<section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-101" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions"> <level label="a"> <text>This section applies to all employees in the State Personnel Management System.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Subject to the requirements of this title, the Secretary shall adopt regulations, policies, and guidelines that:</text> <level label="1"> <text>govern all aspects of leave and the keeping of time records for all employees subject to this section;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>require each unit subject to the regulations to submit to the Secretary an annual report that includes:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the total number of employees in the unit; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the aggregate amounts of annual, personal, and sick leave taken by the employees in the unit;</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>provide for computations in a pay period of:</text> <level label="i"> <text>accruals of annual and sick leave; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>deductions for unpaid leave used; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="4"> <text>provide for conversions of leave time and holiday time for employees who do not have an 8-hour daily work schedule.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-102" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions"> <text>The Secretary shall compile all leave reports received under § 9-101 of this subtitle and maintain a central database on those reports.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-103" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="General Provisions"> <text>While using leave with pay under this title, an employee:</text> <level label="1"> <text>does not lose any health insurance benefits with the subsidy allowed in Title 2, Subtitle 5 of this article solely because of use of the paid leave;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>continues seniority and leave accruals based on the employee's regular hours; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>except as provided in § 9-704 of this title, is entitled to pay for the leave at the employee's regular hourly rate for the hours of leave.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-201" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Holiday Leave"> <text>In this title, “employee holiday” includes:</text> <level label="1"> <text>January 1, for New Year’s Day;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>January 15, for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, unless the United States Congress designates another day for observance of that legal holiday, in which case, the day designated by the United States Congress;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the third Monday in February, for Presidents’ Day;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>May 30, for Memorial Day, unless the United States Congress designates another day for observance of that legal holiday, in which case, the day designated by the United States Congress;</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>June 19, for Juneteenth National Independence Day;</text> </level> <level label="6"> <text>July 4, for Independence Day;</text> </level> <level label="7"> <text>the first Monday in September, for Labor Day;</text> </level> <level label="8"> <text>October 12, for Columbus Day, unless the United States Congress designates another day for observance of that legal holiday, in which case, the day designated by the United States Congress;</text> </level> <level label="9"> <text>November 11, for Veterans’ Day;</text> </level> <level label="10"> <text>the fourth Thursday in November, for Thanksgiving Day;</text> </level> <level label="11"> <text>the Friday after Thanksgiving Day, for American Indian Heritage Day;</text> </level> <level label="12"> <text>December 25, for Christmas Day;</text> </level> <level label="13"> <text>each statewide general election day in this State; and</text> </level> <level label="14"> <text>each other day that the President of the United States or the Governor designates for general cessation of business.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-202" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Holiday Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this subtitle applies to all employees of all units in the Executive Branch of State government, including any unit with an independent personnel system.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>This subtitle does not apply to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>temporary employees;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>employees of any unit that is authorized or required by law to establish holiday schedules different from those provided in this subtitle; or</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>employees of the State Department of Transportation.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-203" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Holiday Leave"> <text>Each employee subject to this subtitle is entitled to holiday leave with pay for each employee holiday specified in § 9-201 of this subtitle.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-204" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Holiday Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, an employee shall use holiday leave on the day the employee holiday occurs.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle:</text> <level label="1"> <text>if the employee holiday occurs on a Saturday, an employee shall use holiday leave on the Friday immediately before the employee holiday; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>if the employee holiday occurs on a Sunday, an employee shall use holiday leave on the Monday immediately following the employee holiday.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-205" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Holiday Leave"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection or in any other law, an employee, who because of the nature of the employee’s duties, is required to work on any part of an employee holiday shall receive compensatory time for that work.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>An employee, including an employee in a 24-hour facility, shall receive payment for the number of holiday hours scheduled, at the employee’s regular hourly rate of pay, and time and one-half payment for the number of hours actually worked, if the employee:</text> <level label="i"> <text>is eligible to receive cash overtime;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>has holidays prescheduled by the employer; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>is required by the employer to work a holiday that was designated as a prescheduled holiday for the employee.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>An employee who is included in the Executive Pay Plan at a pay grade of (ES) 6 or above may receive compensatory time for work on an employee holiday only if the employee works 5 or more hours on the holiday. The employee shall receive 1 day of compensatory time for each employee holiday on which the employee works 5 hours or more.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An employee must use any compensatory time accrued under this section within 1 year after having accrued that time.