LCO No. 355 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 165 January Session, 2021 LCO No. 355 Referred to Committee on COMMERCE Introduced by: SEN. HASKELL, 26th Dist. AN ACT CONCERNING A COVID -19 MEMORIAL. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: That the general statutes be amended to require the Department of 1 Economic and Community Development to establish a process by 2 which members of the public may submit proposals for a COVID-19 3 memorial to a panel of architects, sculptors and landscape architects 4 convened by the Office of the Arts within the Department of Economic 5 and Community Development and that such memorial be erected in a 6 state park. 7 Statement of Purpose: To honor the thousands of lives lost in Connecticut due to the COVID- 19 pandemic by erecting a memorial.