Title 5, Title 5: State Employees

Sec. 5-141d. Indemnification of state officers and employees. Duties of Attorney General. Legal fees and costs. Enforcement action. Exceptions. (a) The state shall save harmless and indemnify any state officer or employee, as defined in section 4-141, and any member of the Public…

Sec. 5-141e. Deduct-a-ride program for state employees. The Comptroller may offer to qualified state employees the option to exclude from taxable wages and compensation, consistent with Section 132 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, or any subsequent corresponding internal rev…

Secs. 5-94 to 5-141. Retirement. Sections 5-94 to 5-141, inclusive, are repealed. (1961, P.A. 234, S. 34.)

Sec. 5-142. Disability compensation. (a) If any member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection or of any correctional institution, or any institution or facility of the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services gi…

Sec. 5-142a. Injury or death of sheriff. Any high sheriff, chief deputy sheriff, deputy sheriff or special deputy sheriff who suffers death, disability or injury, while in performance of any duty for which he is compensated by the state, shall, for the purposes of section 5-142 a…

Sec. 5-143. Applicability of Workers' Compensation Act. Additional sick leave compensation. Each state employee who sustains an injury arising out of and in the course of his employment, except as provided in section 5-142, shall be paid compensation in accordance with the provis…

Sec. 5-144. Death benefits for state employees, state officers and members of General Assembly. If any state employee, state officer or member of the General Assembly serving with compensation or remuneration sustains an injury while acting within the scope of his employment, whi…

Sec. 5-145. Notice of injury or death of state employee, state officer or member of General Assembly. Each appointing authority shall notify the Commissioner of Administrative Services, who shall notify the Attorney General, of the injury, or death resulting from an injury, of an…

Sec. 5-145a. Hypertension or heart disease in certain university, aeronautics, State Capitol police, correction, mental health, criminal justice or hazardous duty personnel. Any condition of impairment of health caused by hypertension or heart disease resulting in total or partia…

Sec. 5-145b. Hypertension or heart disease in motor vehicle inspectors. Any condition of impairment of health caused by hypertension or heart disease resulting in total or partial disability or death to an inspector of vehicles for the Department of Motor Vehicles who successfull…

Sec. 5-145c. Hypertension or heart disease in chief inspectors or inspectors in the Division of Criminal Justice. Any condition of impairment of health caused by hypertension or heart disease resulting in total or partial disability or death to any chief inspector or inspector in…

Sec. 5-146. Allowances for survivors of members of Division of State Police. Cost-of-living allowance. Effect of collective bargaining agreements. Valuation of fund by Retirement Commission. (a) If any member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency Serv…

Sec. 5-147. Payment of allowances of children. The allowances for surviving dependent children shall be payable to the surviving widow or to the legal guardian, as the case may be. (1961, P.A. 537, S. 2.)

Sec. 5-148. Contributions. Section 5-148 is repealed. (1961, P.A. 537, S. 3; 1963, P.A. 484; 1967, P.A. 405; 532, S. 2; 1972, P.A. 142, S. 2; P.A. 85-510, S. 34, 35.)

Sec. 5-149. State employee death benefits not payable, when. If the death of a member of the Division of the State Police within the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection occurred prior to July 1, 1982, the benefits otherwise payable under section 5-144 shall not…

Sec. 5-150. Survivorship benefits for beneficiaries of members of Division of State Police. The survivorship benefits of sections 5-146 to 5-151, inclusive, shall continue to apply to the beneficiaries of a member of the Division of State Police within the Department of Emergency…

Sec. 5-151. Benefits for survivors of previously deceased police. Any widow other than one who has received benefits under the provisions of section 5-144, and a dependent child or children of any state policeman or of a retired state policeman who would have been eligible for be…

Sec. 5-152. Short title: State Employees Retirement Act. This chapter is known and shall be cited as the “State Employees Retirement Act”. (1961, P.A. 234, S. 1.)

Sec. 5-153. Continuance from prior law. The State Employees Retirement Commission and the state employees retirement system, as existing on September 30, 1961, shall be continued in accordance with and subject to the provisions of this chapter. Each person who was a member of the…

Sec. 5-154. Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter: (a) “Covered under Social Security” means, with regard to a state employee, that the state is required to make contributions for the employee under the Social Security Agreement; (b) “Federal Insurance Contributions Act” …

Sec. 5-155. Retirement Commission. Section 5-155 is repealed. (1949 Rev., S. 381; September, 1957, P.A. 11, S. 13; 1958 Rev., S. 5-95; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 4; P.A. 73-346; P.A. 75-33; P.A. 77-236; P.A. 80-478, S. 1, 3; P.A. 83-533, S. 53, 54.)

