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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 2479 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 454 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2019 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 2479 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Referred to Committee on EDUCATION |
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| 13 | 13 | | Introduced by: |
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| 14 | 14 | | SEN. LOONEY, 11th Dist. |
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| 18 | 18 | | AN ACT CONCERNING THE CREATION OF REGIONAL SCHOOL |
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| 19 | 19 | | DISTRICTS. |
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| 20 | 20 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General |
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| 21 | 21 | | Assembly convened: |
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| 23 | 23 | | That part III of chapter 164 be amended to create a commission 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | responsible for developing a plan to implement regional consolidation 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | of school districts, and that such plan shall (1) realign those school 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | districts with a total student population of fewer than forty thousand 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | students, except those regional school districts that provide instruction 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | for grades kindergarten to twelve, inclusive, in manner similar to the 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | probate districts set forth in section 45a-2 of the general statutes, and 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | require such school districts to join a regional school district, (2) when 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | a newly created regional school district affects two or more collective 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | bargaining units, (A) allow the employees of the newly consolidated 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | regional school district to be represented by a coalition of the existing 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | collective bargaining units or create a new collective bargaining unit 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | for such regional school district, and (B) require, upon expiration of 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | existing collective bargaining agreements for single-town school 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | districts that have been consolidated, any subsequent collective 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | bargaining agreement to be negotiated on a regional basis, and (3) 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | become effective state-wide for the school year commencing July 1, 17 Proposed Bill No. 454 |
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| 42 | 42 | | LCO No. 2479 2 of 2 |
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| 44 | 44 | | 2021, if such plan has not been approved by the General Assembly and 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | signed into law on or before July 1, 2020. 19 |
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| 46 | 46 | | Statement of Purpose: |
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| 47 | 47 | | To create a more efficient educational system. |
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