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-301" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Annual Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>This subtitle does not apply to:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a temporary employee; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>an employee of the Maryland School for the Deaf who works 11 months or less in a calendar year.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Each employee in the State Personnel Management System is entitled to annual leave with pay as provided in this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>Annual leave may be used for any purpose.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-302" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Annual Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “total State service” includes any previous State service.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Annual leave accrues as follows, on a pro rata basis:</text> <level label="1"> <text>for an employee whose total State service is less than 5 years, at the rate of 10 workdays not to exceed 80 hours, a year;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>for an employee whose total State service is at least 5 years but less than 10 years, at the rate of 15 workdays not to exceed 120 hours, a year;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>for an employee whose total State service is at least 10 years but less than 20 years, at the rate of 20 workdays not to exceed 160 hours, a year; and</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>for an employee whose total State service is 20 years or more, at the rate of 25 workdays not to exceed 200 hours, a year.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-303" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Annual Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an employee may use annual leave at any time after obtaining approval from the employee’s supervisor.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An employee may not use annual leave until the employee has completed 6 months of State service.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-304" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Annual Leave"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>An employee may accumulate unused annual leave and may carry over from 1 year to the next year up to 75 days or 600 hours of that unused annual leave.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Any accumulated and unused annual leave in excess of 75 days or 600 hours shall be forfeited at the beginning of the first full pay period of the next calendar year.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>If an employee is denied the opportunity in 1 calendar year to use annual leave days in excess of the 75 days or 600 hours allowed to be carried over to the next year, the head of the employee’s principal unit may allow the employee compensation, at the employee’s regular rate of pay, for those excess leave days.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The head of a principal unit may approve a request for compensation under this subsection only if:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the appointing authority documents the unusual administrative reasons for having denied the employee the use of annual leave; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>funds are available for that purpose.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-305" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Annual Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Except for employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement and except as provided in § 9–306 of this subtitle, an employee is entitled, on termination of State employment, to compensation for unused annual leave.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The amount of compensation to be paid under this section shall equal one–tenth of the employee’s established biweekly compensation at the time of termination of State employment, multiplied by:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the number of days of annual leave, not exceeding 50 days or 400 hours of the total that were accrued at the end of the previous calendar year and that remain unused; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the number of days of annual leave that accrued during the calendar year in which the employee’s State employment terminates and that remain unused.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-306" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Annual Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>An employee whose State employment is terminated for a cause involving moral turpitude forfeits all unused annual leave and all compensation for unused annual leave.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An employee whose State employment terminates within 6 months after the employee's original appointment is not eligible for annual leave or compensation for annual leave.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-307" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Annual Leave"> <text>Annual leave that is forfeited under §§ 9-304 and 9-306 of this subtitle is placed, unless the employee objects, in the State Employees' Leave Bank established by § 9-602(a)(1) of this title.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-308" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Annual Leave"> <text>An employee may voluntarily donate any amount of the employee's annual leave to the State Employees' Leave Bank or to another State employee under the Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program under Subtitle 6 of this title.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-401" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Personal Leave"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of this subsection, or otherwise provided by law, each employee in the State Personnel Management System, except a temporary employee, is entitled to 6 days, not to exceed 48 hours, of personal leave with pay at the beginning of the first full pay period of the calendar year.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>For the calendar year in which an employee begins employment, the employee is entitled only to the following personal leave with pay:</text> <level label="i"> <text>6 days, not to exceed 48 hours, if employment begins on or after January 1 and on or before the last day in February;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>5 days, not to exceed 40 hours, if employment begins on or after March 1 and on or before April 30;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>4 days, not to exceed 32 hours, if employment begins on or after May 1 and on or before June 30; or</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>3 days, not to exceed 24 hours, if employment begins on or after July 1.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>For each calendar year that is a leap year, each employee in the State Personnel Management System, except a temporary employee, is entitled to 7 days, not to exceed 56 hours, of personal leave with pay at the beginning of the first full pay period of the calendar year.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>For each calendar year, an employee of the Maryland School for the Deaf who works 11 months or less in a calendar year is entitled to 3 days, not to exceed 24 hours, of personal leave with pay at the beginning of the first full pay period of the calendar year.