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53	53	STATE OF OKLAHOMA
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55	55	1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025)
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57	57	SENATE BILL 87 By: Boren
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63	63	AS INTRODUCED
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65	65	An Act relating to paid leave for state employees;
66	66	amending 74 O.S. 2021, Section 840 -2.20, as last
67	67	amended by Section 172, Chapter 452, O. S.L. 2024 (74
68	68	O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 840 -2.20), which relates to
69	69	leave benefits; updating statutory reference;
70	70	providing for parental leave for state employees;
71	71	amending Section 1, Chapter 32, 1st Extraordinary
72	72	Session, O.S.L. 2023 (74 O.S. Supp. 2024, S ection
73	73	840-2.20D), which relates to paid maternity leave for
74	74	state employees; providing for parental leave for
75	75	eligible state employees; requiring that certain
76	76	employees continue to receive compensation during
77	77	leave; providing protections for certain emplo yees
78	78	during leave; and providing an effective date .
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83	83	BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA:
84	84	SECTION 1. AMENDATORY 74 O.S. 2021, Section 840 -2.20, as
85	85	last amended by Section 172, Chapter 452, O.S.L. 2024 ( 74 O.S. Supp.
86	86	2024, Section 840-2.20), is amended to read as follows:
87	87	Section 840-2.20. A. The Director of the Office of Management
88	88	and Enterprise Services shall promulgate such emergency and
89	89	permanent rules regarding leave and holiday leave as are neces sary
90	90	to assist the state and its agencies.
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142	142	The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise
143	143	Services, in adopting new rules, amending rules and repealing rules,
144	144	shall ensure that the following provisions are incorporated:
145	145	1. Eligible employees who enter on duty or who are reinstated
146	146	after a break in service shall receive le ave benefits in accordance
147	147	with the schedule outlined below. Leave shall be accrued based upon
148	148	hours worked, paid leave, and holidays, but excluding overtime, not
149	149	to exceed the total possible work hours for the pay period. Years
150	150	of service shall be based on cumulative periods of employment
151	151	calculated in the manner that cumulative service is determined for
152	152	longevity purposes pursuant to Section 840 -2.18 of this title.
153	153	Employees may accumulate more than the maximum annual leave
154	154	accumulation limits shown in the schedule below provided that such
155	155	excess is used during the same calendar year in which it accrues or
156	156	within twelve (12) months of the date on which it accrues, at the
157	157	discretion of the appointing authority. If an employee whose job
158	158	duties include providing fire protection services, law enforcement
159	159	services or services with the Department of Corrections is unable to
160	160	use excess leave as provided for in this paragraph because t he
161	161	employee’s request for leave is denied by the employee ’s appointing
162	162	authority and the denial of leave is due to extraordinary
163	163	circumstances such that taking leave could pose a threat to public
164	164	safety, health or welfare, the employee shall receive compen sation
165	165	at the employee’s regular rate of pay for the amount of excess leave
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217	217	the employee is unable to use. Such compensation shall be paid at
218	218	the end of the time period during which the excess leave was
219	219	required to have been used;
220	220	2. On and after the effective date of this act July 1, 2023,
221	221	the following accrual rates and accumul ation limits apply to
222	222	eligible employees as follows:
223	223	ACCRUAL RATES ACCUMULATION
224	224	LIMITS
225	225	Cumulative
226	226	Years of Annual Sick Annual
227	227	Service Leave Leave Leave
228	228	Persons employed 0-5 yrs = 15 day/yr 15 days/yr 30 days
229	229	5-10 yrs = 18 day/yr 15 days/yr 80 days
230	230	10-20 yrs = 20 day/yr 15 days/yr 80 days
231	231	over 20 yrs = 25 day/yr 15 days/yr 80 days
232	232	Following an emergency declaration as described in Section 683.8
233	233	of Title 63 of the Oklahoma Statutes, the accumulation limits for
234	234	annual leave shall temporarily increase and shall carryover to the
235	235	end of the fiscal year following the year in which the emergency
236	236	declaration ended.
237	237	All annual leave that accrued or expired during the period of
238	238	the emergency declarations issued by the Governor in 2020 and 2021
239	239	in response to the novel coronavirus (COVID -19) shall carry over to
240	240	the end of the fiscal year following the year in which the emergency
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292	292	declaration ended regardless of regulatory provisions tha t establish
293	293	a maximum amount of annual leave that may be accumulated by an
294	294	employee of this state. Expired annual leave governed by this
295	295	subsection shall be reinstated as of May 7, 2021, and accumulation
296	296	limits for annual leave shall not apply to amounts accrued or
297	297	reinstated pursuant to this subsection. Eligibility for
298	298	reinstatement of annual leave is limited to employees currently
299	299	employed by this state on May 7, 2021;
300	300	3. Temporary employees and other limited term employees are
301	301	ineligible to accrue, us e, or be paid for sick leave and annual
302	302	leave. Such employees shall be eligi ble for paid holiday leave at
303	303	the discretion of the appointing authority;
304	304	4. Except as provided in paragraph 2 of this subsection,
305	305	employees shall not be entitled to retroactive accumulation of leave
306	306	as a result of amendments to this section;
307	307	5. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise
308	308	Services shall assist agencies in developing policies to prevent
309	309	violence in state government workplaces without abridging the righ ts
310	310	of state employees. Such policies shall include a paid
311	311	administrative leave provision as a cooling -off period which the
312	312	Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services is
313	313	authorized to provide pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act.
