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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1079
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on APPROPRIATIONS
Introduced by:
(APP)
AN ACT CONCERNING CO MPETITIVENESS AND LA BOR COSTS AT
THE CONNECTICUT AIRP ORT AUTHORITY.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Subsections (g) and (h) of section 15-120mm of the general 1
statutes are repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof 2
(Effective from passage): 3
(g) [The] Except as provided in subsection (h) of this section, the 4
officers and all other employees of the authority shall be state employees 5
for the purposes of retirement and group welfare benefits, [and 6
retirement,] including, but not limited to, those provided under chapter 7
66 and sections 5-257 and 5-259. The authority shall reimburse the 8
appropriate state agencies for all costs incurred by such designation. 9
(h) (1) The executive director, as described in subsection (d) of section 10
15-120bb, and any unclassified employee of the authority hired before 11
the effective date of this section, may, at the discretion of the authority 12
and at the one-time irrevocable option of the executive director or such 13
unclassified employee, be exempted from the provision of subsection 14
(g) of this section for the purposes of retirement under chapter 66 or 15 Raised Bill No. 1079
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group welfare benefits under sections 5-257 and 5-259. If the executive 16
director or such unclassified employee elects either or both such 17
options, as approved by the authority, the executive director's or such 18
unclassified employee's participation in the retirement or group welfare 19
benefits plan, as applicable, shall be suspended during the period of 20
such election and the executive director or unclassified employee may 21
participate in the retirement or group welfare benefits plan, or both, 22
developed by the authority pursuant to subdivision (3) of this 23
subsection while the executive director or such unclassified employee is 24
an employee of the authority. 25
(2) Any unclassified employee of the authority hired on or after the 26
effective date of this section shall be exempted from the provisions of 27
subsection (g) of this section for the purposes of retirement under 28
chapter 66 and group welfare benefits under sections 5-257 and 5-259 29
and shall participate in the retirement and group welfare benefits plan 30
developed by the authority pursuant to subdivision (3) of this 31
subsection. 32
(3) The authority [may] shall develop and implement retirement 33
[plans] and group welfare benefits plans for the executive director and 34
unclassified employees described in subdivisions (1) and (2) of this 35
subsection. Such plans shall not be subject to supervision, oversight or 36
approval by the State Employees Retirement Commission under 37
chapter 66 or the Comptroller, Attorney General or Insurance 38
Commissioner under chapter 67, provided any such retirement plan 39
shall be considered a Connecticut retirement plan for purposes of 40
subsection (d) of section 5-160. The authority shall pay all costs, fees, 41
contributions and other expenses incurred as a result of any such 42
retirement plan or group welfare benefit. 43
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 from passage 15-120mm(g) and (h)
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Statement of Purpose:
To allow certain employees of the Connecticut Airport Authority and
require certain future employees of the authority to participate in
retirement and benefit plans implemented by the authority.
[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.]