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