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2001 SESSION


CHAPTER 714
An Act to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 2.1-114.5:03, relating to Department of Human Resource Management; paid leave to serve as a bone marrow or organ donor.
[H 1642]
Approved March 26, 2001

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:

1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 2.1-114.5:03 as follows:

§ 2.1-114.5:03. Leave for bone marrow or organ donation.

State employees shall be allowed up to thirty days of paid leave in any calendar year, in addition to other paid leave, to serve as bone marrow or organ donors. The Department shall develop personnel policies providing for the use of such leave. For the purposes of this section, “state employee” means any person who is regularly employed full time on a salaried basis, whose tenure is not restricted as to temporary or provisional appointment, in the service of, and whose compensation is payable, no more often than biweekly, in whole or in part, by the Commonwealth or any department, institution, or agency thereof.