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Personal leave may be used for any purpose.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-402" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Personal Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, an employee may use personal leave after notice to the employee's immediate supervisor.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <level label="1"> <text>If an employee is scheduled to work on a holiday or is employed in a unit that provides a service continuously on a 7-day-a-week basis, the employee may use personal leave only after obtaining approval from the employee's appointing authority.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>If the request is made to observe a religious holiday, the appointing authority may deny the request only if:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the employee's unit provides a service continuously on a 7-day-a-week basis;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the denial is necessary because of a critical shortage of staff in the unit; and</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>no reasonable accommodation to the employee's request can be made.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>If the request is made for any other reason, the appointing authority may deny the request only if the denial is necessary because of a critical shortage of staff in the employee's unit.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-403" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Personal Leave"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>An employee may not accumulate unused personal leave.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Any unused personal leave shall be forfeited at the beginning of the first full pay period of the next calendar year.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Personal leave that is forfeited is placed, unless the employee objects, in the State Employees' Leave Bank established by § 9-602(a)(1) of this title.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-404" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="4" subtitle_name="Personal Leave"> <text>An employee may voluntarily donate any amount of the employee's personal leave to the State Employees' Leave Bank or to another State employee under the Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program under Subtitle 6 of this title.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-501" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sick Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Each employee in the State Personnel Management System, except a temporary employee, is entitled to sick leave with pay as provided in this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Sick leave may be used:</text> <level label="1"> <text>for illness or disability of the employee;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>for death, illness, or disability of a member of the employee's immediate family;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>following the birth of the employee's child;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>when a child is placed with the employee for adoption; or</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>for a medical appointment of the employee or a member of the employee's immediate family.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-502" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sick Leave"> <text>Fifteen days, not to exceed 120 hours, of sick leave accrue to an employee each year, on a pro rata basis, from the beginning of the employee's State service.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-503" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sick Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Payment for sick leave taken under this subtitle for personal illness or disability constitutes a separate benefit on account of sickness and is not a continuation of salary.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Payment for sick leave taken under this subtitle for any reason not specified in subsection (a) of this section is a continuation of salary.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-504" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sick Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>An employee who uses sick leave for 5 or more consecutive workdays for personal illness or disability or the illness or disability of a member of the employee's immediate family may not receive payment under this subtitle unless the employee gives the employee's immediate supervisor an original certificate of illness or disability.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The certificate required under subsection (a) of this section shall be signed by one of the following:</text> <level label="1"> <text>a medical doctor who is authorized to practice medicine or surgery by the state in which the doctor practices;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>if authorized to practice in a state and performing within the scope of that authority:</text> <level label="i"> <text>a chiropractor;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>a clinical psychologist;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>a dentist;</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>a licensed certified social worker – clinical;</text> </level> <level label="v"> <text>a nurse midwife;</text> </level> <level label="vi"> <text>a nurse practitioner;</text> </level> <level label="vii"> <text>an oral surgeon;</text> </level> <level label="viii"> <text>an optometrist;</text> </level> <level label="ix"> <text>a physical therapist;</text> </level> <level label="x"> <text>a physician assistant;</text> </level> <level label="xi"> <text>a podiatrist; or</text> </level> <level label="xii"> <text>a licensed professional counselor – clinical;</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>an accredited Christian Science practitioner; or</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>a health care provider as defined by the federal Family Medical Leave Act.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The certificate required under subsection (a) of this section due to an employee's illness or disability shall include a prognosis about the employee's ability to return to work.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-505" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sick Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>An employee who is responsible for the care and nurturing of a child may use, without certification of illness or disability, up to 30 days of accrued sick leave to care for the child during the period immediately following:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the birth of the employee’s child; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the placement of the child with the employee for adoption.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>If two employees are responsible for the care and nurturing of a child, each employee may use, without certification of illness or disability, up to 30 days of accrued sick leave to care for the child during the period immediately following:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the birth of the employees’ child; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the placement of the child with the employees for adoption.