1.1                          A bill for an act 
  1.2             relating to state government; permitting state 
  1.3             employees to donate vacation leave for the benefit of 
  1.4             a certain state employee. 
  1.5   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA: 
  1.6      Section 1.  [LEAVE DONATION PROGRAM.] 
  1.7      Subdivision 1.  [DONATION.] A state employee may donate up 
  1.8   to 12 hours of accrued vacation leave for the benefit of an 
  1.9   employee of the Minnesota state lottery or the St. Peter 
  1.10  regional treatment center who has cancer.  The number of hours 
  1.11  donated must be credited to the sick leave account of the 
  1.12  receiving state employee.  If the receiving state employee uses 
  1.13  all of the donated time, up to 50 additional hours per employee 
  1.14  of accrued vacation leave may be donated.  The receiving state 
  1.15  employee may not receive more than 80 hours of sick leave from 
  1.16  donations under this section within any given pay period.  
  1.17  Vacation donation permitted by this section is in addition to 
  1.18  that permitted under Minnesota Statutes, section 43A.181. 
  1.19     Subd. 2.  [PROCESS FOR CREDITING.] The donating employee 
  1.20  must notify the employee's agency head of the amount of accrued 
  1.21  vacation leave time the employee wishes to donate.  The agency 
  1.22  head shall transfer that amount to the sick leave account of the 
  1.23  recipient.  A donation of accrued vacation leave time is 
  1.24  irrevocable once it has been transferred to the account. 
  1.25     Sec. 2.  [EFFECTIVE DATE.] 
  2.1      Section 1 is effective the day following final enactment 
  2.2   and applies retroactively to December 15, 1995.