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House Bill No. 5506

Public Act No. 22-118 104 of 739

of section 11-4a. Sec. 77. Subsection (a) of section 29-5 of the general statutes is repealed and the following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2022): (a) The Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection may, within available appropriations, appoint suitable persons from the regular state police force as resident state policemen in addition to the regular state police force to be employed and empowered as state policemen in any town or two or more adjoining towns lacking an organized police force, and such officers may be detailed by said commissioner as resident state policemen for regular assignment to such towns, provided each town shall pay eighty-five per cent of the cost of compensation, maintenance and other expenses of the first two state policemen detailed to such town, and one hundred per cent of such costs of compensation, maintenance and other expenses for any additional state policemen detailed to such town, provided further such town shall pay one hundred per cent of any overtime costs and such portion of fringe benefits directly associated with such overtime costs, except (1) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2020, [and for each fiscal year thereafter] to the fiscal year ending June 30, 2022, inclusive, fifty per cent of the portion of the state employees' retirement system fringe recovery rate attributable to the unfunded liability of said system shall be paid by the Comptroller from the resources appropriated for State Comptroller-State Employees' Retirement System Unfunded Liability, and (2) for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2023, and for each fiscal year thereafter, one hundred per cent of the portion of the state employees' retirement system fringe recovery rate attributable to the unfunded liability of said system shall be paid by the Comptroller from the resources appropriated for State Comptroller-State Employees' Retirement System Unfunded Liability. Such town or towns and the Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection are