CT HB05446

Extends youth service bureau grant eligibility deadline from fiscal year 2017 to fiscal year 2018, maintaining grants of fourteen thousand dollars per eligible bureau.

Adds opioid use and related disorders instruction to required health and safety curriculum and requires instruction on the Safe Haven Act (newborn safe haven law) in all public schools.

Updates chronic absenteeism data collection to include students with disabilities alongside existing disaggregation categories like race, ethnicity, and English language learner status.

Extends Technical Education and Career System transition timeline from June 30, 2020 to June 30, 2021, with corresponding adjustments to superintendent hiring authority and equipment inventory requirements.

Establishes a task force to study high school interscholastic athletics governance, financing, and participation barriers, with a report due January 1, 2019.

Allows small school districts (under one thousand students) to conduct cost-benefit analyses for Medicaid billing participation and prohibits boards of education from denying student enrollment in agricultural science and technology education centers for the 2018-2019 school year if students were previously enrolled or admitted.