Bill Text: CT HB07156 | 2017 | General Assembly | Chaptered
Bill Title: An Act Concerning Access To Student Records For Certain Unaccompanied Youths.
Spectrum: Committee Bill
Status: (Passed) 2017-07-05 - Signed by the Governor [HB07156 Detail]
Download: Connecticut-2017-HB07156-Chaptered.html
AN ACT CONCERNING ACCESS TO STUDENT RECORDS FOR CERTAIN UNACCOMPANIED YOUTHS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsection (f) of section 10-253 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2017):
(f) Notwithstanding any provision of the general statutes, educational services shall be provided by each local and regional board of education to homeless children and youths in accordance with the provisions of 42 USC 11431, et seq. , as amended from time to time. An unaccompanied youth, as described in 42 USC 11434a, as amended from time to time, shall be entitled to knowledge of and have access to all educational, medical or similar records in the cumulative record of such unaccompanied youth maintained by a local or regional board of education.