specific department.