Connecticut § 54-56k - Pretrial account.
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§ 54-56k. Pretrial account.
Sec. 54-56k. Pretrial account. (a) There is established an account to be known as the pretrial account. The account shall contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the account and shall be a separate, nonlapsing account of the General Fund. Investment earnings credited to the account shall become part of the assets of the account. Any balance remaining in said account at the end of any fiscal year shall be carried forward in the account for the next fiscal year.
(b) There shall be deposited in the pretrial account (1) all evaluation fees collected pursuant to subsection (a) of section 54-56g and subsection (b) of section 54-56i, (2) all program fees collected pursuant to subsections (c) and (e) of section 54-56g and subsections (g) and (i) of section 54-56i funds appropriated in subsection (a) of section 47 of special act 01-1 of the June special session, (3) fees collected pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (b), subdivision (1) of subsection (e) and subparagraph (A) of subdivision (2) of subsection (k) of section 54-56q, and (4) the evaluation fee collected pursuant to subdivision (2) of subsection (b), and fees collected pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection (f) and subparagraph (A) of subdivision (2) of subsection (m) of section 54-56r.
(c) Amounts in the pretrial account shall be available to fund the cost of operating the pretrial alcohol and drug education programs established under sections 54-56g and 54-56i, the pretrial drug intervention and community service program established under section 54-56q and the pretrial impaired driving intervention program established under section 54-56r.
(June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-8, S. 8, 13; P.A. 10-30, S. 6; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1, S. 172; P.A. 22-37, S. 33.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 01-8 effective July 1, 2001; P.A. 10-30 amended Subsec. (b) to reference evaluation fees collected pursuant to Secs. 54-56g(a) and 54-56i(b) and program fees collected pursuant to Secs. 54-56g(e) and 54-56i(i), effective July 1, 2010; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 21-1 amended Subsec. (b) by inserting Subdiv. designators (1) and (2) and adding Subdivs. (3) and (4) re fees collected pursuant to Secs. 54-56q and 54-56r and amended Subsec. (c) by adding references to pretrial drug intervention and community service program and pretrial impaired driving intervention program, effective April 1, 2022; P.A. 22-37 made a technical change in Subsec. (b)(1).
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