Sec. 10-228a. Free textbook loans to pupils attending nonpublic schools.
Sec. 10-228a. Free textbook loans to pupils attending nonpublic schools. Each
local and regional board of education may, at the request of any nonpublic elementary
or secondary school pupil, including a kindergarten pupil, residing in and attending a
nonpublic school in such district, or at the request of the parent or guardian of such
pupil, or at the request of an administrator at the nonpublic school, on behalf of the
pupil, arrange for a loan of nonreligious textbooks available to the local or regional
board of education from a book distributor used by such board to such pupil, free of
charge, provided the loan of any such textbook shall be requested for not less than one
semester's use.
(P.A. 75-397; P.A. 78-218, S. 157; P.A 07-190, S. 1.)
History: P.A. 78-218 specified local and regional boards and deleted reference to school districts; P.A. 07-190 added
provisions re request of nonpublic school administrator on behalf of pupil and requiring that books be nonreligious and
be available to board of education by distributor used by board, effective July 1, 2007.