(As Amended)

"AN ACT CONCERNING REFORM OF THE PROBATE COURT SYSTEM. "

Strike subsection (a) of section 22 in its entirety and substitute the following in lieu thereof:

"(a) The probate redistricting commission established in section 21 of this act shall develop a plan for consolidating the probate court districts established in sections 45a-2 to 45a-6k, inclusive, of the general statutes. Under the plan, there shall be no fewer than fifty probate court districts and no more than seventy probate court districts. Additional criteria to be considered by the probate redistricting commission when establishing probate court districts under the plan include (1) a requirement that each probate court district contain a minimum population of forty thousand persons determined in accordance with the last annual population estimate by the Department of Public Health as of October 1, 2008, for each city or town, or in the alternative, an annual weighted-workload of the court of three thousand, calculated in accordance with subdivision (6) of section 12 of this act, provided the plan may allow for probate court districts that do not meet either requirement set forth in this subdivision, taking into consideration the following criteria: (A) The geographic accessibility of the probate court to residents of the proposed probate court district; (B) the availability of municipal facilities to house the probate court; and (C) communities of interest among municipalities sharing a proposed probate court district; (2) a requirement that no municipality may be included in more than one probate court district; and (3) any other criteria deemed appropriate and necessary by the probate redistricting commission. "