Bill Text: CT HB05602 | 2013 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Exempting Institutions Of Higher Education That Offer Free Courses To Inmates From State Contracting Requirements.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2013-06-03 - Signed by the Governor [HB05602 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2013-HB05602-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 5602
January Session, 2013		LCO No. 4814
		*04814HB05602GAE*
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT EXEMPTING INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER EDUCATION THAT OFFER FREE COURSES TO INMATES FROM STATE CONTRACTING REQUIREMENTS.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2013) An institution of higher education that enters into an agreement with the Department of Correction for an employee or agent of such institution to teach one or more for-credit courses to inmates of a correctional facility at no charge to said department or to the participating inmates shall not be considered a state contractor for the purposes of such agreement.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2013	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To exempt institutions of higher education that arrange for professors to teach free for-credit courses to inmates from state contracting requirements.

[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]

Co-Sponsors:

REP. ROJAS, 9th Dist.; REP. CUEVAS, 75th Dist. REP. REBIMBAS, 70th Dist.

H.B. 5602