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STATE OF CONNECTICUT
AMENDMENT
LCO No. 8469
General Assembly
January Session, A.D., 1997
Offered by SEN. HARP, 10th DIST.
SEN. WILLIAMS, 29th DIST.
SEN. UPSON, 15th DIST.
REP. MCDONALD, 148th DIST.
REP. GERRATANA, 23rd DIST.
REP. LAWLOR, 99th DIST.
REP. SCALETTAR, 114th DIST.
REP. FARR, 19th DIST.
REP. KIRKLEY-BEY, 5th DIST.
REP. TULISANO, 29th DIST.
REP. DANDROW, 30th DIST.
REP. WINKLER, 41st DIST.
REP. NYSTROM, 46th DIST.
REP. MERRILL, 54th DIST.
REP. O'NEILL, 69th DIST.
REP. JARJURA, 74th DIST.
REP. DILLON, 92nd DIST.
REP. MARTINEZ, 95th DIST.
REP. WIDLITZ, 98th DIST.
REP. GYLE, 108th DIST.
REP. NEWTON, 124th DIST.
REP. BERNHARD, 136th DIST.
REP. CAFERO, 142nd DIST.
To Subst. Senate Bill No. 1259 File No. 605 Cal No. 392
Entitled: "AN ACT CONCERNING PILOT RESEARCH PROGRAMS FOR TREATING
DRUG ADDICTION AND THE QUALIFICATIONS AND LICENSURE FOR CERTAIN
HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS."
Strike out everything after the enacting clause and
substitute the following in lieu thereof:
"Section 1. (NEW) (a) Not later than January 1, 1998, the
Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services may
establish, within available appropriations, a pilot research
program in one mental health region for the prescription of
methadone or other federally-approved opiate-substitution or
alternative therapies for opiate-dependent individuals by
physicians who are licensed in this state, skilled in addiction
medicine and associated with a methadone maintenance or other
federally-approved opiate-substitution therapy treatment program.
No pilot research program may be established under this section
in a town that does not have an existing methadone maintenance or
other federally-approved opiate-substitution or alternative
therapy treatment program without the approval of the legislative
body of such town. The Commissioner of Mental Health and
Addiction Services shall, after consultation with the
Commissioner of Public Health and an advisory committee appointed
by the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services,
establish protocols for the pilot research program in accordance
with the provisions of this section. The Commissioner of Mental
Health and Addiction Services shall appoint to such advisory
committee representatives of the Department of Mental Health and
Addiction Services, representatives of the Department of Public
Health recommended by the Commissioner of Public Health,
representatives of methadone maintenance and other
federally-approved opiate-substitution therapy treatment
programs, community medical providers and physicians skilled in
addiction medicine, methadone patients or other
opiate-substitution or alternative therapy patients or their
representatives, and any other persons the Commissioner of Mental
Health and Addiction Services considers appropriate to develop
such protocols. The advisory committee shall also conduct an
ongoing review of the pilot research program.
(b) The pilot research program shall (1) be incorporated into
an existing methadone maintenance or other federally-approved
opiate-substitution or alternative therapy treatment program, (2)
provide services to patients at the location of such methadone
maintenance or other opiate-substitution or alternative therapy
treatment program or at a location separate from such program,
(3) where the prescription of methadone or other
opiate-substitution medication is part of the treatment, require
such medication to be prescribed by a physician associated with
such program and dispensed, as determined by such prescribing
physician, by such physician, a pharmacy or the methadone
maintenance or other opiate-substitution or alternative therapy
treatment clinic, and (4) set other appropriate standards and
protocols for the program consistent, where appropriate, with
recommendations of the American Methadone Treatment Association,
including protocols concerning the nature of the association a
physician shall have with the treatment program, the
qualifications of a participating physician, admission to,
participation in, discharge from and retention in such program,
transition of the patients to other programs and the methods for
evaluating the program.
(c) Not later than January 1, 1999, and every six months
thereafter, the Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction
Services shall submit a report evaluating the effectiveness of
the program to the joint standing committees of the General
Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to criminal
justice and public health.
