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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 435
February Session, 2022
LCO No. 3216
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE PERMISSIBLE RECORDING OF A
PRIVATE TELEPHONE CONVERSATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 52-570d of the 2022 supplement to 1
the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu 2
thereof (Effective from passage): 3
(a) No person shall use any instrument, device or equipment to 4
record an oral private telephonic communication unless the use of such 5
instrument, device or equipment (1) is preceded by consent of [all 6
parties] at least one party to the communication and such prior consent 7
either is obtained in writing or is part of, and obtained at the start of, the 8
recording, or (2) is preceded by verbal notification which is recorded at 9
the beginning and is part of the communication by the recording party, 10
or (3) is accompanied by an automatic tone warning device which 11
automatically produces a distinct signal that is repeated at intervals of 12
approximately fifteen seconds during the communication while such 13
instrument, device or equipment is in use. 14
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 52-570d(a)
Statement of Purpose:
To permit a person to record a private telephone conversation when at
least one person, who is part of the conversation, consents to the
recording of the start of the conversation.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]