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+OFFICE OF FISCAL ANALYSIS
+Legislative Office Building, Room 5200
+Hartford, CT 06106  (860) 240-0200
+http://www.cga.ct.gov/ofa
+SB-374
+AN ACT CONCERNING THE EXPANSION OF THE CRISIS
+INITIATIVE PILOT PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
 
-General Assembly File No. 300
-February Session, 2026 Senate Bill No. 374
-
-Senate, April 1, 2026
-
-The Committee on Public Safety and Security reported through
-SEN. GASTON of the 23rd Dist., Chairperson of the Committee
-on the part of the Senate, that the bill ought to pass.
-
- AN ACT CONCERNING THE EXPANSION OF THE CRISIS INITIATIVE
-PILOT PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
-Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
-Assembly convened:
-
-Section 1. (NEW) ( Effective from passage ) Not later than January 1, 1
-2027, the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency 2
-Services and Public Protection shall, in conjunction with the Department 3
-of Mental Health and Addiction Services, expand the pilot program 4
-known as the CRISIS Initiative: Connection to Recovery through 5
-Intervention, Support and Initiating Services throughout the state. 6
-This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
-sections:
-
-Section 1 from passage New section
-
-PS Joint Favorable
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-The following Fiscal Impact Statement and Bill Analysis are prepared for the benefit of the members of
-the General Assembly, solely for purposes of information, summarization and explanation and do not
-represent the intent of the General Assembly or either chamber thereof for any purpose.  In general,
-fiscal impacts are based upon a variety of informational sources, including the analyst’s professional
-knowledge.  Whenever applicable, agency data is consulted as part of the analysis, however final
-products do not necessarily reflect an assessment from any specific department.
+Primary Analyst: PM 3/30/26
+Contributing Analyst(s): ES
+Reviewer: MM
 
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 The Out Years
 State Impact: None
 Municipal Impact: None
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-OLR Bill Analysis
-SB 374
-
-AN ACT CONCERNING THE EXPANSION OF THE CRISIS
-INITIATIVE PILOT PROGRAM THROUGHOUT THE STATE.
-
-SUMMARY
-This bill requires the State Police, in conjunction with the Department
-of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS), to expand the
-Connection to Recovery through Intervention, Support and Initiating
-Services Initiative pilot program (CRISIS Initiative) throughout the state
-by January 1, 2027.
-EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon passage
-BACKGROUND
-CRISIS Initiative Pilot Program
-The CRISIS Initiative pilot program has generally established
-procedures among specific State Police and DMHAS personnel for
-referring and handling incidents involving people with addiction
-disorders or mental health conditions as well as other crisis incidents.
-The program began in 2017 with DMHAS assigning a full-time licensed
-clinician social worker to State Police Troop E, which is based out of
-Montville and generally covers southeast Connecticut. The 2021 budget
-implementer expanded the program to Troo p D, which is based out of
-Killingly and generally covers northeast Connecticut (PA 21 -2, June
-Special Session, § 75).
-Related Bill
-sHB 5003, § 22, favorably reported by the Labor and Public
-Employees Committee, also requires the expansion of the CRISIS
-Initiative throughout the state, but it also  requires the  expanded
-program to at least include the pilot program’s components that require
-state police officer training, coordination between state police officers
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-and mental health professionals, and referrals to mental health services
-facilities.
-COMMITTEE ACTION
-Public Safety and Security Committee
-Joint Favorable
-Yea 29 Nay 0 (03/17/2026)