| Old | New | Differences | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | ||
| 2 | 2 | ||
| 3 | - | LCO 1 of 2 | |
| 4 | 3 | ||
| 5 | - | General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5609 | |
| 4 | + | LCO No. 5490 1 of 2 | |
| 5 | + | ||
| 6 | + | General Assembly Committee Bill No. 5609 | |
| 6 | 7 | January Session, 2025 | |
| 8 | + | LCO No. 5490 | |
| 7 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 10 | ||
| 11 | + | Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES | |
| 12 | + | ||
| 13 | + | ||
| 14 | + | Introduced by: | |
| 15 | + | (LAB) | |
| 9 | 16 | ||
| 10 | 17 | ||
| 11 | 18 | ||
| 12 | 19 | AN ACT CONCERNING RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND WORKERS' | |
| 13 | 20 | COMPENSATION BENEFITS. | |
| 14 | 21 | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General | |
| 15 | 22 | Assembly convened: | |
| 16 | 23 | ||
| 17 | 24 | Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2025) Notwithstanding any 1 | |
| 18 | 25 | provision of the general statutes or special act, a municipality or special 2 | |
| 19 | - | taxing district that provides a defined benefit pension and retirement 3 | |
| 20 | - | system for its officers and employees and their beneficiaries shall, for 4 | |
| 21 | - | purposes of calculating the pension or retirement benefits to be paid to 5 | |
| 22 | - | an employee in retirement, consider as wages the greater of the (1) 6 | |
| 23 | - | wages used to calculate the final average salary of such employee 7 | |
| 24 | - | pursuant to the terms of such pension and retirement system, or (2) 8 | |
| 25 | - | temporary total disability and temporary partial disability benefits 9 | |
| 26 | - | received by such employee pursuant to chapter 568 of the general 10 | |
| 27 | - | statutes over the course of the time period used to calculate the final 11 | |
| 28 | - | average salary of such employee pursuant to the terms of such pension 12 | |
| 29 | - | and retirement system. Nothing in this section shall be construed to 13 | |
| 30 | - | impair or alter the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement in 14 | |
| 31 | - | effect before July 1, 2025. 15 | |
| 26 | + | taxing district that provides a pension and retirement system for its 3 | |
| 27 | + | officers and employees and their beneficiaries shall consider temporary 4 | |
| 28 | + | total disability and temporary partial disability benefits received by an 5 | |
| 29 | + | employee pursuant to chapter 568 of the general statutes as wages for 6 | |
| 30 | + | purposes of the calculation of pension or retirement benefits to be paid 7 | |
| 31 | + | to such employee in retirement. 8 | |
| 32 | 32 | This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following | |
| 33 | 33 | sections: | |
| 34 | 34 | ||
| 35 | - | Section 1 July 1, 2025 New section Substitute Bill No. 5609 | |
| 35 | + | Section 1 July 1, 2025 New section | |
| 36 | + | ||
| 37 | + | Statement of Purpose: | |
| 38 | + | To prohibit employers from reducing retirement benefits due to an | |
| 39 | + | employee receiving workers' compensation benefits. | |
| 40 | + | ||
| 41 | + | Committee Bill No. 5609 | |
| 36 | 42 | ||
| 37 | 43 | ||
| 38 | - | LCO | |
| 44 | + | LCO No. 5490 2 of 2 | |
| 39 | 45 | ||
| 46 | + | [Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except | |
| 47 | + | that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not | |
| 48 | + | underlined.] | |
| 40 | 49 | ||
| 41 | - | LAB Joint Favorable Subst. | |
| 50 | + | Co-Sponsors: REP. SHAKE, 120th Dist. | |
| 51 | + | ||
| 52 | + | H.B. 5609 | |
| 53 | + | ||
| 42 | 54 |