Title 5, Title 5: State Employees

Sec. 5-259a. Competitive selection. Employee health and life insurance shall be subject to a competitive selection process. The process shall be in accordance with the provisions of the collectively bargained pension agreement approved by the General Assembly on June 30, 1982. (P…

Sec. 5-259b. Continuation of health insurance for former members of General Assembly. Notwithstanding the provisions of section 5-259, any member of the General Assembly, upon termination of his service with the General Assembly, may elect to continue participation in any group h…

Sec. 5-259c. Health insurance for employees of state system of public higher education. Any part-time professional employee of the state system of public higher education may elect to participate in the group hospitalization and medical and surgical insurance plan established pur…

Sec. 5-259d. Continuation of health insurance coverage and accrual and use of vacation and sick time, leave of absence and equivalent leave time for state employees called to active service in the armed forces. (a) As used in this section, (1) “state employee” or “employee” means…

Sec. 5-259e. Review of prescription claims data to increase utilization of generic prescriptions. Members who represent the state on the Health Care Cost Containment Committee, defined in section 3-123aaa, in consultation with the Comptroller, shall propose that the committee rev…

Sec. 5-259f. Establishment of requirements for health benefit cost sharing for certain nonrepresented officers and employees. Notwithstanding any provision of any general statute, public act or special act, the Commissioner of Administrative Services and the Secretary of the Offi…

Sec. 5-259g. Persons ineligible for special enrollment periods. No special enrollment period established in the general statutes that permits a person to enroll in a health insurance policy, plan or arrangement because such person has become pregnant shall be available to any per…

Sec. 5-260. Deduction of organization dues. Upon request of any state employee who is a member of any organization which includes among its members at least three hundred state employees and which functions at least in part to serve the economic or professional interest of such s…

Sec. 5-260a. Deduction of contributions to nonprofit organizations. The Comptroller shall, upon the written request of any state employee, deduct each month from the salary or wages of such employee the amount of money designated by such employee for payment to a nonprofit organi…

Sec. 5-261. Deduction of credit union savings. When, in the opinion of the Comptroller, a sufficient number of state employees who are members of a credit union organization of state employees desires to have payroll deductions for credit union savings, the Comptroller may deduct…

Sec. 5-262. State Employee Campaign. Deduction of contributions. Regulations. Section 5-262 is repealed, effective July 1, 2023. (1967, P.A. 727, S. 1–4; P.A. 77-55; P.A. 88-212, S. 1, 2; P.A. 92-142, S. 1, 4; P.A. 93-182; P.A. 95-144, S. 4; P.A. 97-76; P.A. 16-62, S. 1; P.A. 23-…

Sec. 5-263. Suggestion awards. Section 5-263 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 69; 1972, P.A. 123, S. 1.)

Sec. 5-263a. Suggestion awards program. Section 5-263a is repealed, effective October 1, 2019. (P.A. 85-360, S. 1, 3; P.A. 91-405, S. 1; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-8, S. 2, 5; P.A. 93-282, S. 1, 2; P.A. 12-205, S. 22; P.A. 19-10, S. 2.)

Sec. 5-263b. Award Program for state employees reporting alleged state agency gross waste of funds. Calculation of award. Ineligible suggestions. (a) As used in this section: (1) “State employee” means any employee in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of state governm…

Sec. 5-264. Section 403(b) annuities for state employees. Purchase of shares of an investment company for state employees. Section 403(b) annuities for employees of political subdivisions. (a) The Comptroller, on behalf of any employee who is eligible to participate in an annuity…

Sec. 5-264a. Deferred compensation plan for state employees or employees of political subdivisions of the state. Administration. (a) The state or any political subdivision of the state may, by contract, agree with any employee to defer, in whole or in part, any portion of such em…

Sec. 5-264b. Dependent care spending account program. The Comptroller shall maintain a dependent care spending account program for state employees in accordance with Section 129 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and regulations adopted pursuant to such section. Under such prog…

Sec. 5-264c. Treatment of funds deposited in dependent care spending account program. All funds deposited in this program pursuant to section 5-264b shall be held by the Comptroller or by a program administrator as agent for the participating employer. Such funds shall be separat…

Sec. 5-264d. Flexible health care spending account program. The Comptroller shall maintain a flexible health care spending account program for state employees in accordance with Sections 105 and 125 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal re…

Sec. 5-264e. Treatment of funds deposited pursuant to the flexible health care spending account program. All funds deposited pursuant to the flexible health care spending account program established in section 5-264d shall be held by the Comptroller or by a program administrator …

Sec. 5-265. Special training courses for state employees. Exchange of employees. Departments, agencies and institutions may enter into agreements with educational institutions for special training courses for state employees and may enter into agreements with the federal governme…

Sec. 5-266. Political activity. Section 5-266 is repealed. (1967, P.A. 657, S. 72; 1971, P.A. 103, S. 5.)

Sec. 5-266a. Political activities of classified state employees and Judicial Department employees. Candidacy for office. Leave of absence or resignation upon taking elective office. (a) No person employed in the classified state service or in the Judicial Department may (1) use h…

Sec. 5-266b. Permitted activity. Nothing contained in sections 5-266a to 5-266d, inclusive, prohibits political activity by such persons in the classified service in connection with (1) an election and the campaign preceding such election if none of the candidates is to be electe…

Sec. 5-266c. Regulations. Section 5-266c is repealed, effective June 11, 2014. (1971, P.A. 103, S. 3; P.A. 77-614, S. 67, 610; P.A. 13-247, S. 372; P.A. 14-187, S. 55.)

Sec. 5-266d. Dismissal or suspension of employee. Appeal. If, upon the complaint of any citizen of the state, the Commissioner of Administrative Services finds that any employee in the classified service has violated any provision of section 5-266a, said commissioner may dismiss …

Sec. 5-267. Officers, appointing authorities and employees to comply with law. All officers, appointing authorities and other state employees shall conform to, comply with and aid in carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter and the regulations issued hereunder. When an…

Sec. 5-268. Penalty. Any person who, wilfully or through culpable negligence, violates, or who conspires to violate, any provision of this chapter shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or imprisoned not more than one year or both. Prosecutions for violations of this c…

Sec. 5-269. Transfer of certain employees to Labor Department. Section 5-269 is repealed, effective June 3, 1996. (P.A. 73-449, S. 1; P.A. 96-180, S. 165, 166.)