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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 5609
January Session, 2025
AN ACT CONCERNING RETIREMENT BENEFITS AND WORKERS'
COMPENSATION BENEFITS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective July 1, 2025) Notwithstanding any 1
provision of the general statutes or special act, a municipality or special 2
taxing district that provides a defined benefit pension and retirement 3
system for its officers and employees and their beneficiaries shall, for 4
purposes of calculating the pension or retirement benefits to be paid to 5
an employee in retirement, consider as wages the greater of the (1) 6
wages used to calculate the final average salary of such employee 7
pursuant to the terms of such pension and retirement system, or (2) 8
temporary total disability and temporary partial disability benefits 9
received by such employee pursuant to chapter 568 of the general 10
statutes over the course of the time period used to calculate the final 11
average salary of such employee pursuant to the terms of such pension 12
and retirement system. Nothing in this section shall be construed to 13
impair or alter the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement in 14
effect before July 1, 2025. 15
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 New section Substitute Bill No. 5609
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LAB Joint Favorable Subst.