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| As a part-time employee of the University of South Carolina, I did not vote on the tabling nor the adoption motion of Amendment No. 58 of Section 17 of H. 4600.
Rep. MARGARET J. GAMBLE
I was out of the chamber talking with a mayor from Dorchester County when Amendment No. 58 dealing with S.C. State Employees raise.
I would like to report had I been in the chamber when this amendment was voted on, I would have voted for Amendment No. 58. Thank you.
Rep. GEORGE H. BAILEY
Reps. H. BROWN, LANFORD, McKAY, LAW, RISER, HARRISON, ROBINSON, D. SMITH, TOWNSEND, HARRELL, TROTTER, MARCHBANKS, HALLMAN, QUINN, YOUNG-BRICKELL, WILKINS, SANDIFER, SIMRILL, WORLEY, CHAMBLEE, R. SMITH, CAIN, MASON, RICE, ALLISON, SEITHEL, SHARPE, SPEARMAN, HASKINS, DANTZLER, MEACHAM, LIMBAUGH, COTTY, WELLS, and COOPER proposed the following Amendment No. 155 (Doc Name P:\amend\dc.7), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 17C, B&C BD-Budget & Analyses, page 419, Paragraph 19, line 30 by striking paragraph in its entirety and inserting the following:
/17C.19 (Employee Pay) The amounts appropriated to the Budget and Control Board for Employee Pay Increase must be allocated by the Board to the various state agencies to provide for employees pay increases in accordance with the following plan:
A. Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after October 16 of the current fiscal year, employees whose annualized salary is equal to or less than $50,000 shall receive an annual average 2% increase.
B. Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after October 16 of the current fiscal year, employees whose annualized salary is more than $50,000 shall receive an annualized increase of $1,000.
2. With respect to agency heads covered by the Agency Head Salary Commission, the Agency Head Salary Commission shall recommend to the Budget and Control Board salary increases for agency heads. Agency head increases shall be effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after October 16 of the current fiscal year. No agency head shall be paid less than the minimum of the pay increase range nor receive a salary increase that would have the effect of raising the salary above the maximum of the pay range.
3. Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after October 16 of the current fiscal year, agency heads not covered by the Agency Head Salary Commission, shall receive an annualized base pay increase of 2%, not to exceed an annualized increase of $1,000.
4. With respect to local health care providers, the funds provided for compensation increases shall be based on an annual average 2% increase, effective on the first pay period of or after October 16 of the current fiscal year.
5. Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after October 16 of the current fiscal year, the Chief Justice and other judicial officers shall receive a base pay increase of $1,000./
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Rep. H. BROWN explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
As a part-time employee of the University of South Carolina, I did not vote on Amendment No. 155 of Section 17 in H. 4600.
Rep. MARGARET J. GAMBLE
I voted in favor of the 2% pay increase for state employees which was taken as a voice vote.
Rep. MOLLY M. SPEARMAN
Rep. HARRY R. ASKINS
Rep. H. BROWN proposed the following Amendment No. 156 (Doc Name P:\amend\DC.3), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 17C, B&C Bd-Budget & Analyses, page 420, Paragraph 20, line 14 by striking /paragraph 20/ in its entirety and inserting the following:
/17C.20 Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after October 16, of the current fiscal year, judicial employees shall receive base pay increases in the following manner:
A. For those Judicial Department employees whose annualized salary is equal to or less than $50,000, funding shall be provided to award an annual average 2% increase./
B. For those Judicial Department employees whose annualized salary is greater than $50,000, funding shall be provided to award an annualized increase of $1,000.
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Rep. H. BROWN explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Debate was resumed on Amendment No. 57, which was proposed on Monday, February 26, by Rep. SHEHEEN.
Rep. SHEHEEN moved to table the amendment, which was agreed to.
Section 17C as amended was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 18A.
