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As the dust continues to settle from the General Assembly, bills that didn’t get a lot of press beforehand are continuing to come into the light. One of them is new Public Act 19-95, which was just signed by Governor Lamont yesterday. The bill treats being a member of the “Civil Air Patrol” as a new protected class and prohibits an employer from discriminating against an employee because the employee is absent from work responding to some emergencies or training as a civil air patrol member. And how is the Civil Air Patrol defined? It’s defined as the civilian auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.  There are approximately 61,000 youth and adult members of the CAP nationwide, according to the most recent statistics, though 26,000 of them are cadet members between the ages of 12 and 20. But before employers start to wonder if they have a lot of employees working for them in the Civil Air Patrol – the answer is probably not.  In Connecticut, only 365 peop...