Substitute Senate Bill No. 215
Public Act No. 22-46
AN ACT CONCERNING ENGINEERING, MAINTAINER AND OPEN
POSITIONS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2022) (a) The Commissioner of
Administrative Services shall recruit interns for the summer worker
professional engineer job classification for the Department of
Transportation when requested by the Commissioner of Transportation.
The commissioners shall promote any such recruitment at public and
independent institutions of higher education.
(b) On and after July 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the
Commissioner of Administrative Services shall increase the rate of
compensation for the summer worker professional engineer job
classification by the percentage increase, if any, in the national consumer
price index for urban wage earners and clerical workers for the previous
twelve-month period.
Sec. 2. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2022) On and after July 1, 2022, and
until June 30, 2025, (1) the Commissioner of Administrative Services
shall engage in the ongoing successive recruitment of entry-level
engineering positions, entry-level transportation maintainer one
positions and transportation maintainer two positions on behalf of the Substitute Senate Bill No. 215
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Department of Transportation, (2) the Commissioner of Transportation
shall establish the duration of the application period for each such
recruitment, and (3) not later than one hundred twenty days after a
candidate submits an application for any such position, the
Commissioner of Transportation shall either make an offer of
employment to such candidate or reject the application of such
candidate.
Sec. 3. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2022) Notwithstanding the provisions
of chapter 67 of the general statutes, the Commissioner of
Transportation may consider an application for employment submitted
by a candidate for a position at the Department of Transportation for
another open position at the department without requiring such
candidate to submit an application for such other position, provided
such candidate meets the minimum qualifications of experience and
training for such other position.