l9n/ Connecticut

2023 Regular Session

House Bill 6878

AN ACT CONCERNING APPEALS REGARDING GOVERNMENTAL IMMUNITY OF POLICE OFFICERS, USE OF FORCE BY A PEACE OFFICER, SEARCHES OF MOTOR VEHICLES, PURSUIT OF A SUSPECT POLICIES AND VERIFICATION OF RESIDENCE ADDRESSES OF PERSONS ON THE SEX OFFENSE REGISTRY.

Did not become law. It stopped in the House of Representatives's Judiciary Committee on March 9, 2023. The 2023 session has ended.

What it does

The synopsis the General Assembly published with the bill.

To (1) allow a police officer to make an interlocutory appeal of a trial court's denial of an application of the defense of governmental immunity, (2) employ a reasonable officer standard for determinations of whether use of force is justified, (3) restore a police officer's ability to request consent to search a motor vehicle under certain circumstances, (4) cause a revision of the model police pursuit policy to include provisions concerning pursuit of a person suspected of larceny of a motor vehicle or a catalytic converter or trafficking in persons, and (5) ensure that a person registered on the sex offense registry has registered his or her actual residence address.

Sponsors

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

In the House of Representatives

6 co-sponsors

Greg S. Howard, Jill Barry, Craig C. Fishbein, William Pizzuto, Ben McGorty, Nicole Klarides-Ditria

Its course

March 8 to March 9, 2023, 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 House of RepresentativesMar 8 to Mar 9 · stopped1 day

Judiciary CommitteeMar 8 to Mar 9 · stopped1 day

Text

Each version as the General Assembly printed it.

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What happened

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

In the House of Representatives Mar 8 – Mar 9

  1. Mar 8Introduced and sent to Judiciary Committee
  2. Mar 9Heard in Judiciary Committee
All 2 actions, as published
  1. Mar 8REF. TO JOINT COMM. ONBoth houses
  2. Mar 9PUBLIC HEARINGBoth houses