Title 10 — Title 10: Education and Culture

Sec. 10-194. Penalty. (a) Any person, whether acting for himself or herself or as agent for another, who employs any minor under the age of eighteen years at any occupation described in subsection (a) of section 10-193 without having obtained a certificate as provided therein sha…

Sec. 10-195. Evidence of age. Upon the trial of any person who has wilfully employed or has had in his or her employment or under his or her charge any child in violation of the provisions of this chapter and of any parent or guardian who has permitted any such child to be so emp…

Sec. 10-196. Agents. Section 10-196 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1457; February, 1965, P.A. 112, S. 1.)

Sec. 10-197. Penalty for employment of child under fourteen. Any person who employs a child under fourteen years of age during the hours while the school which such child should attend is in session, and any person who authorizes or permits on premises under his or her control an…

Sec. 10-198. False statement as to age. Any parent or other person having control of a child, who makes any false statement concerning the age of such child with intent to deceive any registrar of vital statistics or the teacher of any school, or instructs a child to make any suc…

Sec. 10-198a. Policies and procedures concerning truants. (a) For purposes of this section and sections 10-198c and 10-220, “truant” means a child age five to eighteen, inclusive, who is enrolled in a public or private school and has four unexcused absences from school in any one…

Sec. 10-198b. State Board of Education to define “excused absence”, “unexcused absence” and “disciplinary absence”. The State Board of Education shall define “excused absence”, “unexcused absence” and “disciplinary absence” for use by local and regional boards of education for th…

Sec. 10-198c. Attendance review teams. (a) As used in this section: (1) “Chronically absent child” means a child who is enrolled in a school under the jurisdiction of a local or regional board of education and whose total number of absences at any time during a school year is equ…

Sec. 10-198d. Chronic absenteeism prevention and intervention plan. (a) Not later than January 1, 2016, the Department of Education, in consultation with the Interagency Council for Ending the Achievement Gap established pursuant to section 10-16nn, shall develop a chronic absent…

Sec. 10-198e. Truancy intervention models. (a) The Department of Education shall identify effective truancy intervention models for implementation by local and regional boards of education pursuant to subsection (b) of section 10-198a, including intervention models that address t…

Sec. 10-198f. Mental health wellness days. (a) As used in this section and section 10-198b, “mental health wellness day” describes a school day during which a student attends to such student's emotional and psychological well-being in lieu of attending school. (b) For the school …

Sec. 10-199. Attendance officers. Duties. Any local or regional board of education may appoint one or more persons, who shall be authorized to prosecute for violations of the laws relating to attendance of children and their employment. All warrants issued upon such prosecutions …

Sec. 10-200. Habitual truants. Each city and town may adopt ordinances concerning habitual truants from school and children between the ages of five and eighteen years wandering about its streets or public places, having no lawful occupation and not attending school, and may make…

Sec. 10-201. Fees for arresting truants. Officers other than policemen of cities shall receive for making the arrests required by section 10-200 such fees, not exceeding the fees allowed by law for making other arrests, as may be allowed by the selectmen of the town in which such…

Sec. 10-202. Warrant and hearing. In all cases arising under the provisions of sections 10-200 and 10-201 a proper warrant shall be issued by a judge of the Superior Court in the jurisdiction where such arrest is made; and the parent or guardian of such child, shall be notified, …

Secs. 10-202a to 10-202d. Dropout prevention pilot program; establishment. Attendance plan. Testing; inventory of skills and interests. Programs and services; assistance; report. Sections 10-202a to 10-202d, inclusive, are repealed. (May Sp. Sess. P.A. 86-1, S. 49–52, 58; P.A. 88…

Sec. 10-202e. Policy on dropout prevention. The State Board of Education shall adopt a state policy on dropout prevention. The policy shall include, but not be limited to, the encouragement of: (1) The local identification of students in grades kindergarten to twelve, inclusive, …

Sec. 10-202f. Dropout prevention grant program. (a) Consistent with the policy adopted pursuant to section 10-202e, the Department of Education shall establish a student dropout prevention grant program, in each fiscal year in which funds are appropriated, to assist local and reg…

Sec. 10-203. Compliance with public health statutes and regulations. Each local and regional board of education shall maintain the facilities under its jurisdiction in accordance with the applicable public health statutes and regulations adopted by the Commissioner of Public Heal…

Sec. 10-203a. Guidelines re physical health needs of students. Optional adoption of plans by local and regional boards of education. (a) Not later than January 1, 2007, the Department of Education shall (1) develop guidelines for addressing the physical health needs of students i…

Sec. 10-203b. Health Services Program Information Survey. For the school year commencing July 1, 2017, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall complete the Health Services Program Information Survey and submit the survey to the Department…

Sec. 10-203c. Guidelines re comprehensive school counseling program. Not later than July 1, 2020, the State Board of Education, in collaboration with a state-wide association that represents school counselors, shall adopt guidelines for a comprehensive school counseling program. …

Sec. 10-204. Vaccination. Section 10-204 is repealed, effective July 1, 1998. (1949 Rev., S. 1465; 1967, P.A. 288, S. 2; 1972, P.A. 35; P.A. 78-218, S. 130; P.A. 98-252, S. 79, 80; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 105, 121.)

Sec. 10-204a. Required immunizations. Temporary waiver. (a) Each local or regional board of education, or similar body governing a nonpublic school or schools, shall require each child to be protected by adequate immunization against diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, poliomyelitis,…

Sec. 10-204b. Rubella immunization. Section 10-204b is repealed. (1971, P.A. 296; P.A. 77-52, S. 2.)

