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H0269.......................................by COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES STATE EMPLOYEES - Amends existing law to authorize an officer or employee to transfer accrued sick leave to or for the use of another officer or employee in the event the receiving officer or employee or a family member suffers from a serious illness or injury, if the balance of the leave proposed to be transferred by the employee exceeds eighty hours. 02/16 House intro - 1st rdg - to printing 02/17 Rpt prt - to Com/HuRes
H0269|||| LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO |||| Fifty-fifth Legislature First Regular Session - 1999IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES HOUSE BILL NO. 269 BY COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE 1 AN ACT 2 RELATING TO TRANSFER OF ACCRUED SICK LEAVE; AMENDING SECTION 67-5335, IDAHO 3 CODE, TO AUTHORIZE AN OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE TO TRANSFER ACCRUED SICK LEAVE 4 TO OR FOR THE USE OF ANOTHER OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE IN THE EVENT THE RECEIV- 5 ING OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE OR A FAMILY MEMBER SUFFERS FROM A SERIOUS ILLNESS 6 OR INJURY IF THE BALANCE OF THE LEAVE PROPOSED TO BE TRANSFERRED BY THE 7 EMPLOYEE EXCEEDS EIGHTY HOURS. 8 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho: 9 SECTION 1. That Section 67-5335, Idaho Code, be, and the same is hereby 10 amended to read as follows: 11 67-5335. VACATION TIME -- ELIGIBILITY -- MAXIMUM TIME -- RIGHT TO ANNUAL 12 VACATION. (1) An appointing authority shall permit each officer or employee to 13 take vacation leave to the extent such leave has accrued. 14 (2) Vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated only as follows, unless 15 amounts in excess of the permitted accumulations have been expressly autho- 16 rized in writing by the board of examiners during unusual or emergency situa- 17 tions: 18 During the first ten thousand four hundred (10,400) hours of credited 19 state service, vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated to a maximum of 20 one hundred ninety-two (192) hours; 21 During the second ten thousand four hundred (10,400) hours of credited 22 state service, vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated to a maximum of 23 two hundred forty (240) hours; 24 During the third ten thousand four hundred (10,400) hours of credited 25 state service, vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated to a maximum of 26 two hundred eighty-eight (288) hours; 27 After thirty-one thousand two hundred (31,200) hours of credited state 28 service, vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated to a maximum of three 29 hundred thirty-six (336) hours. 30 (3) Vacation leave shall be transferable from department to department 31 only to the extent that it is accrued and accumulated. 32 (4) Vacation leave shall not be earned, accrued or accumulated during any 33 pay period in which the maximum accruals and accumulations provided by this 34 section have been met. 35 (5) Vacation leave not taken shall be compensated for at the time of sep- 36 aration only to the maximum accruals and accumulations allowed by this sec- 37 tion. 38 (6) Vacation leave shall be taken on a workday basis. Regularly scheduled 39 days off and officially designated holidays falling within a period of vaca- 40 tion leave shall not be counted against vacation leave. Vacation leave shall 41 not be taken in advance of being earned and shall only be taken in pay periods 42 subsequent to being earned. 43 (7) With the approval of the appointing authority for both the transfer- 2 1 ring and receiving officer or employee, an officer or employee may transfer 2 accrued vacation leave or sick leave , up to a maximum of forty 3 (40) hours per fiscal year, to or for the use of another officer 4 or employee for purposes of sick leave in the event the receiving officer or 5 employee or a family member suffers from a serious illness or injury. The 6 amount transferred shall be converted to sick leave. An officer or employee 7 shall not be allowed to receive more than one hundred sixty (160) hours of 8 transferred leave per fiscal year, and a transfer shall not occur until the 9 receiving employee has exhausted all of his or her accrued sick and vacation 10 leave. An officer or employee shall not be eligible to transfer vacation leave 11 or sick leave unless his or her balance of the leave pro- 12 posed to be transferred exceeds eighty (80) hours, and in no event may 13 an officer or employee transfer an amount of accrued leave which would result 14 in an accrued balance of less than eighty (80) hours.
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
RS 08926
In 1998 a policy was put in place allowing employees to contribute
earned vacation leave to other employees who had exhausted their
sick and vacation leave due to catastrophic circumstances they
cannot control. This legislation is intended to extend to state
employees the ability to transfer accrued sick leave time to other
employees as they are now able to transfer accrued vacation time.
Over 3,000 hours of vacation leave have been transferred to help
state employees since this law became effective.
FISCAL NOTE
Cost to the State is difficult to assess since sick leave value is
heavily restricted, but is anticipated to be minimal. Benefits to
employees is expected to offset any impact due to movement of sick
leave time.
CONTACT: Rep. Robert E. Schaefer
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