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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.1196 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:20000229 Primary Sponsor:Wilson All Sponsors:Wilson Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\bbm\9302htc00.doc Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 11 SJ Subject:Public Service Authority, employees considered state employees; employee grievance procedures apply to; Public Officers History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 20000229 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 58-31-57, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT EMPLOYEES OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY ARE CONSIDERED STATE EMPLOYEES FOR ALL PURPOSES OF LAW, REGULATION, AND POLICY AND PROVIDE A NONDISPOSITIVE LISTING OF STATE PERSONNEL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO PUBLIC SERVICE AUTHORITY EMPLOYEES, AND TO AMEND SECTION 8-17-370, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO 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 58-31-57. All employees of the South Carolina Public Service Authority are considered state employees for all purposes of law, regulation, and policy applicable to state employees. These 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) state hiring procedures, including the posting of all vacancies;
(3) all other personnel laws, regulations, and policies;
(4) benefits provided by law to state employees; and
(5) the State Employee Grievance Procedure provided in Article 5, Chapter 17 of Title 8.
Rights or obligations are not created in a person by virtue of this section for an 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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