2014 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 174 - Education of the Blind
Section 10-298b - Preference to be given to products and services.

Whenever any of the products made or manufactured or services provided by blind persons under the direction or supervision of the Department of Rehabilitation Services meet the requirements of any department, institution or agency supported in whole or in part by the state as to quantity, quality and price such products shall have preference, except over articles produced or manufactured by Department of Correction industries as provided in section 18-88, and except for emergency purchases made under section 4-98. All departments, institutions and agencies supported in whole or in part by the state shall purchase such articles and services from the Department of Rehabilitation Services. Any political subdivision of the state may purchase such articles made or manufactured and services provided by the blind through the Department of Rehabilitation Services. The department shall issue at sufficiently frequent intervals for distribution to the Commissioner of Administrative Services, the Comptroller and the political subdivisions of the state, a catalog showing styles, designs, sizes and varieties of all products made by blind persons pursuant to this section or disabled persons pursuant to section 17b-656 and describing all available services provided by the blind or disabled.

(P.A. 75-231, S. 3, 6; P.A. 77-405, S. 3, 5; 77-614, S. 135, 610; P.A. 05-156, S. 9; P.A. 11-44, S. 14; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 46.)

History: P.A. 77-405 included products made by handicapped persons and services provided by them; P.A. 77-614 substituted commissioner of administrative services for director of purchases; P.A. 05-156 substituted “disabled” for “handicapped”; P.A. 11-44 replaced “Board of Education and Services for the Blind” with “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” and made a conforming change, effective July 1, 2011; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1 replaced “Bureau of Rehabilitative Services” and “bureau” with “Department of Rehabilitation Services” and “department”, respectively, effective July 1, 2012.