Bill Text: CT HB05467 | 2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Establishing A Red Ribbon Pass Program.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2016-06-09 - Signed by the Governor [HB05467 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2016-HB05467-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 5467
February Session, 2016		LCO No. 1922
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Referred to Committee on EDUCATION
Introduced by:
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AN ACT ESTABLISHING A RED RIBBON PASS PROGRAM.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2016) The Department of Education shall establish a Red Ribbon PASS Program. The department shall recognize those local and regional school districts that qualify as a highly performing, physically active school system, or as an improving physically active school system. A local or regional board of education may submit, at such time and in such manner as the department prescribes, a request for such recognition by providing the school district's results on the Connecticut physical fitness assessment. The department shall make information about the Red Ribbon PASS Program available on the department's Internet web site.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2016	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To establish a Red Ribbon PASS Program to recognize physically active school districts.

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