LCO No. 766 1 of 1 General Assembly Proposed Bill No. 5680 January Session, 2019 LCO No. 766 Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS Introduced by: REP. FERRARO, 117th Dist. AN ACT CONCERNING THE CALCULATION OF RETIREMENT INCOME FOR NEWLY HIRED STATE EMPLOYEES. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened: That the general statutes be amended to require, for any state 1 employee hired on or after the effective date of this act, that such 2 employee's retirement income be calculated on a cost-averaging basis 3 over the last ten years of the employee's state employment, irrespective 4 of interagency transfers. 5 Statement of Purpose: To reduce state employee pension costs.