General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5876
January Session, 2015 LCO No. 4279
*04279HB05876LAB*
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
(LAB)
General Assembly
Committee Bill No. 5876
January Session, 2015
LCO No. 4279
*04279HB05876LAB*
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
(LAB)
AN ACT INCREASING THE PENALTIES ASSESSED AGAINST LABOR ORGANIZATIONS THAT FAIL TO FILE AN ANNUAL REPORT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 31-77 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):
As used in this section, "labor organization" means any organization or association or any agency or employee representation committee or plan which exists for the purpose, in whole or part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or conditions of work, or any federation or council located in this state representing any group of such labor organizations. Except for labor organizations subject to the provisions of the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959 (Public Law 86-267), each labor organization functioning in the state and having twenty-five or more members in any calendar or fiscal year shall, annually, within three months after the end of the calendar or fiscal year used as the basis for such report, file with the Labor Commissioner and make available to its membership a written report either in the form required by Public Law 86-267 or the Internal Revenue Code. Such report shall be filed and transmitted by the treasurer or other chief financial officer of such labor organization and shall be verified by the oath of the treasurer or other chief financial officer filing such report and copies of such report shall be furnished to individual members at the regular or special meeting of the labor organization at which such report is presented and shall be available during the year following the year covered by the report at the labor organization's office during regular business hours and upon request of any member. Reports under the provisions of this section shall [not] be open to public inspection [except that any person may examine the report of any labor organization of which he is a member, and except that] and the state may audit [any such report so filed] the report of any labor organization at the written request of any member and shall transmit to any such member and the labor organization which submitted the report the results of any such audit. The treasurer or other chief financial officer of any labor organization or any other individual charged with the filing of such reports who fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit to the state [twenty-five] five hundred dollars for [each] the first such failure, and one thousand dollars for each subsequent failure. The Labor Commissioner may destroy any report filed under the provisions of this section after such report has been on file two years.
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2015 31-77
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1
October 1, 2015
31-77
Statement of Purpose:
To increase the penalty imposed on officers of certain labor organizations for failure to file required information and to make such information available to the public.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not underlined.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. KLARIDES, 114th Dist.; REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist. REP. HOYDICK, 120th Dist.; REP. MINER, 66th Dist. REP. O'NEILL, 69th Dist.
Co-Sponsors:
REP. KLARIDES, 114th Dist.; REP. CANDELORA, 86th Dist.
REP. HOYDICK, 120th Dist.; REP. MINER, 66th Dist.
REP. O'NEILL, 69th Dist.
H.B. 5876