Bill Text: CT HB05476 | 2016 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

Connecticut House Bill 5476 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: An Act Expanding The Use Of Drug Dockets.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-12 - Referred by House to Committee on Appropriations [HB05476 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-HB05476-Comm_Sub.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5476*
*February Session, 2016*		LCO No. 2166
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Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)

AN ACT EXPANDING THE USE OF DRUG DOCKETS.

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

Section 1. Section 51-181b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2016):

[(a)] The Chief Court Administrator [may] shall establish in [any] each court location or juvenile matters court location a docket separate from other criminal or juvenile matters for the hearing of criminal or juvenile matters in which a defendant is a drug-dependent person, as defined in section 21a-240. The docket shall be available to offenders who could benefit from placement in a substance abuse treatment program.

[(b) The Chief Court Administrator shall establish, within the appropriations designated in public act 03-1 of the June 30 special session for said purpose, one or more drug courts for the hearing of criminal or juvenile matters in which a defendant is a drug-dependent person, as defined in section 21a-240, who could benefit from placement in a substance abuse treatment program.]