H 4181 Session 107 (1987-1988)
H 4181 General Bill, By Kirsh, D. Blackwell, Carnell, F.L. Day, T.W. Edwards,
P.B. Harris, D.N. Holt, H.H. Keyserling, J.R. Klapman, J.G. Mattos,
R.N. McLellan and Sheheen
A Bill to amend Sections 2-3-30, 2-3-60, 2-3-100, 2-3-170, 10-1-40, 51-1-75,
59-20-50, 59-63-720, and 59-65-210, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976,
relating to the General Assembly, public buildings and property, parks,
recreation and tourism, and education, so as to provide for subsistence
allowances for members of the General Assembly and Lieutenant Governor, to
provide for approval of the purchase of supplies for the Senate and House of
Representatives, to provide additional duties for the Sergeants at Arms and
Directors of Security, to provide for reimbursement of employees of the House
of Representatives, to revise the duties of the State House Committee, to
define the responsibilities of the Joint Committee on Tourism and Trade, to
prohibit receipt of hold harmless funds by additional school districts, and to
provide for appropriations for school lunch supervisors and the division of
school lunch program aid appropriations; and to amend the 1976 Code by adding
Sections 2-1-190, 2-3-35, 2-3-55,2-3-73, 2-3-77, 2-3-85, 2-3-135, 2-3-152,
2-3-155, 2-3-175, 2-3-240, 2-3-250, 2-3-260, 2-3-280, 2-3-290, 2-7-63,
2-11-100, 8-11-75, 11-11-140, 38-73-725, 43-31-160, 46-7-100, 50-1-155,
51-1-100, 51-1-110, 51-1-120, 5-1-1-130, 51-1-140, 59-20-90, 59-20-100,
59-20-110, 59-21-125, 59-21-135, 59-21-410, 59-21-415, 59-21-435, 59-21-445,
59-25-70, 59-25-80, 59-31-420, 59-47-95, 59-47-97, 59-47-120, 59-51-60,
59-103-160, 59-103-170, 60-11-110, 60-11-120, 60-13-60, and 60-15-100 so as to
provide for funding of the dues to the Council of State Governments and the
National Conference of State Legislatures, to provide for subsistence expense
payments to the members of the General Assembly serving on joint study
committees and to amend Section 2-3-30, relating to subsistence expenses for
members and the Lieutenant Governor, so as to detail the circumstances under
which subsistence is allowed, to provide for installation of telephone service
in the Senate and House of Representatives, to provide for the preparation of
expense and compensation vouchers of General Assembly committees and for the
approval of Senate payroll and disbursement vouchers and interdepartmental
transfers, to provide for the management of the Legislative Information
Systems, to provide that the Clerk of the House of Representatives is required
to send only one copy of each Act to the county clerks of court, to provide
for appointments of the Directors of Research for the House of Representatives
and their titles, to provide for the payment of the salaries of employees of
the House of Representatives, to provide for payment of temporary clerical
help for the Senate Finance and Judiciary Committees, President of the Senate,
House of Representatives Ways and Means and Judiciary Committees, Speaker of
the House, Clerks of the Senate and House, and Legislative Council, to provide
that no per diem may be paid to any legislative official or employee from more
than one source for any one day, to provide for pictures to be made of the
standing committees of the House of Representatives, to provide for auditing
of approved accounts of the Senate, House of Representatives, special services
for the Senate and House, Legislative Council, and joint legislative
committees and provide for the funding and operation of the committees, to
provide for the Senate standing committees to contract for necessary projects,
programs, and services, to provide for the benefits and compensation for the
nurses who provide special services to the Senate and House of
Representatives, to provide for each committee of the Senate and House of
Representatives and each joint legislative committee to provide a list to the
General Assembly of all employees who hold dual positions of state employment,
to require an audit of the joint legislative committee appropriations, to
provide for Legislative Council research employees to be available to work
with Senate and House of Representative committees, to provide for payroll
deductions for parking fees, to provide for the designation and salaries of
legislative employees provided in the annual General Appropriations Act, to
provide funds for the operation of the State Rating and Statistical Division
of the Insurance Department, to provide that revenues from production by
trainees at vocational rehabilitation facilities may be used by the state
agency of Vocational Rehabilitation, to require Clemson University, Regulatory
and Public Service Division, to remit revenues to the General Fund of the
State, to provide for use of the Game Protection Fund, to provide that the
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism when expending appropriations for
a Canadian promotion shall designate one day of the promotion as "Canadian
Day" and to provide that all Canadians are allowed admittance to state parks
and use of park camping facilities on Canadian Day free of charge, to provide
that funding of regional tourism promotion committees is contingent upon at
least a twenty-five percent match from local sources, to provide that the
Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism is authorized to establish a
scholarship program with Clemson University to assist students in the School
of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management, to provide that any monies
derived from the gift/souvenir shop at the Boyleston House must be used for
its continuing operation, to provide that the Department of Parks, Recreation
and Tourism is authorized to charge a fee to commercial concerns for the cost
of vacation guides, research reports, and mailing lists and to provide for the
manner in which these fees are distributed and used, to provide for
disbursement of education funds to the Department of Youth Services, to fund
the Palmetto Unified School District, to provide that specific appropriations
must include local financial support for education, to provide for the use of
direct aid to school districts' appropriations, to provide for adjustments in
school, district entitlements for weighted pupil units, to provide for
reduction of school building aid during revenue shortfalls, to exempt
vocational education facilities, and equipment from purchase or construction
contracts, to provide that school building aid appropriations must be held in
trust until used as provided by Section 59-21-350, to exempt teachers in Youth
Services, Corrections, and Deaf and Blind Schools from Human Resource
Management classification, to require maintenance of teacher local salary
supplements, to provide for upkeep of used textbooks, to authorize the South
Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind to charge appropriate tuition, room
and board, and other fees to students accepted into the Adult Vocational
Program, and to provide that these fees must be determined by the school's
Board of Commissioners, to authorize the South Carolina School for the Deaf
and the Blind to charge appropriate fees for housing of hearing impaired
adults who receive vocational education services by the Vocational
Rehabilitation facility on the school's campus, and to provide that fees must
be determined by the school's Board of Commissioners and that such revenue
must be retained by the school to offset certain additional operating costs,
to authorize school buses of the South Carolina School for the Deaf and the
Blind to travel at speeds up to fifty-five miles an hour, not to exceed the
posted limit, and to provide that no funds appropriated for equipment may be
used for the purchase of governors for school buses of the school, to require
the Wil Lou Gray Opportunity School to provide education services for truant
students, to require notice of fee raises by state-supported colleges and
universities, to require approval of disposal of local higher education real
property, to provide for gifts by the State Museum Commission to educational
institutions, to authorize the South Carolina Commission of Archives and
History to supply one free copy of each new publication to certain libraries
and persons, to provide that the funds earned from the United States
Department of the Interior by the South Carolina Department of Archives and
History for administering the National Historic Preservation Program in this
State, with the exception of certain monies, must be deposited in a special
account in the State Treasury, to be used by the South Carolina Department of
Archives and History for a Historic Preservation Grants Program, and to
provide for the use by the South Carolina Arts Commission of revenues derived
from arts events and balances at end of the fiscal year.
04/14/88 House Introduced and read first time HJ-2952
04/14/88 House Referred to Committee on Ways and Means HJ-2956
04/27/88 House Committee report: Favorable with amendment Ways
and Means HJ-3225
05/04/88 House Amended HJ-3556
05/04/88 House Read second time HJ-3570
05/05/88 House Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-3589
05/05/88 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-18
05/05/88 Senate Referred to Committee on Finance SJ-22
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