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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 954
January Session, 2021
AN ACT REQUIRING THE REPORTING OF INCIDENTS THAT
RESULTED IN SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURIES OR DEATH AT
INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsections (a) and (b) of section 10a-55a of the general 1
statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof 2
(Effective July 1, 2021): 3
(a) [On or before October 1, 1991, and annually thereafter, each] Each 4
institution of higher education shall annually prepare [in such manner 5
as the president of the Connecticut State Colleges and Universities shall 6
prescribe] a uniform campus crime report concerning crimes committed 7
in the immediately preceding calendar year within the geographical 8
limits of the property owned or under the control of such institution. 9
Such report shall be in accordance with the uniform crime reporting 10
system pursuant to section 29-1c, provided such report is limited to 11
those offenses included in part I of the most recently published edition 12
of the Uniform Crime Reports for the United States as authorized by the 13
Federal Bureau of Investigation and the United States Department of 14
Justice, sexual assault under section 53a-70b of the general statutes, 15
revision of 1958, revised to January 1, 2019, or sections 53a-70, 53a-70a, 16
53a-71, 53a-72a, 53a-72b and 53a-73a, stalking under sections 53a-181c, 17 Substitute Bill No. 954
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53a-181d and 53a-181e and family violence as designated under section 18
46b-38h. The state police, local police departments and special police 19
forces established pursuant to section 10a-156b shall cooperate with 20
institutions of higher education in preparing such reports. Institutions 21
with more than one campus shall prepare such reports for each campus. 22
(b) Each annual report prepared pursuant to subsection (a) of this 23
section shall include (1) the number of full-time equivalent students, (2) 24
the number of full-time equivalent employees, (3) the number of 25
students and employees residing in campus housing, [and] (4) the 26
number of incidents that occurred during the immediately preceding 27
calendar year within the geographical limits of the property owned or 28
under the control of an institution of higher education that resulted 29
serious physical injury or death, and (5) for each category of offense, the 30
number of incidents reported and the crime rate. The crime rate shall be 31
equal to the number of incidents reported divided by the total number 32
of full-time equivalent students and employees. As used in this 33
subsection, "serious physical injury" has the same meaning as provided 34
in section 53a-3.35
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2021 10a-55a(a) and (b)
HED Joint Favorable Subst.