Sec. 4-9b. Membership of boards, commissions, committees and councils: Qualifications, gender and racial diversity required considerations. Report. Right of action. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 4-9b. Membership of boards, commissions, committees and councils: Qualifications, gender and racial diversity required considerations. Report. Right of action. (a) Appointing authorities, in cooperation with one another, shall make a good faith effort to ensure that, to the extent possible, the membership, except the ex-officio membership, of each state appointive board, commission, committee and council having members appointed by the Governor or appointed by members of the General Assembly is qualified and closely reflects the gender and racial diversity of the state. If there are multiple appointing authorities for a board, commission, committee or council, the appointing authorities shall inform each other of their appointees or planned appointees in order to facilitate compliance with this section.

      (b) The executive officer or chairperson of each state appointive board, commission, committee and council having members appointed by the Governor or appointed by members of the General Assembly, except committees whose membership consists solely of members of the General Assembly, shall report in writing to the Secretary of the State on or after September first, but not later than October 1, 1993, and biennially thereafter, (1) the number of members of such body and (2) the composition of the body according to the term "race/sex", as defined in the regulations of the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. Such report shall not include the names of the individual members of the board, commission, committee or council. The Secretary of the State shall receive and maintain the reports submitted pursuant to this subsection as public records.

      (c) No provision of this section shall (1) prohibit an individual from completing a term as a member of a state appointive board, commission, committee or council being served on July 2, 1993, or (2) create a private right of action.

      (P.A. 93-424, S. 1, 2; P.A. 05-288, S. 212.)

      History: P.A. 93-424 effective July 2, 1993; P.A. 05-288 made a technical change in Subsec. (a), effective July 13, 2005.