
Gibson, Bobby
15th District (D)
Assistant Majority Leader

- 860-240-8585
- mailto:bobby.gibson@cga.ct.gov
Towns Represented
Bloomfield, Windsor (p)
Committees
General Law (Vice Chair); Appropriations; Education
Voting Record
Year | Vote Name | Score |
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2019 |
JANUS
HB 6935
Favorable vote indicates support for union access to workplaces and the right to organize. |
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2019 |
2019 Budget
HB 7424
Favorable vote indicates support for the budget which increased ECS funds, excluded a proposal to shift the teacher pension costs to municipalities, and restructured the unfunded liability of the Teachers' Retirement Fund. |
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2019 |
Teachers' Retirement System
SB 873
Favorable vote indicates support for a proposal to stabilize the Teachers' Retirement Fund with revenues of the Connecticut Lottery. |
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2019 |
Classroom Safety in Education Committee
HB 7110
Favorable vote indicates support in the Education Committee for SDE developing and disseminating strategies to help boards of education with reducing incidents of school violence, promoting trauma sensitivity in schools, and enhancing safe school climate plans. |
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2019 |
Classroom Safety in Appropriations Committee
HB 7110
Favorable vote indicates support in the Appropriations Committee on a procedural vote to keep a CEA proposed concept to address classroom safety alive. |
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2019 |
Minority Teacher Recruitment in Education Committee
SB 1022
Favorable vote indicates support in the Education Committee for SDE's development and implementation of strategies and use of existing resources to hire and employ minority teachers. |
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2019 |
Minority Teacher Recruitment In Appropriations Committee
SB 1022
Favorable vote indicates support in the Appropriation Committee for SDE's development and implementation of strategies and use of existing resources to hire and employ minority teachers. |
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2019 |
Minority Teacher Recruitment
SB 1022
Favorable vote indicates support for SDE's development and implementation of strategies and use of existing resources to hire and employ minority teachers. |
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2019 |
Black and Latino Studies
HB 7082
Favorable vote indicates support for the inclusion of Black and Latino studies in the public school curriculum. |
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2019 |
Community Schools in Education Committee
SB 1021
Favorable vote indicates support in the Education Committee for a comprehensive community schools pilot program. |
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2019 |
School Climate
HB 7215
Favorable vote indicates support for the development of a statewide school climate survey,addressing social-emotional learning, and taking steps to make schools safer by expanding the definition of bullying to acts causing physical or emotional harm on any individual in a school, including staff. |
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2019 |
Magnet School Funding In Education Committee
HB 7109
Favorable vote indicates support in the Education Committee for increasing funding to interdistrict magnet school programs. |
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2019 |
Magnet School Funding In Appropriations Committee
HB 7109
Favorable vote indicates support in the Appropriations Committee for increasing funding to interdistrict magnet school programs. |
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2019 |
School Play
HB 7250
Favorable vote indicates support for inclusion of additional time for undirected play in the school day. |
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2019 |
School Counselors
SB 956
Favorable vote indicates support for the development of guidelines for a comprehensive school counseling program for all students. |
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2019 |
Cultural Responsiveness
SB 1020
Favorable vote indicates support for the inclusion of cultural responsiveness in training and professional development provided to teachers. |
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2019 |
IEP Retaliation
HB 7353
Favorable vote indicates support for establishing protections to ensure educators who make recommendations in IEP's and PPT's are not retaliated against. |
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2018 |
Classroom Safety
SB 453
Favorable vote indicates support for a bill providing greater teacher input and access to resources to address incidents where a student causes ph1sical harm to others in the classroom. (Passed; Vetoed) |
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2018 |
Prohibition of Governor's Recissions
HB 5171
Favorable vote indicates support of a bill that would prevent the governor from unilaterall1 making mid-1ear reductions to the education cost sharing grant for cities and towns without legislative approval. (Passed; Vetoed) |
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2018 |
Veto Override of Prohibition of Governor's Recissions
HB 5171
Favorable vote supported a procedural action to permit a future vote to override the governor's veto of the Classroom Safety Bill. |
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2018 |
Displaced Students from Puerto Rico
SB 456
Favorable vote supported legislation providing resources to school districts enrolling students displaced by hurricane Maria. Additional funds in the budget also supported this effort. |
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2018 |
Education Savings Accounts
HB 5340
Favorable vote indicated opposition to this bill in the Banking Committee, which would have required the state to study Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), a type of voucher plan for children to attend a private school. |
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2018 |
2018 Budget Bill
HB 543
Favorable vote rejected governor's proposal to reduce ECS by $63m and Magnet School funding by $18.5m from FY19 enacted amounts. It restored $8.5m funding to teacher retiree health and $1.5m to TEAM. |
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2018 |
2018 Budget Bill Amendment
HB 543 LCO 5967
Favorable vote indicated opposition to this amendment, which would have removed health care from collective bargaining for state workers, setting a precedent that could reach other public employees such as teachers. |
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2018 |
DREAMERS
SB 4
Favorable vote indicates support for a bill that allows undocumented graduates of high schools in Connecticut aka ("Dreamers") be eligible for tuition assistance at public colleges and universities in the state. |
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2018 |
DREAMERS
SB 4
Favorable vote indicates support for a bill that allows undocumented graduates of high schools in Connecticut aka ("Dreamers") be eligible for tuition assistance at public colleges and universities in the state. |