Bill Text: CT HB06786 | 2015 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: An Act Concerning Probate Court Employees And The Right To Collectively Bargain.

Sponsorship: Committee Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-02-13 - Referred to Joint Committee on Labor and Public Employees [HB06786 Detail]

Download: Connecticut-2015-HB06786-Introduced.html

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General Assembly		Raised Bill No. 6786
January Session, 2015		LCO No. 3132
		*03132_______LAB*
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
(LAB)

AN ACT CONCERNING PROBATE COURT EMPLOYEES AND THE RIGHT TO COLLECTIVELY BARGAIN.

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

Section 1. Subsection (g) of section 45a-8a of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):

(g) Each administrative judge for a regional children's probate court may, with the approval of the Probate Court Administrator, employ such persons as may be required for the efficient operation of the regional children's probate court. Such employees shall be employees of the regional children's probate court and shall be entitled to the benefits of probate court employees under this chapter. Such employees shall not be deemed to be state employees except for purposes of chapter 68.

Sec. 2. Section 45a-21 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2015):

Probate Court employees shall not be deemed state employees [and shall serve at the pleasure of the judge of the court of probate in which they are employed] except for purposes of chapter 68.

This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following sections:
Section 1	October 1, 2015	45a-8a(g)
Sec. 2	October 1, 2015	45a-21

Statement of Purpose:

To allow probate court employees to be recognized as state employees for the purpose of collective bargaining.

[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.]