As used in this article, unless the context requires a different meaning: “Eligible employee” means an individual who has requested that an employer provide organ donation leave and who, as of the date that the requested organ donation leave begins, will have been employed by that employer for at least (i) a 12-month period and (ii) 1,250 hours during the previous 12 months. “Employer” means any employer as defined in § 40.1-2 that employs 50 or more employees. Notwithstanding § 40.1-2.1, “employer” includes the Commonwealth and its agencies, institutions, and political subdivisions. “Employer” does not include any agency of the federal government. “Organ donation leave” means leave of an eligible employee 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.