HB 5301 Summary

• Veterans living in Connecticut regardless of state of residence qualify for in-state tuition, defined as persons discharged or released under honorable conditions after 90+ days of active armed forces service, effective July 1, 2022.

• Establishes task force to study costs and benefits of creating a Postsecondary Prison Education Program Office within the Department of Correction, with report due January 1, 2023.

• Creates task force to recommend changes to Roberta B. Willis Scholarship program to provide need-based aid at public and independent institutions and consider including private occupational schools, with recommendations due January 1, 2023.

• Requires all public higher education institutions to survey students on food insecurity by March 1, 2023 biennially, and establish or amend programs to address food-insecure students' needs, with goal of serving at least 10% of identified food-insecure students.

• Directs Board of Regents to develop plan by January 1, 2023 to increase child care centers on or near community college and state university campuses, including evening and weekend services for nontraditional students.