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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 1606 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 759 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2025 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 1606 |
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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 | | SEN. HARDING, 30th Dist. |
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| 15 | 15 | | SEN. MARTIN, 31st Dist. |
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| 16 | 16 | | SEN. SAMPSON, 16th Dist. |
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| 17 | 17 | | SEN. CICARELLA, 34th Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | SEN. SOMERS, 18th Dist. |
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| 19 | 19 | | SEN. HWANG, 28th Dist. |
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| 20 | 20 | | SEN. BERTHEL, 32nd Dist. |
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| 21 | 21 | | SEN. FAZIO, 36th Dist. |
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| 22 | 22 | | SEN. GORDON, 35th Dist. |
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| 23 | 23 | | SEN. KISSEL, 7th Dist. |
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| 27 | 27 | | AN ACT CONCERNING PUBLIC SAFETY, THE PROSECUTION OF |
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| 28 | 28 | | CRIMINALS AND THE PROTECTION OF VICTIMS. |
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| 29 | 29 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 30 | 30 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 32 | 32 | | That the general statutes be amended to (1) require the POST Council 1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | to revise its Model Policy on Police Motor Vehicle Pursuits to return 2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | discretion to law enforcement to pursue a motor vehicle when they can 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | articulate a public safety need, (2) reinstate motor vehicle consent 4 |
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| 36 | 36 | | searches, (3) change the best interest standard for transfer of juveniles, 5 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (4) provide for the transfer of serious repeat juvenile offenders to the 6 |
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| 38 | 38 | | adult criminal docket of the Superior Court, (5) establish a gun 7 |
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| 39 | 39 | | trafficking task force, (6) establish mandatory around-the-clock GPS 8 |
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| 40 | 40 | | monitoring as a condition for any bail set at five hundred thousand 9 |
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| 41 | 41 | | dollars or more, (7) require mandatory fingerprinting for juvenile 10 |
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| 42 | 42 | | offenders charged with specific violent, sexual or firearm-related 11 |
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| 43 | 43 | | offenses, with the prints to be stored in a state-level system and 12 Proposed Bill No. 759 |
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| 46 | 46 | | LCO No. 1606 2 of 2 |
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| 48 | 48 | | automatically erased upon the offender turning eighteen years of age, 13 |
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| 49 | 49 | | (8) repeal subsection (c) of section 53a-213b of the general statutes, 14 |
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| 50 | 50 | | which prohibits a law enforcement officer from stopping a vehicle if the 15 |
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| 51 | 51 | | driver is smoking, inhaling or ingesting cannabis, (9) add additional 16 |
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| 52 | 52 | | offenses to the list of crimes that require eighty-five per cent of time be 17 |
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| 53 | 53 | | served before becoming eligible for parole, (10) create truancy clinics 18 |
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| 54 | 54 | | within each probate court region, (11) repeal use-of-force restrictions 19 |
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| 55 | 55 | | from the 2020 police accountability bill, (12) reinstate qualified 20 |
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| 56 | 56 | | immunity for law enforcement officers, (13) revise the TRUST Act to 21 |
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| 57 | 57 | | allow law enforcement to confer with ICE, and (14) restore 22 |
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| 58 | 58 | | misdemeanors to a sentence maximum of three hundred sixty-five days. 23 |
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| 59 | 59 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 60 | 60 | | To adopt measures concerning public safety, the prosecution of |
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| 61 | 61 | | criminals and the protection of victims. |
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