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SC Code § 8-11-33 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-33. Withholding or deducting pay from state employee's wages.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a state agency that has its payroll processed by the Office of the Comptroller General is authorized to withhold or deduct any portion of a state employee's wages when:  (1) the State of South Carolina or a state agency that has its payroll processed by the Office of the Comptroller General in its role as an employer is required or empowered to do so by state or federal law; or  (2) an overpayment of wages to an employee as a result of a miscalculation or other bona fide error has occurred.  Prior to any deduction being made pursuant to this section, the employee must receive advance written notice of the deduction, the reason for the deduction, and the actual dollar amount or percentage of wages which will be deducted during one or more pay periods.  HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 29, Section 3, eff June 2, 2009.
SC Code § 8-11-35 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-35. Salary payment schedule; maximum salaries; dual compensation; reports; exception.

 (A) Except as otherwise provided by law, appropriations for compensation of state employees must be paid in twice-monthly installments to the person holding the position. To provide a regular and permanent schedule for payment of employees, the payroll period begins on June 2 of the prior fiscal year with the first pay period ending on June 16 of the prior fiscal year. The payroll period continues thereafter on a twice-monthly schedule as established by the Department of Administration. This schedule must continue from one fiscal year to another without interruption, on a twice-monthly basis. The Department of Administration may approve changes to this schedule where circumstances are considered justifiable.  (B) The appropriated salaries for specified positions means the maximum compensation for the position, except as specifically provided in other provisions of the annual general appropriations act or other provisions of law, and if the head of a department is able to secure the services for a particular position or work at a lower rate than the salary specified in the annual general appropriations act, the agency head is authorized to pay a lower salary.  (C) An employee of a state department or institution must not be paid any compensation from any other department of the state government except as approved under the provisions of Regulation 19-702.09 of the South Carolina Code of Regulations, and an employee of a department or institution must not be paid travel expenses by any other department or institution without approval of the agency by which he is regularly employed.  (D) The Comptroller General, after June thirtieth of each year, shall report to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee the names of all employees receiving dual compensation and the amounts received. The report shall list information under the primary employing agency, and in the format which lists employees under the requesting or secondary agency.  (E) The provisions of Regulation 19-707.02 of the South Carolina Code of Regulations and Section 8-13-750 do not apply to employees hired for one hundred twenty days or fewer.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Pt XI.H, eff July 1, 2002.
SC Code § 8-11-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-40. Sick leave; leave when employee attacked; leave for sick family member.

 (A) All full-time state employees in FTE positions are entitled to fifteen days' sick leave a year with pay. Sick leave is earned by full-time state employees in FTE positions 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 Department of Administration. All part-time state employees in FTE positions are entitled to sick leave prorated on the basis of fifteen days a year subject to the same carry-over specified in this section. If an employee transfers from one state agency to another, his sick leave balance also is transferred. The Department of Administration may promulgate 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.  (B) State employees in FTE positions who are physically attacked while in the performance of official duties and suffer bodily harm as a result of the attack must be placed on administrative leave with pay by their employers rather than sick leave. The period of administrative leave for each incident may not exceed one hundred eighty calendar days.  (C) Employees earning sick leave as provided in this section may use not more than ten days of sick leave annually to care for ill members of their immediate families. For purposes of this section, 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, legal guardian, and grandchildren.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-42.2; 1968 (55) 2691; 1974 (58) 2364; 1977 Act No. 186 Section 1; 1983 Act No. 151 Part II Section 35; 1985 Act No. 58 Section 1; 1987 Act No. 67 Section 1, eff May 1, 1987; 1988 Act No. 524, Section 1, eff May 18, 1988; 1991 Act No. 53, Section 1, eff May 27, 1991; 1991 Act No; 171, Part II, Section 65, eff June 12, 1991; 1999 Act No. 100, Part II, Section 77, eff July 1, 1999; 2004 Act No. 295, Section 3, eff August 16, 2004.
SC Code § 8-11-41 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-41. Sick leave; application to all state agencies, departments, and institutions; auditing of sick leave records.

