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AN ACT CONCERNING THE EARLY CHILDHOOD CARE AND EDUCATION FUND.
To make use of the Early Childhood Care and Education Fund to fund early care and education programs and initiatives in the state.
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office (3/10)
AN ACT CREATING THE UNIVERSAL PRESCHOOL ENDOWMENT.
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
ED Public Hearing: Wed 2/19 10:00 AM @ ROOM 1E AND ZOOM AND YOUTUBE LIVE (2/14)
Monitored Bills
AN ACT CONCERNING RESOURCES AND SUPPORTS FOR INFANTS, TODDLERS AND DISCONNECTED YOUTHS.
To provide support for children from birth to age five and address challenges faced by disconnected youths.
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office (3/10)
AN ACT CONCERNING SCHOOL EMERGENCY RESPONSE SYSTEMS.
To authorize the use of funds received under the school security infrastructure competitive grant program for the purchase of emergency response communications systems and personal emergency communication devices for school personnel.
File Number 37 (3/5)
AN ACT CONCERNING ASSORTED REVISIONS TO THE EDUCATION STATUTES.
To (1) require EASTCONN to establish a pilot program to implement a uniform chart of accounts, (2) increase the retirement benefit for full-time credited service in an alliance district and reduce the penalty for early retirement, (3) from the funds appropriated for the after-school program grant program, (A) provide a grant-in-aid to an organization that provides support services to grant recipients, and (B) set aside ten per cent for towns with populations between seven thousand five hundred and twenty thousand, (4) remove the allowance for the establishment of a Connecticut School Reform Resource Center through contract with a regional educational resource center, and (5) require the Department of Education to allocate funds to the State Education Resource Center as specified in its annual budget.
ED Public Hearing: Wed 3/19 10:00 AM @ ROOM 1E AND ZOOM AND YOUTUBE LIVE (3/14)
AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CHILD CARE PROVIDERS UNDER THE STATE EMPLOYEE HEALTH PLAN.
To allow any child care provider, including, but not limited to, any home child care provider, to participate in the state employee health plan.
Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate (1/14)
AN ACT AUTHORIZING BONDS OF THE STATE FOR A CHILD CARE CENTER IN THE FAIR HAVEN NEIGHBORHOOD OF THE CITY OF NEW HAVEN.
To provide funding for a child care center in the Fair Haven neighborhood of the city of New Haven.
Referred to Joint Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding (1/17)
AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR CHILD CARE EDUCATORS.
To expand health insurance coverage for child care educators in this state.
Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate (1/17)
AN ACT REQUIRING CLASSIFICATION OF VIOLATIONS FOUND BY THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.
To require the Office of Early Childhood to create classifications for violations issued to child care facilities to differentiate between technical violations and safety or security violations.
Referred to Joint Committee on Education (1/22)
AN ACT CONCERNING TECHNICAL SUPPORT SERVICES FOR CHILD CARE PROVIDERS.
To support the technology and support needs of child care providers based on the guidance of the Office of Early Childhood and The University of Connecticut partnership.
Referred to Joint Committee on Education (1/22)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING STANDARDS FOR INSURANCE COMPANIES TO TERMINATE COVERAGE OR ADJUST PREMIUMS FOR INSPECTION VIOLATIONS AT CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS.
To establish a rubric standard for the ability of insurance companies to terminate coverage or adjust premiums at any child day care center based on inspection violations by such child day care center.
Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate (1/22)
AN ACT CONCERNING NOTICE OF FIREARMS BY OPERATORS OF FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES.
To require (1) family child care home operators to notify parents and guardians of the presence of firearms, and (2) the Office of Early Childhood to take adverse licensing action against operators for violation of said requirement.
File Number 31 (3/3)
AN ACT RESTRICTING RESIDENCY OF REGISTERED SEX OFFENDERS NEAR SCHOOLS AND DAY CARE FACILITIES.
To prohibit registered sex offenders from residing near schools or day care facilities.
Referred to Joint Committee on Judiciary (1/23)
AN ACT INCREASING THE NUMBER OF CHILDREN PERMITTED IN FAMILY CHILD CARE HOMES.
To increase the maximum number of children being provided care in a family child care home from nine to twelve children.
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office (3/10)
AN ACT REQUIRING THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD TO STUDY THE AVAILABILITY OF CHILD CARE SERVICES THROUGHOUT THE STATE AND TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO ADDRESS INFANT AND TODDLER CHILD CARE SERVICES NEEDS FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES.
To require the Office of Early Childhood to conduct an annual study of child care availability throughout the state and to develop a plan to address infant and toddler childcare needs for low-income families.
File Number 42 (3/5)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE STATE BUDGET FOR THE BIENNIUM ENDING JUNE THIRTIETH, 2027, AND MAKING APPROPRIATIONS THEREFOR.
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
Public Hearing 02/28 (2/19)
AN ACT CONCERNING EARLY EDUCATOR PAY EQUITY.
