General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 165
January Session, 2021 LCO No. 355
Referred to Committee on COMMERCE
Introduced by:
SEN. HASKELL, 26th Dist.
AN ACT CONCERNING A COVID-19 MEMORIAL.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 That the general statutes be amended to require the Department of
2 Economic and Community Development to establish a process by
3 which members of the public may submit proposals for a COVID-19
4 memorial to a panel of architects, sculptors and landscape architects
5 convened by the Office of the Arts within the Department of Economic
6 and Community Development and that such memorial be erected in a
7 state park.
Statement of Purpose:
To honor the thousands of lives lost in Connecticut due to the COVID-
19 pandemic by erecting a memorial.
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