Substitute Senate Bill No. 1080 Summary

• Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall develop an interagency plan by January 1, 2020 to coordinate services helping families overcome barriers to economic success, including data sharing infrastructure and alignment of resources across early learning, child care, housing, job training, and health services.

• Office of Early Childhood serves as the coordinating agency for a Two-Generational Initiative to disrupt cycles of poverty and advance family economic self-sufficiency across two generations in the same household, including children and parents/primary caregivers.

• Initiative operates in designated learning communities including New Haven, Hartford, East Hartford, West Hartford, Norwalk, Meriden, Windham, Enfield, Waterbury, and Bridgeport, implemented in partnership with parent and family leaders.

• A Two-Generational Advisory Board shall be established with representatives from the legislature, agencies, nonprofits, philanthropic organizations, and low-income households to advise the state on two-generational service delivery approaches.

• Attorney General shall develop by July 1, 2020 a uniform interagency data sharing protocol to remove legal barriers to cross-agency collaboration; advisory board must file annual reports to legislature beginning December 31, 2020.