HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                    1885

(g) (1) An employee who, in the actual performance of his
job duties, sustains an accidental personal injury which would be
compensable under the Maryland Workmen's Compensation Law in
Article 101 of the Code, shall be granted accident leave with
full sick pay if, after medical examination, a physician

certifies that the injury or accident disables the employee.

(2)  Accident leave shall be granted from the date of
the job related injury until a physician certifies that the
employee is healed and physically able to return to work, but may
not be extended beyond one year from the injury date. The
employer's physician may examine the injured employee
periodically to determine the progress of and length of time
necessary for his recovery.

(3)  The injured employee shall not receive temporary
total benefits under workmen's compensation while receiving full
sick pay under this subsection.

(4)  If a compensable injury under this subsection is
caused by a third person other than the State, the State as
employer, after giving written notice to the injured employee,
shall be subrogated to the rights of the employee to the extent
of any compensation paid or owed under this subsection. If,
within 90 days of the receipt of the written notice, the employee
fails to enforce the claim against the third person, or give
written notice of an intent to do so, the State may bring an
action, or join in an action, in its own name and for its own
benefit. An action brought by the State under this subsection is
not a bar to any other claim related to the occurrence.

(h) Except if the sick leave is taken at the option of the
employee because of a death in the immediate family, any payment
of sick pay made to a State employee under this section shall be
made as a separate benefit on account of sickness or accident
disability and not as a continuation of salary.

(i) (1) In this subsection "adoption leave" means leave
available to an employee for care of an adopted child during the
period immediately following the adoption.

(2)  Notwithstanding any other provision of this
article, an employee, with the approval of the head of the
employee's department or agency, may use up to 30 days of earned
sick leave as adoption leave.

(3)  The adoption leave authorized by this subsection
may be used by the employee only if the employee is the person
who is primarily responsible for furnishing the care and nurture
of the child.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That all days of

unused personal leave for State employees which would otherwise
be forfeited at the end of calendar year 1986 shall be