Sec. 1-84b. Certain activities restricted after leaving public office or employment. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 1-84b. Certain activities restricted after leaving public office or employment. (a) No former executive branch or quasi-public agency public official or state employee shall represent anyone other than the state, concerning any particular matter (1) in which he participated personally and substantially while in state service, and (2) in which the state has a substantial interest.

      (b) No former executive branch or quasi-public agency public official or state employee shall, for one year after leaving state service, represent anyone, other than the state, for compensation before the department, agency, board, commission, council or office in which he served at the time of his termination of service, concerning any matter in which the state has a substantial interest. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to an attorney who is a former employee of the Division of Criminal Justice, with respect to any representation in a matter under the jurisdiction of a court.

      (c) The provisions of this subsection apply to present or former executive branch public officials or state employees who hold or formerly held positions which involve significant decision-making or supervisory responsibility and are designated as such by the Office of State Ethics in consultation with the agency concerned except that such provisions shall not apply to members or former members of the boards or commissions who serve ex officio, who are required by statute to represent the regulated industry or who are permitted by statute to have a past or present affiliation with the regulated industry. Designation of positions subject to the provisions of this subsection shall be by regulations adopted by the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board in accordance with chapter 54. As used in this subsection, "agency" means the Office of Health Care Access, the Connecticut Siting Council, the Department of Banking, the Insurance Department, the Department of Public Safety, the office within the Department of Consumer Protection that carries out the duties and responsibilities of sections 30-2 to 30-68m, inclusive, the Department of Public Utility Control, including the Office of Consumer Counsel, the Division of Special Revenue and the Gaming Policy Board and the term "employment" means professional services or other services rendered as an employee or as an independent contractor.

      (1) No public official or state employee, in an executive branch position designated by the Office of State Ethics shall negotiate for, seek or accept employment with any business subject to regulation by his agency.

      (2) No former public official or state employee who held such a position in the executive branch shall within one year after leaving an agency, accept employment with a business subject to regulation by that agency.

      (3) No business shall employ a present or former public official or state employee in violation of this subsection.

      (d) The provisions of subsection (e) of this section apply to (1) present or former Gaming Policy Board or Division of Special Revenue public officials or state employees who hold or formerly held positions which involve significant decision-making or supervisory responsibility and are designated as such by the Office of State Ethics, in consultation with the agency concerned, and (2) present or former public officials or state employees of other agencies who hold or formerly held positions which involve significant decision-making or supervisory responsibility concerning the regulation or investigation of (A) any business entity (i) engaged in Indian gaming operations in the state, and (ii) in which a federally-recognized Indian tribe in the state owns a controlling interest, or (B) a governmental agency of a federally-recognized Indian tribe engaged in Indian gaming operations in the state, which positions are designated as such by the Office of State Ethics, in consultation with the agency concerned. Designation of positions subject to the provisions of this subsection shall be by regulations adopted by the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board in accordance with chapter 54. As used in subsection (e) of this section, the term "employment" means professional services or other services rendered as an employee or as an independent contractor.

      (e) (1) No Gaming Policy Board or Division of Special Revenue public official or state employee or other public official or state employee described in subdivision (2) of subsection (d) of this section, in a position designated by the Office of State Ethics, shall negotiate for, seek or accept employment with (A) a business entity (i) engaged in Indian gaming operations in the state, and (ii) in which a federally-recognized Indian tribe in the state owns a controlling interest, or (B) a governmental agency of a federally-recognized Indian tribe engaged in Indian gaming operations in the state.

      (2) No former Gaming Policy Board or Division of Special Revenue public official or state employee or other former public official or state employee described in subdivision (2) of subsection (d) of this section, who held such a position shall, within two years after leaving such agency, accept employment with (A) a business entity (i) engaged in Indian gaming operations in the state, and (ii) in which a federally-recognized Indian tribe in the state owns a controlling interest, or (B) a governmental agency of a federally-recognized Indian tribe engaged in Indian gaming operations in the state.

      (f) No former public official or state employee (1) who participated substantially in the negotiation or award of (A) a state contract valued at an amount of fifty thousand dollars or more, or (B) a written agreement for the approval of a payroll deduction slot described in section 3-123g, or (2) who supervised the negotiation or award of such a contract or agreement, shall accept employment with a party to the contract or agreement other than the state for a period of one year after his resignation from his state office or position if his resignation occurs less than one year after the contract or agreement is signed. No party to such a contract or agreement other than the state shall employ any such former public official or state employee in violation of this subsection.

      (g) No member or director of a quasi-public agency who participates substantially in the negotiation or award of a contract valued at an amount of fifty thousand dollars or more, or who supervised the negotiation or award of such a contract, shall seek, accept, or hold employment with a party to the contract for a period of one year after the signing of the contract.