 The provisions of Section 8-11-40 shall apply to all state agencies, departments and institutions and shall be administered by each such agency, department and institution pursuant to rules and regulations adopted by the Department of Administration. The sick leave records of all agencies, departments and institutions coming under the provisions of this section and Section 8-11-40 shall be subject to audit by the Department of Administration.  HISTORY: 1977 Act No. 186 Section 2.
SC Code § 8-11-45 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-45. Transfer of accumulated leave upon transfer of legislative employees.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any legislative employee who transfers from one agency of the General Assembly to another shall be permitted to transfer all accumulated annual and sick leave regardless of the employment status to which transferred.  The provisions of this section shall be effective commencing January 1, 1980.  HISTORY: 1980 Act No. 519, Part II, Section 11.
SC Code § 8-11-46 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-46. Transfer of accumulated leave upon transfer between state agency and school district.

 An employee of a state agency transferring to a school district of this State or a school district employee transferring to a state agency is permitted to transfer to and retain at his new employer all sick leave he accumulated at his former employer regardless of his employment status at the new employer. Sick leave not to exceed sixty days lost by a school district employee as a result of changing employment from the school district to a state agency or by a state employee as a result of changing employment from a state agency to a school district is restored if the employee was employed by the school district or the state agency after June 28, 1984, and is employed on June 30, 1991.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 612, Part II, Section 63, eff June 13, 1990 (became law without the Governor's signature); 1991 Act No. 171, Part II, Section 55, eff June 12, 1991.
SC Code § 8-11-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-50. Compensatory time for working on legal holidays.

 A State employee, except employees of agencies following academic schedules, who is required to work on a legal holiday shall be given compensatory time at the convenience of the agency in which employed within ninety days of such holiday. Employees following academic schedules who are required to work on a legal holiday shall be given compensatory time at the convenience of the agency in which employed within one year from the date of the holiday. Permanent employees who do not work a normal Monday through Friday workweek shall receive no more nor any fewer number of holidays than those employees who work the normal Monday through Friday workweek. All State employees whose positions are nonexempt as defined by the Fair Labor Standards Act and who are not allowed to take compensatory leave, earned for working on a legal holiday, within the ninety-day period or the one-year period in the case of employees who follow academic schedules, shall be compensated for the holiday by the employing agency, at the straight hourly pay rate of the employee, no later than the second regular pay period following the last day of the time period prescribed in which compensatory time must be given. Provided, however, that the ninety day period referred to above may be extended for an additional ninety days upon a satisfactory showing to the Department of Administration that because of limited staffing compliance with the original ninety day limit is not feasible and upon approval of such extension by the department.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 64-151.2; 1975 (59) 272; 1979 Act No. 58.
SC Code § 8-11-55 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-55. Compensatory time for working overtime.

 Any state employee who is required to work overtime during any particular week may, as a result, be given compensatory time by his agency. Compensatory time, if granted, must be in accordance with the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 as amended.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 178 Part II Section 4; 1986 Act No. 540, Part II, Section 39, eff June 18, 1986 (became law without the Governor's signature).
SC Code § 8-11-57 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-57. Declaration of state of emergency or order to close state offices due to hazardous weather; paid leave.

 Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever the Governor declares a state of emergency or orders all or some state offices closed due to hazardous weather conditions he may authorize up to five days leave with pay for affected state employees who are absent from work due to the state of emergency or the hazardous weather conditions.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Pt IX.D, eff July 1, 2002.
SC Code § 8-11-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-60. Removal of officers elected by General Assembly.

 The manner and method of removal of State officers elected by the General Assembly shall be according to Section 3 of Article XV of the Constitution of South Carolina of 1895; provided, however, that should any grand jury present or return a true bill against any such officer on account of his official conduct, then the Governor may suspend such officer until the next General Assembly.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-43; 1952 Code Section 1-43; 1942 Code Section 3097; 1932 Code Section 3097; 1930 (36) 1219.
SC Code § 8-11-65 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-65. Leaves of absence to be organ donor.

