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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.1183 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:20000224 Primary Sponsor:Peeler All Sponsors:Peeler, Fair and Ryberg Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\bbm\9213htc00.doc Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 11 SJ Subject:Public Service Authority, state agencies; state employee grievance procedures, Public Officers and Employees History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 20000224 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 58-31-15, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT FOR ALL PURPOSES OF STATE LAW THE SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY IS A STATE AGENCY AND TO PROVIDE A NONDISPOSITIVE LISTING OF THOSE LAWS APPLICABLE TO THE AUTHORITY AS A RESULT, AND TO AMEND SECTION 8-17-370, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE EXEMPTIONS FROM THE STATE EMPLOYEE GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE, SO AS TO DELETE THE EXEMPTION FOR THE PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 1, Chapter 31, Title 58 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 58-31-15. The Public Service Authority is for all purposes a state agency and subject to the requirements of state law applicable to state agencies. These requirements include, but are not limited to:
(1) the state employee classification and compensation plan administered by the Office of Human Resources of the State Budget and Control Board;
(2) all other personnel laws, regulations, and policies;
(3) benefits provided by law to state employees;
(4) the State Employee Grievance Procedure provided in Article 5, Chapter 17 of Title 8;
(5) state ethics laws;
(6) the Freedom of Information Act;
(7) the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code;
(8) the accounting and auditing requirements applicable to state agencies;
(9) the appropriations process of the General Assembly as an 'other funds' agency in order to obtain authority to expend funds;
(10) the classifications of all of its revenues as 'state funds';
(11) state processes applicable to the issue of bonds by state agencies, but these processes do not affect liabilities for the repayment of bonds; and
(12) state laws applicable to property management and the purchase or disposition of state property.
Where provisions of law applicable to the Public Service Authority impose stricter obligations on the authority than does general law applicable to agencies, the state law applicable is considered to operate employing the stricter obligation. No rights or obligations are created in any person by virtue of this section for any act or omission occurring before July 1, 2000, and any employee grievance matters ongoing at that time must proceed to determination according to the policy in effect when the process began. The inclusion of the requirements imposed by this section must not be construed as in any way dispositive of whether or not the Public Service Authority was or was not subject to these requirements before July 1, 2000."
SECTION 2. Section 8-17-370(9) of the 1976 Code, as amended by Act 284 of 1996, is further amended to read:
"(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;"
SECTION 3. This act takes effect July 1, 2000.
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