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General Assembly Bill No. 7402
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 6645
Referred to Committee on No Committee
Introduced by:
REP. ARESIMOWICZ, 30
th
Dist.
REP. RITTER M., 1
st
Dist.
SEN. LOONEY, 11
th
Dist.
SEN. DUFF, 25
th
Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING FU NDING FOR ASSISTANCE TO PERSONS
DISPLACED BY HURRICA NE MARIA.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 19 of public act 18-81 is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage): 2
The following sums appropriated in section 1 of public act 17-2 of 3
the June special session, as amended by section 16 of public act 17-4 of 4
the June special session, section 1 of public act 17-1 of the January 5
special session and section 1 of [this act] public act 18-81, for the fiscal 6
year ending June 30, 2019, shall be for the purpose of providing 7
assistance to persons residing in the state who were displaced by 8
Hurricane Maria as follows: (1) $400,000 to the Department of 9
Education, for Bilingual Education, to be distributed to the top six 10
school districts with the largest concentration of Hurricane Maria 11
evacuees; (2) $600,000 to the Department of Housing, for 12
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Housing/Homeless Services, to fund security deposits and first month 13
rent to those evacuees impacted by Hurricane Maria; and (3) $500,000 14
to the Department of Social Services, for Human Resource 15
Development-Hispanic Programs, as follows: $90,000 to the Hispanic 16
Coalition Inc. in Waterbury, $90,000 to Junta For Progressive Action in 17
New Haven, $90,000 to Family Resource Center in Hartford for 18
Hartford Public Schools - The Welcome Center, $90,000 to Caribe 19
Youth Leaders in [Waterbury] Bridgeport, $40,000 to Casa Boricua in 20
Meriden, $40,000 to Human Resource Agency of New Britain Inc. in 21
New Britain, $40,000 to YMCA of Greater Hartford, Larson Center and 22
$20,000 to Thames Valley Council for Community Action in New 23
London. 24
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage PA 18-81, Sec. 19