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General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 738
January Session, 2019
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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 towns with 3
a total population of fewer than forty thousand, except those regional 4
school districts that provide instruction for grades kindergarten to 5
twelve, inclusive, in manner similar to the probate districts set forth in 6
section 45a-2 of the general statutes, and require such towns to join a 7
regional school district, (2) when a newly created regional school 8
district affects two or more collective bargaining units, (A) allow the 9
employees of the newly consolidated regional school district to be 10
represented by a coalition of the existing collective bargaining units or 11
create a new collective bargaining unit for such regional school district, 12
and (B) require, upon expiration of existing collective bargaining 13
agreements for single-town school districts that have been 14
consolidated, any subsequent collective bargaining agreement to be 15
negotiated on a regional basis, and (3) become effective state-wide for 16
the school year commencing July 1, 2021, if such plan has not been 17 Proposed Bill No. 738
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approved by the General Assembly and signed into law on or before 18
July 1, 2020. 19
Statement of Purpose:
To create a more efficient educational system.