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>An employee who uses accrued sick leave following the birth of the employee’s child may not receive payment under this subtitle unless the employee gives the employee’s immediate supervisor information required by guidelines issued by the Secretary about the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>An employee who uses accrued sick leave for adoption purposes may not receive payment under this subtitle unless the employee gives the employee’s immediate supervisor the certificate required by guidelines issued by the Secretary about the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, 29 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-506" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sick Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>An employee may accumulate unused sick leave and use as permitted by § 9-501(b) of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Except as otherwise provided by law, an employee whose State employment terminates for any reason forfeits all unused sick leave.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-507" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sick Leave"> <text>Sick leave that is forfeited is placed, unless the employee objects, in the State Employees' Leave Bank established by § 9-602(a)(1) of this title.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-508" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="5" subtitle_name="Sick Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Subject to subsection (b) of this section, an employee may voluntarily donate the employee's unused sick leave to the State Employees' Leave Bank or to another State employee under the Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program under Subtitle 6 of this title.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An employee may donate sick leave under this section only to the extent that the employee has a sick leave balance of at least 240 hours after the donation.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-601" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program"> <level label="a"> <text>In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>“Catastrophic illness or injury” means a condition that is incapacitating or life threatening as certified by a health care provider, as defined in the federal Family Medical Leave Act.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>“Immediate family” means:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the spouse of the employee;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>children, including foster and stepchildren of the employee;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>parents, stepparents, or foster parents of the employee;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>brothers and sisters of the employee; and</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>grandparents and grandchildren of the employee.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>“Leave Bank” means the State Employees’ Leave Bank.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <text>“Leave Donation Program” means the Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-602" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>There is a State Employees' Leave Bank.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>There is an Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Secretary shall administer the State Employees' Leave Bank and the Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Secretary shall adopt regulations that:</text> <level label="1"> <text>govern donations to and grants of leave from the Leave Bank;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>govern donations and receipts of leave under the Leave Donation Program; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>provide for participation in the Leave Bank and the Leave Donation Program by employees in units of State government with independent personnel systems that elect to participate in the State Employees' Leave Bank in accordance with subsection (e) of this section.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>Each employee, except a temporary employee, in the State Personnel Management System may voluntarily participate in the Leave Bank and the Leave Donation Program in accordance with this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <level label="1"> <text>A principal unit in the Executive, Judicial, or Legislative branches of State government with an independent personnel system may allow its employees to voluntarily participate in the Leave Bank and the Leave Donation Program in accordance with this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>A unit that elects to participate under this subsection shall:</text> <level label="i"> <text>keep a record of the employee leave donated; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>at the end of each fiscal year, submit to the Secretary a report containing the following information:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the number of employees who donated leave;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the kind of leave and number of hours donated by each employee;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the number of employees who received donated leave; and</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>the number of hours of donated leave used by each employee to whom leave was donated.</text> </level> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-603" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program"> <level label="a"> <text>The Leave Bank consists of donated leave and forfeited annual, personal, and sick leave.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An employee is a member of the Leave Bank for 2 years from the date on which the employee:</text> <level label="1"> <text>voluntarily donates at least 8 hours of annual, personal, or sick leave to the Leave Bank in accordance with this title; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>has at least 8 hours of annual or personal leave placed in the Leave Bank as a result of a forfeiture under § 9-307, § 9-403, or § 9-507 of this title.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>The Secretary may grant leave from the State Employees' Leave Bank to an employee who:</text> <level label="1"> <text>has exhausted all forms of annual, personal, sick, and compensatory leave because of a serious and prolonged medical condition;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>provides a certificate of illness or disability; and</text> </level> <level label="3"> <level label="i"> <text>is a member of the State Employees' Leave Bank; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>is granted an exemption by the Secretary from the membership requirement for good cause.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-604" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>Subject to the limitations in this title or in any other law, an employee may voluntarily donate unused annual, sick, or personal leave to another employee who has exhausted all available annual, personal, sick, and compensatory leave because of a serious and prolonged medical condition of the employee or a catastrophic illness or injury of a member of the employee’s immediate family.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>The employee who donates leave shall designate the recipient of the leave.