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| 3 | 3 | | LCO No. 3397 1 of 2 |
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| 5 | 5 | | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 738 |
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| 6 | 6 | | January Session, 2019 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LCO No. 3397 |
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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 towns with 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | a total population of fewer than forty thousand, except those regional 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | school districts that provide instruction for grades kindergarten to 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | twelve, inclusive, in manner similar to the probate districts set forth in 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | section 45a-2 of the general statutes, and require such towns to join a 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | regional school district, (2) when a newly created regional school 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | district affects two or more collective bargaining units, (A) allow the 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | employees of the newly consolidated regional school district to be 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | represented by a coalition of the existing collective bargaining units or 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | create a new collective bargaining unit for such regional school district, 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | and (B) require, upon expiration of existing collective bargaining 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | agreements for single-town school districts that have been 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | consolidated, any subsequent collective bargaining agreement to be 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | negotiated on a regional basis, and (3) become effective state-wide for 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | the school year commencing July 1, 2021, if such plan has not been 17 Proposed Bill No. 738 |
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| 42 | 42 | | LCO No. 3397 2 of 2 |
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| 44 | 44 | | approved by the General Assembly and signed into law on or before 18 |
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| 45 | 45 | | 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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