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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 2053 1 of 3 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 775 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2021 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 2053 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. KELLY, 21 |
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| 15 | 15 | | st Dist. |
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| 16 | 16 | | SEN. FORMICA, 20 |
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| 17 | 17 | | th Dist. |
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| 23 | 23 | | AN ACT REVISING PUBLIC ACT 20 -1 OF THE JULY SPECIAL |
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| 24 | 24 | | SESSION, ALSO KNOWN AS THE POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY ACT. |
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| 25 | 25 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 26 | 26 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 28 | 28 | | That the general statutes be amended to: 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | (1) Change the effective date of section 53a-22 of the general statutes, 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | as amended by section 29 of public act 20-1 of the July special session 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | from April 1, 2021, to October 1, 2022; 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (2) Restore the language "threatened infliction of serious injury" to 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | subparagraph (B) of subdivision (1) of subsection (c) of section 53a-22 of 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | the general statutes; 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (3) Amend subparagraph (B) of subdivision (1) of subsection (c) of 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | section 53a-22 of the general statutes to read "reasonably believes that 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | the force employed creates no undo risk of injury to a third party"; 10 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (4) Amend subparagraph (B)(iii)(II) of subdivision (1) of subsection 11 Proposed Bill No. 775 |
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| 41 | 41 | | LCO No. 2053 2 of 3 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (c) of section 53a-22 of the general statutes to include "or dangerous 12 |
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| 44 | 44 | | instrument" after "possesses a deadly weapon"; 13 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (5) Revise the penalty for failure to intervene or report in section 7-14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | 282e of the general statutes so that the penalty for such failure does not 15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | exceed that which may be imposed for the commission of the unlawful 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | act causing the need for such intervention or reporting; 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (6) Amend sections 7-282e and 18-81nn of the general statutes to 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | remove all instances of "unreasonable, excessive or illegal use of force" 19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | and replace the same with "criminal use of force"; 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (7) Repeal the limits imposed in sections 54-33b and 54-33o of the 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | general statutes on circumstances under which law enforcement 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | officials may conduct consent searches on an individual or motor 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | vehicles stopped solely for motor vehicle violations; 24 |
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| 56 | 56 | | (8) Change the reasonable standard articulated in section 53a-22 of 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | the general statutes to the reasonableness standard articulated in 26 |
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| 58 | 58 | | Graham v. O'Connor; 27 |
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| 59 | 59 | | (9) Repeal the changes to qualified immunity established in public act 28 |
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| 60 | 60 | | 20-1 of the July special session; 29 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (10) Remove the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement 30 |
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| 62 | 62 | | Agencies, Inc. certification requirement articulated in section 7-294ee of 31 |
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| 63 | 63 | | the general statutes; 32 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (11) Amend subsection (a) of section 7-291d of the general statutes to 33 |
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| 65 | 65 | | provide that no law enforcement unit shall discharge, discipline, 34 |
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| 66 | 66 | | discriminate against or otherwise penalize a police officer solely because 35 |
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| 67 | 67 | | of the results of a mental health assessment conducted in accordance 36 |
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| 68 | 68 | | with the provisions of section 7-291e of the general statutes or because 37 |
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| 69 | 69 | | the police officer seeks or receives mental health care services or 38 |
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| 70 | 70 | | surrenders his or her firearm, ammunition or electronic defense 39 |
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| 71 | 71 | | weapon; 40 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (12) Remove the language "undermines public confidence" in 41 Proposed Bill No. 775 |
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| 75 | 75 | | LCO No. 2053 3 of 3 |
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| 77 | 77 | | subdivision (24) of subsection (a) of section 7-294d of the general 42 |
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| 78 | 78 | | statutes; 43 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (13) Remove deescalation requirements from section 53a-22 of the 44 |
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| 80 | 80 | | general statutes; and 45 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (14) Change the effective date of section 7-294hh of the general 46 |
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| 82 | 82 | | statutes from effective from passage to effective January 1, 2022, and 47 |
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| 83 | 83 | | revise said section 7-294hh to hold law enforcement officers harmless if 48 |
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| 84 | 84 | | they acted in good faith while engaging with or managing a crowd. 49 |
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| 85 | 85 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 86 | 86 | | To make revisions to public act 20-1 of the July special session, known |
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| 87 | 87 | | as the Police Accountability Act. |
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