LCO No. 2196 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 441 January Session, 2021 LCO No. 2196 Referred to Committee on EDUCATION Introduced by: SEN. BERTHEL, 32nd Dist. AN ACT CONCERNING POD PROTECTION. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: That the general statutes be amended to allow parents and guardians 1 to associate and group children together at various times in order to 2 enhance their primary education programming free from additional 3 state restriction or regulation. 4 Statement of Purpose: To protect families' access to pod-based learning by ensuring that parents who choose to voluntarily associate to advance the primary education of their children not be subject to additional restrictions or regulation.