South Carolina General Assembly
108th Session, 1989-1990

Bill 627

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               627
Ratification Number:       434
Act Number                 388
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   Sick leave transferable
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(A388, R434, S627)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 59-1-400, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO SICK LEAVE FOR PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT SICK LEAVE ACCUMULATED WHILE EMPLOYED BY A SCHOOL DISTRICT IS TRANSFERABLE TO THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AS WELL AS TO ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT OF THIS STATE, AND TO RESTORE NOT MORE THAN SIXTY DAYS OF SICK LEAVE OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEES OF THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION.

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

Sick leave transferable

SECTION 1. Section 59-1-400(A) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"(A) All full-time employees of public schools accrue sick leave on the basis of one and one-fourth days of sick leave for each month of active service or twelve days for nine months of active service. Sick leave accrued but not used may be accumulated up to ninety days if the employees do not violate their respective contracts. Provisions for the additional benefits provided for in this section must be made on the same basis as existing sick leave benefits.

A school employee using sick leave as provided for in this section may not be terminated from employment nor during a continuing sick leave of less than ninety-one days.

The provisions of this section do not apply to employees of a school district which provides more liberal sick leave benefits. Any benefits accrued under school district sick leave policies in effect prior to July 1, 1976, are not lost as a result of this section.

Sick leave accumulated in compliance with this section is transferable to any school district in the State or to the State Department of Education by the employee with the earned leave."

Sick leave restored

SECTION 2. An amount of sick leave not to exceed sixty days lost by a State Department of Education employee as a result of changing employment from a school district to the State Department of Education is restored if the employee was employed by the State Department of Education after June 28, 1984, and is employed on the effective date of this act.

Time effective

SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

Approved the 4th day of April, 1990.