(1959, P.A. 517; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 26; 435; 1963, P.A. 534; 1967, P.A. 868; P.A. 73-526; P.A. 74-171, S. 1, 2; P.A. 77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 39, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 85-510, S. 24, 35; P.A. 86-403, S. 10, 132; P.A. 89-260, S. 4, 41; P.A. 91-256, S. 41, 69; P.A. 11-48, S. 285; P.A. 17-202, S. 25.)
History: 1961 acts added employees of state board of education, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Mystic Oral School and American School at Hartford for Deaf to purview of section, included research as well as teaching and administrative positions for which credit could be given, included service in a foreign country and removed limitation that last sentence apply only to those retiring before reaching sixty-five and “restated” state employees retirement act “in a simpler, clearer and more orderly form”; 1963 act added employees of board of education and services for the blind, gave credit for service to other such boards and increased the period during which payment could be made by present employees from July 1, 1962, to July 1, 1964; 1967 act included employees of state and community colleges and certified teachers in state-operated institutions under provisions of section and changed date for payment from July 1, 1964 to July 1, 1968; P.A. 73-526 included employees of commission for higher education and provided separate deadline for payments to gain credit; P.A. 74-171 included employees of technical colleges and made deadline same as for commission employees, i.e. July 1, 1974; P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 82-218 replaced board of higher education with board of governors and “state colleges” with “Connecticut State University”, pursuant to reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 84-241 added “of higher education” to board of governors title; P.A. 85-510 included any person in the unclassified service employed full time by the Connecticut Institute for the Blind or the Newington Children's Hospital or as an administrator in a position directly involved in educational activities in any state-operated institution, and deleted requirement that teachers in state-operated institutions be “certified” for purposes of this section; P.A. 86-403 made technical changes; P.A. 89-260 provided that for constituent units of the state system of higher education the employer is the board of trustees of the unit rather than the unit itself, substituted the community-technical colleges for the community and state technical colleges, deleted obsolete reference to the Mystic Oral School and made a technical change; P.A. 91-256 made a technical change; pursuant to P.A. 11-48, “Board of Governors of Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Board of Regents for Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 17-202 replaced “Board of Education and Services for the Blind” with “Department of Rehabilitative Services” and made technical changes.