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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 532
January Session, 2021
LCO No. 2191
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING JUVENILE JUSTICE POLICY AND CRIMES
COMMITTED BY JUVENILES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That the general statutes be amended to repeal changes made to the 1
general statutes by public acts 15-183, 16-147 and 17-2 of the June special 2
session, including those which limited the automatic and mandatory 3
transfer of serious criminal offenses from juvenile court to adult court; 4
those which eliminated the ability to detain serious offenders after 5
arrest; and those which raised the age of juvenile prosecution from 6
sixteen years of age to eighteen years of age. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To reinstate certain juvenile justice policies in place prior to 2015 in
order to provide law enforcement additional tools to combat juvenile
crime.