AN ACT CONCERNING BURGLARY.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

That section 53a-101 of the general statutes, concerning burglary in the first degree, be amended to require, as elements of the crime, that the person use or threaten the use of or display or represent by his words or conduct that he possesses explosives or a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument, and that such person inflict or attempt to inflict bodily injury on another person.

Statement of Purpose:

To resolve an anomaly in the burglary statutes in which burglary in the second degree with a firearm is a more serious crime than burglary in the first degree but carries a lesser penalty.