Bill Text: CT HB05544 | 2018 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning The Recommendations Of The Connecticut Sentencing Commission With Respect To Misdemeanor Sentences.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-04-19 - File Number 593 [HB05544 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05544-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Substitute Bill No. 5544
February Session, 2018		*_____HB05544JUD___040418____*

AN ACT CONCERNING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE CONNECTICUT SENTENCING COMMISSION WITH RESPECT TO MISDEMEANOR SENTENCES.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2018) (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, any offense which constitutes a breach of any law of this state for which a person may be sentenced to a term of imprisonment of up to but not exceeding one year shall be punishable by imprisonment for a period not to exceed three hundred sixty-four days. A misdemeanor conviction for which a person was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of one year shall continue to be deemed a misdemeanor conviction after the maximum term of imprisonment is reduced pursuant to this section.

(b) The provisions of this section apply to any term of imprisonment for which a person was sentenced to before, on or after July 1, 2018.

(c) Any person sentenced to a term of imprisonment of one year, prior to July 1, 2018, for any offense previously punishable by a term of imprisonment of up to but not exceeding one year, may apply to the court that entered the judgment of conviction to have the term of sentence modified to the maximum term of imprisonment for a period not to exceed three hundred sixty-four days. Any such application may be filed at any time and the court shall issue such modification regardless of the date of conviction, provided the record of such sentence has not been destroyed.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2018	New section

JUD

Joint Favorable Subst.