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This law was first created in 2023. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 751<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":55221,"section_number":"40.1-2","catch_line":"Definitions","order_by":null,"url":"\/40.1-2\/"},{"id":56195,"section_number":"40.1-2.1","catch_line":"Application of title to Commonwealth and its agencies, etc.; safety and health program for public employees","order_by":null,"url":"\/40.1-2.1\/"}],"permalink":{"id":220009,"object_type":"law","relational_id":85185,"identifier":"40.1-33.7","token":"40.1\/3\/2.2\/40.1-33.7","url":"\/40.1-33.7\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/40.1-33.7\/","token":"40.1\/3\/2.2\/40.1-33.7","dublin_core":{"Title":"Definitions","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 40.1-33.7","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Eligible employee<\/span>” means an individual who has requested that an employer<\/span> provide organ donation leave<\/span> and who, as of the date that the requested organ donation leave<\/span> begins, will have been employed by that employer<\/span> for at least (i) a 12-month period and (ii) 1,250 hours during the previous 12 months.\n\t\t“Employer<\/span>” means any employer<\/span> as defined in \u00a7 40.1-2<\/a> that employs<\/span> 50 or more employees<\/span>. Notwithstanding \u00a7 40.1-2.1<\/a>, “employer<\/span>” includes the Commonwealth and its agencies, institutions, and political subdivisions. “Employer<\/span>” does not include any agency of the federal government.\n\t\t“Organ donation leave<\/span>” means leave of an eligible employee<\/span> for the purpose of donating one or more of such employee’s human organs, including bone marrow, to be medically transplanted into the body of another individual.<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nDEFINITIONS (\u00a7 40.1-33.7)\n\nAs used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning:\n\t\t“Eligible employee” means an individual who has requested that an\nemployer provide organ donation leave and who, as of the date that the requested\norgan donation leave begins, will have been employed by that employer for at\nleast (i) a 12-month period and (ii) 1,250 hours during the previous 12 months.\n\t\t“Employer” means any employer as defined in \u00a7 40.1-2 that employs\n50 or more employees. Notwithstanding \u00a7 40.1-2.1, “employer”\nincludes the Commonwealth and its agencies, institutions, and political\nsubdivisions. “Employer” does not include any agency of the federal\ngovernment.\n\t\t“Organ donation leave” means leave of an eligible employee for the\npurpose of donating one or more of such employee’s human organs, including\nbone marrow, to be medically transplanted into the body of another individual.\n\nHISTORY: 2023, c. 751.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}