Bill 434

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               434
Ratification Number:       113
Act Number                 67
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Payment to heirs authorized

(A67, R113, S434)

A JOINT RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE THAT THE ESTATE, HEIRS, OR BENEFICIARIES OF CLASSIFIED STATE EMPLOYEES WHO WERE EMPLOYED ON JUNE 1, 1988, AND WHO DIED AFTER JUNE 1, 1988, BUT BEFORE DECEMBER 1, 1988, ARE ENTITLED TO THE THREE HUNDRED SIXTY-FIVE DOLLAR LUMP-SUM PAYMENT AUTHORIZED IN THE 1988-89 GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS BILL, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE MANNER IN WHICH AND PROCEDURES UNDER WHICH THESE PAYMENTS MUST BE MADE.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

Payment to heirs authorized

SECTION 1. The lump-sum payment to which a classified state employee, who was employed on June 1, 1988, and who died after June 1, 1988, but before December 1, 1988, would have been entitled under the provisions of Item 10.1, Section 2, Part III of Act 658 of 1988 had he remained in continuous state service until December 1, 1988, must be paid to his estate if open, and to the residual heirs or beneficiaries of his estate if the estate has been closed. The payment required by this section must be made by the State Treasurer upon warrant of the Comptroller General from the state general fund in the manner the Budget and Control Board shall direct within thirty days after the estate, heirs, or beneficiaries notify the Division of Human Resource Management of the Budget and Control Board of the person or entity to whom the payment should be made. The division may require that proof of proper inheritance as it considers necessary. Any decision of the division as to whom the proper heirs or beneficiaries are of a deceased state employee if his estate has been closed is final and not appealable in a court of competent jurisdiction."

Time effective

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.