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An employee who receives leave through the Leave Donation Program may only use the leave for:</text> <level label="1"> <text>an illness or disability of the employee due to the medical condition that existed at the time of the donation; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a catastrophic illness or injury of a member of the employee’s immediate family for whom the employee is needed to provide direct care.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>An employee may use leave received through the Leave Donation Program for a catastrophic illness or injury of a member of the employee’s immediate family only after obtaining approval from the employee’s appointing authority.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Approval by the employee’s appointing authority is discretionary, and denial may be based on any reason which is consistently applied and that is not illegal or unconstitutional.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-605" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program"> <text>An employee may not:</text> <level label="1"> <text>receive more than a total of 2,080 hours of leave from the Leave Bank and the Leave Donation Program; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>use leave from the Leave Bank, the Leave Donation Program, or both for any continuous period that, when combined with all other forms of paid leave, exceeds 16 months.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-606" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program"> <text>An employee who is denied use of leave from the Leave Bank or Leave Donation Program may appeal the denial in accordance with regulations adopted by the Secretary.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-607" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program"> <level label="a"> <text>An employee may not, through intimidation, threat, or coercion, interfere with any right that another employee may have with respect to contributing, receiving, or using leave under this subtitle, including any promise to confer or conferring any appointment, promotion, compensation, or other benefit, or effecting or threatening to effect any reprisal, including the deprivation of appointment, promotion, compensation, or other benefit.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>An employee who violates subsection (a) of this section is subject to disciplinary action, including the termination of State employment.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-701" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Work-Related Accident Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Each employee in the State Personnel Management System, except a temporary employee, is entitled to work-related accident leave with sick pay if:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the employee sustains a disabling personal injury that would be compensable under the Maryland Workers' Compensation Act; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>a physician examines the employee and certifies that the employee is disabled because of the injury.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The appointing authority of an employee entitled to work-related accident leave shall notify the employee of the employee's right to file a claim with the Workers' Compensation Commission.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-702" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Work-Related Accident Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>An employee may use work-related accident leave:</text> <level label="1"> <text>beginning on the first day of disability; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>continuing until the earlier of:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the day that the employee is able to return to work, as certified by a physician; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>6 months from the day of disability.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>After an employee returns to work, work-related accident leave may be granted for continuing treatment as certified by a physician selected by the appointing authority up to 6 months from the day of the original disability.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>Work-related accident leave may be granted for up to an additional 6 months if:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the employee is certified by a physician selected or accepted by the appointing authority; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>no decision has been reached by the Workers' Compensation Commission on the employee's claim.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-703" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Work-Related Accident Leave"> <text>The appointing authority may require an employee on work-related accident leave to be examined periodically by a physician selected or accepted by the appointing authority to determine the employee's progress and the length of time necessary for the employee's recovery.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-704" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Work-Related Accident Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Payment to an employee for work-related accident leave taken under this subtitle shall be based on two-thirds of the employee's regular pay.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Payment for work-related accident leave taken under this subtitle constitutes a separate benefit on account of accidental disability and is not a continuation of salary.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>Notwithstanding the reduced rate that an employee is paid while using work-related accident leave, the employee:</text> <level label="1"> <text>continues seniority and leave accruals based on the employee's regular pay; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>does not lose health care benefits with the subsidy allowed in Title 2, Subtitle 6 of this article solely because of use of the work-related accident leave.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>An employee may not receive temporary total disability benefits under the Maryland Workers' Compensation Act while the employee is receiving payment under this subtitle.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-705" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="7" subtitle_name="Work-Related Accident Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>If someone other than the employee or the State causes an injury for which work-related accident leave is taken under this subtitle, the State, as employer, after giving written notice to the employee, is subrogated to the rights of the employee to the extent of any compensation paid or owed under this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The State, in its own name and for its own benefit, may bring an action or join in an action if:</text> <level label="1"> <text>within 90 days after the employee receives notice from the State under subsection (a) of this section, the employee fails to:</text> <level label="i"> <text>enforce the claim against the person causing the injury; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>give written notice to the State of an intent to do so; or</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>within a reasonable time after giving the State notice of an intent to enforce the claim against the person causing the injury, the employee fails to take action to enforce the claim.</text> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <text>An action brought by the State under this section is not a bar to any other claim related to the injury.