Bill Text: CT HB05177 | 2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

Connecticut House Bill 5177 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Employee Notification Of Requests Made Under The Freedom Of Information Act.

Spectrum: Committee Bill

Status: (Passed) 2018-06-04 - Signed by the Governor [HB05177 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2018-HB05177-Introduced.html


General Assembly		*Raised Bill No. 5177*
*February Session, 2018*		LCO No. 1064
		01064_______GAE
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMINISTRATION AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)

AN ACT CONCERNING EMPLOYEE NOTIFICATION OF REQUESTS MADE UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly convened:

Section 1. Subsection (b) of section 1-214 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2018):

(b) Whenever a public agency receives a request to inspect or copy records contained in any of its employees' personnel or medical files and similar files, [and the agency reasonably believes that the disclosure of such records would legally constitute an invasion of privacy,] the agency shall immediately notify in writing (1) each employee concerned, provided such notice shall not be required to be in writing where impractical due to the large number of employees concerned and (2) the collective bargaining representative, if any, of each employee concerned. Nothing [herein] in this section shall require an agency to withhold from disclosure the contents of personnel or medical files and similar files when it does not reasonably believe that such disclosure would legally constitute an invasion of personal privacy.


This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2018	1-214(b)

Statement of Purpose:

To expand the requirement for notification to public agency employees of requests made for their personnel, medical or other similar files.

[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.]