314	314	Such leave shall not be charged to annual or sick leave
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367	367	6. State employees who terminated their employment in the state
368	368	service on or after October 1, 1992, may be eligible to have sick
369	369	leave accrued at the time of termination of employme nt restored if
370	370	they return to state employment provided that the state employ ees’
371	371	enter-on-duty dates for reemployment occur on or before two (2)
372	372	years after their termination of employment and they are eligible to
373	373	accrue sick leave before the two (2) year s expire;
374	374	7. Employees who are volunteer firefighters pursuant to the
375	375	Oklahoma Volunteer Firefighters Act and who are called to fight a
376	376	fire shall not have to use any accrued leave or need to make up any
377	377	time due to the performance of their volunteer fire fighter duties;
378	378	8. Employees who are reserve municipal police officers pursu ant
379	379	to Section 34-101 of Title 11 of the Oklahoma Statutes and who miss
380	380	work in performing their duties in cases of emergency shall not have
381	381	to use any accrued leave or need to ma ke up any time due to the
382	382	performance of their reserve municipal police officer duties;
383	383	9. Employees who are reserve deputy sheriffs pursuant to
384	384	Section 547 of Title 19 of the Oklahoma Statutes and who miss work
385	385	in performing their duties in case of emerg ency shall not have to
386	386	use any accrued leave or need to make up any time due to the
387	387	performance of their reserve deputy sheriff duties;
388	388	10. For purposes of the computation required by this section,
389	389	any service performed by a person during which the person received
390	390	compensation for duties performed for the state shall be counted if
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442	442	payment for such service was made using state fiscal resources. The
443	443	provisions of this section shall not apply to elected or appointed
444	444	justices or judges, including special judg es, who perform service in
445	445	the trial or appellate courts. The provisions of this section shall
446	446	apply to persons who perform services as an administrative law judge
447	447	within the executive department and employees of the judicial
448	448	branch; and
449	449	11. Eligible employees shall be entitled to paid maternity
450	450	parental leave as provided for in Section 840 -2.20D of this title.
451	451	B. Nothing in law is intended to prevent or discourage an
452	452	appointing authority from disciplining or terminating an employee
453	453	due to abuse of leave benefits or absenteeism. Appointing
454	454	authorities are encouraged to consider attendance of employees in
455	455	making decisions regarding promotions, pay increases, and
456	456	discipline.
457	457	C. Upon the transfer of a function in state government to an
458	458	entity outside state government, employees may, with the agreement
459	459	of the outside entity, waive any payment for leave accumulations to
460	460	which the employee is entitled and authorize the transfer of the
461	461	leave accumulations or a portion thereof to the outside entity.
462	462	D. All permanent employees of the state shall be eligible to
463	463	carry over a maximum of six hundred forty (640) hours of annual
464	464	leave each year. Additionally, all employees shall be paid up to a
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516	516	maximum of six hundred forty (640) hours of annual leave upon
517	517	separation from state service.
518	518	SECTION 2. AMENDATORY Section 1, Chapter 32, 1st
519	519	Extraordinary Session, O.S.L. 2023 (74 O.S. Supp. 2024, Section 840 -
520	520	2.20D), is amended to read as follows:
521	521	Section 840-2.20D. A. Any full -time employee of this state who
522	522	has been employed by the state agency for at least two (2) years
523	523	prior to the request for leave shall be entitled to six (6) weeks of
524	524	paid maternity parental leave following the birth or adoption of the
525	525	employee’s child.
526	526	B. Paid maternity parental leave pursuant to this section shall
527	527	be in addition to and not in place of sick leave due to pregnancy,
528	528	as authorized by Section 840 -2.20 of Title 74 of the Oklahoma
529	529	Statutes.
530	530	C. An employee who is granted maternity parental leave pursuant
531	531	to the provisions of this section shall receive the employee ’s
532	532	annual salary without inte rruption during the maternity parental
533	533	leave. For purposes of determining seniority, pay or pay
534	534	advancement, and performance awards, and for the receipt of any
535	535	benefit that may be affected by maternity parental leave, the
536	536	service of the employee shall be considered uninterrupted by the
537	537	maternity parental leave.
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589	589	D. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise
590	590	Services may promulgate rules to implement the provisions of this
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592	592	SECTION 3. This act shall become effective Nov ember 1, 2025.
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