ACTS AFFECTING CHILDREN |
Susan Price, Principal Analyst
2007-R-0702
December 17, 2007
This report provides brief highlights of public and special acts affecting children enacted during the 2007 Regular and June Special sessions through December 5, 2007.
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In most cases we excluded acts making relatively minor changes and education acts relating to school governance, curriculum, or funding. Please see Acts Affecting Education (http: //cga. ct. gov/2007/rpt/2007-R-0574. htm) for a comprehensive summary of education-related changes.
Not all of the provisions of the acts that we mention here are described in this report; readers are encouraged to obtain the full text of acts that interest them from the Connecticut State Library, the House Clerk's office, or the General Assembly's website (http: //www. cga. ct. gov). Complete summaries of the acts passed in 2007 will be available shortly when OLR's Public Act Summary Book is published; all are now available on OLR's website (http: //cga. ct. gov/olr/OLRPASums. asp).
Extended Family Guardianship 6
Extended Support Period for Students 7
Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 8
(See also “JUVENILE JUSTICE” below) 9
(See also “JUVENILE JUSTICE” below) 10
Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Minor 10
Enhanced Penalties for Sex Crimes Targeting Children 11
New Crime Involving Enticement of a Minor 11
Decriminalizing Sex Between Youngsters Close in Age 12
Penalty Increases for Underage Tobacco Sales 12
Increase in School Readiness Per-Child Limit 13
Model Early Childhood Learning Programs 14
Hartford Kindergarten Grants 14
Leadership in Action Program 14
Child Day Care Staff Credentials 15
Day Care and Youth Camp Licenses 15
Day Care Services in Public School Buildings 15
Day Care Centers Operating in Adjacent Buildings 16
Emergency Administration of Potassium Iodide 16
Use of Restraints and Seclusion on Special Ed. Students 16
High School Graduation Study 17
Notice of Legal Services for School Expulsions 18
Unified School District #1 Education Records 18
Protecting Students from Identity Theft 18
Higher Education Bridges College Readiness Grant Program 18
Strategic Master Plan for Higher Education 19
In-State Tuition for Undocumented Immigrants 19
EMPLOYMENT AND JOB READINESS 19
Film Industry Opportunities 19
Connecticut Career Certificate Program 19
Youth Employment and Training Funds 20
Minority Teacher Recruitment and Retention 20
Grants to Discourage Kids from Smoking 21
School-Based Health Center Expansion 21
Pesticides on School Grounds 22
Children's Health Quality Improvement Program 22
Primary Care Case Management Pilot 23
Children's Hospice Pilot Program 23
Raising HUSKY A and B Income Limits 24
Medicaid for Pregnant Women 24
HUSKY Enrollment for Newborns 24
Enrolling Medicaid-Eligible Families in Employer Plans 24
School Reports on Student Insurance Rates 25
Coverage for Special Formula 26
Coverage for Lead Screening 26
(See also “CRIME” & “COMMUNITY BASED SERVICES” above) 26
Mandatory Fines for Liquor Possession 26
Expanding the Families With Service Needs Program 26
New Court Services for Juveniles 27
Raising the Age of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction 27
OPM Juvenile Justice Report 28
Erasing Juvenile Arrest and Court Records 28
(See also “HEALTH INSURANCE” above) 29
Increase in Cash Assistance Rates 29
Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Advisory Council 29
Child Poverty and Prevention Council 30
School Bus Driver Qualifications 30
School Security Improvements 31
Emergency Plans for Colleges and Occupational Schools 31
Earned Income Tax Credit Study 31
Uniform Transfer to Minors Act 32
Family and Medical Leave For Municipal Civil Union Partners 32
Learner's Permit Restrictions 32
Rights of Children Born Using Assisted Technology 33
This act increases short-term, unlicensed placement options for foster children. It allows the Department of Children and Families (DCF) to place half- and step-siblings with an unlicensed caregiver who is related to at least one of the children. Prior law required that each child be related to the caregiver.
The act also allows DCF to place younger children temporarily with family friends or other responsible adults by lowering the minimum age from 14 to 10.
By law, caregivers must become licensed foster parents if a placement lasts more than 90 days.
