Bill Text: CT HB05330 | 2012 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 5330 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Concerning Sexual Offender Registration Requirements For Certain Persons Granted Temporary Leave By The Psychiatric Security Review Board And The Establishment Of An Acquitee Information Internet Web Site.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-2-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-05-02 - Senate Calendar Number 460 [HB05330 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05330-Comm_Sub.html

General Assembly		*Substitute Bill No. 5330*
*February Session, 2012*		_____HB05330JUD___040212____

AN ACT CONCERNING SEXUAL OFFENDER REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS FOR CERTAIN PERSONS GRANTED TEMPORARY LEAVE BY THE PSYCHIATRIC SECURITY REVIEW BOARD AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ACQUITEE INFORMATION INTERNET WEB SITE.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subdivision (10) of section 54-250 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2012):

(10) "Release into the community" means, with respect to a conviction or a finding of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor, a nonviolent sexual offense, a sexually violent offense or a felony found by the sentencing court to have been committed for a sexual purpose, (A) any release by a court after such conviction or finding of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, a sentence of probation or any other sentence under section 53a-28 that does not result in the offender's immediate placement in the custody of the Commissioner of Correction; (B) release from a correctional facility at the discretion of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, by the Department of Correction to a program authorized by section 18-100c or upon completion of the maximum term or terms of the offender's sentence or sentences, or to the supervision of the Court Support Services Division in accordance with the terms of the offender's sentence; or (C) temporary leave to an approved residence by the Psychiatric Security Review Board pursuant to section 17a-587, conditional release from a hospital for mental illness or a facility for persons with intellectual disability by the Psychiatric Security Review Board [on conditional release] pursuant to section 17a-588, or release upon termination of commitment to the Psychiatric Security Review Board.

Sec. 2. Section 17a-580 of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2012):

As used in sections 17a-581 to 17a-602, inclusive, section 3 of this act and this section:

(1) "Acquittee" means any person found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to section 53a-13;

(2) "Board" means the Psychiatric Security Review Board established pursuant to section 17a-581;

(3) "Conditional release" means release subject to the jurisdiction of the board for supervision and treatment on an outpatient basis and includes, but is not limited to, the monitoring of mental and physical health treatment;

(4) "Court" means the Superior Court;

(5) "Danger to himself or others" includes danger to the property of others;

(6) "Hospital for mental illness" means any public or private hospital, retreat, institution, house or place in which a person with psychiatric disabilities or drug-dependent person is received or detained as a patient, but does not include any correctional institution of the state;

(7) "Mental illness" includes any mental illness in a state of remission when the illness may, with reasonable medical probability, become active;

(8) "Intellectual disability" has the same meaning as provided in section 1-1g;

(9) "Person who should be conditionally released" means an acquittee who has psychiatric disabilities or has intellectual disability to the extent that his final discharge would constitute a danger to himself or others but who can be adequately controlled with available supervision and treatment on conditional release;

(10) "Person who should be confined" means an acquittee who has psychiatric disabilities or has intellectual disability to the extent that such acquittee's discharge or conditional release would constitute a danger to the acquittee or others and who cannot be adequately controlled with available supervision and treatment on conditional release;

(11) "Person who should be discharged" means an acquittee who does not have psychiatric disabilities or does not have intellectual disability to the extent that such acquittee's discharge would constitute a danger to the acquittee or others;

(12) "Psychiatrist" means a physician specializing in psychiatry and licensed under the provisions of sections 20-9 to 20-12, inclusive;

(13) "Psychologist" means a clinical psychologist licensed under the provisions of sections 20-186 to 20-195, inclusive;

(14) "State's attorney" means the state's attorney for the judicial district wherein the acquittee was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect pursuant to section 53a-13;

(15) "Superintendent" means any person, body of persons or corporation, or the designee of any such person, body of persons or corporation, which has the immediate supervision, management and control of a hospital for mental illness and the patients therein.

Sec. 3. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2012) The board shall develop an acquittee information content page for the purpose of providing information to the public on the board's Internet web site concerning the status and placement of each acquittee under the jurisdiction of the board. The board shall update such page to reflect any order of the board that results in a change in the status or placement of an acquittee.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2012	54-250(10)
Sec. 2	October 1, 2012	17a-580
Sec. 3	October 1, 2012	New section