      (h) The provisions of subsections (a), (b) and (f) of this section shall not apply to any employee of a quasi-public agency who leaves such agency before July 1, 1989.

      (i) No Treasurer who authorizes, negotiates or renegotiates a contract for investment services valued at an amount of fifty thousand dollars or more shall negotiate for, seek or accept employment with a party to the contract prior to one year after the end of the Treasurer's term of office within which such contract for investment services was authorized, negotiated or renegotiated by such Treasurer.

      (j) No former executive, judicial or legislative branch or quasi-public agency official or state employee convicted of any felony involving corrupt practices, abuse of office or breach of the public trust shall seek or accept employment as a lobbyist or act as a registrant pursuant to this chapter.

      (k) No former Governor shall accept employment or act as a registrant pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, for one year after leaving state service, on behalf of any business that received a contract with any department or agency of the state during such Governor's term. No business shall employ a former Governor in violation of this subsection.

      (P.A. 83-586, S. 6, 14; P.A. 86-250, S. 3, 4; P.A. 87-9, S. 2, 3; P.A. 88-22, S. 1; 88-225, S. 5, 14; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-144, S. 10, 11; 95-195, S. 6, 83; 95-257, S. 39, 58; P.A. 96-156, S. 5; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-6, S. 13, 14; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1, S. 80, 121; P.A. 00-43, S. 15, 19; 00-66, S. 3; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(d); P.A. 04-169, S. 17; 04-189, S. 1; P.A. 05-183, S. 9; 05-287, S. 52; P.A. 06-137, S. 31; June 11 Sp. Sess. P.A. 08-3, S. 15.)

      History: P.A. 83-586, S. 6, effective January 7, 1987; P.A. 86-250 added Subsec. (e) permitting adoption of regulations to implement provisions of Subsec. (c) prior to January 7, 1987; (Revisor's note: Pursuant to P.A. 87-9, "banking department" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "department of banking"); P.A. 88-22 substituted in Subsec. (c) the office of consumer counsel for the division of consumer counsel; P.A. 88-225 applied provisions of Subsec. (b) to quasi-public agency public officials and state employees, inserted new Subsec. (e) re employment prohibition for certain members and directors of quasi-public agencies, relettered former Subsec. (e) as Subsec. (f) and added Subsec. (g) providing that Subsecs. (a), (b) and (d) shall not apply to any quasi-public agency employee leaving agency before July 1, 1989; Nov. Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1 amended Subsec. (b) to exempt from the prohibition of this subsection attorneys who are former employees of the division of criminal justice, "with respect to any representation of a criminal defendant in a matter under the jurisdiction of a court", effective December 13, 1994; P.A. 95-144 amended Subsec. (b) by applying exception from its provisions for attorneys to any representation in a court matter, instead of to any representation "of a criminal defendant" in a court matter, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-195 amended Subsec. (b) to substitute Department of Consumer Protection for Department of Liquor Control, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-257 amended Subsec. (c) to replace Commission on Hospitals and Health Care with Office of Health Care Access, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 96-156 inserted Subdiv. and Subpara. designations in Subsec. (d) and applied its provisions to persons participating in the approval of a payroll deduction slot; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-6 amended Subsec. (c) to add the Department of Public Safety, inserted new Subsec. (d) re applicability of Subsec. (e) and inserted new Subsec. (e) to prohibit certain public officials and state employees from employment with entities engaged in Indian gaming operations and to prohibit such employment for a period of two years after leaving certain state agencies, relettering prior Subsecs. accordingly, effective July 1, 1997; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 98-1 amended Subsec. (f) by substituting "3-123g" for "3-123", effective June 24, 1998; P.A. 00-43 added Subsec. (j) re Treasurer's employment with parties to certain investment services contracts, effective May 3, 2000; P.A. 00-66 changed a subsection reference in Subsec. (d); June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-169 replaced Department of Consumer Protection with Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Sec. 146 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 05-183 replaced "commission" and "State Ethics Commission" with "Office of State Ethics" and "Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board" and made technical changes throughout the section, deleted former Subsec. (h) re regulations required to implement provisions of Subsec. (c) and redesignated existing Subsecs. (i) and (j) as Subsecs. (h)and (i), effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 05-287 added new Subsec. (j) re employment as lobbyist by former state employee or public official convicted of a felony involving corrupt practices, effective July 13, 2005; P.A. 06-137 added Subsec. (k) re prohibition on lobbying by former Governor on behalf of any business that received a state contract during such Governor's term, effective July 1, 2006; June 11 Sp. Sess. P.A. 08-3 amended Subsec. (f) to provide that no contract party, other than the state, shall employ any former public official or state employee in violation of subsection.