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10.004.04 Catastrophic Leave (cont.)
•004.04B   Requesting Catastrophic Leave. 
–Employees must submit a written request for catastrophic leave donations to the agency/facility HR office.  The request must include substantiating evidence as described in 004.04A.2.
•For your convenience, request forms are available from your agency/facility Human Resources office or the DAS State Personnel website.
–The HR staff will be responsible to initiate the process to verify eligibility, seek agency head approval, request donations, apply the conversion formula to donations received, advise the employee of donations received and notify the appropriate payroll personnel of changes to receiving/donating  employees’ leave balances. 
•Agency heads and/or their designee[s] must approve catastrophic leave requests before solicitation for donations begin.