Sec. 4-5. "Department head" defined. As used in sections 4-6, 4-7 and 4-8, the
term "department head" means Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management,
Commissioner of Administrative Services, Commissioner of Revenue Services, Banking Commissioner, Commissioner of Children and Families, Commissioner of Construction Services, Commissioner of Consumer Protection, Commissioner of Correction, Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, State Board of
Education, Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection, Commissioner
of Energy and Environmental Protection, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner
of Public Health, Insurance Commissioner, Labor Commissioner, Liquor Control Commission, Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Commissioner of
Social Services, Commissioner of Developmental Services, Commissioner of Motor
Vehicles, Commissioner of Transportation, Commissioner of Veterans' Affairs, the
director of the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services and the executive director of the Office
of Military Affairs. As used in sections 4-6 and 4-7, "department head" also means
the Commissioner of Education and the president of the Board of Regents for Higher
Education.
(March, 1950, 1953, S. 27d; 1959, P.A. 412, S. 3; 637, S. 1; 1967, P.A. 152, S. 4; 522, S. 4; 657, S. 80; 1969, P.A. 664,
S. 17; 768, S. 57; 814, S. 7; 1971, P.A. 872, S. 3; P.A. 73-599, S. 7; 73-677, S. 2; P.A. 75-519, S. 2, 12; 75-537, S. 17, 55;
75-638, S. 8, 23; P.A. 77-614, S. 4, 610; P.A. 79-598, S. 2, 27; P.A. 80-482, S. 3, 345, 348; P.A. 84-342, S. 2, 13; P.A. 86-175, S. 2, 4; P.A. 87-9, S. 2, 3; 87-496, S. 1, 110; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2; 93-262, S. 26, 87; 93-381, S. 9, 39; P.A. 95-250, S.
13, 42; 95-257, S. 11, 12, 21, 40, 58; 95-309, S. 11, 12; P.A. 96-211, S. 1, 5, 6; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9, S. 14, 50; P.A.
03-84, S. 4; 03-217, S. 2; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 146(c),(e), 147, 241; P.A. 04-189, S. 1; 04-205, S. 5; 04-219, S.
1; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S. 30; P.A. 06-187, S. 11; P.A. 07-73, S. 2(b); 07-114, S. 2; 07-205, S. 2; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A.
09-3, S. 23; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7, S. 156; P.A. 11-44, S. 31; 11-48, S. 131; 11-51, S. 46, 141; 11-80, S. 1, 3.)
History: 1959 acts deleted milk administrator and athletic commissioner and changed titles of commissioner of agriculture to commissioner of agriculture and natural resources and commissioner of food and drugs to commissioner of consumer
protection; 1967 acts included commissioner of correction, commissioner of community affairs and personnel commissioner in definition; 1969 acts included commissioner of children and youth services and commissioner on aging in definition and substituted commissioner of transportation for highway commissioner; 1971 act removed responsibility for natural
resources from commissioner of agriculture and included commissioner of environmental protection; P.A. 73-599 included
commissioner of the department of commerce; P.A. 73-677 replaced personnel commissioner with commissioner of personnel and administration; P.A. 75-519 replaced commissioner of personnel and administration with personnel commissioner;
P.A. 75-537 included commissioner of planning and energy policy; P.A. 75-638 included commissioner of mental retardation; P.A. 77-614 rewrote section to reflect changes mandated by reorganization of executive branch, deleting finance and
control, banking, social services, insurance, health, public works, tax, community affairs, personnel, commerce and planning and energy commissioners and including secretaries of the office of policy and management and of business regulation,
the state board of education and administrative services, revenue services, economic development, health services, public
safety, income maintenance and human resources commissioners; P.A. 79-598 included commissioner of housing; P.A.
80-482 replaced secretary of business regulation with commissioner of banking and included the commissioner of insurance,
the liquor control commission and the public utilities control authority; P.A. 84-342 replaced public utilities control authority with chairperson of the authority; P.A. 86-175 added commissioner of veterans' affairs; (Revisor's note: Pursuant to
P.A. 87-9, "banking commissioner" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "commissioner of banking"); P.A. 87-496 added commissioner of public works to definition of "department head"; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and
department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1,
1993; P.A. 93-262 removed reference to the commissioner on aging, department of income maintenance and department
of human resources, substituting reference to department of social services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-381 replaced
commissioner of health services with commissioner of public health and addiction services, effective July 1, 1993; P.A.
