{"data":{"id":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-31-51u","jurisdiction":"us-ct","citation":"Conn. Gen. Stat. § 31-51u","heading":"Drug testing: Requirements.","body":"(a) No employer may determine an employee's eligibility for promotion, additional compensation, transfer, termination, disciplinary or other adverse personnel action solely on the basis of a positive urinalysis drug test result unless (1) the employer has given the employee a urinalysis drug test, utilizing a reliable methodology, which produced a positive result and (2) such positive test result was confirmed by a second urinalysis drug test, which was separate and independent from the initial test, utilizing a gas chromatography and mass spectrometry methodology or a methodology which has been determined by the Commissioner of Public Health to be as reliable or more reliable than the gas chromatography and mass spectrometry methodology.\n(b) No person performing a urinalysis drug test pursuant to subsection (a) of this section shall report, transmit or disclose any positive test result of any test performed in accordance with subdivision (1) of subsection (a) of this section unless such test result has been confirmed in accordance with subdivision (2) of said subsection (a).","path":["TITLE 31. LABOR","CHAPTER 557*. EMPLOYMENT REGULATION","PART II. PROTECTION OF EMPLOYEES"],"source_url":"https://www.cga.ct.gov/current/pub/chap_557.htm#sec_31-51u","current_through":"Revised to January 1, 2026 (2026 Supplement to the General Statutes of Connecticut, applied over the base revision of January 1, 2025)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-06T19:07:09Z","sha256":"fbb8db74e65fe5bbf095af1930d6efb2348741efc0328a2bfd281924c64257bd","source_id":"us-ct","stale":false,"prev":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-31-51t","next":"us-ct/conn.-gen.-stat.-31-51v"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}