2005 Connecticut Code - Sec. 46a-75. (Formerly Sec. 4-61h). Discrimination in educational and vocational programs prohibited.
Sec. 46a-75. (Formerly Sec. 4-61h). Discrimination in educational and vocational programs prohibited. (a) All educational, counseling, and vocational guidance
programs and all apprenticeship and on-the-job training programs of state agencies, or
in which state agencies participate, shall be open to all qualified persons, without regard
to race, color, religious creed, sex, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, mental
retardation, mental disability, learning disability or physical disability, including, but
not limited to, blindness.
(c) Expansion of training opportunities under these programs shall be encouraged so as to involve larger numbers of participants from those segments of the labor force where the need for upgrading levels of skill is greatest.
(1969, P.A. 790, S. 7; P.A. 73-279, S. 11; P.A. 78-148, S. 6; P.A. 80-422, S. 23; P.A. 90-330, S. 9, 11; P.A. 01-28, S. 6.)
History: P.A. 73-279 prohibited discrimination based on physical disability including blindness; P.A. 78-148 prohibited discrimination based on mental retardation; P.A. 80-422 divided section into Subsecs. and made slight change in wording of Subsec. (c); Sec. 4-61h transferred to Sec. 46a-75 in 1981; P.A. 90-330 added references to persons with learning disabilities in Subsecs. (a) and (b); P.A. 01-28 amended Subsec. (a) by adding references to "marital status" and "mental disability".
See Sec. 1-1f for definitions of "blind" and "physically disabled".
See Sec. 1-1g for definition of "mental retardation".
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