95-250 and P.A. 96-211 replaced Commissioners of Economic Development and Housing with Commissioner of Economic
and Community Development; P.A. 95-257 added the Commissioner of Health Care Access, replaced Commissioner of
Public Health and Addiction Services with Commissioner of Public Health and replaced Commissioner of Mental Health
with Commissioner of Mental Health and Addiction Services, effective July 1, 1995; P.A. 95-309 changed effective date
of P.A. 95-250 but did not affect this section; June 18 Sp. Sess. P.A. 97-9 included "Chief Information Officer" in definition
of "department head", effective July 1, 1997; P.A. 03-84 changed "Commissioner of Banking" to "Banking Commissioner",
effective June 3, 2003; P.A. 03-217 added "executive director of the Board of Education and Services for the Blind" to
definition of "department head", effective July 9, 2003; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 added "executive director of the
Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film" to definition of "department head", effective
August 20, 2003, and changed "Commissioner of Consumer Protection" to "Commissioner of Agriculture and Consumer
Protection" and removed reference to "Commissioner of Agriculture", effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 04-189 repealed Secs.
146 and 147 of June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, thereby reversing the merger of the Departments of Agriculture and Consumer
Protection, effective June 1, 2004; P.A. 04-205, effective June 3, 2004, and May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, effective May 12,
2004, both replaced Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film with Connecticut Commission
on Culture and Tourism; P.A. 04-219 added Commissioner of Emergency Management and Homeland Security, effective
January 1, 2005; P.A. 06-187 added the Ombudsman for Property Rights, effective July 1, 2006; pursuant to P.A. 07-73
"Commissioner of Mental Retardation" was changed editorially by the Revisors to "Commissioner of Developmental
Services", effective October 1, 2007; P.A. 07-114 added language re Commissioner of Education; P.A. 07-205 added the
executive director of the Office of Military Affairs; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-3 deleted reference to Commissioner of Health
Care Access, effective October 6, 2009; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7 deleted reference to the Ombudsman for Property Rights,
effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 11-44 replaced "the executive director of the Board of Education and Services for the
Blind" with "the director of the Bureau of Rehabilitative Services", effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-48 deleted "the executive
director of the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism" and added "the president of the Board of Regents for
Higher Education", effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-51 replaced "Commissioner of Public Safety" and "Commissioner of
Emergency Management and Homeland Security" with "Commissioner of Emergency Services and Public Protection",
added "Commissioner of Construction Services" and deleted "Commissioner of Public Works" and "Chief Information
Officer", effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-80 changed "Commissioner of Environmental Protection" to "Commissioner of
Energy and Environmental Protection" and deleted "the chairperson of the Public Utilities Control Authority", effective
July 1, 2011.
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Sec. 4-9a. Appointment of chairpersons and executive directors of boards and
commissions. Public members; proportion; definitions; exception. Members;
terms. (a) The Governor shall appoint the chairperson and executive director, if any,
of all boards and commissions within the Executive Department, except the State Properties Review Board, the State Elections Enforcement Commission, the Commission on
Human Rights and Opportunities, the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control and
the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board.
(b) Public members shall constitute not less than one-third of the members of each
board and commission within the Executive Department, except the Gaming Policy
Board and the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities. Public member means
an elector of the state who has no substantial financial interest in, is not employed in or
by, and is not professionally affiliated with, any industry, profession, occupation, trade
or institution regulated or licensed by the relevant board or commission, and who has
had no professional affiliation with any such industry, profession, occupation, trade or
institution for three years preceding his appointment to the board or commission. Except
as otherwise specifically provided by the general statutes, this section shall not apply
to the Commission on Fire Prevention and Control, boards and commissions the membership of which is entirely composed of state department heads, elected officials or
deputies appointed by such department heads or where the membership of such board
or commission is determined in accordance with the provisions of any federal law.
(c) Notwithstanding any provision of law, the term of each member of each board
and commission within the executive branch, except the State Board of Education, the
Board of Regents for Higher Education, the Gaming Policy Board, the Commission on
Human Rights and Opportunities, the State Elections Enforcement Commission, the
State Properties Review Board, the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board, the Commission
on Medicolegal Investigations, the Psychiatric Security Review Board, the Commission
on Fire Prevention and Control, the E 9-1-1 Commission, the Culture and Tourism
Advisory Committee, and the board of trustees of each constituent unit of the state
system of higher education, commencing on or after July 1, 1979, shall be coterminous
with the term of the Governor or until a successor is chosen, whichever is later.
(d) Each member of each board and commission within the executive branch shall
serve at the pleasure of the appointing authority except where otherwise specifically
provided by any provision of the general statutes.
(P.A. 77-614, S. 13, 587, 610; P.A. 79-404, S. 2, 45; 79-493, S. 8, 9; 79-560, S. 36, 39; P.A. 81-473, S. 2, 43; P.A. 82-218, S. 34, 46; P.A. 84-241, S. 2, 5; 84-416, S. 14, 15; 84-511, S. 1, 15; 84-546, S. 8, 173; P.A. 85-300, S. 2, 3; 85-506,
S. 26, 32; P.A. 86-403, S. 7, 132; P.A. 93-219, S. 4, 14; 93-262, S. 27, 87; 93-435, S. 56, 95; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1,
S. 3, 130; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6, S. 210(e); P.A. 04-20, S. 3; 04-205, S. 5; 04-234, S. 2; May Sp. Sess. P.A. 04-2, S.
