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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6829
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 2962
Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
REP. CURREY, 11th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING FISCALLY INDEPENDENT SCHOOL
DISTRICTS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
That title 10 of the general statutes be amended to require that, for 1
the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, and each fiscal year thereafter, any 2
local or regional board of education with an average daily 3
membership, as defined in section 10-261 of the general statutes, equal 4
to or less than fifteen thousand pupils shall become an independent 5
special purpose government with the authority to fix and collect taxes 6
and to issue debt for the provision of educational services. 7
Statement of Purpose:
To increase school district transparency and accountability by making
school districts fiscally independent entities.