(a) The Connecticut Student Loan Foundation is constituted as a subsidiary of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority. The Connecticut Student Loan Foundation shall have all the privileges, immunities, tax exemptions and other exemptions of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority and may exercise the powers granted pursuant to this chapter, which shall be deemed and held to be the performance of an essential public and government function. The Connecticut Student Loan Foundation shall be subject to suit and liability solely from the assets, revenues and resources of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation and without recourse to the general funds, revenues, resources or any other assets of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority or any other subsidiary of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority.

(b) (1) On and after July 1, 2014, the board of directors of the Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority, appointed in accordance with section 10a-179a, shall also serve as the board of directors for the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation. Any member of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation board may be removed by the board of directors of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority for misfeasance, malfeasance or neglect of duty. Each member of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation board, before entering upon his or her duties, shall take and subscribe the oath or affirmation required by section 1 of article eleventh of the State Constitution. A record of each such oath shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of the State.

(2) The chairperson of the board of directors of the Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority shall serve as the chairperson of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation board of directors. The Connecticut Student Loan Foundation board shall annually elect one of its members as vice-chairperson. The Connecticut Student Loan Foundation board may appoint an executive director, who shall be an employee of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority or of the Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority, and who shall serve at the pleasure of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation board. The executive director shall supervise the administrative affairs and technical activities of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation in accordance with the directives of the board. The executive director shall keep a record of all proceedings and shall be custodian of all books, documents and papers filed with the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation and of its minute book and its official seal.

(3) Directors shall receive no compensation for their services, but shall be reimbursed for expenses actually and necessarily incurred by them in the performance of their duties under this section.

(4) The board of directors shall adopt bylaws for the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation and provide for the holding of regular and special meetings. A majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business and, unless a greater number is required by the bylaws of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation, the act of a majority of the directors present at any meeting shall be deemed the act of the board.

(5) The board of directors may elect an executive committee of not fewer than five members who, in intervals between meetings of the board, may transact such business of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation as the board may from time to time authorize.

(c) The provisions of section 1-125, subsection (e) of section 10a-185 and this subsection shall apply to any officer, director, designee or employee of the Connecticut Higher Education Supplemental Loan Authority or of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority appointed as a member, director or officer of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation and to an employee of the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority who is an authorized officer of the authority. Any such persons so appointed shall not be personally liable for the debts, obligations or liabilities of the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation as provided in said section 1-125. The Connecticut Student Loan Foundation shall and the Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority may provide for the indemnification to protect, save harmless and indemnify such officer, director, designee or employee as provided by said section 1-125.

(d) The Connecticut Health and Educational Facilities Authority or the Connecticut Student Loan Foundation may take such actions as are necessary to comply with the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 or any subsequent corresponding internal revenue code of the United States, as from time to time amended, to qualify and maintain any such subsidiary as a corporation exempt from taxation under said Internal Revenue Code.

(P.A. 14-217, S. 39.)

History: P.A. 14-217 effective July 1, 2014.