Connecticut HB 5390 Summary

• Eliminates provisions requiring incarcerated individuals to repay the costs of their incarceration by repealing sections 18-85a, 18-85b, and 18-85c of Connecticut law.

• Removes incarceration costs from the priority disbursement list for inmate compensation, allowing earned wages to be used only for federal/state taxes, restitution, victim compensation, dependent support, and work-related expenses.

• Prevents the state from recovering incarceration costs from the estates of deceased individuals who received state assistance or care.

• Removes the state's right to recover incarceration costs from state and municipal employee pensions, except in cases involving crime victims recovering court-ordered damages.

• Effective from passage and applies retroactively to all incarceration costs incurred before, on, or after the law's effective date.