Sec. 5-263a. Suggestion awards program.

(a) On or before September 1, 1993, the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall establish guidelines under which each state agency shall administer a program for soliciting suggestions from its employees and receiving suggestions from retired state employees. Such guidelines shall specify permissible sources of funds for awards to such employees and retired state employees and the method of determining such awards.

(b) The executive head of each state agency may make awards to its employees and retired state employees, pursuant to the guidelines established in accordance with subsection (a) of this section, for suggestions which the agency implements.

(c) Any legislator may request and have access to all suggestions made to state agencies pursuant to this section.

(P.A. 85-360, S. 1, 3; P.A. 91-405, S. 1; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-8, S. 2, 5; P.A. 93-282, S. 1, 2; P.A. 12-205, S. 22.)

History: P.A. 91-405 amended Subsec. (b) by increasing number of public members on panel from two to four and changed method of appointment of members of senate and house selected as panel members; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-8 amended Subsec. (a) replacing the commissioner of administrative services with the secretary of the office of policy and management and including retired state employees in the suggestion awards program and added Subsec. (d) re legislative access to all suggestions made under this program; P.A. 93-282 transferred authority for implementing program and making awards from office of policy and management to state agencies under guidelines established by office of policy and management, eliminated review panel, required quarterly agency reports and deleted provision regarding protection against retaliatory action for disclosure of information, deleting former Subsecs. (a) to (c), inclusive, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 12-205 deleted former Subsec. (c) re agency reports to Office of Policy and Management re employee suggestions and awards, redesignated existing Subsec. (d) as Subsec. (c) and amended same to delete reference to suggestions reported to the secretary, effective July 1, 2012.

Notation

See Sec. 4-67f(b) re awards to employees presenting innovative ideas for improvements in agency operations or reductions in agency costs.