Connecticut House Bill 6835 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: Introduced on February 19 2015 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2015-05-12 - File Number 812
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

To require school districts to provide a program of bilingual education when there are six or more eligible students enrolled in a public school; to increase the time a student may spend in a program of bilingual education from thirty months to sixty months; to expand the measures used to evaluate the effectiveness of bilingual education and English as a second language programs; to provide school districts flexibility in who may provide instruction as part of the bilingual education requirement; and to require the Department of Education to study the feasibility of regional educational service centers providing assistance to school districts for the provision of bilingual education programs.

An Act Concerning English Language Learners.

House Education Committee

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-12	House	File Number 812
2015-05-12	House	House Calendar Number 543
2015-05-12	House	Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
2015-05-12	House	Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2015-05-06	House	Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 05/11/15 5:00 PM
2015-04-30	House	Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2015-04-29	House	Joint Favorable
2015-04-01	House	Favorable Change of Reference, Senate to Committee on Appropriations
2015-03-31	House	Favorable Change of Reference, House to Committee on Appropriations
2015-03-31	House	Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
2015-03-30	House	Filed with Legislative Commissioners' Office
2015-03-27	House	Joint Favorable Substitute Change of Reference Appropriations
2015-02-20	House	Public Hearing 02/25
2015-02-19	House	Referred to Joint Committee on Education

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.cga.ct.gov/asp/cgabillstatus/cgabillstatus.asp?selBillType=Bill&bill_num=HB06835&which_year=2015
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2015/TOB/H/2015HB-06835-R00-HB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2015/TOB/H/2015HB-06835-R01-HB.htm
Text	http://www.cga.ct.gov/2015/TOB/H/2015HB-06835-R02-HB.htm