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-801" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Religious Observances"> <level label="a"> <text>Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, this subtitle applies to all employees, including temporary employees, of all units in the Executive Branch of State government, including any unit with an independent personnel system.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>This subtitle does not apply to employees of a unit that must provide a service continuously on a 7-day-a-week basis.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-802" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Religious Observances"> <text>The Secretary shall adopt regulations that provide for work schedules to allow an employee whose religious beliefs require absence from work to perform optional, compensatory work outside of the employee's regular work hours to offset the absence.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-803" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Religious Observances"> <level label="a"> <text>If an employee who is entitled to overtime pay elects to perform compensatory work under this section:</text> <level label="1"> <text>for any workweek in which the employee works 40 hours or less, each hour of compensatory work offsets 1 hour of absence for religious observance; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>for any workweek in which the employee works more than 40 hours, each hour of compensatory work over 40 hours offsets 1.5 hours of absence for religious observance.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>If an employee who is exempt from overtime pay elects to perform compensatory work under this section, each hour of compensatory work offsets 1 hour of absence for religious observance.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-804" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="8" subtitle_name="Religious Observances"> <text>A unit may adopt written policies that provide exceptions to this subtitle for the efficient operation of the unit.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-901" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Compensatory Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Except as provided in § 8-307 of this article, each employee in the State Personnel Management System, except a temporary employee, is entitled, on termination of State employment, to compensation for no more than 2 days of unused compensatory leave earned during the calendar year in which the employee’s State employment terminates.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Subsection (a) of this section does not apply to employees covered by a collective bargaining agreement or as otherwise required by federal law.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1001" future_version_removed="true" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Family and Medical Leave"> <level label="a"> <text>Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Secretary shall adopt regulations, guidelines, or policies implementing the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The regulations adopted by the Secretary:</text> <level label="1"> <text>may require an eligible employee to use other available accrued leave concurrently with family and medical leave; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>may not limit, to less than 24 weeks, the aggregate number of weeks of family and medical leave that two employees who are married to one another may use during a 12–month period for:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the birth of the employees’ child;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the placement of a child with the employees for adoption or foster care;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>the serious health condition of the employees’ child, if the child is a minor; or</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>the care of the employees’ adult child, if the adult child is incapable of self–care.</text> </level> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1002" future_version_removed="true" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Family and Medical Leave" /> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1003" future_version_removed="true" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Family and Medical Leave" /> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1004" future_version_removed="true" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Family and Medical Leave" /> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1005" future_version_removed="true" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Family and Medical Leave" /> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1006" future_version_removed="true" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="10" subtitle_name="Family and Medical Leave" /> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1101" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <text>Except as otherwise provided in this subtitle, this subtitle applies to all employees in the State Personnel Management System, except temporary employees.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1102" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <level label="a"> <text>This section applies to all employees, including temporary employees, of all units in the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of State government, including any unit with an independent personnel system.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>On request, an employee subject to this section may be entitled to disaster service leave with pay if:</text> <level label="1"> <level label="i"> <text>the employee is certified by the American Red Cross as a disaster service volunteer; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the American Red Cross requests the services of the employee during a disaster that is designated at Level II or above in the regulations and procedures of the National Office of the American Red Cross; or</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the employee is a member of:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the Civil Air Patrol;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>Maryland Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster;</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>a volunteer emergency medical services department;</text> </level> <level label="v"> <text>a volunteer fire department;</text> </level> <level label="vi"> <text>a volunteer rescue company or volunteer rescue squad; or</text> </level> <level label="vii"> <text>a Community Emergency Response Team.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>Except as provided in paragraph (2) of this subsection, an employee may use up to 15 days of disaster service leave in any 12–month period only after obtaining approval from the employee’s appointing authority.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>An employee in the Executive Branch of State government may use up to 30 days of disaster service leave in any 12–month period only after obtaining approval from the employee’s appointing authority.