HB 1402 Summary

• Requires each state government branch to establish a leave sharing program allowing state employees to donate vacation leave to colleagues with serious personal illness or injury.

• Permits county chief executives to voluntarily establish similar leave sharing programs for county employees.

• Prohibits state government branches from limiting leave sharing between different departments or bargaining units based on administrative infeasibility.

• Allows employees to designate beneficiaries for accumulated vacation pay by filing a statement with their employing department, eliminating the requirement that the statement be verified and written.

• Takes effect January 7, 2059.