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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1341
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 4971
Referred to Committee on PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Introduced by:
(PD)
AN ACT CONCERNING LOCAL GOVERNMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 7-411 of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2025): 2
Such civil service board shall, [within] not later than ninety days after 3
the initial appointment of such commissioners, classify all the officers 4
and employees in the departments for which the merit system has been 5
adopted, except elective officers, as provided in section 7-407; and the 6
board may also, in its discretion, exempt from test and competition the 7
officer responsible for the policy of any department, and one deputy, 8
private secretary or other confidential employee of such officer. The 9
officers and employees so classified by such board shall constitute the 10
classified civil service, and no appointment of any such officer or 11
employment of any such employee shall be made except in accordance 12
with the rules hereinafter provided for. 13
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
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Section 1 October 1, 2025 7-411
Statement of Purpose:
To clarify certain responsibilities of the civil service board.
[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.]