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ConnecticutHB 069212025 Regular SessionHouseWALLET
AN ACT IMPLEMENTING THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THE OFFICE OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION AND CAREER SYSTEM AND CONCERNING THE ADMINISTRATION OF EPINEPHRINE AND GLUCAGON.
Sponsored By: Education Committee
Signed by Governor
Summary
To implement the recommendations of the Office of Early Childhood.
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17 provisions identified: 11 benefits, 0 costs, 6 mixed.
Child care covers more medicine equipment
Beginning July 1, 2025, child care access and staff-readiness rules cover nasal sprays and other FDA-approved allergy and glucagon equipment. Providers cannot deny services because of a known or suspected allergy or covered prescription. Parents must supply medicine, equipment, and a prescription copy at enrollment, and replace medicine and equipment before expiration. The existing deadline to have trained staff on site remains three weeks after enrollment.
Children gain broader emergency allergy treatment
Beginning July 1, 2025, covered before- and after-school programs, municipal day camps, and child care facilities must approve and supervise trained epinephrine staff. For a diagnosed allergy needing prompt treatment, a parent must request and authorize care, and a qualified clinician must issue a written order. Separately, licensed or legally exempt child care providers with properly maintained stock epinephrine may use trained staff during allergic emergencies. They do not need advance parent permission or a child-specific medical order, but parents may prohibit use in writing. Both routes cover injectors, nasal sprays, and other FDA-approved equipment.
Emergency allergy medicine reaches more people
Beginning July 1, 2025, authorized entities may keep epinephrine under a medical protocol with a prescribing practitioner. Trained workers may provide or give it when they believe in good faith someone is having a severe allergic reaction. The person needs no prescription or prior allergy diagnosis. Manufacturers and wholesalers may supply injectors, nasal sprays, and other FDA-approved equipment to these entities. Entities must employ at least one trained person and follow storage, maintenance, documentation, emergency-notification, and incident-reporting rules.
More emergency medicine options for students
Beginning July 1, 2025, school epinephrine rules cover injectors, nasal sprays, and other FDA-approved equipment, including student self-use. Parent permission, medical orders, staff training, and supervision rules still apply. For students with diabetes needing prompt treatment, trained employees may give glucagon through these approved methods. Employees must volunteer and confirm training in writing; parents must authorize treatment and a doctor or advanced practice nurse must order it. Schools cannot deny transportation solely because students carry epinephrine, and required transportation-related training covers all approved delivery methods, including through qualifying online courses.
Clearer disability services for transfer students
Beginning July 1, 2025, receiving districts must hold special education planning meetings for out-of-district students and invite sending districts. They must ensure students receive all services in their individualized education programs, whether either district provides them. Receiving districts must also provide and pay for services required by these students’ Section 504 plans.
Youth camps face licensing and fees
Beginning July 1, 2025, youth-camp coverage includes qualifying land-and-building programs for five or more children ages three through fifteen, subject to statutory exclusions. Resident camps run at least 72 consecutive hours with campers eating and sleeping there. Day camps operate in daylight at least three days weekly; campers sleep at home and eat at most one daily meal there. Municipal-agency programs are excluded from the day-camp definition. One-year licenses cannot be transferred and require an application and fee for renewal: $815, or $315 for nonprofit nonstock corporations or associations. Nonprofit-affiliated day camps pay no fee if they last no more than five days and use donated labor and materials.
Broader legal protection for emergency responders
Beginning July 1, 2025, school staff completing required first-aid and medicine courses gain civil-damages protection for emergency medication, not just injections. Covered child-program staff and qualifying trained volunteers also gain protection for emergency epinephrine, including nasal sprays and other FDA-approved equipment. Volunteers must act without pay and outside their usual work; bus-driver protection covers diagnosed allergies on or near buses during transportation. Trained public employees acting at work in good faith gain civil and criminal protection for suspected severe allergic reactions; governments maintaining supplies gain civil protection. These protections exclude gross negligence and willful or wanton misconduct, and the school-staff provision does not require emergency care.
More grant access for magnet facilities
Goodwin University Education Services becomes eligible for interdistrict magnet school capital grants under two separate authorizations. One authorization is capped at $8.5 million; the other is capped at $12.5 million. Grants must cover magnet school capital expenses. A separate $5 million cap remains for low-performing-school grants supporting repairs, improvements, technology, and equipment.
More partners for career training
Beginning July 1, 2025, the state technical education system’s executive director may partner with nonprofit career schools. The director may also partner with an in-state nonprofit institute offering building-trades training to underserved people. These arrangements may provide education or work experience, but do not guarantee anyone a place or payment.
Parents gain early childhood council seats
Beginning July 1, 2025, parents must hold at least 20% of seats on the State Interagency Birth-to-Three Coordinating Council. Parent members must represent culturally diverse communities and have children with disabilities age twelve or younger. At least one must have a child with a disability age six or younger. Parent members need knowledge of or experience with disability programs serving children from birth to 36 months.
Schools get special education prices earlier
Private special education contracts entered into or amended on or after July 1, 2025, must require advance price reports. Providers must submit each school year’s base tuition and service costs by the preceding December 31. Beginning July 1, 2025, regional educational resource centers providing special education must also report by that deadline. School boards receive earlier price information, but the law does not set tuition rates or household charges.
