Connecticut House Bill 6699 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1-1)
Status: Passed on June 6 2013 - 100% progression
Action: 2013-06-24 - Signed by the Governor
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [HTML]

To: (1) Revise the pretrial drug education program by redesignating the program as a pretrial drug education and community service program and revising eligibility and participation requirements for the program, (2) limit eligibility for the community service labor program to enumerated offenses after conviction, (3) revise the eligibility criteria for accelerated rehabilitation, (4) expand mediation programs in criminal prosecutions to all geographical area court locations, (5) permit a court or prosecutor to consider the fact that a defendant has made a monetary contribution to a private nonprofit charity or other nonprofit organization, in a manner currently permitted for the consideration of community service work, and (6) require criminal defense attorneys to wait thirty days after an arrest of a defendant in a criminal matter before sending a written communication to solicit the defendant as a prospective client.

An Act Concerning Pretrial Diversionary Programs.

House Judiciary Committee	Sen. Martin Looney [D]	Sen. Carlo Leone [D]	Sen. Stephen Cassano [D]
Sen. Toni Harp [D]	Rep. Michael Molgano [R]

2013-05-31 - Senate - Senate Roll Call Vote 462 PASS (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 2 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2013-05-24 - House - House Roll Call Vote 277 AS AMENDED (Y: 127 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 18) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2013-06-24	House	Signed by the Governor
2013-06-11	House	Transmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
2013-06-10	House	Transmitted to the Secretary of State
2013-06-06	House	Public Act 13-159
2013-05-31	House	On Consent Calendar / In Concurrence
2013-05-31	House	Senate Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
2013-05-31	House	Senate Adopted House Amendment Schedule A
2013-05-27	House	File Number 868
2013-05-27	House	Senate Calendar Number 653
2013-05-27	House	Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
2013-05-24	House	House Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
2013-05-24	House	House Adopted House Amendment Schedule A 7541
2013-05-16	House	Tabled for the Calendar, House
2013-05-16	House	No New File by Committee on Appropriations
2013-05-16	House	Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2013-05-16	House	Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2013-05-16	House	Joint Favorable
2013-05-14	House	Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations
2013-05-06	House	File Number 742
2013-05-06	House	House Calendar Number 521
2013-05-06	House	Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
2013-05-06	House	Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2013-04-29	House	Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 05/06/13 10:00 AM
2013-04-19	House	Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2013-04-19	House	Joint Favorable Substitute
2013-04-11	House	Public Hearing 04/15
2013-04-10	House	Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=HB06699&which_year=2013
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/TOB/H/2013HB-06699-R00-HB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/TOB/H/2013HB-06699-R01-HB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/TOB/H/2013HB-06699-R02-HB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/ACT/PA/2013PA-00159-R00HB-06699-PA.htm
Roll Call	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/VOTE/H/2013HV-00277-R00HB06699-HV.htm
Roll Call	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2013/VOTE/S/2013SV-00462-R00HB06699-SV.htm