CT SB00460 | 2016 | General Assembly

Status

Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: Introduced on March 16 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-05-03 - Senate Recommitted to Judiciary
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Summary

To amend the procedure for compensating wrongfully incarcerated persons to require the Claims Commissioner to employ a formula to determine awards, and that such awards be decreased when the claim is based on a vacated or reversed conviction where the complaint or information was dismissed on a ground citing negligence or misconduct by any officer, agent, employee or official of the state or any political subdivision of the state that contributed to such person's arrest, prosecution, conviction or incarceration, and such person could not prove actual innocence to the Claims Commissioner.

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Title

An Act Concerning Compensation For Wrongful Incarceration.

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History

DateChamberAction
2016-05-03SenateSenate Recommitted to Judiciary
2016-05-02SenateMoved to Foot of the Calendar, Senate
2016-04-14SenateFile Number 637
2016-04-14SenateSenate Calendar Number 410
2016-04-14SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
2016-04-14SenateReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2016-04-08SenateReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/13/16 5:00 PM
2016-03-30SenateFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2016-03-30SenateJoint Favorable Substitute
2016-03-17SenatePublic Hearing 03/21
2016-03-16SenateReferred to Joint Committee on Judiciary

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