Rep. HARRISON proposed the following Amendment No. 74 (Doc Name P:\amend\tmr.8), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 18A, Commission on Higher Education, page 427, Paragraph 22, lines 2--3, by striking:
/when a female leadership program has been approved as in compliance with the federal district court order/
/In the event the United States Supreme Court renders a decision which prohibits a state from funding any single--gender educational program, then any unspent funds appropriated herein will revert to the State General Fund./
Amend further, Part IB, Section, Section 18A, Commission on Higher Education, Page 427, Paragraph 22, Line 4 by inserting after word /College/ the following:
/by the Citadel on a quarterly basis/
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Rep. HARRISON explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Rep. HALLMAN proposed the following Amendment No. 118 (Doc Name P:\amend\tmr.17), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 18A, Commission on Higher Education, page 427, Paragraph 24, after line 38, by inserting:
/(6) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section (4) of this paragraph, in instances where the equal division of the appropriated funds between need-based grants and the Palmetto Fellows Program exceeds the capacity to make awards in either program, the Commission on Higher Education has the authority to re-allocate the remaining funds between the two programs until these programs are fully implemented in FY 2000-2001, after which an equal division between the two programs as described in (4) above shall be maintained./
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Rep. HALLMAN explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Rep. STUART proposed the following Amendment No. 149 (Doc Name P:\amend\tr.65), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 18A, Commission of Higher Education, page 427, after line 38, by adding /(6) A renewal applicant must have maintained a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.5 on a 4.0 scale and have earned the equivalent of 12 credit hours for each term an award was received during the academic year.
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Rep. STUART explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Reps. SIMRILL, MEACHAM and VAUGHN proposed the following Amendment No. 76 (Doc Name P:\amend\ff.6), which was tabled.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 18A, Commission on Higher Education, page 427, Paragraph 23, line 9 by striking /$130,000/ and inserting /$230,000/
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 18A, Commission on Higher Education, page 427, Paragraph 23, line 9, by striking:
/$100,000 to Benedict College, and $100,000 to Voorhees College/
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Rep. SIMRILL explained the amendment.
Rep. HALLMAN spoke against the amendment and moved to table the amendment, which was agreed to.
Section 18A as amended was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 18N.
Section 18N was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 19.
Reps. D. SMITH, H. BROWN, FULMER, ROBINSON and LIMBAUGH proposed the following Amendment No. 153 (Doc Name P:\amend\cj.75), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 19, Department of Education, page 436, line 9, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/A committee to study the benefits and fiscal impact of providing five year old kindergarten in both a full day and one-half a day setting is established. The study should include national as well as local research.
2. The committee shall be provided staff from the House of Representatives, the Senate and the Governor's Office. The State Department of Education shall cooperate fully with the committee including providing staff support and other in-kind resources as requested by the committee.
3. The committee shall conclude its work and issue its final report by December 1, 1996. The final report shall be submitted to the General Assembly and upon submission of its final report shall be dissolved./
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Rep. D. SMITH explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Section 19 as amended was adopted.
The motion of Rep. H. BROWN to reconsider the vote whereby Section 3B was adopted was taken up and agreed to.
Reps. MARCHBANKS and CARNELL proposed the following Amendment No. 162 (Doc Name P:\amend\dc.81), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 3B, House of Representatives, page 10, Line 22, by striking /Bond Review/ and inserting /Capital Projects Oversight/
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 3B, page 10, Line 23, Opposite /Unclass. Leg. Misc./ by increasing the amounts in columns 5 and 6 by:
. . . . .column (5). . . . .column (6)
. . . . .43,094. . . . .43,094
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Part 1A, Section 3B, page 10, Line 24, by increasing the FTE's in columns 5 and 6 by:
. . . . .(1.00). . . . .(1.00)
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Part 1A, Section 3B, page 10, line 25, opposite /Unclass. Leg. Misc(TP)/ by increasing the amounts in column 5 and 6 by:
. . . . .column (5). . . . .column (6)
. . . . .6,000. . . . .6,000
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Rep. MARCHBANKS explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
The motion of Rep. FELDER to reconsider the vote whereby Amendment No. 60 was adopted was taken up and agreed to.
Rep. KIRSH moved to table the amendment, which was agreed to.
