Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3330 Primary Sponsor:Kirsh Committee Number:30 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Technical education, retirement program Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Date Tabled:Mar 04, 1992 Computer Document Number:436/11145.DW Introduced Date:Jan 24, 1991 Last History Body:House Last History Date:Mar 04, 1992 Last History Type:Tabled in Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Kirsh Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN ---- ------ ------------ ------------------------------ --- 3330 House Mar 04, 1992 Tabled in Committee 30 3330 House Jan 24, 1991 Introduced, read first time, 30 referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND SECTION 9-17-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE OPTIONAL RETIREMENT PROGRAM FOR PUBLICLY-SUPPORTED FOUR-YEAR AND POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE TECHNICAL EDUCATION COLLEGTES TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 9-17-10 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 9-17-10. There is established an optional retirement program for the publicly-supported four-year and postgraduate institutions of higher education and technical education colleges. Only employees of participating institutions holding faculty and administrative positions are eligible to participate in the optional retirement program. No employee is eligible to participate in the optional retirement program unless he is eligible for membership in the South Carolina Retirement System. Retirement and death benefits must be provided for participants a participant in the optional retirement program through the purchase of an individual annuity contracts contract, fixed or variable in nature, or a combination thereof of them. The State and the participants participant shall contribute toward the purchase of such contracts the contract which must be issued to, and become the property of, the participants participant."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.