{"id":"SEC-27-024","kind":"order","level":"state","jurisdiction":"Connecticut","state":"CT","metro":"","industry":"27","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Office of Governor Ned Lamont, Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, Higher Education Subcommittee (report to the Governor)","authority":"Advisory report adopted into the Governor\u0027s reopening framework; Executive Orders 7H et seq.; the Governor\u0027s reopening rules for higher education followed it","instrument":"Report of the Higher Education Subcommittee, Reopen Connecticut (May 6, 2020; corrected version May 8, 2020)","title":"Framework of gating conditions for reopening Connecticut\u0027s colleges and universities (disease prevalence; testing supply and arrival testing of residential students; quarantine capacity; contact tracing; PPE; hospital surge capacity) and required four-part institutional reopening plans","dateIssued":"2020-05-06","effective":"2020-05-06 (advisory; framework for the fall 2020 reopening rules)","end":"Fall 2020 reopening","startDate":"2020-05-06","endDate":"2020-09-30","quarters":["2020Q2","2020Q3"],"types":["OTHER","QUAR","EMP"],"addressees":["Connecticut colleges and universities","the Governor"],"clause":"Connecticut\u0027s colleges and universities... provide employment to 45,000 citizens of the state, spend over $10 billion annually, and educate 190,000 students... Most of these institutions have employed online methods to continue to educate students through the current statewide shutdown, but all look forward to reopening their physical campuses.... We recommend that the Governor, with the help of public health experts, provide a set of \u0027gating conditions,\u0027 which, if satisfied, will allow colleges and universities to reopen their campuses.... 1. The prevalence of the disease must be low enough to safely resume campus operations.... 2. The State must ensure that colleges and universities have adequate supplies of viral diagnostic tests... Nonresidential institutions must test symptomatic students, faculty, and staff; residential institutions must also test students upon arrival... 6. Adequate surge capacity must be available in nearby health care facilities","enforcement":"Advisory; implemented through the Governor\u0027s executive orders and DECD sector rules","functions":["IN","HS","RS","ST","WF","CB"],"notes":"Records the sector\u0027s 45,000 employees and 190,000 students and that the community colleges have no residential facilities while the State universities are 25 to 60 percent residential. Guidance/report, not an order; pleaded as facts and circumstances and as the framework the orders implemented.","sourceUrl":"https://portal.ct.gov/-/media/Office-of-the-Governor/News/20200506-Recommendations-to-Governor-Lamont-for-a-phased-reopening-of-colleges-and-universities.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":680989,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SEC-27","url":"/library/SEC-27-024","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SEC-27-024","citation":"Office of Governor Ned Lamont, Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, Higher Education Subcommittee (report to the Governor), Report of the Higher Education Subcommittee, Reopen Connecticut (May 6, 2020; corrected version May 8, 2020) (Ex. SEC-27-024)","stateName":"Connecticut","related":[]}