30; P.A. 05-183, S. 30; P.A. 06-196, S. 188; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7, S. 142; P.A. 11-48, S. 132; 11-61, S. 78; 11-233,
S. 3.)
History: P.A. 79-404 deleted references to commission on special revenue in Subsecs. (a) and (c) and substituted gaming
policy board for commission in Subsecs. (b) and (d); P.A. 79-493 included state ethics commission in Subsecs. (a), (c)
and (d); P.A. 79-560 included state elections commission in Subsecs. (a), (c) and (d); P.A. 81-473 exempted the commission
on medicolegal investigations from the general requirement that terms of members of boards and commissions be coterminous with that of the governor in Subsec. (d); P.A. 82-218 amended section to replace board of higher education with board
of governors, to provide for appointment of initial chairman to board of governors by the governor and to establish staggered
terms of office for the board of governors and the constituent unit boards of trustees, effective March 1, 1983; P.A. 84-241 added "of higher education" to board's title; P.A. 84-416 exempted E 9-1-1 commission from provision requiring
terms of members be coterminous with governor's; P.A. 84-511 changed name of state elections commission to state
elections enforcement commission; P.A. 84-546 repealed formed Subsec. (c) re termination of the terms of members on
July 1, 1979, relettering former Subsecs. (d) and (e) accordingly; P.A. 85-300 amended Subsec. (c) to exempt the state
commission on the arts from the requirement that members' terms be coterminous with that of the governor; P.A. 85-506
amended Subsec. (c) to exempt the psychiatric security review board from provision requiring terms of members to be
coterminous with governor's; P.A. 86-403 made technical change in Subsec. (b); P.A. 93-219 amended Subsec. (c) to
exempt the Board of Parole from the requirement that members' terms be coterminous with that of the governor, effective
July 1, 1994; P.A. 93-262 added commission on aging to the lists in Subsecs. (a) and (c) added the words "executive
director of" before the words "state ethics commission", effective July 1, 1993; P.A. 93-435 made technical change re
placement of phrase "executive director of" added by P.A. 93-262, effective June 28, 1993; May 25 Sp. Sess. P.A. 94-1
amended Subsec. (a) by eliminating reference to the executive director of the Commission on Aging, effective July 1,
1994; June 30 Sp. Sess. P.A. 03-6 and P.A. 04-20 replaced State Commission on the Arts with Connecticut Commission
on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and Film, effective August 20, 2003; P.A. 04-205, effective June 3, 2004, and May Sp.
Sess. P.A. 04-2, effective May 12, 2004, both replaced Connecticut Commission on Arts, Tourism, Culture, History and
Film with Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism; P.A. 04-234 replaced Board of Parole with Board of Pardons
and Paroles, effective July 1, 2004; P.A. 05-183 amended Subsecs. (a) and (c) to replace "State Ethics Commission" with
"Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board", effective July 1, 2005; P.A. 06-196 eliminated reference to Board of Pardons and
Paroles and made technical changes in Subsec. (c), effective June 7, 2006; Sept. Sp. Sess. P.A. 09-7 amended Subsecs.
(a) and (c) to delete references to Commission on Aging, effective October 5, 2009; P.A. 11-48 amended Subsec. (a) to
delete reference to Board of Governors of Higher Education and amended Subsec. (c) to make a technical change, replace
"Governors of" with "Regents for", delete "Connecticut Commission on", and add "Advisory Committee", effective July
1, 2011; P.A. 11-61 amended Subsec. (a) by eliminating Commission on Fire Prevention and Control from boards and
commissions excepted from Governor's appointment authority, effective July 1, 2011; P.A. 11-233 amended Subsec. (a)
by adding Commission on Fire Prevention and Control to boards and commissions excepted from Governor's appointment
authority, effective July 1, 2011.
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Sec. 4-9c. Confirmation process for appointments to Board of Trustees of The
University of Connecticut and Board of Regents for Higher Education. Appointments made by the Governor to the Board of Trustees of The University of Connecticut
and the Board of Regents for Higher Education shall be subject to the confirmation
process described in section 4-7.
(P.A. 94-97, S. 3, 4; P.A. 11-48, S. 270.)
History: P.A. 94-97 effective May 25, 1994; P.A. 11-48 replaced "boards of trustees of the constituent units of the state
system of higher education and to the Board for State Academic Awards" with "Board of Trustees of The University of
Connecticut and the Board of Regents for Higher Education", effective July 1, 2011.
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