LCO No. 35 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5076 January Session, 2019 LCO No. 35 Referred to Committee on EDUCATION Introduced by: REP. CHEESEMAN, 37th Dist. AN ACT CONCERNING THE ALTERNATIVE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY REQUIREMENT FOR EXPELLED STUDENTS. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: That section 10-233o of the general statutes be amended to reduce 1 the requirement that local and regional boards of education provide 2 nine hundred hours of instructional time as part of the alternative 3 educational opportunity for expelled students. 4 Statement of Purpose: To amend the amount of instructional time that school districts are required to provide to students who have been expelled.