Posted on April 18, 2018
HARTFORD – With exactly three weeks left of the 2018 Regular Legislative Session, the House of Representatives is now regularly voting on proposed bills on the House floor. Two bills that State Representative Kathleen McCarty (R-38) has co-sponsored recently cleared the House and are awaiting further legislative action to be signed into law.
One of these bills will help Waterford and Montville schools implement a coordinated reading plan, while the other will assist Medicaid patients.
House Bill (H.B.) 5335 requires the State Department of Education to include the alignment of reading instruction with the two-generational initiative in its statewide reading plan and allows the Office of Early Childhood, in its two–generational initiative and within available appropriations, to consider the alignment of state and local support systems around the statewide reading plan for students in kindergarten to grade three.
By law, the reading plan must contain various research-driven strategies and frameworks for effective reading instruction. The two-generational school readiness and workforce development initiative promotes early childhood care and education, health, and workforce readiness and self-sufficiency across two generations in the same household.
H.B. 5253 expands access to the Money Follows the Person (MFP) demonstration project, which supports Medicaid enrollees who choose to transition from living in institutions to less restrictive, community-based settings by removing the 5,000-person cap on the number of individuals who may be served under the MFP program.
As the Session progresses, Rep. McCarty will provide further updates on important bills as they make their way through the Legislature. In the meantime, please feel free contact her if you have any questions relating to state government at Kathleen.McCarty@housegop.ct.gov or 1-800-842-1423.