Amendment ID: S2800-6

Amendment 6

Totality of the circumstances

Messrs. Moore, Brady, Welch, Tarr and O'Connor move to amend the bill in section 10, by striking subsection (c) of Section 11I, and inserting in place thereof the following subsection:-

“(c) In action under this section, qualified immunity shall not apply to claims for monetary damages except upon a finding that, at the time the conduct complained of occurs, no reasonable defendant, based on the totality of the circumstances, could have had reason to believe that such conduct would violate the law.”