Sec. 5-155a. Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission. Membership. Powers and duties. Alternate retirement program. Regulations. Report by Treasurer. Claims process. (a) Members. The general administration and responsibility for the proper operation of the state employee…

Sec. 5-155b. Regulations re claims and contested cases. The State Employees Retirement Commission shall adopt regulations, in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54, which establish the standards and criteria used by the commission (1) to review and reconsider decisions to …

Sec. 5-156. Retirement fund. Contribution of participants in alternate retirement program. (a) All member contributions and state appropriations shall be held in a separate retirement fund by the Treasurer, who may invest and reinvest as much of the fund as is not required for cu…

Sec. 5-156a. Funding of retirement system on actuarial reserve basis. (a)(1) The state employees retirement system shall be funded on an actuarial reserve basis. The Retirement Commission shall, on or before December first, annually certify to the General Assembly the amount nece…

Sec. 5-156b. Employment of actuaries. The Retirement Commission shall employ the services of one or more actuaries, each of which shall be an individual or firm having on its staff a fellow of the society of actuaries, to carry out the actuarial duties of sections 5-156, 5-156a a…

Sec. 5-156c. Erroneous payments; adjustment; waiver of repayment; regulations. (a) Should any change or error in records result in any member or beneficiary receiving from any retirement system administered by the State Employees Retirement Commission more or less than he would h…

Sec. 5-156d. Mailing date for benefit checks. The Retirement Division of the Comptroller's office shall mail retirement benefit checks not later than three business days prior to the date on which such checks are payable. (P.A. 87-381, S. 2; 87-589, S. 38, 87.) History: P.A. 87-5…

Sec. 5-156e. Lump sum payment after audit to include interest. Any lump sum payment to a retired member of the state employees retirement system which represents the difference between the preaudit benefit received by the member and the actual benefit to which the member is entit…

Sec. 5-156f. Study re funding of past service liability. Additional contributions. Section 5-156f is repealed, effective October 1, 2002. (P.A. 92-205, S. 4, 5, 12; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-14, S. 1, 11; S.A. 02-12, S. 1.)

Sec. 5-156g. Electronic direct deposit of pension payments. Unless otherwise requested by the recipient, any pension payment made under (1) the retirement system administered by the Connecticut State Employees Retirement Commission pursuant to this chapter, or (2) an alternate re…

Sec. 5-156h. Limitation on amount of retirement income for certain members not subject to terms of collective bargaining agreement. (a) For the purposes of this section, “member”, “retirement system”, and “state employee” have the same meanings as provided in section 5-154. (b) (…

Sec. 5-157. Retirement system–parts A and B. (a) For purposes of the Social Security Agreement, the retirement system shall be divided into two parts, known as part A and part B. Part A shall consist of the positions of state employees, other than state police, who are members bu…

Sec. 5-158. Social Security–special coverage rules. (a) The following services of state employees in positions not covered by the retirement system and in positions covered by the retirement system but who are ineligible to be members shall not be covered under Social Security: (…

Sec. 5-158a. Part A and B members may elect to participate in part A and Social Security. Each state employee who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part A, or who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part B, or who becomes a member of either o…

Sec. 5-158b. Payment by part B member for such participation after transfer from part A. (a) Each state employee who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part B, and who elected to become a part B member after having been a part A member, shall, upon payment to t…

Sec. 5-158c. Payment by part B member, without prior part A membership, for such participation. Each state employee who became a member of the state employees retirement system, part B, without having first become a member of such system, part A, shall, upon payment of such sum t…

Sec. 5-158d. Payment by part A member for such participation. Each state employee who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part A, may, upon the enactment of and pursuant to federal-enabling legislation, elect to be covered by Social Security and, from the date o…

Sec. 5-158e. Transfer from part A to part B. Each state employee who is a member of the state employees retirement system, part A, may, upon the enactment of and pursuant to federal-enabling legislation, elect to become a member of such retirement system, part B, and, from the da…

Sec. 5-158f. Election by new employees. Special option to nonmembers. Retirement system provisions not applicable to employees in federally funded positions. Each new state employee who may be entitled to become eligible for membership in the state employees retirement system, pa…

Sec. 5-158g. Effect on options. Each state employee who elects, under the provisions of sections 5-158a to 5-158f, inclusive, to contribute to both Social Security and full part A of the state employees retirement system and who has, in effect, an option providing for his spouse,…

Sec. 5-158h. Transfers between parts A and B. (a) Notwithstanding any provisions of part III of this chapter to the contrary, each state employee or member who is covered under the state employees retirement system and also under Social Security shall have the right to determine …

Sec. 5-159. Social Security contributions. The Comptroller shall deduct from the salary of each state employee who is covered under Social Security, and the state shall contribute, the amount required of each under the federal Insurance Contributions Act. The Comptroller shall ve…

Sec. 5-159a. Social Security Agreement retroactive. The Social Security Agreement as defined in section 5-154 shall be made retroactive to the extent permitted by the Social Security Act as defined in said section, but not prior to January 1, 1956. The state shall pay for its sha…

Sec. 5-159b. Election of refunds by state employees in federally funded jobs. State employees in positions funded in whole or in part by the federal government as part of any public service employment program, on-the-job training program or work experience program may elect to re…

Sec. 5-160. Eligibility. (a) Each state employee appointed to the classified service shall become a member on the first day of the pay period following the date he receives a permanent appointment in the classified service except that membership shall not be required of such empl…