Sec. 2. (NEW) The Commissioner of Correction, in consultation
with the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services and
the Judicial Department, shall review, evaluate and make
recommendations concerning substance abuse detoxification and
treatment programs for drug-dependent pretrial and sentenced
inmates of correctional facilities and the reintegration of such
inmates into the community. The commissioner shall examine
various options for the detoxification and treatment of
drug-dependent inmates including, but not limited to, methadone
maintenance treatment and other therapies or treatments, and the
reintegration of drug-dependent inmates into the community upon
their release from incarceration, including the transfer of
inmates to community-based methadone or other therapy or
treatment programs. The commissioner shall report his findings
and recommendations and submit a proposal for detoxification,
treatment and reintegration programs including, if appropriate,
the establishment of one or more pilot programs for methadone
maintenance or other therapy or treatment for drug-dependent
inmates to the General Assembly not later than February 1, 1998.
Sec. 3. (NEW) (a) There is established a Connecticut Alcohol
and Drug Policy Council which shall be within the Office of
Policy and Management for administrative purposes only.
(b) The council shall consist of the following members: (1)
The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, or his
designee; (2) the Commissioners of Children and Families,
Correction, Education, Higher Education, Mental Health and
Addiction Services, Public Health, Public Safety and Social
Services and the Insurance Commissioner, or their designees; (3)
the Chief Court Administrator, or his designee; (4) the chairman
of the Board of Parole, or his designee; (5) the Chief State's
Attorney, or his designee; (6) the Chief Public Defender, or his
designee; and (7) the cochairpersons of the joint standing
committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters
relating to public health, criminal justice and the budgets of
state agencies, or their designees. The Commissioner of Mental
Health and Addiction Services shall be chairman of the council.
The Office of Policy and Management shall, within available
appropriations, provide staff for the council. The chairman of
the council shall schedule the first meeting of the council to be
held not later than October 1, 1997.
(c) The council shall review policies and practices of
individual agencies and the Judicial Department concerning
substance abuse treatment programs, substance abuse prevention
services, the referral of persons to such programs and services,
and criminal justice sanctions and programs and shall develop and
coordinate a state-wide, interagency, integrated plan for such
programs and services and criminal sanctions. On or before
January fifteenth of each year, the council shall submit a report
to the Governor and the General Assembly that evaluates the plan
and recommends any proposed changes thereto. In the report
submitted on or before January 15, 1998, the council shall report
on the progress made by state agencies in implementing the
recommendations of its predecessor, the Connecticut Alcohol and
Drug Policy Council established by Executive Order Number 11A,
set forth in its initial report dated February 25, 1997.
Sec. 4. (a) The joint standing committee of the General
Assembly on public health shall conduct a study of issues related
to the training of health care professionals in substance abuse
diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Such study shall include,
but not be limited to, an examination of (1) the establishment of
a requirement that persons applying for licensure as health care
professionals successfully complete training related to substance
abuse issues as a condition of such licensure, (2) the
establishment of a requirement that currently licensed health
care professionals successfully complete training related to
substance abuse issues within a specified time period, (3) the
establishment of a requirement of continuing education in
substance abuse issues for health care professionals, (4) the
types of health care professionals who should be subject to any
such training or continuing education requirements, (5) the
frequency of such continuing education requirement, (6) the means
by which a health care professional could satisfy the training or
continuing education requirements, (7) disciplinary sanctions for
health care professionals who fail to successfully complete such
training or continuing education, and (8) the establishment by
the Department of Public Health of minimum standards for such
training or continuing education.
(b) Not later than January 1, 1998, the committee shall
submit a report on its findings and recommendations, including
any recommended legislation, to the General Assembly.
