HB 7350 — AN ACT CONCERNING REGIONAL COOPERATION AND THE SHARING OF SERVICES AMONG REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERS AND MEMBER BOARDS OF EDUCATION.

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7350 January Session, 2019 LCOAN No.ACT CONCERNING REGIONAL COOPERATION AND THE SHARING OF SERVICES AMONG REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERS AND MEMBER BOARDS OF EDUCATION.

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(ED) AN ACT CONCERNING REGIONAL COOPERATION AND THE SHARING OF SERVICES AMONG REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTERS AND MEMBER BOARDS OF EDUCATION.

(b) Not later than July 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, each regional educational service center shall distribute to member boards of education an inventory of goods and services that are provided or LCOoffered No.by the regional educational service center, including the regional model for the provision of special education services developed pursuant to section 10-66r.

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In7350 developing such inventory, each regional educational service center shall take into consideration the results of the survey conducted by the center pursuant to section 2 of this act, and after October 1, 2020, any best practices of other regional educational service centers described in the report developed by the StateDepartment Board of Education pursuant to section 3 of this act.

Such survey shall be completed by member boards of education and shall include, but need not be limited to, (1) an inventory of education services and programs provided by local and regional boards of education, (2) the total cost incurred by each school district for all such education services and programs, and (3) the cost incurred by each school district for each individual education service and program.

The department shall develop such report based on the inventories and reports submitted pursuant to section 10-66o of the LCOgeneral No.statutes, as amended by this act.

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Not later than October 1, 2020, and annually thereafter, the department shall submit such report and any recommendations to each regional educational service center and the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes.

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