Reps. P. HARRIS, WALDROP, NEILSON, RHOAD and SHISSIAS proposed the following Amendment No. 147 (Doc Name P:\amend\PFM\8032AC.96), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 3B, Legislative Dept - House of Representatives, page 0011, lines 23 and 24, by inserting an appropriately lettered item to read:
/( ) AGING, UNCLASS. LEG. MISC (P)/ and in columns (5) and (6) insert:
/61,293
(2.00)/.
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Rep. P. HARRIS explained the amendment.
Rep. KIRSH spoke against the amendment.
Rep. SHISSIAS spoke in favor of the amendment.
Rep. KIRSH moved to table the amendment and demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Allison Brown, H. Cain Cato Chamblee Cooper Cotty Dantzler Davenport
Easterday Fleming Fulmer Hallman Harrell Harrison Haskins Herdklotz Jaskwhich Kelley Kirsh Klauber Koon Law Littlejohn Loftis Marchbanks Mason Meacham Quinn Rice Robinson Sandifer Seithel Sharpe Smith, R. Stille Tripp Trotter Vaughn Walker Wells Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Young Young-Brickell
Those who voted in the negative are:
Anderson Askins Bailey Breeland Brown, J. Brown, T. Byrd Canty Carnell Cave Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Cromer Delleney Felder Gamble Govan Harris, J. Harris, P. Harvin Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Howard Inabinett Jennings Kennedy Keyserling Kinon Knotts Lanford Lee Limehouse Lloyd Martin McAbee McCraw McElveen McMahand McTeer Moody-Lawrence Neal Neilson Phillips Rhoad Richardson Riser Rogers Scott Sheheen Shissias Simrill Spearman Stoddard Stuart Thomas Townsend Tucker Waldrop Whatley Whipper, L. Whipper, S. White
Wilder Wilkes Williams Worley Wright
So, the House refused to table the amendment.
The question then recurred to the adoption of the amendment, which was agreed to.
Section 3B as amended was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 19A.
Reps. RICE and MARCHBANKS proposed the following Amendment No. 99 (Doc Name P:\amend\ta.4), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 19A, Department of Education, page 442, line 33, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/Of the general funds appropriated to the Department of Education, $25,000 shall be provided to the Pickens County School District for a pilot project to teach the Lovaas method to autistic children in the Pickens County School District during the 1996/1997 school year. The purpose of this pilot is to help mainstream these children back into the classroom and to reduce or eliminate future long term care costs. These funds are located in Part IA, Section 19A, Program X.A. (Alloc EIA-Hndcap Std Srvc./
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Rep. HALLMAN explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Reps. McTEER and HODGES proposed the following Amendment No. 139 (Doc Name P:\amend\cj.13), which was tabled.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 19A, Department of Education - EIA, page 442, Paragraph 55, line 26 by striking line(s) /(SDE-EIA: Local School Innovation Fund) The funds provided for the
/The funds provided for by the Local School Innovation Fund shall be distributed to the Districts in accordance with the Education Finance Act Formula/
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Rep. McTEER explained the amendment.
Rep. WELLS moved to table the amendment.
Rep. ROGERS demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Allison Brown, H. Cain Carnell Cato Chamblee Cooper Cotty Dantzler Davenport Easterday Fleming Fulmer Gamble Hallman Harrell Harrison Herdklotz Jaskwhich Keegan Kelley Keyserling Klauber Knotts Koon Lanford Law Limbaugh Limehouse Littlejohn Loftis Marchbanks Martin Mason McAbee McKay Quinn Rice Richardson Riser Robinson Sandifer Seithel Sharpe Shissias Smith, D. Smith, R. Spearman Stuart Thomas Townsend Tripp Trotter Vaughn Walker Wells Whatley Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Worley Wright Young Young-Brickell
Anderson Askins Bailey Breeland Brown, G. Brown, J. Brown, T. Byrd Cave Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Cromer Delleney Elliott Govan Harris, J. Harris, P. Harvin Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Howard Inabinett Jennings Kennedy Kinon Kirsh Lee Lloyd McCraw McElveen McMahand McTeer Meacham Moody-Lawrence Neal Neilson Phillips Rhoad Rogers Scott Sheheen Simrill Stille Stoddard Tucker Whipper, L. Whipper, S. White Wilder Wilkes Williams
So, the amendment was tabled.
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