AN ACT Relating to maternity vacation leave; and amending RCW 35.58.400, 36.32.390, 43.01.040, and 43.01.042.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:

Sec. 1. Section 35.58.400, chapter 7, Laws of 1965 and RCW 35.58.400 are each amended to read as follows:

Where a metropolitan municipal corporation employs a person employed immediately prior thereto by a component city or county or by a special district, the employee shall be deemed to remain an employee of such city, county, or special district for the purposes of any sick leave credit plan of the component city, county, or special district until the metropolitan municipal corporation has established a sick leave credit plan for its employees, whereupon the metropolitan municipal corporation shall place to the credit of the employee the sick leave credits standing to his credit in the plan of such city, county, or special district.

Where a metropolitan municipal corporation employs a person theretofore employed by a component city, county, or by a special district, the metropolitan municipal corporation shall, during the first year of his employment by the metropolitan municipal corporation, provide for such employee a vacation with pay equivalent to that which he would have been entitled if he had remained in the employment of the city, county, or special district.

The metropolitan municipal corporation shall provide each employee a vacation with pay for a period of twenty working days following giving birth to a child.

Sec. 2. Section 36.32.390, chapter 4, Laws of 1963 and RCW 36.32.390 are each amended to read as follows:

Each employee of any county in this state who is employed on an hourly or per diem basis, who shall have worked fifteen hundred hours or more in any one year may in the discretion of the board of county commissioners be given the same vacations and sick leaves as are provided for the employees of the county employed on a monthly basis.

The county shall provide each employee a vacation with pay for a period of twenty working days following giving birth to a child.

Sec. 3. Section 43.01.040, chapter 8, Laws of 1965 as last amended by section 19, chapter 184, Laws of 1984 and RCW 43.01.040 are each amended to read as follows:

Each subordinate officer and employee of the several offices, departments, and institutions of the state government shall be entitled under their contract of employment with the state government to not less than one working day of vacation leave with full pay for each month of employment if said employment is continuous for six months.

Each such subordinate officer and employee shall be entitled under such contract of employment to not less than one additional working day of vacation with full pay each year for satisfactorily completing the first two, three and five continuous years of employment respectively.

Such part time officers or employees of the state government who are employed on a regular schedule of duration of not less than one year shall be entitled under their contract of employment to that fractional part of the vacation leave that the total number of hours of such employment bears to the total number of hours of full time employment.

Each subordinate officer and employee of the several offices, departments and institutions of the state government shall be entitled under his contract of employment with the state government to accrue unused vacation leave not to exceed thirty working days. Officers and employees transferring within the several offices, departments and institutions of the state government shall be entitled to transfer such accrued vacation leave to each succeeding state office, department or institution. All vacation leave shall be taken at the time convenient to the employing office, department or institution: PROVIDED, That if a subordinate officer's or employee's request for vacation leave is deferred by reason of the convenience of the employing office, department or institution, and a statement of the necessity therefor is filed by such employing office, department or institution with the appropriate personnel board or other state agency or officer, then the aforesaid maximum thirty working days of accrued unused vacation leave shall be extended for each month said leave is so deferred.

Each state office, department and institution of state government shall provide each employee a vacation with pay for a period of twenty working days following giving birth to a child.

Sec. 4. Section 43.01.042, chapter 8, Laws of 1965 and RCW 43.01.042 are each amended to read as follows:

State institutions of higher learning may prescribe such rules and regulations as they may determine governing vacation leave for academic and professional personnel.

State institutions of higher learning shall provide each employee a vacation with pay for a period of twenty working days following giving birth to a child.