PA 07-8, effective October 1, 2007
This act allows DCF to increase guardianship payments for households that include children who are related to one another but not to the guardian. Prior law provided benefits only for relatives who were appointed guardians of children whose parents were either dead or unlikely to be able to care for them within the foreseeable future. Under the act, caregivers qualify for additional benefits when they assume guardianship of the child's half- or step-siblings.
PA 07-174, effective October 1, 2007
This act directs the New Haven Regional Children's Probate Court to establish an extended family guardianship and assisted care pilot program. Its purpose is to reduce the number of abused or neglected children placed in foster care outside their communities by reaching out to local family members and encouraging them to become guardians.
Guardian relatives qualify for cash grants of up to $ 500 per child. The program must also have a component for recruiting volunteers to assist the guardians.
PA 07- 4 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 6, effective October 1, 2007
This act modifies a number of the laws governing the Commission on Child Protection and its executive director, the chief child protection attorney (CCPA). By law, the commission hires and supervises contract attorneys who provide legal representation for children and indigent families, primarily in abuse and neglect cases.
Among other things, the act limits (1) direct training responsibilities and (2) the types of court proceedings in which CCPA must provide counsel for parents. The latter changes are generally consistent with prior practice.
PA 07-159, effective July 1, 2007
A new law conforms state law to federal requirements, giving foster parents, prospective adoptive parents, and relative caregivers the right to be heard at all proceedings concerning an abused or neglected child they cared for in the last year.
Prior law required courts to notify a child's current foster parent about scheduled hearings concerning the child's placement and required that he or she be given an opportunity to be heard. It allowed former foster parents to be heard only if they had cared for the child in the last year and the child had lived with them for at least six months.
The act (1) extends the notice and hearing requirements to current and former relative caregivers and prospective adoptive parents and (2) eliminates the six-month durational requirement for former foster parents.
PA 07-174, effective October 1, 2007
The law authorizes DCF or the Department of Administrative Services, acting on its behalf, to bill and collect up to the full cost of care for children in the state's child welfare program. The departments can bill the child's legally liable relatives (e. g. , parents), the child, or both.
This act prohibits them from billing a deceased recipient's estate. It also prohibits collections from a recipient's (1) lawsuit and lottery proceeds; (2) inheritance; or (3) trust payments, other than those from specified Medicaid trusts.
PA 07-203, effective on passage
Under prior law, 18-year-olds who were full time high school students had to live with one of their divorced parents in order to qualify for child support until they graduated or turned 19. But those whose support rights were based on paternity orders or whose parents never married were not required to live with a parent to qualify for the extended support.
This act eliminates the residency requirement for children of divorced parents.
PA 07-247 § 6, effective October 1, 2007
The law requires child support orders to include provisions concerning health insurance coverage. One option is for courts to order a parent to enroll the child in a reasonably-priced private or employer-sponsored plan; another is to order the custodial parent to enroll the child in HUSKY B if he or she can afford the premium.
This act establishes a formula courts can use to determine whether these options are affordable. Under the act, the cost of securing coverage is reasonable if it is (1) 5% or less of a low income parent's gross income or (2) 7. 5% or less in other cases.
The act also allows courts to order parents to pay a reasonable amount of cash medical support, using the formula described above, until reasonably-priced insurance becomes available.
PA 07- 247 §§ 3, 7, 11, and 57, effective October 1, 2007
This act eliminates a provision in prior law that prohibited employers from withholding income from an employee's paycheck while the withholding order's validity was being challenged in court.
It also requires employers to give priority to wage withholding orders related to an employee's medical support obligations over those related to past-due (1) child support or (2) alimony.
PA 07-247 §§ 9 and 56, effective January 1, 2008, except the medical support provision is effective October 1, 2007
This act conforms state child support laws to provisions in the federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005. Among other things, it:
1. allows the state to recoup child support arrearages from tax refunds beyond the affected child's 18th birthday;
2. limits the amount of child support that Temporary Family Assistance (TFA, cash welfare) applicants must assign to the state;
3. imposes a $ 25 annual fee on certain families receiving services from the state Bureau of Child Support Enforcement (the governor has directed the bureau not to implement this provision);
4. prohibits the Department of Motor Vehicles from renewing registrations for various recreational and collectible vehicles and boats when owners are more than $ 5,000 behind in child support payments; and
5. makes court orders directing employers to enroll a child in their health insurance plans enforceable when the employee is the child's custodial parent (prior law applied only to non-custodial parents).
