The Office of Management and Enterprise Services shall promulgate rules to provide that:

1. Upon successful completion of an internship in the Undergraduate or Senior Undergraduate Internship Program or Executive Fellows Program, a participant who has met all requirements of education and experience shall be eligible for appointment to a position in the classified or unclassified service of the state and shall be deemed as meeting all other statutory requirements;

2. Persons leaving classified or unclassified positions in state government in order to take an internship shall:

a.have the right to return to the previous position at any time during the internship or upon completion of the internship, and

b.continue to receive all fringe benefits they would have received in their previous classified or unclassified positions;

3. Participants in the Undergraduate Internship Program who were not public employees prior to accepting a position in the program shall be employed in accordance with paragraph 8 of subsection A of Section 840-5.5 of this title;

4. Participants in the Senior Undergraduate Internship Program who were not public employees prior to accepting a position in the program shall be employed in accordance with paragraph 10 of subsection A of Section 840-5.5 of this title, except that they shall be granted leave benefits commensurate with regular state employees;

5. Participants in the Executive Fellows Program who were not public employees prior to accepting a position in the program shall be appointed in accordance with paragraph 10 of subsection A of Section 840-5.5 of this title, except that they shall be granted leave benefits commensurate with regular state employees;

6. Selection of interns shall be coordinated by the Office of Management and Enterprise Services, but shall permit appropriate involvement by institutions of higher education and state agencies in order to ensure the integrity of the program, permit the appropriate match between interns and agency assignments, and to benefit the employing agency;

7. The Director of the Office of Management and Enterprise Services may waive the completion of six (6) semester hours of approved graduate level work required by Section 840-3.4 of this title for participation in the Executive Fellows Program for an undergraduate intern enrolled in six (6) semester hours of approved graduate level work and currently employed by a state agency;

8. Establish compensation plans for interns; and

9. Empower the Office of Management and Enterprise Services to intercede in an internship when the Office determines, at the request of the intern, the agency, or the institution of higher education at which the intern is enrolled, that an internship is not functioning in accordance with guidelines established for the program and that are necessary for the efficiency and integrity of the program.

Added by Laws 1988, c. 218, § 4, eff. Oct. 1, 1988. Renumbered from § 840.43 of this title by Laws 1994, c. 242, § 54. Amended by Laws 2000, c. 336, § 4, eff. July 1, 2000; Laws 2002, c. 347, § 12, eff. Nov. 1, 2002; Laws 2009, c. 12, § 7, eff. July 1, 2009; Laws 2012, c. 304, § 895; Laws 2013, c. 237, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 2013.