Connecticut § 2-12 - Bonus to employees of General Assembly prohibited. Overtime and meritorious service payments permitted.
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§ 2-12. Bonus to employees of General Assembly prohibited. Overtime and meritorious service payments permitted.
Sec. 2-12. Bonus to employees of General Assembly prohibited. Overtime and meritorious service payments permitted. No bonus, gratuity or extra payment of any sort over and above the amount agreed upon as the salary or wage for each employee at the time of hiring or thereafter shall be voted or paid to any employee of the General Assembly or of either house thereof from public funds. Nothing in this section shall be deemed to prohibit (1) the payment of extra or overtime pay for extra or overtime work in accordance with a regularly established policy of any department, or (2) the award of specified annual lump sum payments for meritorious service, in accordance with an incentive plan established by the Joint Committee on Legislative Management or any subcommittee of said committee having cognizance of matters relating to personnel policies and based on annual performance appraisals made by office directors, or their designees, to nonpartisan employees of the General Assembly whose salaries equal the maximum salary for their job classification under the compensation plan for nonpartisan employees of the General Assembly. The amount of any such lump sum payment shall not be deemed an increase in salary.
(June, 1955, S. 17d; June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5, S. 18.)
History: June Sp. Sess. P.A. 07-5 made a technical change and inserted Subdiv. (1) designator and new Subdiv. (2) re award of specified annual lump sum payments for meritorious service, effective October 6, 2007.
Source: official Connecticut text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 2-12 ("Bonus to employees of General Assembly prohibited. Overtime and meritorious service payments permitted.") is part of the Connecticut General Statutes, the codified statutory law of Connecticut. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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