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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 2692 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 6884 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2019 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 2692 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on HIGHER EDUCATION AND |
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| 11 | 11 | | EMPLOYMENT ADVANCEMENT |
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| 14 | 14 | | Introduced by: |
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| 15 | 15 | | REP. KOKORUDA, 101st Dist. |
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| 16 | 16 | | REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist. |
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| 21 | 21 | | AN ACT REQUIRING INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION TO |
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| 22 | 22 | | PROVIDE CONFIDENTIAL COUNSELING AND ADVOCACY SERVICES |
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| 23 | 23 | | TO VICTIMS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT, STALKING OR INTIMATE |
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| 24 | 24 | | PARTNER VIOLENCE. |
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| 25 | 25 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 26 | 26 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 28 | 28 | | That chapter 185 of the general statutes be amended to require 1 |
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| 29 | 29 | | institutions of higher education to provide confidential counselors and 2 |
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| 30 | 30 | | advocates, trained to assist victims of sexual assault, stalking or 3 |
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| 31 | 31 | | intimate partner violence, at each residential campus for the provision 4 |
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| 32 | 32 | | of crisis services to victims of sexual assault, stalking or intimate 5 |
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| 33 | 33 | | partner violence. Such crisis services shall include, but not be limited 6 |
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| 34 | 34 | | to, providing (1) information on reporting procedures, both on and off 7 |
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| 35 | 35 | | campus, (2) information on medical services available on or off 8 |
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| 36 | 36 | | campus, and (3) information on legal services available on or off 9 |
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| 37 | 37 | | campus. 10 Proposed Bill No. 6884 |
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| 40 | 40 | | LCO No. 2692 2 of 2 |
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| 42 | 42 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 43 | 43 | | To ensure that crisis counseling and advocacy services are available to |
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| 44 | 44 | | victims of sexual assault, stalking or intimate partner violence at each |
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| 45 | 45 | | residential campus of institutions of higher education. |
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