PA 07-247 §§ 1, 2, 5, 8, 61, 64, and 66, effective October 1, 2007, except the TFA assignment provision is effective October 1, 2008
New legislation conforms many parts of Connecticut's Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) with changes in the model uniform law. UIFSA generally governs the establishment, enforcement, and modification of support orders and paternity determinations when the laws of two or more states could apply.
Its major changes include (1) new and modified definitions that are applicable throughout UIFSA, (2) limits on states' authority to modify child and spousal support orders they did not issue, and (3) new rules and procedures when one or more of the tribunals is a foreign country.
The act also allows many UIFSA procedures to be used to establish, enforce, and modify income withholding orders.
PA 07-247 §§15-56, effective January 1, 2008
A new law increases the number of youth service bureaus that qualify for state Department of Education (SDE) grants. It also requires SDE to enhance annual grant amounts based on the size of the town or group of towns bureaus serve.
Enhancements range from $ 3,300 for youth service bureaus serving areas with up to 8,000 residents to $ 10,000 for those serving more than 100,000.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) §§ 35-36, effective July 1, 2007
Under this new law, more types of programs qualify for SDE after-school program grants beginning October 1, 2007. Under prior law, grant money could be used only for direct services. The new law permits grantees to provide program support. It also requires that all after-school grant programs have parent involvement components, in addition to existing requirements that such programs provide educational, enrichment, and recreational activities.
It requires grantees to report to SDE on expenditures and performance outcomes, including the program's impact on student achievement and school attendance and behavior. It requires SDE to provide technical assistance, evaluation, program monitoring, professional development, and accreditation support to grantees.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 26, effective July 1, 2007
A new law aims to reduce urban violence by providing competitive grants to municipalities and agencies acting on their behalf. They can use the money for anti-violence programs and services targeting youth ages 12 to 18.
Grant recipients must involve parents and youth in program planning and operations.
PA 07-4 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 9, effective July 1, 2007
New legislation requires sex offenders who are required to register with the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to also register their email and instant message addresses and similar Internet communication identifiers. The addresses are not public records but DPS can release them for law enforcement or security purposes.
The act also authorizes DPS to designate a police officer to serve as a liaison between the department and electronic communication and remote computing service providers. When the liaison learns that a sex offender is a subscriber, customer, or service user, he or she must investigate to determine if this violates the offender's parole or probation terms.
The liaison may ask a judge to order a provider to disclose personally identifying information about a subscriber who is a sexual offender when the liaison shows reasonable grounds to believe that the information is relevant and material to an ongoing criminal investigation.
PA 07-4 (June Sp. Sess. ) §§ 90-96 and 98, effective upon passage
This act establishes a new crime of aggravated sexual assault of a minor. A person commits this crime when he or she commits specified crimes against a child under age 13 (see below) and:
1. kidnaps, illegally restrains, stalks, disfigures, causes serious injury to, or uses violence against the victim;
2. commits the same offense against more than one victim under age 13;
3. does not know the victim; or
4. has been previously convicted of a violent sexual assault.
The covered crimes are contact with the intimate parts of a child under age 13 in a sexual or indecent manner likely to impair the child's health or morals, 1st or 2nd degree sexual assault, 1st degree aggravated sexual assault, 1st or 2nd degree promoting prostitution, and employing a minor in an obscene performance.
Aggravated sexual assault of a minor is a class A felony. For first offenders, the mandatory minimum prison term is 25 years. For repeat offenders, it is 50 years.
PA 07-143, effective July 1, 2007
Legislation enhances penalties, including imposing mandatory minimum (mm) sentences, for certain crimes against children.
The table below shows the crimes, existing penalties, and the act's enhancements.
