Bill Text: CT HB05379 | 2012 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Funding For Police Training.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-03-16 - Change of Reference, House to Committee on Appropriations [HB05379 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2012-HB05379-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5379
February Session, 2012		LCO No. 1559
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Referred to Committee on Public Safety and Security
Introduced by:
(PS)

AN ACT CONCERNING FUNDING FOR POLICE TRAINING.

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

Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 51-56a of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):

(c) For the purpose of providing additional funds for municipal and state police training, each person who pays in any sum as (1) a fine or forfeiture for any violation of section 14-12, 14-215, 14-219, 14-222, 14-224, 14-225, 14-227a, 14-266, 14-267a, 14-269 or 14-283, or (2) a fine or forfeiture for any infraction, shall pay an additional fee of one dollar for each eight dollars or fraction thereof of the amount such person is required to pay, except if such payment is made for violation of such a section which is deemed to be an infraction, such additional fee shall be only on the first eighty-eight dollars of such fine or forfeiture. Such additional fee charged shall be deposited in the General Fund and credited to the municipal police officer training and education extension account established under section 7-294p, as amended by this act.

Sec. 2. Section 7-294p of the 2012 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2012):

(a) The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection shall, in consultation with the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, maintain and operate the Connecticut Police Academy to offer training for municipal police officers. The department, in consultation with the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, shall fix tuition and fees for training, education programs and sessions and for such other purposes as the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection deems necessary for the operation and support of the academy. Such fees shall be used solely for training and educational purposes.

(b) The department [may] shall establish and maintain a municipal police officer training and education extension account, which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account. The account shall be used (1) for the operation of such training and education programs and sessions as the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, in consultation with the Police Officer Standards and Training Council, may establish, and (2) to defray the tuition and fees charged municipal police officers for such training and education programs and sessions. All proceeds derived from the operation of the training and education programs and sessions shall be deposited in the General Fund and shall be credited to and become a part of the resources of the account. All direct expenses incurred in the conduct of the training and education programs and sessions shall be charged and any payments of interest and principal of bonds or any sums transferable to any fund for the payment of interest and principal of bonds and any cost of equipment for such operations may be charged, against the account on order of the State Comptroller. Any balance of receipts above expenditures shall remain in the account to be used for training and education programs and sessions.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2012	51-56a(c)
Sec. 2	July 1, 2012	7-294p

Statement of Purpose:

To ensure that funds collected for municipal police training purposes from certain motor vehicle violations are directed to defraying the cost of that training.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]