(a) The State Comptroller may transfer from the Employers Social Security Tax account the amount or any portion of the amount of actual or projected savings in said account resulting from employee participation in the flexible spending account programs, established in sections 5-264b to 5-264e, inclusive, to a restrictive grant fund account for payment of administrative and program costs of the flexible spending account programs. The total amount transferred for administrative costs pursuant to this subsection shall not exceed two hundred fifty thousand dollars per year.

(b) The State Comptroller may transfer from the Employers Social Security Tax account an amount equal to an employee's yearly contribution to the restrictive grant fund account described in subsection (a) of this section, provided such amount is reimbursed to the Employers Social Security Tax account from said restrictive grant fund account not later than eighteen months after such transfer.

(c) On or before April 30, 2016, and annually thereafter, the State Comptroller shall report, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a, to the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to appropriations and the budgets of state agencies and the Secretary of the Office of Policy and Management on the status of the flexible spending account programs. Each such report shall include, but not be limited to: (1) The number of employees enrolled in such programs, (2) the administrative costs of such programs, (3) the amount of forfeitures in such programs, and (4) the effect of the transfers permitted under subsections (a) and (b) of this section on the Employers Social Security Tax account.

(P.A. 10-179, S. 38; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 43; P.A. 15-123, S. 5.)

History: P.A. 10-179 effective July 1, 2010; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 made technical changes in Subsec. (a); P.A. 15-123 amended Subsec. (c) to change “March 30, 2012” to “April 30, 2016” re annual report, effective July 1, 2015.