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| 3 | 3 | LCO No. 67 1 of 1 | |
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| 5 | 5 | General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 245 | |
| 6 | 6 | January Session, 2021 | |
| 7 | 7 | LCO No. 67 | |
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| 10 | 10 | Referred to Committee on EDUCATION | |
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| 13 | 13 | Introduced by: | |
| 14 | 14 | SEN. ANWAR, 3rd Dist. | |
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| 18 | 18 | AN ACT PROHIBITING SCHOOL DISTRICT POLICIES THAT | |
| 19 | 19 | DISCRIMINATE AGAINST STUDENTS BASED ON NATURAL HAIR | |
| 20 | 20 | AND HAIRSTYLES. | |
| 21 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 22 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
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| 24 | 24 | That section 10-221 of the general statutes be amended to prohibit a 1 | |
| 25 | 25 | local or regional board of education from developing, adopting or 2 | |
| 26 | 26 | implementing any policy that discriminates against or denies any 3 | |
| 27 | 27 | student an equal opportunity to participate in the activities, programs 4 | |
| 28 | 28 | and courses of study offered in the schools under the jurisdiction of such 5 | |
| 29 | 29 | board, on the basis of such student's natural hair, hair texture or 6 | |
| 30 | 30 | hairstyle, such as braids, dreadlocks and twists. 7 | |
| 31 | 31 | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 32 | 32 | To prohibit local and regional boards of education from adopting | |
| 33 | 33 | policies that discriminate against students based on natural hair and | |
| 34 | 34 | hairstyles. |