House Majority Leader Jason Rojas was reminded of a bill that still hadn’t been called in the House of Representatives when he pulled into the Capitol complex Wednesday morning, the last day of the legislative session.
Standing in his parking spot was the family of Corey Hausman, a Westport resident who died in 2018 after a skateboarding accident at the University of Colorado Boulder only 15 days into his freshman year, and the reason they were there was to urge the East Hartford Democrat to call Senate Bill 954.
The request was personal — the bill would require CT colleges and universities to include campus accidents that result in death or serious physical injury in the annual crime and safety report the institutions are required to provide data for.
“No, pressure, right?” Rojas joked minutes after the state House voted 131-0 on the legislation spurred by the family.
“I work in higher education, so I know how personal and devastating these types of issues can be for families when they lose a child or experience some type of accidental injury when they are at college.”
Months before the legislative session began, Nanette Hausman, Corey’s mother, contacted Sen. Will Haskell, D-Westport, who at the time was the co-chair of the higher education committee, to share what happened to her son, leading to the creation of the bill.
During a March public hearing, Nanette and her husband Joel told the higher education committee that when they tried to find out how common student deaths and serious accidents are at the college Corey attended after his death, they learned that school did not have a “finite number of how many kids died.”
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