Announcement: 2008 Legislative Agenda

Connecticut Voices for Children and Advocates for Connecticut's Children and Youth have released the 2008 legislative agenda. The full agenda is available for download below.

Promote more strategic state planning and fiscal choices

• Establish comprehensive long term planning in Connecticut
• Assure stable and adequate state revenues, equitably borne by all residents

Reduce child poverty

• Adopt measures to reduce child poverty by 50% by 2014
• Reduce child poverty and expand opportunity by adopting a state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)

Assure timely and affordable health care

• Restore continuous eligibility for HUSKY
• Modify HUSKY B to spend all SCHIP funds
• Expand legislative oversight of DSS
• Maintain HUSKY performance monitoring funds at current FY 09 Levels

Improve access to high quality early care and education for working parents

• Increase access to Care4Kids subsidies for low-wage families

Improve outcomes for Connecticut's foster children

• Foster school stability for foster children and youth
• Improve legal representation of abused and neglected children (and their parents)
• Improve outcomes for youth transitioning from foster care

Improve outcomes in K-12 education by enhancing student attendance

• Improve the reporting of truancy
• Prevent rollbacks in the "In-School Suspension Law"

Downloads

[1] 2008 Legislative Agenda (51.52K)