Sec. 5-177. Credit for out-of-state or foreign service to educational institutions.
Sec. 5-177. Credit for out-of-state or foreign service to educational institutions. Any person in the unclassified service employed full time by the Board of Trustees
of The University of Connecticut, the State Board of Education, the Board of Education
and Services for the Blind, the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, the American School for the Deaf, the Connecticut Institute for the Blind, the Newington Children's Hospital, the Board of Trustees of the Connecticut State University System or the
Board of Trustees of the Community-Technical Colleges, as a teacher or administrator in
a position directly involved in educational activities in any state-operated institution or
the Board of Governors of Higher Education, who served prior to his employment by
the state in a full-time teaching, administrative or research position in an educational
institution in or under the authority of a state department of education or a department
of education for the blind in the United States approved by the Retirement Commission,
or who was employed by such institution but served all or part of such service time in
a foreign country, for which service he has received or will receive no retirement benefit
or pension, may gain credit for such prior service, not to exceed ten years in the aggregate,
by making retirement contributions for each year of such prior service equal to six per
cent of his annual rate of compensation when he first became a full-time employee of
this state; provided such payment shall be made within one year of his first full-time
employment with the state, or before July 1, 1968, whichever is later, but for the Board
of Higher Education and Technical Colleges, July 1, 1974. When a person who has
gained credit for such prior service retires, not more than one year of such service may
be counted for each two years of state service; provided, if such person has purchased
more of such service than can be counted, refund on the amount paid on the extra years
of service shall be made.
(1959, P.A. 517; 1961, P.A. 234, S. 26; 435; 1963, P.A. 534; 1967, P.A. 868; P.A. 73-526; P.A. 74-171, S. 1, 2; P.A.
77-573, S. 24, 30; P.A. 82-218, S. 37, 39, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; P.A. 85-510, S. 24, 35; P.A. 86-403, S. 10, 132; P.A.
89-260, S. 4, 41; P.A. 91-256, S. 41, 69.)
History: 1961 acts added employees of state board of education, Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, Mystic
Oral School and American School at Hartford for Deaf to purview of section, included research as well as teaching and
administrative positions for which credit could be given, included service in a foreign country and removed limitation that
last sentence apply only to those retiring before reaching sixty-five and "restated" state employees retirement act "in a
simpler, clearer and more orderly form"; 1963 act added employees of board of education and services for the blind, gave
credit for service to other such boards and increased the period during which payment could be made by present employees
from July 1, 1962, to July 1, 1964; 1967 act included employees of state and community colleges and certified teachers
in state-operated institutions under provisions of section and changed date for payment from July 1, 1964 to July 1, 1968;
P.A. 73-526 included employees of commission for higher education and provided separate deadline for payments to gain
credit; P.A. 74-171 included employees of technical colleges and made deadline same as for commission employees, i.e.
July 1, 1974; P.A. 77-573 substituted board of higher education for commission for higher education; P.A. 82-218 replaced
board of higher education with board of governors and "state colleges" with "Connecticut State University", pursuant to
reorganization of higher education system, effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 84-241 added "of higher education" to board of
governors title; P.A. 85-510 included any person in the unclassified service employed full time by the Connecticut Institute
for the Blind or the Newington Children's Hospital or as an administrator in a position directly involved in educational
activities in any state-operated institution, and deleted requirement that teachers in state-operated institutions be "certified"
for purposes of this section; P.A. 86-403 made technical changes; P.A. 89-260 provided that for constituent units of the
state system of higher education the employer is the board of trustees of the unit rather than the unit itself, substituted the
community-technical colleges for the community and state technical colleges, deleted obsolete reference to the Mystic
Oral School and made a technical change; P.A. 91-256 made a technical change.
The legislature, by passage of this statute, determined that the state owes more to those who previously gave it service
than to others. Statute has rational basis and does not violate equal protection clause of either federal or state constitutions.
1 CA 454.