Sec. 5. Subdivisions (18) and (19) of section 21a-240 of the
general statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in
lieu thereof:
(18) "Drug dependence" means a [state of physical or psychic
dependence, or both, upon a controlled substance following
administration of that controlled substance upon a repeated
periodic or continuous basis except (A) upon a morphine-type
substance as an incident to current medical treatment of a
demonstrable physical disorder, other than produced by the use of
the controlled substance itself, or (B) upon amphetamine-type,
barbiturate-type, hallucinogenic or other stimulant and
depressant controlled substances as an incident to current
medical treatment of a demonstrable physical or psychological
disorder, or both, other than produced by the controlled
substance itself] PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE ON DRUGS AS
THAT CONDITION IS DEFINED IN THE MOST RECENT EDITION OF THE
"DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS" OF THE
AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION;
(19) "Drug-dependent person" means [any] A person who has
[developed a state of psychic or physical dependence, or both,
upon a controlled substance following administration of that
substance upon a repeated periodic or continuous basis. No person
shall be classified as drug dependent who is dependent (A) upon a
morphine-type substance as an incident to current medical
treatment of a demonstrable physical disorder other than drug
dependence, or (B) upon amphetamine-type, ataractic,
barbiturate-type, hallucinogenic or other stimulant and
depressant substances as an incident to current medical treatment
of a demonstrable physical or psychological disorder, or both,
other than drug dependence] A PSYCHOACTIVE SUBSTANCE DEPENDENCE
ON DRUGS AS THAT CONDITION IS DEFINED IN THE MOST RECENT EDITION
OF THE "DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS" OF
THE AMERICAN PSYCHIATRIC ASSOCIATION.
Sec. 6. Section 51-181b of the general statutes is repealed
and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
[(a)] The Chief Court Administrator [shall designate a court
location in which a pilot program is to be established where
there shall be] MAY ESTABLISH IN ANY GEOGRAPHICAL AREA COURT
LOCATION OR JUVENILE MATTERS COURT LOCATION a docket separate
from other criminal OR JUVENILE matters for the hearing of
criminal OR JUVENILE matters in which a defendant is a
drug-dependent person, as defined in section 21a-240, AS AMENDED˙
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BY THIS ACT. The [program] DOCKET IN A GEOGRAPHICAL AREA COURT
LOCATION shall be available to, but not be limited to, offenders
who are sixteen to twenty-one years of age and who could benefit
from placement in a substance abuse treatment program.
[(b) The Chief Court Administrator shall establish policies
and procedures to implement such pilot program and on or before
January 1, 1997, shall report recommendations for expansion of
such program to the judiciary committee of the General Assembly.]
Sec. 7. (NEW) (a) Not later than October 1, 1997, but in no
event sooner than the establishment of the pilot research drug
education program under section 8 of this act, the Department of
Mental Health and Addiction Services shall establish a pretrial
drug education program for persons charged with a violation of
section 21a-267 or subsection (c) of section 21a-279 of the
general statutes.
(b) Upon application by any such person for participation in
such program, the court shall, but only as to the public, order
such information or complaint to be filed as a sealed information
or complaint, provided such person states under oath, in open
court or before any person designated by the clerk and duly
authorized to administer oaths, under penalties of perjury, that
he has never had such program invoked in his behalf. A person
shall be ineligible for participation in such pretrial drug
education program if he has previously participated in the drug
education program established under this section or the pretrial
community service labor program established under section 53a-39c
of the general statutes, as amended by section 11 of this act.
(c) The court, after consideration of the recommendation of
the state's attorney, assistant state's attorney or deputy
assistant state's attorney in charge of the case, may, in its
discretion, grant such application. If the court grants such
application, it shall refer such person to the Bail Commission
for confirmation of the eligibility of the applicant.
(d) Upon confirmation of eligibility, such person shall be
referred to the Department of Mental Health and Addiction
Services by the Bail Commission for placement in the drug
education program. Any person who enters the program shall agree:
(1) To the tolling of the statute of limitations with respect to
such crime; (2) to a waiver of his right to a speedy trial; and
(3) to any conditions that may be established by the department
concerning participation in the drug education program including
conditions concerning participation in meetings or sessions of
the program. The department shall require, as a condition of the
assigned program, that such person participate in, and
successfully complete, a community service labor program
established under section 53a-39c of the general statutes, as
amended by section 11 of this act, for a period of four days.
(e) If the Bail Commission informs the court that such person
is ineligible for the program and the court makes a determination
of ineligibility or if the program provider certifies to the
court that such person did not successfully complete the assigned
program, the court shall order the information or complaint to be
unsealed, enter a plea of not guilty for such person and
immediately place the case on the trial list.