 (A) All officers and employees of this State or a political subdivision of this State who wish to be an organ donor and who accrue annual or sick leave as part of their employment are entitled to leaves of absence from their respective duties without loss of pay, time, leave, or efficiency rating for one or more periods not exceeding an aggregate of thirty regularly scheduled workdays in any one calendar year during which they may engage in the donation of their organs. Saturdays, Sundays, and state holidays may not be included in the thirty-day aggregate unless the particular Saturday, Sunday, or holiday to be included is a regularly scheduled workday for the officer or employee involved.  (B) The officer or employee must show documentation from the attending physician of the proposed organ donation before leave is approved that confirms that the employee is the donor.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 347, Section 1, eff July 19, 2002; 2009 Act No. 29, Section 1, eff June 2, 2009.
SC Code § 8-11-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-70. Assistance in selling United States savings bonds to employees; deductions from pay.

 All departments and institutions of the State may assist in the selling of United States savings bonds to their employees and such assistance shall include the making of deductions from their payrolls in such amounts as may be voluntarily authorized by the employees. Deductions so authorized by any employee, under this provision, shall be held in the State Treasury to the credit of the account of the employee until a sum sufficient to purchase one or more bonds is reached. The head of the department shall then purchase one or more bonds and deliver the same to the employee, in lieu of payment otherwise to the extent of the deduction authorized.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-48; 1952 Code Section 1-48; 1947 (45) 311.
SC Code § 8-11-75 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-75. Repayment of deferred compensation plan loans.

 An employee participating in any plan under the Deferred Compensation Program may repay a plan loan made by the employee through payroll deductions from the employee's compensation. At the request of a state employee the Comptroller General may by payroll deduction collect and pay over to the appropriate entity the amount designated by the employee to repay a deferred compensation plan loan.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Pt XI.Q, eff July 1, 2002.
SC Code § 8-11-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-80. Deduction for group life, hospital, and other insurance.

 The Comptroller General may, upon request of employees of the State, make deductions from the compensation of the employees for the payment of premiums for life, hospital, and other types of insurance plans as are in force and a member of the deduction system on the effective date of this act. The Comptroller General may not make deductions where deductions are made for less than two hundred fifty state employees in any particular plan. The Comptroller General shall pay over to the insurance company, or its agents designated to receive the funds, all amounts so collected or withheld. No part of the cost of the insurance or expenses incidental to the payroll deduction must be borne by the State, nor must any liability whatsoever be incurred by the State in connection with the deduction, nor may the State in any way aid insurance companies in the solicitation of policies by expressly or implicitly endorsing any particular insurance plan or company.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-49; 1952 Code Section 1-49; 1947 (45) 311; 1959 (51) 144; 1972 (57) 3013; 1977 Act No. 219 Pt II Section 20; 1978 Act No. 644 Part II Section 21; 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 74.
SC Code § 8-11-83 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-83. Payroll deduction for dues of certain organizations.

 (A) The Comptroller General and all other state agencies, upon request of employees of the State, shall make deductions from the compensation of the employees for the payment of membership dues for the South Carolina State Employees' Association and for the South Carolina Troopers' Association. The Comptroller General and state agencies shall pay over to the respective associations all amounts so collected or withheld. Retirees from a state agency also may have withheld from their state retirement benefits their membership dues for the South Carolina State Employees' Association and for the South Carolina Troopers' Association. No deduction is permitted if the associations at any time engage in collective bargaining or encourage their members to strike.  (B) Membership dues or any portion of them which are deducted pursuant to this section may not be paid to a national or multistate association or group.  (C) Dues for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers' Association also may be deducted from the compensation of state employees and retirees and paid over to this association in the same manner other dues under this section are deducted and paid over. The same restrictions and conditions that apply to the other deductions under this section also apply to the deductions of dues for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers' Association.  (D) Membership dues for the Society of Former Agents of the State Law Enforcement Division also may be deducted from the compensation of state retirees and paid over to this association in the same manner other dues are deducted and paid pursuant to this section. The same restrictions and conditions that apply to the other deductions enumerated in this section also apply to the deduction of dues for the Society of Former Agents of the State Law Enforcement Division.  HISTORY: 1987 Act No. 98 Section 1, eff May 18, 1987 (became law without the Governor's signature); 1995 Act No. 111, Section 1, eff June 12, 1995; 2016 Act No. 277 (H.5270), Section 1, eff June 15, 2016.
SC Code § 8-11-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-90. Deductions for federal taxes.

