Conn. Gen. Stat. § 13b-38j: Discount for the lawful charge to use state-owned or state-controlled bus public transportation service.

(a) The Commissioner of Transportation shall discount the lawful charge to use state-owned or state-controlled bus public transportation service for the following: (1) Veterans, as defined in section 27-103, (2) persons who are sixty-five years of age or older, (3) persons with disabilities, and (4) persons who are eighteen years of age or younger. The amount of any such discount shall be up to fifty per cent of the lawful charge to use state-owned or state-controlled bus public transportation service.

(b) The Commissioner may require a person to (1) obtain a reduced fare transit identification card issued by the Department of Transportation, and (2) present such card to any employee of the Department of Transportation or of a third-party contractor with fare inspection duties, as defined in section 13b-2, in order to receive the discounted lawful charge established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section.

(c) A local or regional board of education may (1) purchase passes for the use of state-owned or state-controlled bus public transportation service at the discounted lawful charge established pursuant to subsection (a) of this section, and (2) distribute such passes without cost or sell such passes at cost or at a reduced cost to students who are enrolled in grades nine to twelve, inclusive, of a public school under the jurisdiction of such local or regional board of education.