KRS 61.395: Leave time for state employee who is disaster services volunteer -- Short

title.

(1) As used in this section:

(a) "Disaster" means disasters designated at level III and above in the American

National Red Cross Regulations and Procedures; and

(b) "State agency" means all departments, offices, commissions, boards,

institutions, and political and corporate bodies of the state, including the

offices of the clerk of the Supreme Court, clerks of the appellate courts, the

several courts of the state, and the legislature, its committees, or commissions.

(2) An employee of a state agency who is a certified disaster services volunteer of the

American Red Cross may be granted leave from work with pay for not to exceed

thirty (30) work days in any twelve (12) month period to participate in specialized

disaster relief services for the American Red Cross for the services of that employee

and upon the approval of that employee's agency, without loss of seniority, pay,

vacation time, sick time, compensatory time, or earn ed overtime accumulation. The

agency shall compensate an employee granted leave under this section at the regular

rate of pay for those regular work hours during which the employee is absent from

work.

(3) This section may be cited as the Disaster Services Volunteer Leave Act.