Offense |
Existing Prison Penalty |
Add'l Penalty Under the Act |
Risk of Injury -- victim under age 13 |
B felony (up to 20 yrs. ) |
5 yr. mm |
Employ Minor in Obscene Performance |
A felony (up to 25 yrs. ) |
10 yr. mm |
Enticing a Minor |
D felony (up to 5 yrs. ) |
B felony (up to 20 yrs. ):
1st offense: 5 yr. mm Repeat offense: 10 yr. mm |
Importing Child Pornography |
B felony |
5 yr. mm |
Child Pornography Possession: 1st degree |
B felony |
5 yr. mm |
Child Pornography Possession: 2nd degree |
C felony (up to 10 yrs. ) |
2 yr. mm |
Child Pornography Possession: 3rd degree |
D felony |
1 yr. mm |
PA 07-143, effective July 1, 2007
This act establishes a new crime of misrepresentation of age to entice a minor. A person commits this crime when he or she misrepresents his or her age and uses an interactive computer service to knowingly persuade, induce, entice, or coerce a person under age 16 to engage in prostitution or illegal sexual activity. Misrepresentation of age to entice a minor is a class C felony, punishable by imprisonment for up to 10 years, a fine of up to $ 10,000, or both.
PA 07-4 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 97, effective October 1, 2007
This act allows certain out-of-court statements made by young children about sexual or physical assault committed against them by authority figures to be used as evidence at trial. Normally, such statements are considered inadmissible hearsay evidence.
The act establishes standards for judges to use in determining if (1) the statement is trustworthy and (2) its use unfairly prejudices an adverse party.
(PA 07-217 restricts the applicability of this provision to juvenile and criminal court proceedings. )
PA 07-143, as amended by PA 07-217, effective July 1, 2007
This act decriminalizes consensual sexual activity between youngsters close in age by increasing, from two to three years, the age difference between the two before the older teen is guilty of 2nd degree sexual assault (i. e. , statutory rape). Just as under existing law, the act applies when the younger teen is at least age 13 but under age 16.
The act also decriminalizes consensual sexual contact between children and teenagers close in age. Under prior law, anyone who had sexual contact with a person under age 15 was guilty of 4th degree sexual assault. Under the act, the actor is guilty of this crime only if he or she is more than (1) two years older than a partner under age 13 or (2) three years older than a partner between ages 13 and 15.
PA 07-143, effective October 1, 2007
This act increases the civil penalties for (1) youngsters under age 18 who buy cigarette or tobacco products and (2) people who sell, give, or deliver the products to them. By law, the Department of Revenue Services commissioner assesses the penalties following a hearing.
PA 07-175, effective October 1, 2007
By January 1, 2008, this act requires the Police Officer Standards and Training Council to develop and implement a policy governing the way law enforcement agencies take and respond to reports of missing persons.
The policy must include:
1. guidelines for accepting reports;
2. types of information an agency must collect and record;
3. circumstances that indicate that a missing person should be classified as high risk;
4. types of information the agency should provide to the person making a report, the missing person's relatives, or anyone who can help the agency find the person; and
5. agency responsibilities and procedures in responding to a report.
PA 07-151, effective July 1, 2007
This act extends the $ 6,925 limit on the per-child cost of the SDE school readiness program component through December 2007. For January 2008 and each subsequent month, it requires SDE to increase the limit to a level it determines can be funded with 50% of the estimated unspent (lapsed) FY 08 appropriation for school readiness spaces as of June 30, 2008, but not more than $ 8,266 per child. SDE must estimate the projected lapse on January 1, 2008.
PA 07-5 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 70, effective on passage
This act requires the Early Childhood Education Cabinet to begin its statewide, longitudinal school readiness program evaluation by July 1, 2008. It specifically requires the study to examine the educational progress of children from pre-kindergarten to grade three.
It extends, from January 1, 2000 to January 1, 2008, the date by which the commissioner must adopt assessment measures school readiness programs must use when conducting annual evaluations.
And it requires the cabinet to develop and implement an accountability plan for early childhood education services annually beginning by December 1, 2008. State-funded early childhood education providers must use the program measures developed under the accountability plan to evaluate and report on the effectiveness of their services.
