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Ex. SEC-27-024 Order Primary source read

Report of the Higher Education Subcommittee, Reopen Connecticut (May 6, 2020; corrected version May 8, 2020)

Framework of gating conditions for reopening Connecticut's 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

Office of Governor Ned Lamont, Reopen Connecticut Advisory Group, Higher Education Subcommittee (report to the Governor) · Connecticut (State)

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Jurisdiction
Connecticut
Level
State
Authority
Advisory report adopted into the Governor's reopening framework; Executive Orders 7H et seq.; the Governor's reopening rules for higher education followed it
Issued
2020-05-06 May 6, 2020
Effective
2020-05-06 (advisory; framework for the fall 2020 reopening rules) (read as 2020-05-06)
End
Fall 2020 reopening (read as 2020-09-30)
In force
May 6, 2020 to Sept. 30, 2020
Quarters
2020 Q22020 Q3
Limitation types
Workplace rulesQuarantine and isolationOther
Addressees
  • Connecticut colleges and universities
  • the Governor
Functions reached
  • IN
  • HS
  • RS
  • ST
  • WF
  • CB
Collection
Colleges, Universities and Community Colleges SEC-27

Operative words

Connecticut's 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 'gating conditions,' 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's executive orders and DECD sector rules

Notes

Records the sector's 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.

Retrieval note

Text read; classify as context (report), not a binding instrument.

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