(a) Any department, agency, or instrumentality of the State may participate in a program of interchange of employees with departments, agencies, or instrumentalities of the federal government, or another state, as a sending or receiving agency.

(b) The period of individual assignment or detail under an interchange program shall be subject to approval of the Commissioner of Human Resources for Executive departments, the Court Administrator for the Judiciary, and the Joint Rules Committee for the Legislature. Details relating to any matter covered in this subchapter may be the subject of an agreement between the sending and receiving agencies. Elected officials shall not be assigned from a sending agency nor detailed to a receiving agency. (Added 1967, No. 384 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. March 27, 1968; amended 1997, No. 66 (Adj. Sess.), § 62, eff. Feb. 20, 1998; 2003, No. 156 (Adj. Sess.), § 15.)