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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 556
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 6643
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING AD DITIONAL COMPENSATION FOR CER TAIN
RETIRED PUBLIC SAFETY EMPLOYEES.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) (a) Notwithstanding any 1
provision of the general statutes or of any charter or special act, the 2
legislative body of a municipality may, by a two-thirds vote, provide 3
for compensation, in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, by 4
such municipality of a retired public safety employee (1) with a 5
permanent and severe disability caused by a serious bodily injury 6
which (A) arose out of and in the course of his or her employment as a 7
public safety employee, and (B) was suffered in the line of duty and 8
within the scope of his or her employment as a public safety employee, 9
(2) who retired from service as a public safety employee as a result of 10
such disability, and (3) who is under the age of sixty-five. As used in 11
this section, "public safety employee" means a retired uniformed 12
member of such municipality's paid fire department or a retired 13
regular member of such municipality's paid police department. 14
(b) The compensation paid to any public safety employee described 15
in subsection (a) of this section shall be in an amount equal to the 16
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difference between (1) the total payment of benefits received by such 17
employee under the provisions of chapter 568 of the general statutes 18
and any other benefits, and (2) the regular rate of pay of such 19
employee at the time of his or her retirement. Upon approval by the 20
legislative body, in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, such 21
compensation shall be paid annually to such employee and shall 22
continue until such employee attains the age of sixty-five. 23
(c) A municipality providing for compensation in accordance with 24
this section shall establish procedures for the evaluation of any retired 25
public safety employee considered for such compensation to 26
determine such person's eligibility. 27
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To permit any municipality, by a two-thirds vote of its legislative
body, to annually pay a retired public safety employee who suffered
serious and permanent bodily injury in the line of duty and who
retired as a result thereof, up to the age of sixty-five, the difference
between such employee's disability pay and such employee's regular
rate of pay prior to retirement.
[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: SEN. DUFF, 25th Dist.; REP. MICHEL, 146th Dist.
S.B. 556