(a) The Labor Commissioner, in consultation with the State Treasurer shall, in accordance with chapter 54, adopt regulations to implement the provisions of sections 31-51ww to 31-51eee, inclusive, and to administer the Connecticut IDA Initiative. Such regulations shall establish standards and guidelines, consistent with the provisions of sections 31-51ww to 31-51eee, inclusive, for certified state IDA programs, including, but not limited to: (1) Income eligibility requirements for account holders; (2) permissible savings goals for certified state IDA programs; (3) the services that each certified state IDA program shall provide to assist its account holders in meeting their savings goals including credit history assessments, assistance in credit repair and ongoing credit stability, general financial education and asset-specific training, ongoing case management and other support services; (4) procedures and timelines for establishment of savings accounts within financial institutions and for the deposit of funds into individual savings accounts, the department's Individual Development Account Reserve Fund, and local reserve funds maintained by certified community-based organizations; (5) allowable uses of matching funds from the Individual Development Account Reserve Fund and procedures for the making of grants from such fund; (6) procedures and permissible reasons for emergency withdrawals of funds from individual accounts and leaves of absence from the program; (7) accounting and financial reporting procedures required of all certified community-based organizations; (8) required content of and deadlines for all program and evaluation reports by community-based organizations to the department; (9) required components of the approved plan between the account holder and the community-based organization, including but not limited to, savings goals, matching rates, required participation in education and training, contingency plans if the account holder fails to meet projected savings goals or schedules, savings withdrawal procedures and limitations, procedures for withdrawing from the program, provision for the disposition of funds in the event of the account holder's death, and provision for amendment of the plan with the concurrence of the account holder and the community-based organization; (10) the process of approval, certification, suspension and decertification of an individual development account program; and (11) the application and implementation of any restrictions on or requirements of funding expenditures as required under state or federal law.
(b) Such regulations shall specify the process by which the department shall solicit proposals from community-based organizations to operate certified state IDA programs, and the criteria and process that shall be used by the department in granting state certification and determining the number of individual development accounts eligible for matching funds from the Individual Development Account Reserve Fund. Criteria that shall be used in granting state certification and in allocating funds from the Individual Development Account Reserve Fund to certified state IDA programs shall include, but not be limited to, the community-based organization's level of competence in meeting all financial and programmatic requirements of a certified state IDA program and the fiscal capacity of the organization to meet all financial obligations of the program and, to the extent possible, the geographic location of the organization.
(P.A. 00-192, S. 9, 102.)
History: P.A. 00-192 effective May 26, 2000 (Revisor's note: In Subsec. (a), “with” was inserted editorially by the Revisors before “chapter 54”, for proper form).
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Chapter 557 - Employment Regulation
Section 31-12. - Hours of labor of minors in manufacturing or mechanical establishments.
Section 31-13. - Hours of labor of minors in mercantile establishments.
Section 31-13b. - Visible clock required as part of time card system.
Section 31-14. - Night work of minors regulated.
Section 31-15a. - Criminal penalty.
Section 31-16. - Night work in messenger service.
Section 31-18. - Hours of labor of minors in certain other establishments.
Section 31-21. - Legal day's work.
Section 31-22. - Labor Commissioner's duties of enforcement and reports.
Section 31-22m. (Formerly Sec. 31-51a). - Apprenticeship. Definitions.
Section 31-22n. (Formerly Sec. 31-51b). - Apprenticeship council.
Section 31-22o. (Formerly Sec. 31-51c). - Powers and duties of council.
Section 31-22p. (Formerly Sec. 31-51d). - Labor Commissioner's powers and duties.
Section 31-22q. (Formerly Sec. 31-51e). - Program of apprentice training. Informational campaign.
Section 31-22r. - Apprenticeship registration; apprentices, sponsors.
Section 31-22s. - Report re feasibility of on-line apprenticeship registration system.
Section 31-22t. (Formerly Sec. 31-51j). - Preclusion of apprentice training programs prohibited.
Section 31-22u. - Military training evaluation.
Section 31-22v. - Office of apprenticeship training. Internet web site.
Section 31-23. - Employment of minors prohibited in certain occupations. Exceptions.
Section 31-24. - Hazardous employment of children forbidden.
Section 31-25. - Operation of elevators by minors.
Section 31-28. - Registration of manufacturing and mechanical establishments.
Section 31-29. - Manufacturing license for residential buildings.
Section 31-30. - Home workers.
Section 31-31. - Records of home workers and materials.
Section 31-33. - Regulation of industrial home work.
Section 31-34. - Stained glass windows.
Section 31-35. - Lighting and sanitary condition of factories and roundhouses.
Section 31-36. - Toilet room required in foundries. Penalty.
Section 31-38. - Toilet accommodations on tobacco plantations.
Section 31-39. - Employees in paper factory to be vaccinated.
Section 31-40c. - Information and notice requirements for employers using or producing carcinogens.
Section 31-40d. - Complaints of violations. Inspections. Discrimination prohibited.
Section 31-40e. - Order to comply. Citation. Hearing. Appeal.
Section 31-40f. - Penalties. Duties of Labor Commissioner. Private right of action.
Section 31-40h. - Sterilization as condition of employment prohibited.
Section 31-40i. - Enforcement. Private right of action.
Section 31-40j. - Definitions.
Section 31-40k. - Employee's right to information concerning toxic substances. Employer's list.
Section 31-40l. - Information requirements for employer using or producing toxic substances.
