General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 461
February Session, 2014		LCO No. 2501
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Referred to Committee on JUDICIARY
Introduced by:
(JUD)

AN ACT CONCERNING DUTIES OF DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION OFFICIALS AS PEACE OFFICERS AND PERSONS AUTHORIZED TO SERVE AS ARMED SECURITY GUARDS IN SCHOOLS.

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

Section 1. Subdivision (9) of section 53a-3 of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

(9) "Peace officer" means: [a] (A) A member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection or an organized local police department, (B) a chief inspector or inspector in the Division of Criminal Justice, (C) a state marshal while exercising authority granted under any provision of the general statutes, (D) a judicial marshal in the performance of the duties of a judicial marshal, (E) a conservation officer or special conservation officer, as defined in section 26-5, (F) a constable who performs criminal law enforcement duties, (G) a special policeman appointed under section 29-18, 29-18a or 29-19, (H) an adult probation officer, (I) an official of the Department of Correction (i) who is authorized by the Commissioner of Correction to make arrests in a correctional institution or facility or (ii) while in the performance of the official's duties on a community assignment or joint law enforcement operation, (J) any investigator in the investigations unit of the office of the State Treasurer, (K) any special agent of the federal government authorized to enforce the provisions of Title 21 of the United States Code, or (L) a member of a law enforcement unit of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe or the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut created and governed by a memorandum of agreement under section 47-65c who is certified as a police officer by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council pursuant to sections 7-294a to 7-294e, inclusive;

Sec. 2. Section 10-244a of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2014):

(a) For the school year commencing July 1, 2013, and each school year thereafter, no municipality or local or regional board of education may employ or enter into an agreement, as described in subdivision (2) of subsection (b) of section 53a-217b, with any person, other than a sworn member of an organized local police department or a retired police officer as provided in subsection (b) of this section, to provide security services in a public school if such person will possess a firearm, as defined in section 53a-3, while in the performance of his or her duties.

(b) A municipality or a local or regional board of education may employ or enter into an agreement with a retired police officer to provide security services in a public school if such retired police officer is a qualified retired law enforcement officer, as defined in 18 USC 926C, as amended from time to time. Such retired police officer shall receive annual training pursuant to section 7-294x and shall successfully complete annual firearms training provided by a certified firearms instructor that meets or exceeds the standards of the Police Officer Standards and Training Council or 18 USC 926C, as amended from time to time. Such retired police officer shall not be subject to the licensing requirements of part II of chapter 534.

(c) For the purposes of subsection (b) of this section, "retired police officer" means (1) a sworn member of an organized local police department who was certified by the Police Officer Standards and Training Council and retired or separated in good standing from such department or a sworn member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection who retired or separated in good standing from said division, (2) a sworn federal law enforcement agent who retired or separated in good standing from such federal law enforcement service, or (3) a sworn officer of an organized police department in another state who was certified under standards that meet or exceed the standards of the Police Officer Standards and Training Council for certification in this state and who retired or separated in good standing from such department.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2014	53a-3(9)
Sec. 2	July 1, 2014	10-244a

Statement of Purpose:

To: (1) Provide that Department of Correction officials are designated as peace officers when authorized by the Commissioner of Correction to serve on a community assignment or joint law enforcement operation, and (2) allow retired federal law enforcement agents and law enforcement officers from other states to serve as armed security guards.

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