The state and all its institutions of higher education, departments, instrumentalities, institutions and public trusts of which they are beneficiaries shall first provide temporary total disability benefits to employees injured on the job under their policy of workers' compensation insurance. At the option of the employee, temporary total disability benefits shall then be supplemented by any sick or annual leave available to the injured employee to the extent that the injured employee shall receive full wages during the employee's temporary absence from work; provided, the provisions of this section shall not preclude an employee from receiving any benefits to which the employee is entitled under the State Employees Disability Program Act, Section 1331 et seq. of Title 74 of the Oklahoma Statutes.

Added by Laws 1990, SB 60, c. 283, § 2, eff. September 1, 1990.