§ 13-304. Rights on transfer.
(a) Credit awarded.- A contractual employee who transfers to a budgeted position under this subtitle or who is selected to fill a budgeted position in the State Personnel Management System, without a break in service, in the same principal unit that employs the contractual employee, shall be given credit for service in the contractual position for the purpose of establishing:
(1) steps in the pay grade applicable to the budgeted position;
(2) annual leave; and
(3) seniority rights.
(b) Membership in State pension system.- A contractual employee who transfers to a budgeted position under this subtitle or who is selected to fill a budgeted position shall become a member of the Employees' Pension System of the State of Maryland.
[An. Code 1957, art. 64A, § 51B; 1993, ch. 10, § 2; 1994, ch. 468; 1996, ch. 347, § 1; 2000, ch. 63; 2002, ch. 584.]