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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 2896 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6760 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2025 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 2896 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | REP. BARRY, 31st Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT STRENGTHENING LAWS CONCERNING EVASION OF |
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| 19 | 19 | | POLICE. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 21 | 21 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 23 | 23 | | That (1) section 14-222 of the general statutes concerning negligent 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | homicide with a motor vehicle be amended to raise the penalty for 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | violating said section to a class C or D felony with a mandatory sentence 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | of three to five years, (2) subsection (a) of section 14-223 of the general 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | statutes concerning disobeying the signal of an officer be amended to 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | raise the penalty for violating said subsection to a class A misdemeanor 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | or class E felony, (3) subsection (b) of section 14-223 of the general 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | statutes concerning engaging a police officer in pursuit be amended to 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | raise the penalty to a class E or D felony for a violation not resulting in 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | serious injury or death, (4) section 14-224 of the general statutes 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | concerning evasion of responsibility be amended to provide for a 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | mandatory sentence of two years for causing serious injury to another 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | person and a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for causing the 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | death of another person, and (5) section 53a-57 of the general statutes 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | concerning misconduct with a motor vehicle resulting in death be 15 Proposed Bill No. 6760 |
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| 40 | 40 | | LCO No. 2896 2 of 2 |
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| 42 | 42 | | amended to raise the penalty to a class C or B felony with a mandatory 16 |
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| 43 | 43 | | sentence of five to ten years with the maximum sentence applied for a 17 |
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| 44 | 44 | | violation resulting in the death of a police officer. 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 46 | 46 | | To strengthen laws concerning evasion of police. |
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