(f) If such person satisfactorily completes the assigned
program, he may apply for dismissal of the charges against him
and the court, on reviewing the record of his participation in
such program submitted by the Bail Commission and on finding such
satisfactory completion, shall dismiss the charges. If such
person does not apply for dismissal of the charges against him
after satisfactorily completing the assigned program, the court,
upon receipt of the record of his participation in such program
submitted by the Bail Commission, may on its own motion make a
finding of such satisfactory completion and dismiss the charges.
Upon motion of such person and a showing of good cause, the court
may extend the placement period for a reasonable period for such
person to complete the assigned program. A record of
participation in such program shall be retained by the Bail
Commission for a period of seven years from the date of
application.
(g) At the time the court grants the application for
participation in the pretrial drug education program, such person
shall pay to the court a nonrefundable program fee of six hundred
dollars, except that no person may be excluded from such program
for inability to pay such fee, provided (1) such person files
with the court an affidavit of indigency or inability to pay, (2)
such indigency or inability to pay is confirmed by the Bail
Commission, and (3) the court enters a finding thereof. The court
may waive all or any portion of such fee depending on such
person's ability to pay. If the court denies the application,
such person shall not be required to pay the program fee. If the
court grants the application, and such person is later determined
to be ineligible for participation in such pretrial drug
education program or fails to complete the assigned program, the
six-hundred-dollar program fee shall not be refunded. All such
program fees shall be credited to the General Fund.
(h) The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
shall develop standards and oversee appropriate drug education
programs to meet the requirements of this section and may
contract with service providers to provide such programs. The
department shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54
of the general statutes to establish standards for such drug
education programs.
Sec. 8. (NEW) (a) Not later than October 1, 1997, the
Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, in
consultation with the Department of Children and Families, shall
establish, within available appropriations, a pilot research drug
education program in one mental health region for parents or
guardians of children in neglect cases where substance abuse is
identified as a factor in such neglect but the person is not
drug-dependent.
(b) If the Commissioner of Children and Families, in his
investigation of the report of the neglect of a child,
substantiates the report and determines that substance abuse by
the parent or guardian of the child was a factor in such neglect,
the department may refer such person for an evaluation. If the
evaluation determines that the person is not drug-dependent but
would benefit from a drug education program and the person
resides in the mental health region where the pilot research drug
education program has been established, the department may
recommend that such person participate in such drug education
program.
(c) Such person may apply to the Department of Mental Health
and Addiction Services to participate in the drug education
program established under this section. A person shall be
ineligible to participate in such program if he has previously
participated in the program or if he fails to meet any conditions
established by the department for participation in the program. A
person determined to be eligible for the program shall pay to the
department a nonrefundable program fee of six hundred dollars,
except that no person may be excluded from such program for
inability to pay such fee provided such person files with the
department an affidavit of indigency or inability to pay. The
department may waive all or any portion of the fee depending on
such person's ability to pay. All such program fees shall be
credited to the General Fund.
(d) If such person satisfactorily completes the drug
education program, the Department of Children and Families shall
consider such satisfactory completion in evaluating the case.
(e) The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services,
in consultation with the Department of Children and Families,
shall identify services which are deemed appropriate for adults,
children and caregivers in households where the parent or
guardian has been found eligible to participate in the drug
education program established under this section and which
services are directed at addressing the conditions, circumstances
or associations that contributed to the neglect of a child, and
shall recommend a plan to provide such services.
(f) The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services,
in consultation with the Department of Children and Families,
shall develop standards and oversee appropriate drug education
programs to meet the requirements of this section and may
contract with service providers to provide such programs. The
department shall adopt regulations in accordance with chapter 54
of the general statutes to establish standards for such drug
education programs.
(g) The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
shall, in consultation with the Department of Children and
Families, submit a report to the General Assembly not later than
February 15, 1998, evaluating the pilot research drug education
program established under this section. Such report shall
include, but not be limited to, the number of participants in
such program, the number of participants who paid all or any
portion of the participation fee or for whom the fee was waived,
the number of neglect cases where the Commissioner of Children
and Families determined that services of the department were no
longer necessary after the parent or guardian participated in the
program, the efficacy of the program and a plan to expand the
program to a second mental health region by July 1, 1998. The
department shall submit an additional report evaluating such
programs not later than January 1, 1999, and annually thereafter.