Finally, it requires the cabinet to (1) develop minimum standards and a range of higher quality standards for all state-funded early care and education programs and (2) develop a quality workforce development plan for school readiness providers in consultation with the Office of Workforce Competitiveness.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) §§ 17, 19, 21, and 45, effective July 1, 2007, except the workforce development provision is effective on passage
The education commissioner must establish two model early childhood learning programs associated with higher education institutions in place of the two similar pilot programs prior law required. Each one may include a laboratory school and a model day care program for 60 children ages three to five. The act requires SDE to issue requests for proposals for the programs and provide grants of $ 100,000 each from Early Reading Success Program funds.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 46, effective July 1, 2007
A provision in the Education implementer gives SDE more flexibility to distribute Head Start funds. It eliminates a requirement that the department allocate at least 75% of the competitive grant funds to Head Start programs established before July 1, 1992.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 48, effective July 1, 2007
This act extends indefinitely the education commissioner's ability to provide grants for Hartford students to participate in an all-day kindergarten program under the Open Choice inter-district school attendance program. The grants can be used to pay for kindergartners' before- and after-school care and remedial services as well as for subsidies to receiving school districts.
PA 07-5 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 55, effective on passage
A new law moves up the deadline (by two years, to October 1, 2007) by which the education commissioner must develop and implement a state-wide, developmentally appropriate kindergarten assessment tool. Under the act, the tool must not be used to measure school readiness program accountability.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 18, effective July 1, 2007
For FYs 08 and 09, the legislature authorized the Early Childhood Education Cabinet to spend up to $ 100,000 per year to support the Annie E. Casey Foundation's Leadership in Action Program. That program trains people from diverse fields and backgrounds to focus on achieving a specific result, such as reducing the number of low birth-weight babies or increasing the number of children ready for kindergarten.
PA 07-5 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 28, effective on passage
This act requires SDE to establish and administer a grant program to match federal and private funds for grants for pediatric care providers to promote early childhood literacy in health care settings.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 30, effective July 1, 2007, repealed by PA 07-5 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 73, effective on passage
Beginning January 1, 2008 a new law bars the Department of Social Services (DSS) from raising reimbursement rates for state-funded child day care centers that do not meet statutory school readiness staffing requirements. Classrooms must have at least one staff person with specified academic credentials; stricter credentialing requirements phase in for future years.
PA 07-2 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 15, effective July 1, 2007
This act makes changes to day care and youth camp licensing laws that the Department of Public Health (DPH) administers. It revises (1) the types of recreational programs that are exempt from day care licensure and (2) licensure for day care operations serving six or fewer children outside of a private home. It doubles to four years the duration of a day care license and doubles the license fee, and makes anyone whose license is revoked ineligible for a new license for one year.
The act limits the programs that must be licensed as youth camps to those that (1) operate only during school vacations or on weekends and (2) serve children ages three through 15. And it excludes certain Boys and Girls Clubs' programs from licensure.
PA 07-129, effective October 1, 2007, except the youth camp provisions are effective September 1, 2007
This act allows day care centers and group day care homes that provide services exclusively to school-age children
in a public school building to ask DPH for a variance from its regulations governing physical plant requirements.
Before DPH can approve a variance, it requires the center or home to (1) document that it will satisfactorily meet the regulation's specific intent by other means and (2) enter a written agreement with DPH specifying the variance, its duration, and the terms under which it is granted.
The variance is cancelled immediately if the home or center fails to comply with the agreement.
PA 07-252, § 83, effective on passage
DPH requires a separate license for each building in which a child day care center operator provides services. This act specifies that a center operating in two or more buildings needs only one license if (1) the same licensee provides services in each building and (2) all buildings are contiguous to a common playground.
PA 07-22, effective on passage
This act (1) requires day care providers and youth camps, among others, to provide potassium iodide during a public health emergency to their residents, enrollees, staff, and others present, at the DPH commissioner's direction, and (2) makes changes to related notice requirements.
Potassium iodide prevents or decreases the likelihood of developing thyroid cancer following exposure to radiation. By law, these covered entities must (1) advise people about potassium iodide's contraindications and potential side effects and that taking it is voluntary and (2) obtain prior written permission from the individual or his or her representative or a minor's parent or guardian.
PA 07-129, effective October 1, 2007
This act regulates the use of physical restraints and seclusion on students receiving or awaiting eligibility determinations for special education services in public schools. It (1) gives the State Board of Education (SBE) authority over their use as part of its existing mandate to regulate special education curriculum and instructional conditions and (2) requires the SBE to adopt implementing regulations.
