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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.499 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19990217 Primary Sponsor:Courson All Sponsors:Courson, Giese, Setzler, Ravenel, Mescher and Wilson Drafted Document Number:l:\s-res\jec\002sick.whb.doc Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Finance Committee 06 SF Subject:Public, state officers and employees; sick leave to include brother, sister, or grandparent of employee or spouse History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 19990217 Introduced, read first time, 06 SF referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 8-11-40 OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO STATE EMPLOYEE SICK LEAVE, SO AS TO EXPAND THE DEFINITION OF "IMMEDIATE FAMILY" TO INCLUDE THE BROTHER, SISTER, OR GRANDPARENT OF AN EMPLOYEE OR AN EMPLOYEE'S SPOUSE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 8-11-40 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 8-11-40. All permanent full-time state employees are entitled to fifteen days sick leave a year with pay. Sick leave is earned by permanent full-time state employees at the rate of one and one-fourth days a month and may be accumulated, but no more than one hundred eighty days may be carried over from one calendar year to another. The department or agency head is authorized to grant additional sick leave in extenuating circumstances upon approval of the State Budget and Control Board. All permanent part-time and hourly employees are entitled to sick leave prorated on the basis of fifteen days a year subject to the same carry-over specified herein. In the event an employee transfers from one state agency to another, his sick leave balance also is transferred. The State Budget and Control Board, through the Division of Personnel, may promulgate those regulations in accordance with law as may be necessary to administer the provisions of this section, including the power to define the use of sick leave.
Permanent full-time state employees who are temporarily disabled as a result of an assault by an inmate, patient, or client must be placed on administrative leave with pay by their employer rather than sick leave. The period of administrative leave per incident may not exceed one hundred eighty calendar days.
Employees earning sick leave as provided in this section may use not more than eight days of sick leave annually to care for ill members of their immediate families. For purposes of this section, "immediate family" means a spouse, children, mother, father, a spouse's mother and father, legal guardian, a spouse's legal guardian, and grandchildren if the grandchild resides with the employee, and the employee is the primary caretaker of the grandchild the employee's "immediate family" means the employee's spouse and children and the following relations to the employee or the spouse of the employee: mother, father, brother, sister, grandparent, or legal guardian and grandchildren if the grandchild resides with the employee and the employee is the primary caretaker of the grandchild."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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