General Assembly Raised Bill No. 5519
February Session, 2014 LCO No. 1718
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)
General Assembly
Raised Bill No. 5519
February Session, 2014
LCO No. 1718
*_____HB05519ED____032414____*
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)
AN ACT CONCERNING STUDENT INTERNSHIPS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2014) (a) For purposes of this section:
(1) "Internship" means supervised practical training of a student intern that is comprised of curriculum and workplace standards approved by the Department of Education and the Labor Department;
(2) "Internship provider" means a person, as defined in section 1-79 of the general statutes, who contracts with a local or regional board of education that operates an agricultural science and technology education center, pursuant to section 10-64 of the general statutes, to provide an internship to students enrolled in such agricultural science and technology education center; and
(3) "Student intern" means a student enrolled in an agricultural science and technology education center participating in an internship offered or provided by an internship provider.
(b) No internship provider shall be liable to a student intern or a parent or guardian of a student intern for civil damages for any personal injuries that result from acts or omissions of such internship provider offering or providing an internship to a student intern that may constitute ordinary negligence. The immunity provided in this subsection does not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross, reckless, wilful or wanton misconduct.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2014 New section
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
July 1, 2014
New section
ED Joint Favorable
ED
Joint Favorable