General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5379
January Session, 2021 LCO No. 483
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
REP. HARRISON, 69th Dist.
AN ACT PROMOTING THE PARTICIPATION IN VOCATIONAL
AGRICULTURE WORK PROGRAMS BY SMALL FARMS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
1 That the general statutes be amended to require the payment of
2 workers compensation insurance for vocational agriculture students
3 participating in work programs at small farms in Connecticut to be paid
4 through the purchase of a state-purchased insurance pool. Such
5 students participating in the school and work programs through their
6 school shall be exempt from claiming unemployment through their
7 program.
Statement of Purpose:
To promote the participation of vocational agriculture work programs
by farms in Connecticut.
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