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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 7258
January Session, 2019
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E ESTABLISHMENT OF A FIRM
GRADUATION DATE AND THE DATE WHEN A SCHOOL DISTRICT
MAY COMMENCE SCHOOL SESSIONS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 10-16l of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2019): 2
Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, [to the 3
contrary,] a local or regional board of education may establish for any 4
school year a firm graduation date for students in grade twelve which 5
is no earlier than the one hundred [eighty-fifth] eightieth day noted in 6
the school calendar originally adopted by the board for that school 7
year. [, except that a board on or after April first in any school year 8
may establish such a firm graduation date for that school year which at 9
the time of such establishment provides for at least one hundred eighty 10
days of school.] 11
Sec. 2. Subsection (b) of section 10-66q of the general statutes is 12
repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 13
1, 2019): 14
(b) For the school year commencing July 1, [2017] 2019, and each 15
school year thereafter, a local or regional board of education may (1) 16
develop and adopt its own school calendar, which may include the 17 Substitute Bill No. 7258
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commencement of regular school sessions for the school year on any 18
day before or after the first Monday in September, or (2) adopt the 19
uniform regional school calendar developed and approved pursuant to 20
subsection (a) of this section. 21
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2019 10-16l
Sec. 2 July 1, 2019 10-66q(b)
ED Joint Favorable Subst.