$352 Million UConn Health Center Plan Gets Early "Yes" Vote

The Hartford Courant
March 17, 2010
Arielle Levin Becker

A $352 million proposal for the UConn Health Center cleared its first legislative committee Tuesday.

The higher education and employment advancement committee approved a "concept bill" rather than the wording that would become law if the proposal makes it through the legislature. Tuesday was the committee's deadline to move bills forward, and the proposal, which Gov. M. Jodi Rell announced last Tuesday, has not yet been written into final form.

The bill must still go through at least two more legislative committees.

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