"AN ACT CONCERNING EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION."
"AN ACT CONCERNING EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION."
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General Assembly

Amendment

February Session, 2002

LCO No. 3844

*HB0549603844HRO*

Offered by:

REP. WINKLER, 41st Dist.
REP. EBERLE, 15th Dist.
SEN. MCDERMOTT, 34th Dist.
REP. O'CONNOR, 35th Dist.
SEN. PETERS, 20th Dist.
REP. NAFIS, 27th Dist.
REP. RYAN, 139th Dist.
SEN. HARP, 10th Dist.
SEN. KISSEL, 7th Dist.
SEN. DAILY, 33rd Dist.
SEN. HERLIHY, 8th Dist.
REP. KLARIDES, 114th Dist.

REP. ORANGE, 48th Dist.
REP. CARSON, 108th Dist.
REP. MCGRATTAN, 42nd Dist.
REP. HEAGNEY, 16th Dist.
REP. COLLINS, 117th Dist.
REP. FAHRBACH, 61st Dist.
REP. URBAN, 43rd Dist.
REP. SAWYER, 55th Dist.
REP. DELGOBBO, 70th Dist.
REP. TYMNIAK, 133rd Dist.
REP. DANDROW, 30th Dist.
REP. CLEARY, 80th Dist.

To: Subst. House Bill No. 5496

File No. 361

Cal. No. 229

After the last section, insert the following:
"Sec. 8. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2002) The Department of Education shall establish within available appropriations a Neurofeedback pilot program for the 2002-2003 school year for forty school students twelve to fourteen years of age, inclusive. The pilot program shall operate for a period of one year in a school district of a town in the ninety-fifth percentile when all towns are ranked from high to low based on the amount of special education funding each town receives from the state. Local and regional boards of education interested in participating in the pilot program shall apply to the department at such time and in such a manner as the Commissioner of Education prescribes. The commissioner shall report, in accordance with section 11-4a of the general statutes, on the pilot program to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to public health and education. "