Section 31-40n. - Trade secret protections. Registration with Labor Commissioner.
Section 31-40o. - Discrimination prohibited. Waiver of rights void.
Section 31-40p. - Severability.
Section 31-40s. - Smoking or use of tobacco products outside of the workplace.
Section 31-40v. - Establishment of safety and health committees by certain employers.
Section 31-40w. - Breastfeeding in the workplace.
Section 31-40y. - Employer harassment of and discrimination against interns prohibited.
Section 31-41. - Order to remove excessive dust.
Section 31-42. - Appliances for threading shuttles.
Section 31-43. - Public laundries; sanitation.
Section 31-44. - Penalty for violation of orders.
Section 31-45. - Emergency kits required in factories.
Section 31-45a. - Protection of feet.
Section 31-47. - Inspection of employee lodging houses.
Section 31-48. - Laborers not to be overcharged.
Section 31-48a. - Recruitment or referral of professional strikebreaker restricted.
Section 31-48c. - Hiring of municipal police during labor dispute prohibited.
Section 31-49. - Care required of a master for his servant's safety.
Section 31-49e. - Paid family and medical leave. Definitions.
Section 31-49f. - Paid Family and Medical Leave Insurance Authority established.
Section 31-49i. - Family and Medical Leave Insurance Trust Fund established.
Section 31-49j. - Duties of State Treasurer.
Section 31-49k. - State Treasurer. Investments.
Section 31-49l. - Board of directors. Responsibilities.
Section 31-49o. - Private plans. Approval of. Conditions.
Section 31-49q. - Written notice required of employer.
Section 31-49s. - Employer providing more expansive benefits.
Section 31-49t. - Authority's annual report.
Section 31-50a. - Noncompete agreements: Security guards.
Section 31-50b. - Noncompete agreements: Broadcast employees.
Section 31-51. - Blacklisting.
Section 31-51aa. - Drug testing: Effect of collective bargaining agreement.
Section 31-51bb. - Right of employee to pursue cause of action.
Section 31-51f. - Participation in Manpower Development and Training Act.
Section 31-51g. - Use of polygraph prohibited. Penalty. Exceptions.
Section 31-51ii. - Meal periods. Exemptions. Regulations.
Section 31-51jj. - Notice to employees of incoming emergency telephone calls.
Section 31-51k. - Employment of alien not entitled to residence.
Section 31-51kk. - Family and medical leave: Definitions.
Section 31-51mm. - Family and medical leave: Certification.
Section 31-51n. - Definitions.
Section 31-51nn. - Family and medical leave: Employment and benefits protection.
Section 31-51oo. - Family and medical leave: Confidentiality of medical records and documents.
Section 31-51p. - Membership in health care center as part of health benefits plan.
Section 31-51pp. - Family and medical leave: Prohibited acts, complaints, rights and remedies.
Section 31-51qq. - Family and medical leave: Regulations.
Section 31-51r. - Execution of employment promissory note prohibited.
Section 31-51rr. - Family and medical leave benefits for employees of political subdivisions.
Section 31-51t. - Drug testing: Definitions.
Section 31-51u. - Drug testing: Requirements.
Section 31-51uu. - Optional exclusion of employee health insurance premiums from gross income.
Section 31-51v. - Drug testing: Prospective employees.
Section 31-51vv. - Employment of person coerced to engage in such employment prohibited.
Section 31-51w. - Drug testing: Observation prohibited. Privacy of results.
Section 31-51x. - Drug testing: Reasonable suspicion required. Random tests.
Section 31-51z. - Drug testing: Enforcement. Damages.
Section 31-51aaa. - Individual Development Account Reserve Fund: Use and administration.
Section 31-51ccc. - Program evaluation. Report.
Section 31-51ddd. - Regulations.
Section 31-51eee. - Receipt of funds authorized.
Section 31-51fff. - Restrictions on funding expenditures to apply.
Section 31-51ww. - Individual development account programs: Definitions.
Section 31-51xx. - Connecticut IDA Initiative established. Implementation.
Section 31-51yy. - Eligibility. Duties of community-based organizations and financial institutions.
Section 31-51zz. - Individual Development Account Reserve Fund: Funds deposited in.
Section 31-52a. - Residents' preference in work on other public facilities.
Section 31-54. - Rate of wages for work on state highways.
Section 31-55. - Posting of wage rates by contractors doing state work.
Section 31-55a. - Annual adjustments to wage rates by contractors doing state work.
Section 31-56. - Hours of labor on state bridges.
Section 31-56a. - Definitions.
Section 31-56b. - Project labor agreements for public works projects.
Section 31-56c. - Use of project labor agreement re public school design-build contract.
Section 31-56d. - Severability.
Section 31-57. - Hours of labor on construction, alteration or repair of public works project.
Section 31-57a. - Awarding of contracts to National Labor Relations Act violators prohibited.
Section 31-57b. - Awarding of contracts to occupational safety and health law violators prohibited.
Section 31-57i. - Employee Misclassification Advisory Board. Members. Duties.
Section 31-57r. - Definitions.
Section 31-57t. - Permitted uses for sick leave.
Section 31-57u. - Additional leave. Donation of unused leave. Breaks in service.
Section 31-57w. - Notice to service workers of sick leave requirements. Regulations.
Section 31-57x. - Paid family and medical leave program. Implementation plan. Report.
Section 31-57y. - Unpaid time off for purposes of voting at an election.
Section 31-57z. - Education assistance programs. Notice to employees.