l9n/ Connecticut

2021 Regular Session

Senate Bill 1018

AN ACT CONCERNING PROSECUTORIAL ACCOUNTABILITY.

Did not become law. It stopped in the Senate's Judiciary Committee on March 5, 2021. The 2021 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) increase prosecutorial accountability by (A) providing that the Criminal Justice Commission be an autonomous body, (B) requiring biennial performance evaluations of state's attorneys, (C) requiring adoption and implementation of uniform policies, (D) amending training requirements for prosecutors, (E) outlining data upon which state's attorney performance ratings are based, (F) making policies and reports available online, and (G) adding use of force investigations as a category for which case level data is collected, and (2) repeal the requirement that in the investigation and prosecution of crime, priority be given to crimes involving physical violence or the possession of a firearm.

Sponsors

Who carried the bill in each chamber, and who signed on. Each name leads to the member's page.

In the Senate

In the House of Representatives

    2 co-sponsors

    David Michel, Anne M. Hughes

    Its course

    March 4 to March 5, 2021, on one scale. In the top row each mark is a day something happened; taller marks are busier days.

    Each committee stop sits inside its chamber.

    Every action2 actions on 2 days

    In the SenateMar 4 to Mar 5 · stopped1 day

    Judiciary CommitteeMar 4 to Mar 5 · stopped1 day

    Text

    Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

    l9n doesn't hold this bill's text yet.

    What happened

    In l9n's words, one line for each step. Every action as the General Assembly published it is below.

    In the Senate Mar 4 – Mar 5

    1. Introduced and sent to Judiciary Committee
    2. Heard in Judiciary Committee
    All 2 actions, as published