South Carolina General Assembly
118th Session, 2009-2010

Download This Bill in Microsoft Word format

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

H. 3015

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. A.D. Young, Parker and Horne
Document Path: l:\council\bills\bbm\9042htc09.docx
Companion/Similar bill(s): 241

Introduced in the House on January 13, 2009
Currently residing in the House Committee on Ways and Means

Summary: Election workers and officials

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   12/9/2008  House   Prefiled
   12/9/2008  House   Referred to Committee on Ways and Means
   1/13/2009  House   Introduced and read first time HJ-22
   1/13/2009  House   Referred to Committee on Ways and Means HJ-23
   2/17/2009  House   Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Horne

View the latest legislative information at the LPITS web site

VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

12/9/2008

(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 9-1-10, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS FOR PURPOSES OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA RETIREMENT SYSTEM (SCRS), SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT "EMPLOYEE" AS DEFINED FOR PURPOSES OF THE SCRS DOES NOT INCLUDE SPECIFIED ELECTION WORKERS AND ELECTION OFFICIALS; AND TO AMEND SECTION 12-6-1140, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO DEDUCTIONS FROM TAXABLE INCOME OF INDIVIDUALS FOR PURPOSES OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA INCOME TAX ACT, SO AS TO ALLOW A DEDUCTION FOR COMPENSATION FOR POLL WORKERS AND POLL OFFICIALS AT A POLLING PLACE ON THE DAY OF AN ELECTION.

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

SECTION    1.    The last paragraph of Section 9-1-10(11) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 311 of 2008, is further amended to read:

"'Employee' does not include supreme and circuit court judges or any person employed by a school, college, or university at which the person is enrolled as a student or otherwise regularly attending classes for academic credit unless the person is employed as a school bus driver and is paid by the same school district in which the person is enrolled in school. In determining student status, the system may consider the guidelines of the Social Security Administration regarding student services and other criteria the system uniformly prescribes. Employee does not include a person who serves as an election worker or election official whose only compensation for that service is a separate payment for services rendered at a polling place on the day of an election. Separate compensation received by an election worker or election official is not considered 'earnable compensation' for purposes of this chapter."

SECTION    2.    Section 12-6-1140 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 353 of 2008, is further amended by adding a new item at the end to read:

"(12)    a deduction for amounts paid from public funds to a person for that person's service as an election worker or election official whose only compensation for that service is a separate payment for services rendered at a polling place on the day of an election."

SECTION    3.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and the amendment to Section 12-6-1140 of the 1976 Code contained in this act applies for taxable years beginning after 2008.

----XX----

This web page was last updated on Monday, October 10, 2011 at 12:18 P.M.