Local child care coordination gets funding
Beginning July 1, 2025, the Office of Early Childhood may fund each Early Start CT local or regional governance partner. Each allocation may reach 10% of funding for supported providers’ child care spaces, capped at $350,000 per partner. Matching local funds may support an additional allocation, limited to the local amount provided and no more than $50,000. Partners must designate a staff person for coordination, evaluation, administration, and liaison work.
Income-based child care fees for families
The Office of Early Childhood must establish income-based fees for families enrolled in Early Start CT by July 1, 2027. The sliding scale must be consistent with the state child care subsidy program’s scale. The law does not list fee amounts or income brackets, so it does not establish each family’s savings or added costs.
Teachers advance credentials; mentors face limits
Beginning July 1, 2025, teachers completing required induction and other certification requirements qualify for professional certificates instead of provisional certificates. Teacher mentors must hold a professional certificate or distinguished educator designation; a provisional certificate alone no longer qualifies. Mentors still need three years of Connecticut teaching experience, including one year in their current district.
Child care staff face degree targets
Beginning July 1, 2025, the funded-program definition includes before- and after-school programs serving infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. Programs must receive state funds directly from the Office of Early Childhood or through subcontractors; the child care subsidy program remains excluded. Bachelor’s-level targets for designated qualified staff are 25% for July 2025–June 2027, 50% for July 2027–June 2030, and 60% beginning July 1, 2030. When no bachelor’s-level staff member is assigned, qualifying associate-level staff may serve with on-site bachelor’s-level supervision. Family child care homes may use off-site supervision and coaching for staff pursuing degrees, but designated qualified staff need at least an associate degree beginning July 1, 2035.
Magnet transportation grants expand with audits
Beginning July 1, 2025, more approved colleges and nonprofits qualify for grants transporting children to magnet schools outside their home towns. Added entities must help Connecticut meet the Sheff school-desegregation case obligations or related orders, as determined by the education commissioner. Starting with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, a Sheff-region regional education service center receives reasonable transportation costs instead of per-child funding. Costs face comprehensive financial audits and documentation requirements, and the center must refund overpayments.
Magnet funding follows enrollment rules
For fiscal year 2026 onward, magnet operating grants generally require no more than 75% enrollment from one district and compliance with applicable enrollment standards. The education commissioner may allow more time under an approved compliance plan. After two or more consecutive years of noncompliance, the commissioner may impose financial penalties or other measures. For equalization aid, magnet students count in their home towns starting with the fiscal year ending June 30, 2025.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Education Committee
Affiliation unavailable
Cosponsors
There are no cosponsors for this bill.
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 3/28/2025
ED Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Yes: 29 • No: 14
House vote • 3/28/2025
House Roll Call Vote 380 AS AMENDED
Yes: 147 • No: 0
Senate vote • 3/28/2025
Senate Roll Call Vote 399
Yes: 36 • No: 0
House vote • 3/28/2025
House Roll Call Vote 302 AS AMENDED
Yes: 134 • No: 12
Actions Timeline
Signed by the Governor
6/30/2025legislatureTransmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
6/25/2025legislatureTransmitted to the Secretary of State
6/25/2025legislaturePublic Act 25-143
6/17/2025legislatureIn Concurrence
6/4/2025legislatureHouse Passed as Amended by Senate Amendment Schedule A
6/4/2025HouseHouse Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
6/4/2025HouseHouse Adopted Senate Amendment Schedule A
6/4/2025HousePotential Disagreeing Action, Tabled for the Calendar, House
6/4/2025HouseTransmitted Pursuant To Joint Rule 17
6/4/2025legislatureSenate Passed as Amended by Senate Amendment Schedule A
6/4/2025SenateSenate Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
6/4/2025SenateSenate Adopted Senate Amendment Schedule A 10693
6/4/2025SenateSenate Adopted House Amendment Schedule A
6/4/2025SenateSenate Calendar Number 605
6/3/2025SenateFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
6/3/2025SenateTransmitted Pursuant To Joint Rule 17
6/3/2025legislatureHouse Passed as Amended by House Amendment Schedule A
6/3/2025HouseHouse Adopted House Amendment Schedule A 8998
6/3/2025HouseFile Number 705
4/15/2025legislatureHouse Calendar Number 440
4/15/2025HouseFavorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
4/15/2025HouseReported Out of Legislative Commissioners' Office
4/15/2025legislatureReferred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 04/14/25 5:00 PM
4/8/2025legislatureFiled with Legislative Commissioners' Office
3/31/2025legislature
Bill Text
Public Act No. 25-143
6/3/2025
File No. 705
4/15/2025
ED Joint Favorable
3/28/2025
Raised Bill
2/13/2025
Bill Analysis For File Copy 705
ED Joint Fav. Rpt
ED Vote Tally Sheet (Joint Favorable)
Fiscal Note For File Copy 705
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 10693 (No Fiscal Impact)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 8544 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 8848 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for Amendment LCO 8998 (See Fiscal Note Details)
Fiscal Note for HB-6921, As Amended by House "A" (LCO 8998)
Fiscal Note for HB-6921, As Amended by House "A" (LCO 8998), Senate "A" (LCO 10693)
House LCO Amendment #8544 (D)
House LCO Amendment #8848 (D)
House Roll Call Vote 302 AS AMENDED
House Roll Call Vote 380 AS AMENDED
House Schedule A LCO# 8998 (D)
Senate Roll Call Vote 399
Senate Schedule A LCO# 10693 (D)
Summary for Public Act No. 25-143
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