Senate File 336 - Enrolled
Senate File 336
AN ACT
RELATING TO THE BLOOD, BONE MARROW, AND LIVING ORGAN DONATION
INCENTIVE PROGRAM.
3 BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:
1 Section 1. Section 70A.39, Code 2021, is amended to read as
2 follows:
3 70A.39 Bone Blood, bone marrow, and living organ donation
4 incentive program.
5 1. For the purposes of this section:
6 a. “Blood” means whole blood, power red, platelets, or
7 plasma.
8 b. “Bone marrow” means the soft tissue that fills human bone
9 cavities.
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10 b. c. “Vascular organ” “Living organ” means a heart,
11 lung, liver, pancreas, kidney, intestine, or other organ that
12 requires the continuous circulation of blood to remain useful
13 for purposes of transplantation one of two kidneys, one of
14 two lobes of a liver, a lung or part of a lung, part of the
15 pancreas, or part of the intestines.
16 2. Beginning July 1, 2003, state State employees, excluding
17 employees covered under a collective bargaining agreement which
18 provides otherwise, shall be granted leaves of absence in
19 accordance with the following:
20 a. A leave of absence of up to five workdays for an employee
21 who requests a leave of absence to serve as a bone marrow
22 donor if the employee provides written verification from the
23 employee’s physician or the hospital involved with the bone
24 marrow donation that the employee will serve as a bone marrow
25 donor.
26 b. A leave of absence of up to thirty workdays for an
27 employee who requests a leave of absence to serve as a
28 vascular living organ donor if the employee provides written
29 verification from the employee’s physician or the hospital
30 involved with the vascular living organ donation that the
31 employee will serve as a vascular living organ donor.
32 c. A leave of absence of up to two consecutive hours in
33 a workday for an employee who requests a leave of absence
34 to serve as a voluntary blood donor if the employee provides
35 written verification from the employee’s physician or the
1 facility involved with the blood donation that the employee
2 will serve as a voluntary blood donor. An employee may submit
3 a request for a leave of absence under this subsection no more
4 than four times in a year.
5 3. An employee who is granted a leave of absence under
6 this section shall receive leave without loss of seniority,
7 pay, vacation time, personal days, sick leave, insurance and
8 health coverage benefits, or earned overtime accumulation. The
9 employee shall be compensated at the employee’s regular rate of
10 pay for those regular work hours during which the employee is
11 absent from work.
12 4. An employee deemed to be on leave under this section
13 shall not be deemed to be an employee of the state for purposes
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14 of workers’ compensation or for purposes of the Iowa tort
15 claims Act, chapter 669.
______________________________ ______________________________
JAKE CHAPMAN PAT GRASSLEY
President of the Senate Speaker of the House
I hereby certify that this bill originated in the Senate and
is known as Senate File 336, Eighty-ninth General Assembly.
______________________________
W. CHARLES SMITHSON
Secretary of the Senate
Approved _______________, 2021 ______________________________
KIM REYNOLDS
Governor


Statutes affected:
Introduced: 70A.39
Enrolled: 70A.39