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<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>
