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House Bill No. 5506

Public Act No. 22-118 437 of 739

state-wide meetings to address the workforce needs of such utilities. Sec. 289. Section 10-98b of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2022): The [superintendent] executive director of the Technical Education and Career System shall consult with each (1) regional community- technical college, and (2) local or regional board of education (A) for a town in which a technical education and career school is located, and (B) that offers any career technical education programs, for the purpose of establishing partnerships, reducing redundancies and consolidating programmatic offerings and to fulfill workforce needs in the state. Sec. 290. Section 10-99 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2022): The [State Board of Education] Technical Education and Career System shall use the industrial account within the Vocational Education Extension Fund, established in connection with its administration of vocational, technical and technological education and training, as a revolving account in securing personal services, contractual services and materials and supplies, with such equipment as may be chargeable to the cost of a specific production contract or equipment of a nature which may be properly chargeable to the account in general, provided the account shall not incur a deficit in securing equipment which may be properly chargeable to the account in general, in the establishment and continuance of such productive work as such schools perform in connection with the board's educational program for such schools. Claims against the state on behalf of [said board] the Technical Education and Career System shall be paid by order of the Comptroller drawn against said account. The proceeds of all sales resulting from the productive work of the schools shall be paid into the State Treasury and credited to said account. Within ten months after the close of each fiscal period any balance, as of the close of such fiscal period, in excess of five