Delaware General Assembly


CHAPTER 402

FORMERLY

SENATE BILL NO. 269

AS AMENDED BY

SENATE AMENDMENT NO. 1

AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 14 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO THE DONATED LEAVE PROGRAM.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE :

Section 1. Amend Title 14, § 1318 A (b) (2) of the Delaware Code by inserting after the word ‘each,’ in the third sentence therein and adding ‘and totaling more than 5 calendar weeks,’.

Section 2. Amend Title 14, §1318A(b)(2) of the Delaware Code by inserting the following at the end of the paragraph:

“Donated leave may be used by the recipient for subsequent absence because of personal medical treatments or personal illness directly related to the employee’s ‘catastrophic illness’ as certified by the physician. This provision is limited to an absence that occurs because of an employee’s ‘catastrophic illness’ not a family member’s ‘catastrophic illness’.”

Section 3. Amend Title 14, §1318A(b) of the Delaware Code by deleting the subsection (8) thereof in its entirety and renumbering the following paragraphs (9), (10), and (11) as “(8)”, “(9)”, and “(10)” respectively.

Approved July 22, 2004