Sec. 9. Subsection (a) of section 54-76j of the general
statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu
thereof:
(a) The court, upon the adjudication of any person as a
youthful offender, may (1) commit the defendant, (2) impose a
fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, (3) impose a sentence of
conditional discharge or a sentence of unconditional discharge,
(4) impose a sentence of community service, (5) impose a sentence
to a term of imprisonment not greater than that authorized for
the crime committed by the defendant, (6) impose sentence and
suspend the execution of the sentence, entirely or after a period
set by the court, [or] (7) order treatment pursuant to section
[17a-656] 17a-699, OR (8) IF A CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR DRUG-DEPENDENT˙
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PERSONS HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 51-181b, AS
AMENDED BY THIS ACT, IN THE JUDICIAL DISTRICT IN WHICH THE
DEFENDANT WAS ADJUDICATED A YOUTHFUL OFFENDER, TRANSFER THE
SUPERVISION OF THE DEFENDANT TO THE COURT HANDLING SUCH DOCKET.
Sec. 10. Section 54-56e of the general statutes is repealed
and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
There shall be a pretrial program for accelerated
rehabilitation of persons accused of a crime or crimes or a motor
vehicle violation or violations for which a sentence to a term of
imprisonment may be imposed, which crimes or violations are not
of a serious nature. The court may, in its discretion, invoke
such program on motion of the defendant or on motion of a state's
attorney or prosecuting attorney with respect to an accused who,
the court believes, will probably not offend in the future, who
has no previous record of conviction of a crime or of a violation
of section 14-196, subsection (c) of section 14-215, section
14-222a, subsection (a) of section 14-224 or section 14-227a, who
has not previously been adjudged a youthful offender under the
provisions of sections 54-76b to 54-76n, inclusive, and who
states under oath, in open court or before any person designated
by the clerk and duly authorized to administer oaths, under the
penalties of perjury that he has never had such program invoked
in his behalf, provided the defendant shall agree thereto and
provided notice has been given by the accused, on a form approved
by rule of court, to the victim or victims of such crime or motor
vehicle violation, if any, by registered or certified mail and
such victim or victims have an opportunity to be heard thereon.
Any defendant who makes application for participation in such
program shall pay to the court an application fee of thirty-five
dollars. This section shall not be applicable to any person
charged with a class A or class B felony or a violation of
section 14-227a, subdivision (2) of section 53-21, section
53a-56b, 53a-60d, 53a-70, 53a-70a, 53a-70b, 53a-71, 53a-72a or
53a-72b or to any person accused of a family violence crime as
defined in section 46b-38a who (1) is eligible for the pretrial
family violence education program established under section
46b-38c, or (2) has previously had the pretrial family violence
education program invoked in his behalf. Unless good cause is
shown, this section shall not be applicable to any person charged
with a class C felony. Any defendant who enters such program
shall pay to the court a participation fee of one hundred
dollars. Any defendant who enters such program shall agree to the
tolling of any statute of limitations with respect to such crime
and to a waiver of his right to a speedy trial. Any such
defendant shall appear in court and shall, UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS˙
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AS THE COURT SHALL ORDER, be released to the custody of the˙
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Office of Adult Probation, [for such period, not exceeding two˙
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years, and under such conditions as the court shall order] EXCEPT
THAT, IF A CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR DRUG-DEPENDENT PERSONS HAS BEEN
ESTABLISHED PURSUANT TO SECTION 51-181b, AS AMENDED BY THIS ACT,
IN THE JUDICIAL DISTRICT, SUCH DEFENDANT MAY BE TRANSFERRED,
UNDER SUCH CONDITIONS AS THE COURT SHALL ORDER, TO THE COURT
HANDLING SUCH DOCKET FOR SUPERVISION BY SUCH COURT. If the
defendant refuses to accept, or, having accepted, violates such
conditions, his case shall be brought to trial. THE PERIOD OF
SUCH PROBATION OR SUPERVISION, OR BOTH, SHALL NOT EXCEED TWO
YEARS. If the defendant has reached the age of sixteen years but
has not reached [to] THE age of eighteen years, the court may
order that as a condition of such probation the defendant be
referred for services to a youth service bureau established
pursuant to section 17a-39, provided the court finds, through an
assessment by a youth service bureau or its designee, that the
defendant is in need of and likely to benefit from such services.
