General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5559
February Session, 2014		LCO No. 2602
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
(ED)

AN ACT CONCERNING A UNIFORM REGIONAL SCHOOL CALENDAR.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsections (b) and (c) of section 10-66q of the 2014 supplement to the general statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective from passage):

(b) For the school [year] years commencing July 1, 2014, and July 1, 2015, a local or regional board of education may adopt the uniform regional school calendar developed and approved pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(c) [For] (1) Except as provided in subdivision (2) of this subsection, for the school year commencing July 1, [2015] 2016, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall use the uniform regional school calendar developed and approved pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(2) A local or regional board of education may delay implementation of the uniform regional school calendar until the school year commencing July 1, 2017, if such board of education has an existing employee contract that makes implementation of the uniform regional school calendar impossible.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	from passage	10-66q(b) and (c)

Statement of Purpose:

To adopt the recommendations of the Uniform Regional School Calendar Task Force to delay implementation of the uniform regional school calendar by a year and permit a school district to delay implementation for an extra year if an existing employee contract makes such implementation impossible.

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