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