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General Assembly                      Raised Bill No. 6487
      January Session, 2021                 LCO No. 3567
     Referred to Committee on TRANSPORTATION
     Introduced by:
       (TRA)
 AN ACT CONCERNING THE DESIGNATION OF A BIKEWAY IN
 CHESHIRE AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FOR STUDENTS
 ENROLLED IN ADULT EDUCATION PROGRAMS.
 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
 Assembly convened:
1         Section 1. (Effective from passage) The Commissioner of Transportation
2      shall designate a portion of Routes 69 and 70 in the town of Cheshire as
3      a bikeway.
 4        Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective from passage) (a) The Commissioner of
 5     Transportation may develop and propose to the Secretary of the Office
 6     of Policy and Management a program to provide students of adult
 7     education programs in this state access to bus and off-peak rail
 8     transportation services. The program shall not be effective and shall not
 9     create or expand bus or rail transportation services, unless approved by
10     the secretary. If the program is approved by the secretary, the
11     commissioner may negotiate and contract with any local or regional
12     board of education that maintains a program of adult classes, or
13     provides for participation in a program of adult classes, to provide
14     students of such adult classes with access to such transportation services
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15   on the terms and conditions and for the compensation or
16   reimbursement approved by the secretary.
17      (b) On or before October 1, 2021, and annually thereafter, the
18   commissioner shall provide to the secretary any financial and
19   programmatic information for the prior fiscal year the secretary shall
20   require for the purposes of assessing the program's utilization rate and
21   the extent of any public subsidy for the program's bus or rail services.
      This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
      sections:
      Section 1           from passage                            New section
      Sec. 2              from passage                            New section
     Statement of Purpose:
     To (1) designate a portion of a roadway in the town of Cheshire as a
     bikeway, and (2) provide students enrolled in adult education programs
     access to public transportation.
     [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.]
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