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(124th General Assembly)
(Amended House Bill Number 326)
AN ACT
To amend section 124.04 and to enact section 124.139
of the Revised Code to grant full-time state
employees 30
days paid leave per year to serve as a
liver or kidney
donor
and seven days paid leave per
year to serve
as a
bone marrow donor.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio:
SECTION 1. That section 124.04 be amended and section 124.139
of the Revised Code be enacted to read as follows:
Sec. 124.04. In addition to those powers enumerated in
Chapters 123. and 125. of the Revised Code and as provided
elsewhere by law, the powers, duties, and functions of the
department of administrative services not specifically vested in
and assigned to, or to be performed by, the state personnel board
of review are hereby vested in and assigned to, and shall be
performed by, the director of administrative services. These
powers, duties, and functions shall include, but shall not be
limited to, the following powers, duties, and functions:
(A) To prepare, conduct, and grade all competitive
examinations for positions in the classified state service;
(B) To prepare, conduct, and grade all noncompetitive
examinations for positions in the classified state service; (C) To prepare eligible lists containing the names of
persons qualified for appointment to positions in the classified
state service; (D) To prepare or amend, in accordance with section 124.14
of the Revised Code, specifications descriptive of duties,
responsibilities, requirements, and desirable qualifications of
the various classifications of positions in the state service; (E) To allocate and reallocate, upon the motion of the
director or upon request of an appointing authority and in
accordance with section 124.14 of the Revised Code, any position,
office, or employment in the state service to the appropriate
classification on the basis of the duties, responsibilities,
requirements, and qualifications of
such
that position, office, or
employment;
(F) To develop and conduct personnel recruitment services
for positions in the state service;
(G) To conduct research on specifications, classifications,
and salaries of positions in the state service;
(H) To develop and conduct personnel training programs in
cooperation with appointing authorities; (I) To include periodically in communications sent to state
employees
information
both of the following: (1) Information developed under section 2108.15 of the
Revised Code promoting the donation of anatomical gifts under
Chapter 2108. of the Revised Code;
(2) Information about the liver or kidney donor and bone
marrow donor
leave granted under section 124.139 of the Revised
Code. (J) To enter into agreements with universities and colleges
for in-service training of personnel in the civil service;
(K) To appoint
such examiners, inspectors, clerks, and other
assistants
as are necessary in the exercise of the powers and
performance of the duties and functions which the director is by
law authorized and required to exercise and perform, and to
prescribe the duties of all
such
of those employees;
(L) To maintain a journal, which shall be open to public
inspection, in which the director shall keep a record of the
director's final decision pertaining to the classification or
reclassification of positions in the state classified service and
assignment or reassignment of employees in the state classified
service to specific position classifications;
(M) To delegate any of the powers, functions, or duties
granted or assigned to the director under this chapter to any
other state agency of this state as the director considers
necessary; (N) To delegate any of the powers, functions, or duties
granted or assigned to the director under this chapter to any
political subdivision with the concurrence of the legislative
authority of the political subdivision.
Sec. 124.139. (A) A full-time state employee shall receive
up to two hundred
forty hours of leave with pay during each
calendar year to use
during those hours when the employee is
absent from work because
of the employee's donation of any portion
of an adult liver or because of the employee's donation of an
adult kidney. (B) A full-time state employee shall receive up to fifty-six
hours of leave
with pay during each calendar year to use during
those hours when
the employee is absent from work because of the
employee's donation of adult bone marrow. (C) An appointing authority shall compensate a full-time
state
employee who uses leave granted under division (A) or (B) of
this
section at the employee's regular rate of pay for those
regular
work hours during which the employee is absent from work. (D)(1) The director of administrative services, under
section 124.04 of the Revised Code, shall provide information
about this section to full-time employees who are paid directly by
warrant
of the auditor of state. (2) The appointing authority of full-time employees who are
not paid
directly by warrant of the auditor of state shall
periodically
provide information about this section to those
employees.
SECTION 2. That existing section 124.04 of the Revised Code
is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. The General Assembly hereby encourages political
subdivisions and private employers in this state to grant to their
full-time
employees paid leave similar to the paid leave granted
to full-time state
employees under section 124.139 of the Revised
Code, as enacted by
this act.
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