Bill Text: CT HB05510 | 2012 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Providing Notice Of Pending Family Relations Matters To Judges In Family Violence Cases.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-04-18 - File Number 512 [HB05510 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05510-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5510
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 2340
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Referred to Committee on Judiciary
Introduced by:
(JUD)

AN ACT PROVIDING NOTICE OF PENDING FAMILY RELATIONS MATTERS TO JUDGES IN FAMILY VIOLENCE CASES.

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

Section 1. Subsection (d) of section 46b-38c of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2012):

(d) In all cases of family violence, a written or oral report and recommendation of the local family violence intervention unit, and a written or oral report of the clerk of the Superior Court indicating whether the parties in the family violence case are parties to a case pending on the family relations docket of the Superior Court, shall be available to a judge at the first court date appearance to be presented at any time during the court session on that date. A judge of the Superior Court may consider and impose the following conditions to protect the parties, including, but not limited to: (1) Issuance of a protective order pursuant to subsection (e) of this section; (2) prohibition against subjecting the victim to further violence; (3) referral to a family violence education program for batterers; and (4) immediate referral for more extensive case assessment. Such protective order shall be an order of the court, and the clerk of the court shall cause (A) a copy of such order to be sent to the victim, and (B) a copy of such order, or the information contained in such order, to be sent by facsimile or other means within forty-eight hours of its issuance to the law enforcement agency for the town in which the victim resides and, if the defendant resides in a town different from the town in which the victim resides, to the law enforcement agency for the town in which the defendant resides. If the victim is employed in a town different from the town in which the victim resides, the clerk of the court shall, upon the request of the victim, send, by facsimile or other means, a copy of such order, or the information contained in such order, to the law enforcement agency for the town in which the victim is employed within forty-eight hours of the issuance of such order.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2012	46b-38c(d)

JUD

Joint Favorable