Researcher: ND Page 1 3/29/21
OLR Bill Analysis
sSB 899
AN ACT CONCERNING SENIOR SAFETY ZONES.
SUMMARY
This bill expands the scope of the state’s Community Response
Education Program to include resources for:
1. police departments and municipal officials to provide programs
on senior citizen sexual assault and abuse safety, prevention,
and risk reduction and
2. educating seniors, in addition to families and children as under
current law, on preventing and avoiding sexual abuse and
assault.
By law, the Court Support Services Division administers the
program, within available appropriations, to help neighborhoods,
parents, and children learn how to better protect themselves from
sexual assault and sexual abuse. The bill specifies that neighborhoods
include senior centers and other facilities within neighborhoods that
house or serve seniors.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2021
COMMITTEE ACTION
Aging Committee
Joint Favorable Substitute
Yea 16 Nay 0 (03/11/2021)