Connecticut § 10-228a - Free textbook loans to pupils attending nonpublic schools.
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§ 10-228a. Free textbook loans to pupils attending nonpublic schools.
Sec. 10-228a. Free textbook loans to pupils attending nonpublic schools. Each local and regional board of education may, at the request of any nonpublic elementary or secondary school pupil, including a kindergarten pupil, residing in and attending a nonpublic school in such district, or at the request of the parent or guardian of such pupil, or at the request of an administrator at the nonpublic school, on behalf of the pupil, arrange for a loan of nonreligious textbooks available to the local or regional board of education from a book distributor used by such board to such pupil, free of charge, provided the loan of any such textbook shall be requested for not less than one semester's use.
(P.A. 75-397; P.A. 78-218, S. 157; P.A. 07-190, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 78-218 specified local and regional boards and deleted reference to school districts; P.A. 07-190 added provisions re request of nonpublic school administrator on behalf of pupil and requiring that books be nonreligious and be available to board of education by distributor used by board, effective July 1, 2007.
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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