Sec. 10-204c. Immunity from liability. No municipality, district health department or local or regional board of education which causes an immunization required by state law to be administered shall be liable for civil damages resulting from an adverse reaction to a nondefective …

Sec. 10-204d. Continuation of exemption from immunization requirements on religious grounds upon transfer to another school. Any student who is exempt from the immunization requirements set forth in section 10-204a on religious grounds shall continue to be exempt from such requir…

Sec. 10-205. Appointment of school medical advisors. Each local or regional board of education of any town having a population of ten thousand or more shall, and each local or regional board of education of any town having a population of fewer than ten thousand may, appoint one …

Sec. 10-206. Health assessments. (a) Each local or regional board of education shall require each pupil enrolled in the public schools to have health assessments pursuant to the provisions of this section. Such assessments shall be conducted by (1) a legally qualified practitione…

Sec. 10-206a. Free health assessments. Each local or regional board of education shall provide for health assessments pursuant to subsection (c) of section 10-206 without charge to all pupils whose parents or guardians meet the eligibility requirements for free and reduced price …

Sec. 10-206b. Tests for lead levels in Head Start programs. Each director of a Head Start program shall require each child attending such program to be tested for lead levels in his blood after consultation with the school medical advisor and the local health department or in the…

Sec. 10-206c. Annual report on whether pupil has health insurance. Each local or regional board of education shall require each pupil enrolled in the schools under its jurisdiction to annually report whether the pupil has health insurance. The Commissioner of Social Services, or …

Sec. 10-206d. Oral health assessments. (a) Each local or regional board of education shall request that each child enrolled in the public schools submit to an oral health assessment pursuant to the provisions of this section. Such oral health assessment shall be conducted by (1) …

Sec. 10-206e. School-based Medicaid coverage. State plan amendment to expand coverage to all Medicaid-enrolled students. Required guidance, reporting. (a) As used in this section, “local educational agency” or “LEA” has the same meaning as provided in 20 USC 1401, as amended from…

Sec. 10-206f. Interagency coalition to expand access to Medicaid-covered school health services. Membership. Reporting. (a) There is established an interagency coalition to coordinate and make recommendations concerning maximizing federal funding for Medicaid-eligible health care…

Sec. 10-206g. Medicaid coverage for health services provided in office of school nurse. To the extent permissible under federal law, and subject to federal approval and within available funding specifically appropriated for this purpose, the Commissioner of Social Services shall …

Sec. 10-207. Duties of medical advisors. (a) Each school medical advisor shall work with the local or regional board of education that appointed such school medical advisor and the board of health or health department for the school district under the jurisdiction of such board t…

Sec. 10-208. Exemption from examination or treatment. No provision of section 10-206 or 10-214 shall be construed to require any pupil to undergo a physical or medical examination or treatment, or to be compelled to receive medical instruction, if the parent or legal guardian of …

Sec. 10-208a. Physical activity of student restricted; boards to honor notice. Each local and regional board of education shall honor written notice submitted by a licensed practitioner which places physical restrictions upon any pupil enrolled in the public schools of such board…

Sec. 10-209. Records not to be public. Provision of reports to schools. (a) No record of any medical examination made or filed under the provisions of sections 10-205, 10-206, 10-207 and 10-214, psychological examination made under the supervision or at the request of a board of …

Sec. 10-210. Notice of disease to be given parent or guardian. Subject to the provisions of section 19a-216 notice of any disease or defect from which any child is found by such school medical advisor to be suffering shall be given to the parent or guardian of such child, with su…

Sec. 10-211. Notice to state board. Section 10-211 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 1472; 1963, P.A. 300.)

Sec. 10-211a. Peer-to-peer mental health support program; development; training. (a) As used in this section and section 10-211b, “designated staff member” means a teacher, school administrator, school counselor, psychologist, social worker, nurse, physician or school paraeducato…

Sec. 10-211b. Peer-to-peer mental health support program; administration; selection of designated staff members to complete training. For the school year commencing July 1, 2023, and each school year thereafter, any local or regional board of education, in collaboration with the …

Sec. 10-211c. Peer-to-peer mental health support program; administration by local health departments, district departments of health, youth services bureaus, municipal social services agencies and other youth-serving organizations. On and after July 1, 2023, any local health depa…

Sec. 10-211d. Family care coordinator. For the school year commencing July 1, 2022, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall hire or designate an existing employee to serve as the family care coordinator for the school district. The family…

Sec. 10-211e. Annual notice re Get Outside and Play for Children's Mental Health Day. For the school year commencing July 1, 2022, and each school year thereafter, the Department of Education shall provide annual notice to local and regional boards of education about Get Outside …

Sec. 10-211f. Provision of professional development programs or activities for school nurses and nurse practitioners. For the school year commencing July 1, 2024, and each school year thereafter, each local and regional board of education shall annually approve and provide profes…

Sec. 10-212. School nurses and nurse practitioners. Administration of medications by parents or guardians on school grounds. Criminal history records checks. Professional development requirements. (a) Each local or regional board of education shall appoint one or more school nurs…

Sec. 10-212a. Administration of medications in schools, at athletic events and to children in school readiness programs. (a)(1) A school nurse or, in the absence of such nurse, any other nurse licensed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 378, including a nurse employed by, or p…