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>During a prolonged or recurrent disaster, the employee’s appointing authority may:</text> <level label="1"> <text>waive the requirements under subsections (b) and (c) of this section that an employee must request and obtain approval before the employee may use disaster service leave, if waiving the requirement would be in the best interest of the citizens of the State; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>increase the number of days of disaster service leave under subsection (c) of this section that an employee may use, if an increase would be in the best interest of the citizens of the State.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>For purposes of workers’ compensation and the Maryland Tort Claims Act, while an employee is using disaster service leave, the employee is deemed not to be a State employee.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1103" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <level label="a"> <text>An employee is entitled to receive appropriate health care to be provided by the appointing authority and leave with pay in accordance with subsection (b) of this section, if:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the employee has a positive tuberculin skin test result on a test taken by the employee at the direction of the employee’s appointing authority; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the Secretary of Health determines that, for public health reasons, the employee should not work for a given period of time.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>Leave granted to an employee under this subsection for public health reasons may not exceed 90 days. If it is determined that a longer absence is medically required, the employee may use other forms of leave to the extent authorized under this title.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1104" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “uniformed services” has the meaning stated in 38 U.S.C. § 4303 and 20 C.F.R. § 1002.5(o).</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Secretary may provide by regulation for leave with pay:</text> <level label="1"> <text>for jury service;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>to attend employee organization events approved for this purpose by the Secretary;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>up to 30 days for uniformed services training or active uniformed services duty in a reserve component or in the organized militia;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>unless the employee is a party to the action or a paid witness, to appear in compliance with a subpoena:</text> <level label="i"> <text>in court;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>before a grand jury;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>before an administrative unit; or</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>for a deposition;</text> </level> </level> <level label="5"> <text>for administrative leave for the purpose of immediately removing an employee from the work site, if the employee:</text> <level label="i"> <text>poses a threat to self, another individual, or State property; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>is incapable of properly performing the employee’s duties because of extraordinary circumstances; and</text> </level> </level> <level label="6"> <text>any other paid leave the Secretary deems necessary.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1105" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <text>The Secretary may provide by regulation for leaves of absence without pay for up to 2 years.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1106" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <level label="a"> <text>This section applies to all employees, including temporary employees, of all units in the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of State government, including any unit with an independent personnel system.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>On request, an employee subject to this section may be entitled to organ donation leave with pay.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>An employee may use:</text> <level label="i"> <text>up to 7 days of organ donation leave in any 12–month period to serve as a bone marrow donor; and</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>up to 30 days of organ donation leave in any 12–month period to serve as an organ donor.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>An employee may use organ donation leave only after obtaining approval from the employee’s appointing authority.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>The Secretary shall adopt regulations governing organ donation leave, including regulations that establish conditions and procedures for requesting and approving leave and that require medical documentation of the proposed organ or bone marrow donation before leave is approved.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1107" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <level label="a"> <text>In this section, “uniformed services” has the meaning stated in 38 U.S.C. § 4303 and 20 C.F.R. § 1002.5(o).</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>This section applies to all employees, except temporary employees, of all units in the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of State government, including any unit with an independent personnel system.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>Uniformed services administrative leave may be provided to an employee subject to this section who:</text> <level label="1"> <text>is on active uniformed services duty on July 1, 2003; or</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>is activated for uniformed services duty on or after July 1, 2003.</text> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <level label="1"> <text>An employee who is eligible to receive uniformed services administrative leave under this section is entitled to leave in an amount sufficient to compensate the employee, during each pay period for which the employee is eligible to receive uniformed services administrative leave under this section, for the difference between the employee’s active duty base salary paid by the federal government and the employee’s State base salary or direct wages.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Compensation provided under this subsection may not exceed an employee’s State base salary or direct wages.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>An employee eligible to receive uniformed services administrative leave under this section who is activated for uniformed services duty on or after July 1, 2003, shall elect to use either uniformed services administrative leave or paid leave as provided in § 9–1104(b)(3) of this subtitle.</text> </level> <level label="f"> <text>The Department shall keep a record of the use of uniformed services administrative leave under this section.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1108" effective_note="EFFECTIVE UNTIL JULY 1, 2026 PER CHAPTER 606 OF 2025" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <level label="a"> <text>This section applies to all employees in the executive branch of State government.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>On request, an employee subject to this section may be entitled to parental leave with pay.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, an employee who is the primary caregiver responsible for the care and nurturing of a child may use up to 60 days of parental leave to care for the child during the period immediately following:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the birth of the employee’s child; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the placement of the child under 6 years of age with the employee for adoption.