CT HB05594

Courts must waive all probation fees, including program fees, for individuals sentenced to probation who have been determined indigent and eligible for public defender representation.

Court files must be sealed (public access only) upon application for participation in community service labor, pretrial drug education, pretrial alcohol education, pretrial family violence education, and school violence prevention programs.

Courts must waive all application and program fees for indigent individuals eligible for public defenders across multiple diversion programs including accelerated rehabilitation, hate crimes diversion, drug education, alcohol education, family violence education, school violence prevention, and drug dependency treatment programs.

Pretrial accelerated rehabilitation program eligibility expanded for veterans to allow one prior invocation (not zero), and ten or more years must pass since prior charges were dismissed.

School violence prevention program may now require up to 25 hours of community service for persons entering the program for a second or subsequent time.