The act requires local and regional boards of education to tell pupils, parents, guardians, and others standing in the place of parents about:
1. the laws and regulations governing the use of physical restraints and seclusion and
2. related student and parental rights.
This must occur at the first planning team meeting.
PA 07-147, effective October 1, 2007
New legislation requires the Education Committee chairpersons and ranking members, or their designees, the education commissioner, SBE chairperson, and Office of Policy and Management (OPM) secretary to form a committee to study high school graduation requirements.
The newly-formed committee must report on the study to the governor and Education Committee by January 15, 2008.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 34, effective July 1, 2007
A new law permits schools to provide alternative programs for students otherwise facing suspension or expulsion. It allows school administrators and boards of education to shorten or waive suspensions or expulsions for first-time offenders who complete the alternative program and meet any other specified conditions.
Information about the disciplinary action must be expunged from the cumulative records of students who successfully complete the program.
PA 07-122, effective July 1, 2007
This act generally prohibits out-of-school suspensions and extends, from five to 10 days, the maximum length of in-school suspensions.
The law allows a student to be suspended for conduct (1) that violates a publicized board policy or seriously disrupts the educational process or (2) on school grounds or at a school-sponsored activity that endangers persons or property. It defines “suspension” as exclusion from school privileges, or from transportation services only, for up to 10 consecutive school days.
The act requires suspensions to be in-school suspensions unless the school administration determines, at the required informal suspension hearing, that the student must serve the suspension outside of school because he or she (1) poses such a danger to persons or property or (2) seriously disrupts the educational process.
PA 07-66, effective July 1, 2008
Except in emergencies, school boards must hold hearings before they can expel students. A new law requires them to notify students and parents about free or low cost legal services and how to obtain them.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 49, effective July 1, 2007
By law, a school district receiving a transfer student must give written notice of the student's enrollment to the student's former school district. A new law requires schools receiving transfer students from Unified School District #1, which serves students in Department of Correction custody, to provide the notice to the unified district within 10 days of the enrollment. It specifies that, as is required by law for all sending districts, Unified School District #1 must provide the student's records to the new school within 10 days of receiving the notice.
PA 07-38, effective July 1, 2007
This new law allows high schools that host college prep or admissions forums to inform parents that responding to some surveys that accompany college admission exams is optional. It authorizes school boards to establish this rule.
Schools would also have to warn parents that releasing personally identifying information can increase a student's risk for identity theft.
PA 07-241, effective July 1, 2007
A new law allows organizations qualified to conduct bazaars and raffles to conduct special tuition raffles once a year. The prize is a school tuition payment for a student the winner selects. The Department of Special Revenue must adopt implementing regulations.
PA 07-36, effective October 1, 2007
A new law requires the Department of Higher Education (DHE) to contract, by March 1, 2008, with the Connecticut State University (CSU) system's board of trustees to develop a college-readiness grant program to (1) address core subject-matter deficiencies among college-bound high school students and (2) improve these students' performance on Connecticut mastery and college placement tests. The CSU trustees must (1) develop a plan for implementing a college-readiness program in the CSU system, in consultation with SDE and DHE and (2) submit it to SDE and DHE.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 39, effective on passage
The legislature created a 36-member blue ribbon commission to develop and implement a strategic master plan for higher education in Connecticut. The plan must identify short- and long-term goals and include benchmarks to meet by 2010, 2015, and 2020.
The commission must submit biennial progress reports to the governor and various legislative committees beginning October 1, 2008 and continuing through 2020.
PA 07-3 (June Sp. Sess. ) § 41, effective July 1, 2007
This act extends in-state tuition rates to undocumented immigrants living in Connecticut. It applies to those who (1) complete at least four years of high school here; (2) obtain a high school diploma or its equivalent; and (3) register as entering students or are currently enrolled at UConn, a Connecticut State University, a community-technical college, or Charter Oak State College.
Undocumented students must file affidavits with the college stating that they have applied to legalize their immigration status or will do so as soon as they become eligible to apply.
PA 07-135, effective July 1, 2007 (VETOED)