Connecticut 2017 2017 Regular Session

Connecticut House Bill HB05398 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/10/2017

                    General Assembly  Proposed Bill No. 5398
January Session, 2017  LCO No. 933
 *00933*
Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
Introduced by:
REP. MUSHINSKY, 85th Dist.

General Assembly

Proposed Bill No. 5398 

January Session, 2017

LCO No. 933

*00933*

Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS 

Introduced by:

REP. MUSHINSKY, 85th Dist.

AN ACT RESTORING FUNDING FOR THE PLATFORM TO EMPLOYMENT TRAINING PROGRAM.

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

That sufficient funds be appropriated to the Labor Department, from the General Fund, for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018, to allow the department to restore reduced funding for the Platform to Employment training program. 

Statement of Purpose: 

To restore funding for the Platform to Employment training program, which has successfully retrained older and technologically displaced Connecticut workers for new careers.