2016 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 4 - Management of State Agencies
Chapter 50 - Office of Policy and Management: General Provisions; Budget and Appropriations; State Planning
Section 4-67f - State agency projects to reduce costs and increase efficiencies. Employee awards. Innovations review panel. Savings realized.

(a) The Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall establish a program for the purpose of financing state agency projects to reduce costs and increase efficiencies through capital investment, including, but not limited to, projects to use new technologies, improved equipment and energy efficiency measures. Any state agency may submit a request for such funding to the secretary.

(b) The secretary shall establish a program for the purpose of allocation of awards to individual state employees or groups of state employees who present ideas for innovations within their agencies which improve the delivery of services or reduce agency costs.

(c) There is established an innovations review panel consisting of the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management or his designee, two representatives of state agencies selected by the secretary, two representatives of collective bargaining units representing state employees selected by the State Employees Bargaining Agent Coalition and five public members, including at least two representatives of the business community. The Governor, president pro tempore of the Senate, minority leader of the Senate, speaker of the House of Representatives and minority leader of the House of Representatives shall each appoint one such public member. Said panel shall review and evaluate requests for funding for projects and awards pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) of this section and recommend projects and awards to the secretary.

(d) Not later than June 30, 1995, and annually thereafter, the innovations review panel shall identify and quantify the savings realized through the implementation of employee recommendations sponsored by the panel, and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management shall certify the accuracy of such quantification. On July 1, 1995, and annually thereafter, fifty per cent of the unexpended savings realized during the preceding fiscal year through the implementation of an employee recommendation sponsored by the innovations review panel shall accrue to the agency which implemented the recommendation, provided such savings (1) shall so accrue only for the first year of the project, and (2) shall not exceed two million dollars in the aggregate for any one agency in any year.

(May Sp. Sess. P.A. 92-7, S. 2, 36; P.A. 94-70.)

History: P.A. 94-70 added Subsec. (d) re savings realized through implementation of employee recommendations sponsored by the panel.

See Sec. 5-263a re state employees' suggestion awards program.