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PA 21-184—sSB 954
Higher Education and Employment Advancement Committee
AN ACT REQUIRING THE REPORTING OF ACCIDEN TS THAT
RESULTED IN SERIOUS PHYSICAL INJURIES OR DEATH AT
INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
SUMMARY: This act adds a new reporting requirement to the annual uniform
campus crime report that all Connecticut colleges and universities must prepare
for each of their campuses. By law, the report must contain crimes committed in
the immediately preceding calendar year on the property that the institution owns
or controls, limited to the following offenses: (1) those published in the most
recent edition of the FBI and Department of Justice’s Uniform Crime Reports for
the United States, part I, and (2) sexual assault, stalking, and family violence, as
defined in state law.
The act renames the report the “uniform campus crime and safety incident
report” and requires the institutions’ reports to also include the number of
accidents from the immediately preceding calendar year that occurred on their
property and that resulted in serious physical injury or death. This property
includes campuses or dormitories in another country that an institution owned or
controlled for purposes of an international studies or exchange program (i.e.,
study abroad).
Under the act, “serious physical injury” means physical injury that creates
substantial risk of death or causes serious disfigurement, serious health
impairment, or serious loss or impairment of a bodily organ’s function.
Additionally, the act removes the requirement that the Connecticut State
Colleges and Universities’ president determine how institutions must prepare their
uniform campus crime reports. It also makes other technical and conforming
changes.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 2021