Bill 3310

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                       3310
Type of Legislation:               General Bill GB
Introducing Body:                  House
Introduced Date:                   19970128
Primary Sponsor:                   Stille
All Sponsors:                      Stille, Cooper, Townsend,
                                   Kelley, Limehouse, Campsen, Harrell,
                                   Witherspoon, Altman and Keegan
                                   
Drafted Document Number:           jic\5297CM.97
Residing Body:                     House
Subject:                           Employment grievance
                                   procedures, Transportation
                                   Department employees, Public
                                   Officers and Employees

Body    Date      Action Description                       Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  _______________________________________  _______ ____________
House   19970417  Rejected the bill
House   19970416  Read second time
House   19970410  Committee report: majority               21 HEPW
                  favorable, minority unfavorable
House   19970128  Introduced, read first time,             21 HEPW
                  referred to Committee

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

COMMITTEE REPORT

April 10, 1997

H. 3310

Introduced by Reps. Stille, Cooper, Townsend, Kelley, Limehouse, Campsen, Harrell, Witherspoon, Altman and Keegan

S. Printed 4/10/97--H.

Read the first time January 28, 1997.

THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND PUBLIC WORKS

To whom was referred a Bill (H. 3310), to amend Section 8-17-370, as amended, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to exemptions to the state employment grievance procedure, etc., respectfully

That they have duly and carefully considered the same, and recommend that the same do pass:

Majority favorable. Minority unfavorable.

RONALD P. TOWNSEND BESSIE MOODY-LAWRENCE

For Majority. For Minority.

TO AMEND SECTION 8-17-370, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS TO THE STATE EMPLOYMENT GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION EMPLOYEES ARE COVERED BY THESE EXEMPTIONS.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 1. Section 8-17-370 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 284 of 1996, is further amended to read:

"Section 8-17-370. The provisions of this article do not apply to:

(1) members, officers, or employees of the General Assembly;

(2) employees within the Office of the Governor who work at the mansion or in the State House or those employees appointed by the Governor to serve at or above the organizational level of assistant directors of the individual program components;

(3) elected public officials of this State or persons appointed to fill vacancies in these offices;

(4) all judges, officers, and employees of the Judicial Department; jurors; all employees of the Commission on Prosecution Coordination; and the judges, officers, and employees of the Administrative Law Judge Division;

(5) members of state boards, commissions, councils, advisory councils, or committees compensated on a per diem basis;

(6) inmate help in a charitable, penal, or correctional institution, residents of rehabilitation facilities, or students employed in institutions of learning;

(7) part-time professional personnel engaged in consultant or contractual services;

(8) an agency head who has the authority and responsibility for an agency within state government including the divisions of the State Budget and Control Board;

(9) employees of the Public Service Authority, State Ports Authority, the Jobs-Economic Development Authority, or the Division of Public Railways and the Division of Savannah Valley Development of the Department of Commerce;

(10) teaching or research faculty, professional librarians, academic administrators, or other persons holding faculty appointments at a post-secondary educational institution, including branch campuses, if any, as defined in Section 59-107-10, except the technical education colleges and centers;

(11) athletic coaches and unclassified employees in the athletic departments of post-secondary educational institutions as defined in Section 59-107-10 except the technical education colleges and centers;

(12) deputy directors as defined in Section 8-17-320; and

(13) regional and county directors of the Department of Social Services as defined in Section 43-3-40(B); and

(14) Department of Transportation employees performing the functions and exercising the responsibilities of the following positions, regardless of changes in title or classification:

(a) deputy directors of each division as defined in Section 57-1-20;

(b) the assistant deputy directors, the special assistants, and the executive assistants assigned to the agency director's office;

(c) the special assistants assigned to the South Carolina Transportation Commission;

(d) the chief counsel contained in Section 57-1-440;

(e) the assistant deputy directors assigned to the deputy director contained in Section 57-3-20(1), and the human resource director II as classified by the State Budget and Control Board having the working title of personnel director;

(f) the directors of engineering as classified by the State Budget and Control Board;

(g) the engineer/associate engineer IV as classified by the Budget and Control Board having the working title of district engineering administrator; and

(h) the engineer/associate engineer IV and engineer/associate engineer III as classified by the State Budget and Control Board assigned to the district engineering administrator having the working title of district construction engineer and/or district maintenance engineer."

SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 1997.