Florida Senate - 2012                              CS for SB 874
       
       
       
       By the Committee on Education Pre-K - 12; and Senator
       Benacquisto
       
       
       
       581-03006-12                                           2012874c1
    1                        A bill to be entitled                      
    2         An act relating to sick leave for school district
    3         employees; amending s. 1012.61, F.S.; authorizing each
    4         district school system to provide a policy allowing
    5         the donation of accrued sick leave to any district
    6         employee; providing standards for a sick leave
    7         transfer policy; providing an effective date.
    8  
    9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
   10  
   11         Section 1. Paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of section
   12  1012.61, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:
   13         1012.61 Sick leave.—
   14         (2) PROVISIONS GOVERNING SICK LEAVE.—The following
   15  provisions shall govern sick leave:
   16         (e) Use by family member or other district employee.—
   17         1. Each district school system must provide a policy under
   18  which a district employee may authorize his or her spouse,
   19  child, parent, or sibling who is also a district employee to use
   20  sick leave that has accrued to the authorizing employee.
   21         2. Each district school system may provide a policy under
   22  which a district employee may authorize any district employee to
   23  use sick leave that has accrued to the authorizing employee. The
   24  district policy must:
   25         a. Require that the recipient provide documentation, by the
   26  treating physician, of the illness, accident, or injury for
   27  which leave is otherwise authorized under subsection (1).
   28         b. Establish a minimum number of sick leave days needed by
   29  the recipient to participate in the sick leave program.
   30         c. Require that any unused transferred sick leave be
   31  returned to the authorizing employee whose donated sick leave
   32  has not yet been used.
   33         d. Establish the minimum number of sick leave days that an
   34  authorizing employee must retain.
   35  
   36  In developing the policy, the district school board must provide
   37  that the recipient may not use the donated sick leave until all
   38  of his or her sick leave has been depleted, excluding sick leave
   39  from a sick leave pool, if the recipient participates in a sick
   40  leave pool. Donated sick leave under this paragraph shall have
   41  no terminal value as provided in this subsection.
   42         Section 2. This act shall take effect July 1, 2012.