70A.23 Credit for accrued sick leave.
1. For purposes of this section:
a. “Eligible retirement system” means a retirement system authorized under chapter 97A or 97B, including the teachers insurance and annuity association-college retirement equities fund (TIAA-CREF).
b. “Eligible state employee” means a state employee eligible to receive retirement benefits under an eligible retirement system.
2. An eligible state employee, excluding an employee covered under a collective bargaining agreement which provides otherwise, who retires and has applied for retirement benefits under an eligible retirement system, or who dies while in active employment, shall be credited with the number of accrued days of sick leave of the employee. The employee, or the employee’s estate, shall receive a cash payment of the monetary value of the employee’s accrued sick leave balance, not to exceed two thousand dollars. The value of the employee’s accrued sick leave balance shall be calculated by multiplying the number of hours of accrued sick leave by the employee’s regular hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement.
3. a. An eligible state employee, excluding an employee covered under a collective bargaining agreement which provides otherwise or an employee of the state board of regents, who retires and receives a payment as provided in subsection 2 shall be entitled to elect to have the employee’s available remaining value of sick leave used to pay the state share for the employee’s continuation of state group health insurance coverage pursuant to the requirements of this subsection.
b. An eligible state employee’s available remaining value of sick leave shall be calculated as follows:
(1) If the employee’s accrued sick leave balance prior to payment as provided in subsection 2 is seven hundred fifty hours or less, sixty percent of the value of the remaining accrued sick leave balance.
(2) If the employee’s accrued sick leave balance prior to payment as provided in subsection 2 is one thousand five hundred hours or less but more than seven hundred fifty hours, eighty percent of the value of the remaining accrued sick leave balance.
(3) If the employee’s accrued sick leave balance prior to payment as provided in subsection 2 is more than one thousand five hundred hours, one hundred percent of the value of the remaining accrued sick leave balance.
c. An eligible state employee’s available remaining value of sick leave shall be available to pay for that portion of the employee’s state group health insurance premium that would otherwise be paid for by the state if the employee were still a state employee. The benefits provided for in this subsection have no cash value and are not transferable to any other person, including the retiree’s spouse. Payment of state group health insurance premiums pursuant to this subsection continues until the earliest of when the eligible state employee’s available remaining value of sick leave is exhausted, the employee otherwise becomes eligible for federal Medicare program benefits, or the employee dies. In addition, an employee electing benefits pursuant to this subsection who is reinstated or reemployed in a permanent full-time or permanent part-time position within state government forfeits any remaining benefits for payment of state group health insurance benefits, and such employee is not eligible for restoration of the unused sick leave accrued during the employee’s prior employment with the state.
4. Notwithstanding any provision of this section to the contrary, peace officers employed within the department of public safety and the department of natural resources that are not covered under a collective bargaining agreement shall have a sick leave conversion program extended to them that is equivalent to the sick leave conversion program negotiated under chapter 20 between the state and the state police officers council labor union for peace officers. In addition, an employee of the department of public safety or the department of natural resources who has earned benefits of payment of premiums under a collective bargaining agreement and who becomes a manager or supervisor and is no longer covered by the agreement shall not lose the benefits of payment of premiums earned while covered by the agreement. The payment shall be calculated by multiplying the number of hours of accumulated, unused sick leave by the employee’s hourly rate of pay at the time of retirement.
[C79, 81, §79.23; 82 Acts, ch 1184, §1]
84 Acts, ch 1146, §1; 88 Acts, ch 1158, §9
C93, §70A.23
2003 Acts, ch 108, §22; 2006 Acts, ch 1020, §2; 2006 Acts, ch 1185, §116
Referred to in §70A.1, 80.42, 602.1401, 602.11102
Structure Iowa Code
Title II - ELECTIONS AND OFFICIAL DUTIES
Chapter 70A - FINANCIAL AND OTHER PROVISIONS FOR PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Section 70A.1 - Salaries — payment — vacations — sick leave — educational leave.
Section 70A.3 - Appraisers of property.
Section 70A.4 - When fees payable.
Section 70A.5 - Fees payable in advance.
Section 70A.6 - Receipt for fees paid.
Section 70A.7 - Report of fees.
Section 70A.8 - State accounts — inspection.
Section 70A.9 - Charge for use of automobile by other than state officer or employee.
Section 70A.10 - Mileage and expenses — prohibition.
Section 70A.11 - Mileage and expenses — when unallowable.
Section 70A.12 - Out-of-state warrants limited.
Section 70A.13 - Particulars required by county board.
Section 70A.15 - Payroll deduction.
Section 70A.15A - Charitable giving payroll deduction by other than state officer or employee.
Section 70A.16 - Interview and moving expenses.
Section 70A.17 - Payroll deduction for additional insurance coverage.
Section 70A.17A - Payroll deduction for dues.
Section 70A.17B - Payroll deduction for eligible qualified tuition program contributions.
Section 70A.18 - Compensation based on comparable worth.
Section 70A.19 - Payroll deduction for employee organization dues prohibited.
Section 70A.20 - Employees disability program.
Section 70A.23 - Credit for accrued sick leave.
Section 70A.24 - Olympic competition leave of absence.
Section 70A.25 - Educational leave — educational assistance.
Section 70A.26 - Disaster service volunteer leave.
Section 70A.27 - Leave of absence for charge of a crime — civil penalty.
Section 70A.29 - Reprisals prohibited — political subdivisions — penalty — civil remedies.
Section 70A.30 - Establishment of phased retirement program.
Section 70A.32 - Phased retirement program.
Section 70A.33 - Participation plan.
Section 70A.34 - Appropriation.
Section 70A.37 - Collective bargaining agreements.
Section 70A.38 - Years of service incentive program.
Section 70A.39 - Blood, bone marrow, and living organ donation incentive program.
Section 70A.40 - Elective public officer contact information.