To increase the salaries of early childhood educators by establishing the early childhood care and education salary enhancement grant program.
Favorable Change of Reference, Senate to Committee on Education (2/24)
AN ACT ESTABLISHING A PILOT PROGRAM TO DISSEMINATE INFORMATION CONCERNING CHILD CARE SERVICES, EARLY INTERVENTION PROGRAMS AND FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS TO PATIENTS RECEIVING PRENATAL CARE.
To require the Office of Early Childhood to develop and administer a pilot program to disseminate information concerning child care services, early intervention programs and financial assistance programs to patients receiving prenatal care.
File Number 83 (3/12)
AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.
To implement the recommendations of the Office of Early Childhood.
ED Public Hearing: Wed 2/19 10:00 AM @ ROOM 1E AND ZOOM AND YOUTUBE LIVE (2/14)
AN ACT CONCERNING CERTAIN RECREATIONAL AND EDUCATIONAL CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS.
To (1) prohibit certain recreational or educational children's programs from using the term "camp" in advertising materials, (2) require certain employees of municipal recreational or educational children's programs to submit to comprehensive background checks, (3) require municipal recreational or educational children's programs to maintain certain staffing ratios and employ staff persons trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and first aid, and (4) require certain employees of municipal recreational or educational children's programs to serve as mandated reporters and complete related training.
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office (3/10)
AN ACT CONCERNING EDUCATION FUNDING.
To make revisions to the education cost sharing grant and the choice program grant.
ED Public Hearing: Wed 3/12 10:00 AM @ ROOM 1E AND ZOOM AND YOUTUBE LIVE (3/7)
AN ACT REQUIRING ALL MUNICIPAL CHILD CARE PROGRAMS TO BE LICENSED BY THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD.
To require all municipal child care programs to have the same licensure and oversight requirements as other non-license exempt child care programs in the state.
Referred to Joint Committee on Education (1/16)
AN ACT CONCERNING CHILD CARE REGULATIONS, SAFETY STANDARDS AND OVERSIGHT.
To increase protections, regulatory oversight and funding of early childhood care and education providers.
Referred to Joint Committee on Education (1/17)
AN ACT REQUIRING SCHOOLS, CHILD CARE FACILITIES AND EMERGENCY RESPONSE VEHICLES TO BE EQUIPPED WITH A PORTABLE AIRWAY CLEARANCE DEVICE.
To require each school, child care facility and emergency response vehicle to be equipped with a portable airway clearance device.
Referred to Joint Committee on Public Health (1/21)
AN ACT CONCERNING HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR EARLY CHILD CARE WORKERS.
To allow any early child care worker to obtain health insurance coverage under the state employee health plan.
Referred to Joint Committee on Insurance and Real Estate (1/22)
AN ACT AUTHORIZING AND ADJUSTING BONDS OF THE STATE.
To implement the Governor's budget recommendations.
FIN Public Hearing: Wed 2/26 11:00 AM @ ROOM 2E AND ZOOM AND YOUTUBE LIVE (2/20)
AN ACT EXPANDING MANUFACTURING WORKFORCE TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN.
To (1) prioritize the participation of women in youth manufacturing workforce training programs, CareerConneCT workforce training programs related to manufacturing and the Connecticut Career Accelerator Program, and (2) require Connecticut State Community College to offer financial and career counseling services to such women.
Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/19/25 5:00 PM (3/14)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE LEGISLATIVE COMMISSIONERS' RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TECHNICAL REVISIONS TO THE EDUCATION AND EARLY CHILDHOOD STATUTES.
To make technical revisions to the education and early childhood statutes.
Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office (3/13)
AN ACT CONCERNING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES.
To (1) require criminal history searches and records checks for relative and fictive kin caregivers upon emergency placement of children with such caregivers by the Department of Children and Families, (2) permit certain youths previously committed to the care and custody of the Commissioner of Children and Families to reenter care, (3) require disclosure of Department of Children and Families records to the Department of Developmental Services and the Office of Policy and Management for certain purposes, (4) expand the definition of "child care facility" for purposes of licensure by the Department of Children and Families to include certain congregate care settings for individuals who require special education, until the end of the school year in which such individuals turn twenty-two years of age, (5) require the Department of Children and Families to develop a Foster Parent Bill of Rights and incorporate such bill of rights into department policy, and (6) revise the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children.
File Number 89 (3/13)
AN ACT CONCERNING CHILD CARE SUPPORT FOR CONNECTICUT'S WORKFORCE.
To establish the Workforce Child Care Fund to assist working families in the cost of child care and to cap the cost of child care at seven per cent of a family's annual household income.
Favorable Change of Reference, House to Committee on Finance, Revenue and Bonding (3/13)
AN ACT CONCERNING ASPIRING EDUCATORS.
To make revisions to the laws governing the recruitment of aspiring educators.
ED Public Hearing: Wed 3/19 10:00 AM @ ROOM 1E AND ZOOM AND YOUTUBE LIVE (3/14)