HB 6192
AN ACT CONCERNING THE NONDISCLOSURE OF CERTAIN COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN TEACHERS AND STUDENTS.
Statement of Purpose: To protect public school teachers from FOIA requests pertaining to communications with students regarding sensitive subjects, such as sexual orientation, gender identity and race, that take place during school-sponsored activities.
HB 6195
AN ACT CONCERNING GREEN ENERGY AND SCHOOLS.
Statement of Purpose: To promote and fund the build out of a green energy initiative by providing school building project grant reimbursement and minimum budget requirement relief for solar and geothermal installations to school buildings.
HB 6202
AN ACT REQUIRING SCHOOL DISTRICTS TO INCLUDE PROFESSIONAL EVALUATORS AT PLANNING AND PLACEMENT TEAM MEETINGS IN WHICH INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAMS ARE DEVELOPED OR DISCUSSED.
Statement of Purpose: To ensure that the best interests of a child are represented by mandating that professional evaluators are to be present at planning and placement team meetings in which individualized education programs are developed or discussed.
HB 6205
AN ACT CONCERNING THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN AEROSPACE ADVANCED MANUFACTURING HIGH SCHOOL.
Statement of Purpose: To establish a working group to develop an aerospace advanced manufacturing high school for the purpose of supporting the aerospace manufacturing education and job training pipeline in the state.
HB 6207
AN ACT CONCERNING SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING.
Statement of Purpose: To implement the recommendations of the Social and Emotional Learning and School Climate Advisory Collaborative.
HB 6297
AN ACT CONCERNING ENDOMETRIOSIS TRAINING FOR SCHOOL NURSES.
Statement of Purpose: To require that school nurses and school-based health center nurses be trained in endometriosis with trainings that include information on systemic racism.
HB 6396 –
AN ACT PROTECTING EDUCATORS IN TEACHING CERTAIN SUBJECTS AND TOPICS IN SCHOOLS.
Statement of Purpose:
To ensure that Connecticut public school educators are able to provide instruction in a work environment that is free from harassment, intimidation or physical violence stemming from ideological differences of opinion about certain subjects or topics, including, but not limited to, gender, sexuality, race, racism and climate change.
HB 6410
AN ACT CONCERNING GUIDELINES FOR THE REPORTING AND ENFORCEMENT OF ONLINE HARASSMENT OF STATE AND MUNICIPAL ELECTED OFFICIALS
Statement of Purpose: To create guidelines that find a balance between making election officials accessible to the people whom they serve and protecting them from abusive, offensive or threatening online harassment.
HB 6672
AN ACT CONCERNING ENDOMETRIOSIS.
—includes at least one hour of training on how “systemic racism and implicit bias” affect treatment of endometriosis.
Statement of Purpose: To require school nurses to receive training regarding endometriosis and establish an endometriosis data and biorepository program.
HB 5990
AN ACT STUDYING ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION FUNDING STRATEGIES.
Statement of Purpose:
To study alternative transportation funding strategies, including a
mileage-based user fee, so that the Special Transportation Fund remains
fiscally solvent in the future.
There are more bills destined out of Hartford this year; countdown to June 7th is 113 days. Buckle up CT.