Bill Summary: HB 5467

• Requires family violence intervention units to provide copies of written reports to the prosecuting authority, defendant, and defendant's counsel at any stage of criminal proceedings, ensuring equal access to these reports.

• Mandates that family relations counselors and supervisors preparing reports for restraining order hearings must be available to testify and subject to cross-examination at those hearings.

• Accelerates hearing timelines for protective order applications involving firearms to seven days (instead of fourteen days) when the respondent holds a firearms permit, possesses firearms, or possesses ammunition.

• Maintains confidentiality of family violence intervention unit information while establishing specific exceptions allowing disclosure to courts, prosecutors, law enforcement, probation officers, child protective services, and contracted service providers under defined circumstances.

• Effective October 1, 2022, applying to Connecticut General Statutes sections 46b-38c(c) and 46b-15(b).