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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6177
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 3456
Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
REP. WEIR, 55th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING THE USE OF GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY AS
A DEFENSE IN CIVIL ACTIONS RESULTING FROM DEPRIVATION OF
EQUAL PROTECTION OF THE LAWS OF THE STATE COMMITTED BY
A STATE ELECTED OFFICIAL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That chapter 925 of the general statutes be amended to provide that: 1
(1) No state elected official, acting alone or in conspiracy with another, 2
shall deprive any person or class of persons of the equal protection of 3
the laws of this state, or of the equal privileges and immunities under 4
the laws of this state, including, without limitation, the protections, 5
privileges and immunities guaranteed under article first of the 6
Constitution of the state; and (2) in any civil action brought against any 7
member of the General Assembly, the Governor, the Lieutenant 8
Governor, the Attorney General, the Comptroller, the Treasurer or the 9
Secretary of the State as individuals, governmental immunity shall only 10
be a defense to a claim for damages when, at the time of the conduct 11
complained of, the state official had an objectively good faith belief that 12
such official's conduct did not violate the law. 13 Proposed Bill No. 6177
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Statement of Purpose:
To ensure state elected officials are held to the same standard as police
officers in protecting the Constitutional rights of state residents.