Connecticut Senate Bill 1224 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: Engrossed on June 2 2011 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2011-06-03 - House Calendar Number 610
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

To make changes necessitated by the expansion of the judicial performance evaluation program to judge trial referees; to authorize court orders and notices to be signed and disseminated by electronic means; to enact statutory authorization for an existing practice whereby prosecutors and defendants reach agreements as to the amount to be paid for infractions and violations that have been transferred to Superior Court and such payments are processed without a plea or appearance before a judicial authority; to delete language that limits the circumstances under which a retired Supreme Court justice who has not yet reached seventy years of age may sit on a Supreme Court panel; to add holders of state identification cards issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles to the jury pool; to make the use of alternate jurors in civil cases consistent with that in criminal cases; to clarify that violations that carry a penalty of more than one year of incarceration are deemed felonies for the purposes of particular statutes; to allow cases that have been continued for more than thirteen months at the request of the prosecutors to be nolled; to repeal obsolete references to supreme court messengers; to provide a mechanism for victim compensation in cases alleging sexual assault or child abuse when a police report has not been issued; to eliminate language imposing a deductible on victim compensation awards; to clarify that the Office of Victim Services is authorized to be reimbursed for two-thirds of the amount paid out regardless of the source of the money received by the victim; and to make other technical changes to the victim services sections.

An Act Concerning Court Operations And Victim Services.

House Judiciary Committee

2011-06-02 - Senate - Senate Roll Call Vote 355 (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-06-03		House Calendar Number 610
2011-06-03		Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
2011-06-02		On Consent Calendar
2011-06-02		Senate Passed
2011-05-04		Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
2011-05-04		No New File by Committee on Transportation
2011-05-03		Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2011-05-03		Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2011-05-03		Joint Favorable
2011-04-27		Referred by Senate to Committee on Transportation
2011-04-21		File Number 615
2011-04-21		Senate Calendar Number 382
2011-04-21		Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
2011-04-21		Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2011-04-15		Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/20/11 5:00 PM
2011-04-06		Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2011-04-05		Joint Favorable
2011-03-28		Public Hearing 04/01
2011-03-25		Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=SB01224&which_year=2011
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/TOB/S/2011SB-01224-R00-SB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/TOB/S/2011SB-01224-R01-SB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/TOB/S/2011SB-01224-R02-SB.htm
Roll Call	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2011/VOTE/S/2011SV-00355-R00SB01224-SV.htm