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Health |
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Senate
Bill 339 - Concerning Child Nutrition Programs
Statement of Purpose: To increase participation
in the four major federally funded childhood nutrition
programs, as well as establish programs for child nutrition
at schools.
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Senate Bill 461 - Concerning Teen Age Pregnancy Prevention
Programs
Statement of Purpose:
To establish a state grant
program that will assist local and regional school boards in
the development of teenage pregnancy prevention programs.
Testimony |
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House
Bill 5490 - Concerning Student Health Data
Statement of Purpose: To establish an initiative
to collect and analyze data concerning the prevalence of
pediatric chronic disease and related risk factors in
schools.
Testimony |
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House
Bill 5498 - Concerning a Catastrophic Illness in
Children
Statement of Purpose: To establish the
Catastrophic Illness in Children Relief program.
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House Bill 5536 - Establishing the Connecticut Healthcare
Partnership
Statement of purpose: To
reduce costs to municipalities and increase benefits for
employees by opening the state employee insurance pool and
allow municipal employees to join voluntarily.
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Safety |
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House Bill 5926 - Concerning Families with Service Needs...
Statement of Purpose: To(1)
make minor revisions to the family with service needs
statutes in accordance with the recommendations of the
Family with Service Needs Advisory Board, (2) establish
pilot programs and provide funding in accordance with the
recommendations of said board, (3) permit a parent to
request from the Department of Public Health a certificate
of birth resulting in stillbirth, (4) establish a
community-based pilot program to provide additional reentry
and diversionary services for youth, and (5) study the
feasibility of establishing a separate drug court for
offenders under the age of eighteen.
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House Bill 5500 - Concerning Enforcement of Bullying
Policies
Statement of Purpose: To
examine the effectiveness of school responses to bullying
and to develop prevention strategies against cyberbullying
and bullying in school.
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Learning |
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House Bill 5103 - Increasing the Funding for
Summer Youth Employment
Statement of Purpose: To increase funding for
summer youth employment so that young people across the
state may have an opportunity to learn about and become
familiar with work, saving and asset building.
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House Bill 5134 - Concerning the Early Childhood
Cabinet
Statement of Purpose: To add members to the Early
Childhood Education Cabinet.
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House Bill 5590 - Concerning Special Education and
Instructional Methods Concerning Autism and Other
Developmental Disabilities
Statement of Purpose: To
require the development and use of instructional methods for
children with autism and other developmental disabilities.
Testimony |
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House Bill 5592 - Concerning Early Childhood
Education
Statement of Purpose: To permit the issuance of a
temporary ninety-day certificate to applicants in the
certification endorsement area of early childhood education.
Testimony |
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House Bill 5593 - Concerning Early Reading
Success Grants
Statement of Purpose: To require
priority school districts receiving early reading success
grants to report the percentage of students in grades one to
three, inclusive, who are at or above proficiency for their
grade level.
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Families |
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Senate Bill 163 - Concerning a State Earned
Income Tax Credit
Statement of Purpose: To provide persons who
qualify for and claim the federal earned income tax credit,
a credit against their state liability equal to twenty per
cent of their federal credit for the same income year.
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Senate Bill 174 -
Implementing
Recommendations Concerning the Department of Children and
Families
Statement of Purpose: To implement the
recommendations of the Program Review and Investigations
Committee regarding the Department of Children and Families
by improving the department's monitoring and evaluation
system.
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Senate Bill 266 - Establishing a Task Force to
Study the Causes of Fatherlessness in Connecticut
Statement of Purpose: To attempt to examine one
of the root causes of poverty and other social ills.
Testimony |
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Senate Bill 270 - Concerning School-Family
Partnerships
Statement of Purpose: To elevate the importance
of school-family partnerships in schools and districts in
need of corrective action by improving school-family
partnerships through the implementation of best practice
initiatives and training for parents, professional
development and technical assistance for teachers and
administrators at the school and district level.
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Senate Bill 303 -
Creating a Comprehensive System for Children and
Families from Birth to Age 5
Statement of Purpose:
To
create a master contract between the Departments of Social
Services, Education, Public Health, Children and Families
and the Children's Trust Fund to improve child outcomes by
integrating services for children and families from birth to
age five.
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Senate
Bill 304 - Concerning Children of Incarcerated
Parents
Statement of Purpose:
To
provide services to children with incarcerated parents.
Testimony |
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Senate Bill 340 - Establishing an Early Childhood
Integrated System of Care
Statement of Purpose:
To
establish an Early Childhood Integrated System of Care for
children and families based on the Child FIRST model
currently in place in Bridgeport.
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Senate Bill 342 - Appropriating Funds for Six Additional Family Support Centers
Statement of Purpose: To appropriate funds for
the establishment of six additional family support centers
so that high-risk and high-need children and their families
receive necessary diversionary services in or close to their
local community.
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Senate Bill 344 - Concerning Family Prosperity
and the Recommendations of the Child Poverty and Prevention
Council
Statement of Purpose:
To
establish and administer a grant program to reduce child
poverty in the state.
Testimony |
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House Bill
5132
- Appropriating Funds to the Family Support Council
Statement of Purpose: To provide staff to the
Family Support Council so that it may meet its statutory
obligations.
Testimony |
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