Bill Text: CT SB00846 | 2017 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Security Officer Licenses.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-05-31 - Signed by the Governor [SB00846 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2017-SB00846-Chaptered.html
Substitute Senate Bill No. 846
AN ACT CONCERNING SECURITY OFFICER LICENSES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (c) of section 29-161q of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2017):
(c) Not later than two years after successful completion of the training required pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, or the waiver of such training, the applicant may submit an application for a license as a security officer on forms furnished by the commissioner and, under oath, shall give the applicant's name, address, date and place of birth, employment for the previous five years, experience in the position applied for, including military training and weapons qualifications, any convictions for violations of the law and such other information as the commissioner may require, by regulation, to properly investigate the character, competency and integrity of the applicant. [Applicants shall submit with their application two sets of fingerprints of the employee and the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection] The commissioner shall require any applicant for a license under this section to submit to state and national criminal history records checks conducted in accordance with section 29-17a. [Applicants] Each applicant shall submit with [their] the application two sets of [their fingerprints and] his or her fingerprints on forms specified and furnished by the commissioner, two full-face photographs, [of them,] two inches wide by two inches high, taken not earlier than six months prior to the date of application, and a one-hundred-dollar licensing fee, made payable to the state. [Applicants] Any applicant who received a waiver as provided in subsection (b) of this section shall be exempt from payment of such licensing fee. Subject to the provisions of section 46a-80, no person shall be approved for a license who has been convicted of a felony, any sexual offense or any crime involving moral turpitude, or who has been refused a license under the provisions of sections 29-161g to 29-161x, inclusive, for any reason except minimum experience, or whose license, having been granted, has been revoked or is under suspension. Upon being satisfied of the suitability of the applicant for licensure, the commissioner may license the applicant as a security officer. Such license shall be renewed every five years for a one-hundred-dollar fee. The commissioner shall send a notice of the expiration date of such license to the holder of such license, by first class mail, not less than ninety days before such expiration, and shall enclose with such notice an application for renewal. The security officer license shall be valid for a period of ninety days after its expiration date unless the license has been revoked or is under suspension pursuant to section 29-161v. An application for renewal filed with the commissioner after the expiration date shall be accompanied by a late fee of twenty-five dollars. The commissioner shall not renew any license that has been expired for more than ninety days.