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