Bill Text: CT HB05530 | 2011 | General Assembly | Comm Sub

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Dissection Choice.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 28-6-1)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-06-02 - File Number 878 [HB05530 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2011-HB05530-Comm_Sub.html

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General Assembly		Committee Bill No. 5530
January Session, 2011		LCO No. 3306
		*03306HB05530KID*
Referred to Committee on Select Committee on Children
Introduced by:
(KID)

AN ACT CONCERNING DISSECTION CHOICE.

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

Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2011) No local or regional school district shall require students raising a conscientious objection to perform dissections on any animal as part of classroom instruction.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	July 1, 2011	New section

Statement of Purpose:

To allow students to conscientiously object to performing animal dissections in the classroom.

[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. URBAN, 43rd Dist.

H.B. 5530