Sec. 4-165b. Claims against the state by inmates of state correctional and reformatory institutions. - Connecticut Statutes

      Sec. 4-165b. Claims against the state by inmates of state correctional and reformatory institutions. Any inmate of any institution of the Department of Correction or the Department of Children and Families who suffers an injury which results in a fatality or in a permanent handicap may file a claim against the state. Such claim shall be heard and decided in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.

      (P.A. 76-136, S. 1, 2, 4; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2.; P.A. 02-89, S. 6.)

      History: P.A. 93-91 substituted department of children and families for department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 02-89 deleted as obsolete former Subsec. (b) requiring that all matters pending on May 3, 1976, before a committee established pursuant to Sec. 18-95 be construed as pending with the same status with the claims commissioner on said date, and made a technical change.

      Cited. 186 C. 300. Cited. 212 C. 415.