If [such] A defendant RELEASED TO THE CUSTODY OF THE OFFICE OF
ADULT PROBATION satisfactorily completes his period of probation,
he may apply for dismissal of the charges against him and the
court, on finding such satisfactory completion, shall dismiss
such charges. If the defendant does not apply for dismissal of
the charges against him after satisfactorily completing his
period of probation, the court, upon receipt of a report
submitted by the Office of Adult Probation that the defendant
satisfactorily completed his period of probation, may on its own
motion make a finding of such satisfactory completion and dismiss
such charges. IF A DEFENDANT TRANSFERRED TO THE COURT HANDLING
THE CRIMINAL DOCKET FOR DRUG-DEPENDENT PERSONS SATISFACTORILY
COMPLETES HIS PERIOD OF SUPERVISION, THE COURT SHALL RELEASE THE
DEFENDANT TO THE CUSTODY OF THE OFFICE OF ADULT PROBATION UNDER
SUCH CONDITIONS AS THE COURT SHALL ORDER OR SHALL DISMISS SUCH
CHARGES. Upon dismissal, all records of such charges shall be
erased pursuant to section 54-142a. An order of the court denying
a motion to dismiss the charges against a defendant who has
completed his period of probation OR SUPERVISION or terminating
the participation of a defendant in such program shall be a final
judgment for purposes of appeal.
Sec. 11. Section 53a-39c of the general statutes is repealed
and the following is substituted in lieu thereof:
(a) There is established, within available appropriations, a
community service labor program for persons charged with a
violation of section 21a-279 who have not previously been
convicted of a violation of section 21a-277, 21a-278 or 21a-279
OR PREVIOUSLY PARTICIPATED IN THE DRUG EDUCATION PROGRAM
ESTABLISHED UNDER SECTION 7 OF THIS ACT. Upon application by any
such person for participation in such program the court may grant
such application and (1) if such person has not previously been
placed in the community service labor program, the court may
either suspend prosecution and place such person in such program
or, upon a plea of guilty without trial where a term of
imprisonment is part of a stated plea agreement, suspend any
sentence of imprisonment and make participation in such program a
condition of probation or conditional discharge in accordance
with section 53a-30; or (2) if such person has previously been
placed in such program, the court may, upon a plea of guilty
without trial where a term of imprisonment is part of a stated
plea agreement, suspend any sentence of imprisonment and make
participation in such program a condition of probation or
conditional discharge in accordance with said section 53a-30. No
person may be placed in such program who has twice previously
been placed in such program.
(b) Any person for whom prosecution is suspended and who is
placed in the community service labor program pursuant to
subsection (a) of this section shall agree to the tolling of the
statute of limitations with respect to such crime and to a waiver
of his right to a speedy trial. A PRETRIAL COMMUNITY SERVICE
LABOR PROGRAM ESTABLISHED UNDER THIS SECTION FOR PERSONS FOR WHOM
PROSECUTION IS SUSPENDED SHALL INCLUDE A DRUG EDUCATION
COMPONENT. If such person satisfactorily completes the program of
community service labor to which he was assigned, he may apply
for dismissal of the charges against him and the court, on
reviewing the record of his participation in such program and on
finding such satisfactory completion, shall dismiss the charges.
If the program provider certifies to the court that such person
did not successfully complete the program of community service
labor to which he was assigned or is no longer amenable to
participation in such program, the court shall enter a plea of
not guilty for such person and immediately place the case on the
trial list.
(c) The period of participation in a community service labor
program shall be: (1) For a violation of subsection (a) of
section 21a-279, fourteen days for a first violation and thirty
days for a second violation; (2) for a violation of subsection
(b) of section 21a-279, ten days for a first violation and twenty
days for a second violation; and (3) for a violation of
subsection (c) of section 21a-279, two days for a first violation
and ten days for a second violation.
Sec. 12. This act shall take effect July 1, 1997."