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HOUSE BILL NO. 270 – State empl/vacation leave/transfer

HOUSE BILL NO. 270

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H0270.......................................by COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES
STATE EMPLOYEES - VACATION LEAVE - Amends existing law to provide that,
under the state personnel system, with the approval of the appointing
authority for both the transferring and receiving officer or employee, an
officer or employee may transfer accrued vacation leave, up to a maximum of
forty hours per fiscal year, to another officer or employee for purposes of
sick leave in the event the receiving officer or employee or a family
member suffers from a serious illness or injury.

02/16    House intro - 1st rdg - to printing
02/17    Rpt prt - to Com/HuRes

Bill Text


H0270


                                                                        
 ||||              LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF IDAHO             ||||
Fifty-fifth Legislature                 First Regular Session - 1999
                                                                        

                             IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                                    HOUSE BILL NO. 270

                        BY COMMERCE AND HUMAN RESOURCES COMMITTEE

 1                                        AN ACT
 2    RELATING TO LEAVE TIME UNDER THE  STATE  PERSONNEL  SYSTEM;  AMENDING  SECTION
 3        67-5335,  IDAHO CODE, TO PROVIDE THAT, WITH THE APPROVAL OF THE APPOINTING
 4        AUTHORITY FOR BOTH THE TRANSFERRING AND RECEIVING OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE,  AN
 5        OFFICER  OR  EMPLOYEE MAY TRANSFER ACCRUED VACATION LEAVE, UP TO A MAXIMUM
 6        OF FORTY HOURS PER FISCAL YEAR, TO, OR FOR THE USE OF, ANOTHER OFFICER  OR
 7        EMPLOYEE  FOR PURPOSES OF SICK LEAVE IN THE EVENT THE RECEIVING OFFICER OR
 8        EMPLOYEE OR A FAMILY MEMBER SUFFERS FROM A SERIOUS ILLNESS OR INJURY.

 9    Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Idaho:

10        SECTION 1.  That Section 67-5335, Idaho Code, be, and the same  is  hereby
11    amended to read as follows:

12        67-5335.  VACATION  TIME -- ELIGIBILITY -- MAXIMUM TIME -- RIGHT TO ANNUAL
13    VACATION. (1) An appointing authority shall permit each officer or employee to
14    take vacation leave to the extent such leave has accrued.
15        (2)  Vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated only as follows, unless
16    amounts in excess of the permitted accumulations have  been  expressly  autho-
17    rized  in writing by the board of examiners during unusual or emergency situa-
18    tions:
19        During the first ten thousand four  hundred  (10,400)  hours  of  credited
20    state  service,  vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated to a maximum of
21    one hundred ninety-two (192) hours;
22        During the second ten thousand four hundred  (10,400)  hours  of  credited
23    state  service,  vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated to a maximum of
24    two hundred forty (240) hours;
25        During the third ten thousand four  hundred  (10,400)  hours  of  credited
26    state  service,  vacation leave may be accrued and accumulated to a maximum of
27    two hundred eighty-eight (288) hours;
28        After thirty-one thousand two hundred (31,200)  hours  of  credited  state
29    service,  vacation  leave may be accrued and accumulated to a maximum of three
30    hundred thirty-six (336) hours.
31        (3)  Vacation leave shall be transferable from  department  to  department
32    only to the extent that it is accrued and accumulated.
33        (4)  Vacation leave shall not be earned, accrued or accumulated during any
34    pay  period  in  which the maximum accruals and accumulations provided by this
35    section have been met.
36        (5)  Vacation leave not taken shall be compensated for at the time of sep-
37    aration only to the maximum accruals and accumulations allowed  by  this  sec-
38    tion.
39        (6)  Vacation leave shall be taken on a workday basis. Regularly scheduled
40    days  off  and officially designated holidays falling within a period of vaca-
41    tion leave shall not be counted against vacation leave. Vacation  leave  shall
42    not be taken in advance of being earned and shall only be taken in pay periods
43    subsequent to being earned.


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 1        (7)  With  the approval of the appointing authority for both the transfer-
 2    ring and receiving officer or employee, an officer or  employee  may  transfer
 3    accrued  vacation  leave, up to a maximum of forty (40) hours per fiscal year,
 4    to ,  or for the use of,  another officer or employee for  purposes
 5    of  sick leave in the event the receiving officer or employee or a family mem-
 6    ber suffers from a serious illness or injury. The amount transferred shall  be
 7    converted  to  sick  leave.  An  officer  or  employee shall not be allowed to
 8    receive more than one hundred sixty (160) hours of transferred leave per  fis-
 9    cal  year,  and  a  transfer  shall not occur until the receiving employee has
10    exhausted all of his or her accrued sick and vacation  leave.  An  officer  or
11    employee  shall  not  be eligible to transfer vacation leave unless his or her
12    balance exceeds eighty (80) hours, and in no event may an officer or  employee
13    transfer  an  amount of accrued leave which would result in an accrued balance
14    of less than eighty (80) hours.

Statement of Purpose / Fiscal Impact


                       STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

                             RS 08865

The purpose of this legislation is to allow State agencies to create
a "bank" or "pool" thus permitting employees to donate vacation
leave to this pool. This would provide higher education with the
ability to allow faculty who do not earn vacation leave to apply for
shared leave in the event of serious illness and to provide
anonymity for those employees wishing to keep private their illness.









                           FISCAL NOTE

No Fiscal Impact.











CONTACT:  Jane Buser
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STATEMENT OF PURPOSE/ FISCAL NOTE   Bill No.      H 270