There is established within the corporation a Connecticut job training finance program for the purpose of providing financial assistance to manufacturing or economic base businesses seeking to provide educational upgrades to their workers and production workers. Assistance under this program shall be provided in accordance with a contract between the corporation and the manufacturing or economic base business or an intermediary, including, but not limited to, a state agency, with an expertise in job training or a private nonprofit business association or a labor organization. Such contract shall include a provision requiring that educational upgrades supported under sections 32-23ll and 32-235 shall be carried out, in whole or in part, by training providers which may include, but shall not be limited to, institutions of higher education, trade and technical and other qualified providers.
Conn. Gen. Stat. § 32-23uu
( P.A. 93-433, S. 4, 26; P.A. 94-175, S. 19, 32; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-4, S. 80, 85; P.A. 95-160, S. 64, 69; P.A. 99-236, S. 3; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-1, S. 152.)