SB00247
Law to Follow Auditor Recommendations on State Payments and Foundation Rules
In one sentence
This law requires approval for certain large payments to state employees leaving their jobs and sets new rules for how foundations connected to state agencies must operate, report finances, and handle audits.
What it does
- Requires Governor or Attorney General approval before a state agency pays more than $50,000 to an employee resigning or retiring under specific agreements.
- Prohibits employment agreements from stopping employees from filing complaints or sharing information about legal violations.
- Mandates that foundations linked to public colleges and universities have governing boards with members including elected students and faculty.
- Requires larger foundations to undergo full financial audits by independent accountants if their investment income is $250,000 or more in a fiscal year.
- Removes the State Comptroller from being audited by the Treasurer's office.
- Limits the ability of the State Contracting Standards Board to request specific audits and sets time limits for quasi-public agencies to submit reports.
Who it affects
- State government departments, boards, commissions, and public colleges or universities.
- Employees who are resigning or retiring from state jobs under special agreements involving payments over $50,000.
- Foundations established to support state agencies or higher education institutions.
- The Auditors of Public Accounts and the State Contracting Standards Board.
Limits and unknowns
- The official text provided ends abruptly while listing recipients of reports from the University of Connecticut foundation.
- Details on how foundations must report to legislative leaders are incomplete in the source material due to truncation.
Plain language
Terms to know
- Auditors of Public Accounts
- State officials who check government spending to ensure money is used correctly.
- Nondisparagement agreement
- A contract that stops a person from saying negative things about their former employer or the state.
- Foundation
- An organization created to raise and manage money for a specific purpose, such as supporting a public university.
Official record
Sources
Official summary
To implement the recommendations of the Auditors of Public Accounts submitted in their most recent annual report, including to require Governor or Attorney General approval for additional agreements with state employees over a certain amount, require agreements with foundations to provide when foundations will reimburse the expenses, salaries and benefits of state employees providing services for the foundation, remove the Comptroller from the Treasurer's audit, remove the State Contracting Standard Board's ability to request the auditors to conduct its audits, modify provisions concerning state agency contracts and agreements for auditing services, add a time frame for quasi-public agency annual reports to the auditors and provide that the annual comprehensive financial review of the Technical Services Revolving Fund is performed as part of the audit of the State Comptroller's annual comprehensive financial report.
Official activity
Bill history
- Signed by the Governor
- Transmitted to the Secretary of State
- Transmitted by Secretary of the State to Governor
- Public Act 26-109LCO
- House Passed
- In Concurrence
- Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, House
- House Calendar Number 379
- Senate Passed
- Reported Out of Legislative Commissioners' OfficeLCO
- Favorable Report, Tabled for the Calendar, Senate
- Senate Calendar Number 198
- File Number 287LCO
- Referred to Office of Legislative Research and Office of Fiscal Analysis 03/31/26 5:00 PMLCO
- Joint FavorableGOS
- Filed with Legislative Commissioners' OfficeLCO
- Public Hearing 03/03
- Referred to Joint Committee on Government Oversight