# State Personnel and Pensions (GSP)

## Title 9. Leave Time and Holidays

### Subtitle 6. State Employees' Leave Bank and Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program

#### Section 9-601

(a) In this subtitle the following words have the meanings indicated.

(b) "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.

(c) "Immediate family" means:

  (1) the spouse of the employee;

  (2) children, including foster and stepchildren of the employee;

  (3) parents, stepparents, or foster parents of the employee;

  (4) brothers and sisters of the employee; and

  (5) grandparents and grandchildren of the employee.

(d) "Leave Bank" means the State Employees' Leave Bank.

(e) "Leave Donation Program" means the Employee-to-Employee Leave Donation Program.

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Md. Code Ann., State Pers. & Pens. (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)