CT HB06878

Personal care attendants are deemed state employees for purposes of workers' compensation (Chapter 568) effective October 1, 2015, while remaining excluded from other state employee rights and privileges.

Commissioners of Developmental Services and Social Services shall collaborate with the Commissioner of Administrative Services and Workers' Compensation Commission to provide workers' compensation benefits for personal care attendants.

The state shall pay the full cost of workers' compensation benefits for personal care attendants without reducing services or affecting consumers served by these attendants.

Personal care attendants are explicitly excluded from the definition of casual domestic workers in private dwellings who would otherwise be exempt from workers' compensation coverage.

All provisions take effect October 1, 2015, modifying sections 17b-706b and 31-275 of the general statutes.