Sec. 4-77a. Submission of estimates of expenditures for payment of workers' compensation claims. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 4-77a. Submission of estimates of expenditures for payment of workers' compensation claims. The estimates of expenditure requirements transmitted by the administrative head of each budgeted agency to the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management, pursuant to section 4-77, shall include an estimate of the amount required by such agency for the payment of the workers' compensation claims of the employees of each such agency. Appropriations which are recommended in the budget document transmitted by the Governor in the odd-numbered years or the status report transmitted by the Governor in the even-numbered years to the General Assembly pursuant to section 4-71 or contained in the state budget act or any deficiency bill, as provided in section 2-36, for the payment of such claims shall be made as follows: (1) For the Departments of Developmental Services, Mental Health and Addiction Services, Correction, Transportation, Public Safety and Children and Families, directly to said agencies; (2) for all other budgeted state agencies, to the Department of Administrative Services which shall maintain an account for payment of workers' compensation claims.

      (P.A. 89-279, S. 1, 3; P.A. 90-327, S. 1, 3; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3, S. 40, 168; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; P.A. 95-257, S. 11, 58; P.A. 07-73, S. 2(a).)

      History: P.A. 90-327 provided that direct appropriations shall be made only to the departments of mental retardation, mental health, correction, transportation, public safety and children and youth services and that all other appropriations shall be through the department of administrative services; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-3 amended language to reflect change from annual to biennial budget, effective July 1, 1992, and first applicable to biennium commencing July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 95-257 replaced Department of Mental Health with Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995; pursuant to P.A. 07-73 "Department of Mental Retardation" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "Department of Developmental Services", effective October 1, 2007.