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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 650 1 of 2 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 220 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2021 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 650 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. OSTEN, 19th Dist. | |
| 15 | 15 | REP. CONLEY, 40th Dist. | |
| 16 | 16 | REP. RILEY, 46th Dist. | |
| 17 | 17 | REP. NOLAN, 39th Dist. | |
| 18 | 18 | REP. SMITH, 48th Dist. | |
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| 23 | 23 | AN ACT CONCERNING INCARCERATED PERSONS WITH MENTAL | |
| 24 | 24 | ILLNESS. | |
| 25 | 25 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 26 | 26 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 28 | 28 | That chapter 325 of the general statutes be amended to require the 1 | |
| 29 | 29 | Commissioner of Correction to: (1) Initiate a reporting mechanism that 2 | |
| 30 | 30 | correctly identifies the mental health status of any person who is 3 | |
| 31 | 31 | incarcerated; (2) assess the average amount of sentence time served by 4 | |
| 32 | 32 | a person with a mental health illness in comparison to the average 5 | |
| 33 | 33 | sentence time served by an incarcerated person who does not have 6 | |
| 34 | 34 | mental illness; and (3) in collaboration with the Commissioner of Mental 7 | |
| 35 | 35 | Health and Addiction Services, establish protocols to accurately assess 8 | |
| 36 | 36 | the mental health of incarcerated persons from date of incarceration 9 | |
| 37 | 37 | through date of release by (A) identifying any childhood trauma 10 | |
| 38 | 38 | associated with physical or sexual abuse, (B) ensuring that an 11 | |
| 39 | 39 | electroencephalogram is conducted to identify partial complex seizure 12 Proposed Bill No. 220 | |
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| 42 | 42 | LCO No. 650 2 of 2 | |
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| 44 | 44 | activity, also known as Focal Onset Impaired Awareness Seizures, and 13 | |
| 45 | 45 | (C) identifying the rate of recidivism of such persons and the services 14 | |
| 46 | 46 | available to such persons when released.15 | |
| 47 | 47 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 48 | 48 | To enhance mental health assessments and services for person who are | |
| 49 | 49 | incarcerated. |