NC S130

Establishes a voluntary leave-sharing program allowing North Carolina state employees, community college employees, and public school employees to donate leave to colleagues for paid parental leave upon birth or adoption of a child.

Limits paid parental leave to a maximum of six weeks accrued through donations and restricts use to the first 12 weeks after birth or adoption.

Requires recipients to be full-time, permanent employees with at least 12 months of continuous state employment and must certify intent to return to state employment for at least one year after the leave period.

Permits leave donors to work in different state agencies, institutions, universities, or school systems than recipients and protects donating sick leave from counting toward retirement benefits.

Requires annual reporting to the Office of State Human Resources on total vacation and sick leave donated and used, and the total program cost for the prior fiscal year.