Harding, CT Republicans Outline Proposals To Make CT Safer

**News Release Submitted by Sen. Stephen Harding**

Mar. 2, 2023

In advance of a series of Judiciary Committee public hearings, Sen. Stephen Harding joined with House and Senate Republicans on Mar. 1 to outline proposals aimed at making Connecticut safer.

“It’s expected that these proposals will be receiving hearings over the next two weeks, and we are committed to pressing the majority to advance them,” said Sen. Harding, who serves on the Judiciary Committee. “These are common sense measures to address public safety across our State, in which we, as legislators, are obligated to provide our constituents.”

The proposals include:

• increasing the penalty on murders committed during an act of domestic violence to life in prison without the possibility of parole

• enhancing protections for the surviving victims, including an expansion of GPS monitoring of the most dangerous domestic violence offenders.

• giving law enforcement back the tools they need to re-engage with proactive policing, such as the ability to request a driver’s consent to search their motor vehicle in order to get guns and drugs off the street, the ability to pursue offenders in cases of stolen vehicles or property.