HB 5229 — AN ACT CONCERNING REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF DASHBOARD CAMERAS WITH A REMOTE RECORDER AND DIGITAL DATA STORAGE DEVICES OR SERVICES.

General Assembly   RaisedSubstitute Bill No.

5229 February Session, 2018   LCO*_____HB05229PS____031918____* No.AN ACT CONCERNING REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF DASHBOARD CAMERAS WITH A REMOTE RECORDER AND DIGITAL DATA STORAGE DEVICES OR SERVICES.

1327   *01327_______PS_* Referred to Committee on PUBLIC SAFETY AND SECURITY   Introduced by:

  (PS)   AN ACT CONCERNING REIMBURSEMENT FOR THE PURCHASE OF DASHBOARD CAMERAS WITH A REMOTE RECORDER AND DIGITAL DATA STORAGE DEVICES OR SERVICES.

(a) The Office of Policy and Management shall, within available resources, administer a grant program to provide grants-in-aid to reimburse [(1)](1) each municipality for the costs associated with the purchase by such municipality of (1) body-worn recording equipment [,] or electronic defense weapon recording equipment for use by the sworn members of such municipality's police department or for use by constables, police officers or other persons who perform criminal law enforcement duties under the supervision of a resident state trooper serving such municipality, and digital data storage devices or services, provided such equipment and device or service conforms to the minimal technical specifications approved pursuant to subsection (b) of section 29-6d, if applicable, and (2) [anyany municipality making a first-time purchase of]of one or more dashboard cameras with a remote recorder or replacing one or more dashboard cameras purchased prior to December 31, 2010, with one or more dashboard cameras with a remote recorder.

(b) (1) (A) Any municipality that purchased such body-worn recording equipment, [or] electronic defense weapon recording equipment,equipment [oror digital data storage devices or services, made a first-time purchase of]of digitalone dataor storagemore devicesdashboard cameras with a remote recorder or servicesreplaced one or more dashboard cameras purchased prior to December 31, 2010, with one or more dashboard cameras with a remote recorder during the fiscal years ending June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2018, [and digital data storage devices or services during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2017,] shall, within available resources, be reimbursed for up to one hundred per cent of the costs associated with such purchases, provided the costs of such digital data storage services shall not be reimbursed for a period of service that is longer than one year, and provided further that in the case of reimbursement for costs associated with the purchase of body-worn recording equipment, such body-worn recording equipment is purchased in sufficient quantity, as determined by the chief of police in the case of a municipality with an organized police department or, where there is no chief of police, the warden of the borough or the first selectman of the municipality, as the case may be, to ensure that sworn members of such municipality's police department or constables, police officers or other persons who perform criminal law enforcement duties under the supervision of a resident state trooper serving such municipality are supplied with such equipment while interacting with the public in such sworn members', such constables', such police officers' or such persons' law enforcement capacity.

(2) Any municipality that was not reimbursed under subdivision (1) of this subsection and that purchased such body-worn recording equipment or electronic defense weapon recording equipment, digital data storage devices or servicesservices, or[or [forfor] made a first-time purchase of]of one or more dashboard cameras with a remote recorder or replaced one or more dashboard cameras purchased prior to December 30, 2010, with one or more dashboard cameras with a remote recorder during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019, shall, within available resources, be reimbursed for up to fifty per cent of the costs associated with such purchases, provided the costs of such digital data storage services shall not be reimbursed for a period of service that is longer than one year.

Section 1 from passage 7-277b StatementPS ofJoint Purpose:Favorable Subst.

To expand a grant program that reimburses a municipality for the cost of dashboard cameras purchased during the fiscal years ending June 30, 2017, and June 30, 2018, and digital data storage devices or services purchased during the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018.

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