2020 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 31 - Labor
Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation
Section 31-49i - Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund established.
(a) There is established a fund to be known as the “Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund” for the purpose of providing family and medical leave compensation to covered employees. The Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund shall be a nonlapsing fund held by the State Treasurer separate and apart from all other moneys, funds and accounts. Investment earnings credited to the trust shall become part of the trust.
(b) The fund shall constitute an instrumentality of the state and shall perform essential governmental functions, in accordance with the provisions of this section. The trust shall receive and hold all payments and deposits and premiums intended for the trust, as well as gifts, bequests, endowments or federal, state or local grants and any other funds from any public or private source and all earnings until disbursed in accordance with the provisions of this section.
(c) The amounts on deposit in the trust shall not constitute property of the state and the trust shall not be construed to be a department, institution or agency of the state. Amounts on deposit in the trust shall not be commingled with state funds and the state shall have no claim to or against, or interest in, such funds. Any contract entered into by or any obligation of the trust shall not constitute a debt or obligation of the state and the state shall have no obligation to any designated beneficiary or any other person on account of the trust and all amounts obligated to be paid from the trust shall be limited to amounts available for such obligation on deposit in the trust. The trust shall continue in existence as long as it holds any deposits or has any obligations and until its existence is terminated by law and upon termination any unclaimed assets shall return to the state. Property of the trust shall be governed by section 3-61a.
(d) The State Treasurer shall be responsible for the receipt and investment of moneys held by the trust. The trust shall not receive deposits in any form other than cash. No depositor or designated beneficiary may direct the investment of any contributions or amounts held in the trust other than the specific fund options provided for by the trust.
(e) The assets of the trust shall be used for the purpose of distributing family and medical leave compensation to covered employees, paying the operational and administrative costs of the authority, educating and informing persons about the program and paying the operational, administrative and investment costs of the trust, including those incurred pursuant to section 31-49j.
(P.A. 19-25, S. 5.)
History: P.A. 19-25 effective June 25, 2019.