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <level label="i"> <text>An employee entitled to parental leave authorized under paragraph (1) of this subsection may use accrued annual leave and personal leave available to the employee.</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>If the amount of leave specified under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph is less than 60 days, the State agency that employs the employee shall provide the employee with additional paid leave to attain 60 days of parental leave.</text> </level> </level> </level> <level label="d"> <text>An employee may use parental leave only after obtaining approval from the employee’s appointing authority.</text> </level> <level label="e"> <level label="1"> <text>An employee who uses parental leave following the birth of the employee’s child may not receive payment under this section unless the employee gives the employee’s immediate supervisor information required by guidelines issued by the Secretary on the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>An employee who uses parental leave for adoption purposes may not receive payment under this subtitle unless the employee gives the employee’s immediate supervisor the certificate required by guidelines issued by the Secretary on the federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.</text> </level> </level> <level label="f"> <text>The Secretary shall adopt regulations governing parental leave, including regulations that establish conditions and procedures for requesting and approving parental leave.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1109" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="11" subtitle_name="Other Leaves"> <level label="a"> <level label="1"> <text>In this section the following words have the meanings indicated.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>“Child” means an adopted, biological, or foster child, a stepchild, or a legal ward, who is at least 6 months old and under the age of 27 years.</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>“Infant” means an adopted, biological, or foster child, a stepchild, or a legal ward, who is under the age of 6 months.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>This section applies to all employees, including temporary employees, in the Executive, Judicial, and Legislative branches of State government, including any unit with an independent personnel system.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>An employee subject to this section is entitled to parental bereavement leave with pay.</text> </level> <level label="d"> <level label="1"> <text>Subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, an employee may use up to 10 days of parental bereavement leave within 60 days after the death of the employee’s child.</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Subject to paragraph (3) of this subsection, an employee may use up to 60 days of parental bereavement leave within 60 days after:</text> <level label="i"> <text>the employee experiences a stillbirth; or</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>the death of the employee’s infant.</text> </level> </level> <level label="3"> <text>An employee may use parental bereavement leave only after notifying the employee’s appointing authority of the employee’s intention to use parental bereavement leave.</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>An employee’s appointing authority may not require an employee entitled to parental bereavement leave under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection to use any other paid leave available to the employee.</text> </level> </level> <level label="e"> <text>The Secretary shall adopt regulations governing parental bereavement leave.</text> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1201" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Sick Leave Incentive Program"> <text>Except as otherwise provided, this subtitle applies to employees in the State Personnel Management System and employees in the Transportation Service Human Resources Management System.</text> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1202" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Sick Leave Incentive Program"> <level label="a"> <text>There is a Sick Leave Incentive Program for State employees that allows for the payment for unused sick leave.</text> </level> <level label="b"> <text>The Secretary shall adopt regulations to administer the Program.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <text>A unit that participates in this Program shall submit to the Secretary at the end of each calendar year a report that includes:</text> <level label="1"> <text>the number of employees receiving payment for unused sick leave;</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>the total payment received by employees;</text> </level> <level label="3"> <text>the number of unused sick leave hours exchanged for payment;</text> </level> <level label="4"> <text>the total sick leave hours used during the calendar year; and</text> </level> <level label="5"> <text>any estimated overtime savings as a result of this Program.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1203" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Sick Leave Incentive Program"> <level label="a"> <text>The Sick Leave Incentive Program consists of the following two incentives:</text> <level label="1"> <text>payment for up to 40 hours of unused sick leave per calendar year if an employee has used no more than 40 hours of sick leave during the calendar year and has a sick leave balance of at least 240 hours on December 31 of that calendar year; and</text> </level> <level label="2"> <text>payment for up to 56 hours of unused sick leave per calendar year if an employee has used no more than 24 hours of sick leave during the calendar year and has a sick leave balance of at least 240 hours on December 31 of that calendar year.</text> </level> </level> <level label="b"> <text>To be eligible for the Program, an employee shall maintain a sick leave balance of at least 240 hours after payment is received for leave.</text> </level> <level label="c"> <level label="1"> <text>For the purpose of determining eligibility for the Program, the following use of leave does not qualify as sick leave usage:</text> <level label="i"> <text>sick leave that is used for a death in the immediate family;</text> </level> <level label="ii"> <text>sick leave that is donated to another employee in accordance with the provisions of the Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program;</text> </level> <level label="iii"> <text>sick leave that is donated to the State Employees’ Leave Bank; and</text> </level> <level label="iv"> <text>sick leave that is taken in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act.</text> </level> </level> <level label="2"> <text>Leave used for the purpose stated in paragraph (1)(iv) of this subsection shall not be used to determine an employee’s leave balance under subsection (b) of this section.</text> </level> </level> </section> <section article="gsp" article_name="State Personnel and Pensions" number="9-1204" title_number="9" title_name="Leave Time and Holidays" subtitle_number="12" subtitle_name="Sick Leave Incentive Program"> <text>The payment, sick leave usage rate, and sick leave balance for a part-time employee will be prorated based on the employee’s percentage of employment.</text> </section>