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Read. Follow. Verify.Connecticut creates criminal justice working group to review statutes and recommend changes by January 2027
Last action · April 13, 2026: File Number 595Sponsor: Travis Simms
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What This Bill Proposed
Connecticut establishes a six-member working group with expertise in criminal law and procedure to review of the general statutes and report its findings and recommendations by January 1, 2027.
Establishes an official legislative study panel tasked with reviewing state criminal statutes and delivering policy recommendations to the judiciary committee by January 1, 2027.
Who It Would Have Affected
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General Assembly legislative leaders
Legislative leaders are each empowered to appoint one member to the criminal justice working group.
Key Facts
- Establishes a working group to study state criminal justice laws, specifically reviewing titles 18, 53, 53a, and 54 of the general statutes.
- The working group consists of six members appointed by legislative leaders (speaker of the House, president pro tempore of the Senate, majority and minority leaders of both chambers).
- Members of the working group must possess expertise in criminal law, criminal procedure, and the criminal justice system.
- Administrative staff of the joint standing committee having cognizance of matters relating to the judiciary shall staff the working group.
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- The working group must submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the judiciary committee no later than January 1, 2027.
- The working group terminates upon submitting its report or on January 1, 2027, whichever is later.
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · on the Senate floor.
Procedural history
9 actions- Apr 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFile Number 595
- Apr 13, 2026SenateSenate Calendar Number 388
- Apr 13, 2026SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Apr 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
- Apr 6, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/13/26 12:00 PM
- Mar 30, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
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- Mar 30, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyJoint Favorable
- Mar 13, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyPublic Hearing 03/18
- Mar 12, 2026Connecticut General AssemblyCommitteeReferred to Joint Committee on Judiciary
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 35)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz20Current news / social attention level
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