Governor Malloy today proposed more mergers and consolidations to reduce the number of state agencies from 59 to 52 and continue making state government “smaller, leaner, and more effective.”

Among the proposed mergers are those between the Workers’ Compensation Commission and Department of Labor, the state Construction Department and Department of Administrative Services, and a new Department on Human Rights, Protection and Advocacy comprised of the current Office of Protection and Advocacy and Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities.

Here is the complete list.

“Like companies and families across the state and the country, state government must do more with less,” said the governor.

Last year, the governor reduced the number of state agencies from 81 to 59. He will submit legislation in February detailing these new consolidations.