Current StatusView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.Bill Number: 3602 Ratification Number: 297 Act Number 206 Introducing Body: House Subject: To appropriate monies from the Capital Reserve Fund for fiscal year 1988-89
(A206, R297, H3602)
A JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROPRIATE MONIES FROM THE CAPITAL RESERVE FUND FOR FISCAL YEAR 1988-89.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Funds appropriated
SECTION 1. In accordance with the provisions of Article III, Section 36(B)(2) and (3), Constitution of South Carolina, 1896, and Section 11-11-320(C) and (D) of the 1976 Code, there is appropriated from the monies available in the Capital Reserve Fund for fiscal year 1988-89 the following amounts:
(1) Employee Bonus
One-time bonus $8.886,190
$8,886,190
1.1 Effective on the fir8t pay day after November 30, 1989, each state employee who has been in continuous state service since June 2, 1989, is eligible to receive a one-time, lump-sum payment. Effective on the date of the lump-sum payment, employees who earn $20,000 or less must receive $286 and those employees who earn more than $20,000 must receive $143. This payment is not a part of the employee's base salary and is not earnable compensation for purposes of employer or employee contributions to the respective retirement systems. This appropriation may be used for payments to employees only in the same ratio as the employee's base salary is paid from appropriated sources. Legislative and judicial employees must receive the above one-time, lump-sum payment; however, no additional funds are provided for these payments. The bonus for the employees in the Legislature and Judiciary must be funded out of their respective budgets.
1.2 The lump-sum payment to which a classified state employee, who was employed on June 1, 1989, and who died after June 1, 1989, but before December 1, 1989, would have been entitled under the provisions of 1.1 above had he remained in continuous 6tate service until December 1, 1989, 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 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.
(2) Health Insurance Reserve-
Deficiency 25,926,983
25,926,983
2.1 The $25,926,983 appropriated in this item for "Health Insurance Reserve-Deficiency", together with the $6,850,000 appropriated in Part III of the fiscal year 1989-90 General Appropriations Act for Health Insurance Restoration-Deficit, must be allocated to agencies and institutions for the state and school district share of a temporary $261 surcharge on the employer share of health insurance premiums for all state employees, school district employees, and retirees. It is the intent of the General Assembly that this surcharge be used to eliminate the deficit in the State Health Insurance Fund in the 1989 plan year and that all proceeds from this surcharge must be applied to the State Health Insurance Fund. The employer shall pay the entire amount of this surcharge, and, for state employees, state funds must be used only in the same proportion as the employer share of the employee's regular health insurance premium is paid from state funds. On a date no later than July 10, 1989, the State Retirement System shall bill all state agencies for this surcharge on all employees and retirees based on the actual July employee count. The State Budget Division shall transfer state funds to the State Health Insurance Fund on behalf of agencies and school districts; agencies may elect to remit the share of the surcharge to be paid from federal or other funds in equal monthly payments over a six-month period.
(3) Higher Education
Cutting Edge 3,026,799
3,026,799
3.1 Of the funds appropriated for the Cutting Edge: Research Investment Initiative, twenty-five percent of the funds must be allocated to the state's senior public colleges. If the number of quality proposals for funds submitted by the senior colleges does not necessitate the twenty-five percent allocation, then the remaining funds must be allocated by the Commission on Higher Education to the state's public universities.
(4) Department of Health and Environmental Control
Computer Network
County Offices 1,480,000
1,480,000
(5) Savannah Valley Authority
Hampton Project 1,325,000
1,325,000
5.1 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Savannah Valley Authority shall expend any appropriated funds designated for the "Hampton Project" at the direction of the Hampton County Industrial Development Commission.
(6) Tax Commission
Equipment - Revenue
Enhancment 1,116,873
1,116,873
(7) Aeronautics Commission
Engine Overhaul 230,000
Helicopter Retrofit 156,000
386,000
(8) Workers' Compensation Commission
Computer System 500,000
500,000
(9) Educational Television
Equipment - New Facility 4,000,000
4,000,000
(10) Department of Mental Health
Medicaid Repayment -
Crafts Farrow Audit 900,000
Bond Payoff for V.A.
Nursing Home 979,613
1,879,613
(11) Legislative Department
Legislative Audit
Council Management
Review 50,000
50,000
11.1 The funds appropriated in this item for the Legislative Audit Council Management Review must be expended for the purpose of engaging a management consultant to perform a full scope review of the management structure and practices of the Legislative Audit Council. The management consultant must be selected by the Speaker of the House, the President ProTempore of the Senate or his designee, the chairmen of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee, and the chairmen of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees.
(12) Adjutant General
Armory Maintenance 215,771
215,771
(13) Francis Marion
At-Risk Youth 50,000
50,000
(14) Orangeburg Tech
Permanent Improvement 400,000
400,000
(15) Department of Education
Textbooks 3,590,820
3,590,820
(16) Human Affairs Commission
Computer 161,000
161,000
(17) Forestry Commission
Equipment - Forest
Fire Control 533,887
533,887
17.1 Funds appropriated to the Forestry Commission for Equipment - Forest Fire Control must be expended only for that purpose.
(18) Department of Agriculture
Peach Marketing 25,000
25,000
(19) Clemson PSA
Aquaculture Equipment 120,000
Food Packaging
Equipment 80,480
200,480
(20) Development Board
Rail Bank 100,000
100,000
(21) Budget and Control Board
Budget Division
Equipment 500
500
Total Capital
Reserve Fund $ 53,854,916
SECTION 2. This act takes effect thirty days after the completion of the 1988-89 fiscal year in accordance with the provisions of Article III, Section 36(B)(3)(a), Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and Section 11-11-320(D)(1) of the 1976 Code.