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
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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.