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