 The Comptroller General, or any state department, institution, or agency of state government authorized by the Department of Administration to make disbursements from their own bank accounts shall make deductions for taxes required to be deducted or withheld by the federal government, from the compensation of state employees, and pay over to the Director of Internal Revenue, or any agency designated to receive such funds, all collections so deducted or withheld.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-49.1; 1954 (48) 1566; 1982 Act No. 334.
SC Code § 8-11-91 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-91. Deductions for charitable contributions.

 The Comptroller General shall, and the governing body of any school district may, upon written authorization by any officer or employee, deduct from the salary or wages of any such officer or employee contributions to be paid over to eligible nonprofit charitable organizations, or groups of such organizations, in the manner prescribed by Sections 8-11-92 through 8-11-97. Chief finance officers of state agencies and institutions maintaining payroll accounts separate from the office of the Comptroller General likewise shall make deductions from the salaries and wages of their officers and employees for such contributions.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 149, Section 1.
SC Code § 8-11-92 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-92. Qualifying criteria for charitable organizations; Secretary of State to determine eligibility.

 A. Nonprofit charitable organizations for which such payroll deductions may be made shall include any nonprofit, eleemosynary corporation, association or organization which is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, health, or welfare services to the public and meets all of the following qualifications:  (1) Is and continues to be organized and qualified to solicit and operate under the laws of this State, pursuant to Chapter 55 of Title 33;  (2) Provide direct and continuing services to or on behalf of the citizens of the State. For purposes of this section, "direct and continuing services" means: (a) services other than legal advocacy services which are provided directly to and specifically for one individual or one family; or, (b) services which are in the nature of medical research; or, (c) services which involve the collection and administration of funds by umbrella organizations for other organizations, all of which qualify under this act;  (3) Is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26, United States Code (the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended);  (4) Is not an organization contemplated by Section 501(c)(4), 501(c)(5), or 501(c)(6) of Title 26, United States Code (the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, as amended) and is not an organization primarily engaged in the propagation of a religious faith or belief; this prohibition shall include, but not be limited to, organizations primarily engaged in lobbying or political activity;  (5) Is operated without discrimination in regard to all persons served, and complies with all requirements of law, including administrative regulations, respecting nondiscrimination and equal opportunity regarding its officers, staff, employees and volunteers;  (6) Has neither a parent organization nor a subsidiary organization which fails to meet qualifications herein contained in items (1) through (5).  B. The Secretary of State shall determine on an annual basis, based upon the applications of nonprofit, charitable organizations and groups of such organizations, those which are eligible to participate in payroll deductions for state-employee contributions. His decision shall be final unless determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be arbitrary, capricious or unsupported by any credible evidence.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 149, Section 1.
SC Code § 8-11-93 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 8 - Public Officers and Employees|Chapter 11 - State Officers And Employees|Section 8-11-93. Minimum level of employee participation required.

 Because of the high cost to be borne by the State in providing administrative services regarding payroll deductions for contributions to charitable organizations, even though an organization may be eligible under Section 8-11-92 no such deductions shall be authorized by the Comptroller General, or by the chief finance officer of a state agency or institution maintaining separate payroll accounts, unless at least ten percent of the employees or two hundred employees, whichever shall be the lesser, who are paid from such payroll account, have made a written authorization to deduct contributions to an eligible charitable organization or group of such organizations.  HISTORY: 1981 Act No. 149, Section 1.