A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT authorizing school bus drivers to use annual leave when they are sick if they have exhausted all of their sick leave.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115C‑336 is amended by adding a new subsection to read:
"(d)	The State Board of Education shall also adopt rules and regulations to authorize a bus driver to use annual leave if (i) the employee has exhausted all of his or her sick leave and (ii) the absence is due to the illness of the employee."
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2009.