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SC Code § 2-3-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-100. Duties of Sergeants At Arms.

 (A) The Sergeant At Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant At Arms of the House of Representatives shall take exclusive care and charge of the Senate chamber and the hall of the House of Representatives and the committee rooms, respectively, and be held responsible for their keeping and the keeping and protection of the furniture and furnishings belonging to them, packing such as may need packing and inspecting and caring for them during the recess of the General Assembly. The Sergeant At Arms of both houses shall employ such laborers and help as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.  (B) The Sergeant At Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant At Arms of the House of Representatives are each the head of a law enforcement agency and are the primary law enforcement agency for the scope of duties of their respective offices. The Sergeant At Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant At Arms of the House of Representatives may request temporary assistance from state, local, or federal law enforcement agencies on matters within the scope of duties of their respective offices.  (C) The Sergeant At Arms of the Senate and the Sergeant At Arms of the House of Representatives shall employ deputies who shall be commissioned as constables. The Sergeant At Arms of the Senate, the Sergeant At Arms of the House of Representatives, and their respective deputies shall be entitled to enforce the laws of this State and exercise the duties of their offices throughout the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-57; 1952 Code Section 30-57; 1942 Code Section 2068; 1932 Code Section 2068; Civ. C. '22 Section 31; Civ. C. '12 Section 31; 1907 (25) 651; 1922 (32) 1287; 1931 (37) 160; 1951 (47) 506; 1961 (52) 270; 1967 (55) 719; 2021 Act No. 42 (S.131), Section 4, eff May 17, 2021.  Effect of Amendment  2021 Act No. 42, Section 4, inserted the (A) designator and substituted "Sergeant At Arms" for "sergeant at arms" in three places, and added (B) and (C).
SC Code § 2-3-105 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-105. Duties of Sergeants at Arms and Directors of Security.

 (A) The duties of the Sergeants at Arms and Directors of Security of the respective Houses or the Assistant Sergeant at Arms, or both, are:  (1) as provided by law;  (2) as provided by the Rules of the respective Houses;  (3) the security of personnel and property of the respective Houses; and  (4) those designated by the President of the Senate or the Speaker of the House of Representatives.  (B) The Sergeants at Arms and Directors of Security of the respective Houses or the Assistant Sergeant at Arms, or both, shall meet and escort visitors in and about their respective bodies and must be, during the hours of duty, dressed in a distinctive manner, so as to be easily identified as Sergeants at Arms and Directors of Security of the respective Houses.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part VI.E; 2019 Act No. 1 (S.2), Section 16, eff January 31, 2019.  Effect of Amendment  2019 Act No. 1, Section 16, in (A)(4), substituted "President of the Senate" for "President Pro Tempore of the Senate".
SC Code § 2-3-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-110. Speaker designated as department head and chief administrative officer of House; supplies and equipment for Speaker and standing committees.

 The Speaker is hereby designated as the department head and chief administrative officer of the House of Representatives. He is authorized to furnish his office and those of the various standing committees of the House with such supplies and equipment as he deems necessary to be paid for from the approved accounts of the House.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-58; 1971 (57) 709.
SC Code § 2-3-120 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-120. Election of chaplains.

 The Senate and House of Representatives shall each elect, on the first day of the session of each General Assembly, a chaplain, who shall serve as such officer during the sessions.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-59; 1952 Code Section 30-59; 1942 Code Section 2057; 1932 Code Section 2057; Civ. C. '22 Section 20; Civ. C. '12 Section 20; Civ. C. '02 Section 18; G. S. 17; R. S. 17; 1877 (16) 294; 1890 (20) 661; 1893 (21) 417, 418; 1961 (52) 254.
SC Code § 2-3-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-130. Appointment of other officers and employees of the Senate.

 There shall be appointed at the commencement of the first session of every term of the General Assembly for the Senate:  (1) By the presiding officer of the Senate the secretary to the president, the secretary between sessions, the pages, the postmistress, a telephone page, three doorkeepers and a keeper of the president's office;  (2) By the clerk of the Senate an assistant clerk, the general desk clerks, the bill clerks, the journal clerks, the general committee clerks, the committee sergeant, the amendment clerks, the assistant amendment clerks, the attendants and the laborers;  (3) By the chairman of the finance committee two stenographers, a clerk and a keeper of the finance committee room;  (4) By the chairman of the judiciary committee the stenographers and a keeper of the judiciary committee room; and  (5) By the chairman of other committees the general committee stenographers as specified in the general appropriation bill.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-60; 1952 Code Section 30-60; 1942 Code Section 2058; 1932 Code Section 2058; Civ. C. '22 Section 21; Civ. C. '12 Section 21; Civ. C. '02 Section 19; 1920 (31) 766; 1935 (39) 461; 1961 (52) 270.
SC Code § 2-3-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-140. Appointment of other officers and employees of the House.

 The clerk of the House of Representatives shall appoint all of the clerical and stenographic help in the House and in addition thereto shall be authorized to employ one porter. The sergeant at arms of the House shall appoint one porter. The Speaker of the House shall appoint the staff personnel of the various standing committees, the secretary to the Speaker, the amendment clerks and all other employees of the House of Representatives.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-61; 1952 Code Section 30-61; 1942 Code Section 2058; 1932 Code Section 2058; Civ. C. '22 Section 21; Civ. C. '12 Section 21; Civ. C. '02 Section 19; 1920 (31) 766; 1935 (39) 461; 1961 (52) 270; 1971 (57) 709.
SC Code § 2-3-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-150. Additional employees for office of Speaker of House.

 The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall have authority to employ such additional employees, not in excess of two, as he deems necessary for the proper operation of his office and upon his approval their salaries as set by him shall be paid from the approved accounts of the House.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-62; 1964 (53) 2307.
SC Code § 2-3-155 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-155. Appointment of Executive Director of Research and Directors of Research for each standing committee; funding of research assistants.

 (A) The Speaker of the House of Representatives shall appoint the Executive Director of Research. The Speaker, with the advice and consent of the individual committee chairmen, shall appoint the Director of Research for each standing committee.  (B) Necessary temporary or permanent research assistants for the House of Representatives must be paid from approved accounts of the House of Representatives upon the approval of the Speaker with the advice and consent of the applicable standing committee chairman. The Speaker may adjust salary levels of House employees using funds carried forward from the research assistant accounts.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part VI.D.
SC Code § 2-3-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-160. Employees shall be designated as temporary or full time in budget requests.

 When either the House of Representatives or the Senate submits its annual budget requests all employees shall be designated as temporary or full time and the compensation of all full-time employees shall be shown as a line item.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-63; 1967 (55) 719.
SC Code § 2-3-170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-170. Compensation of officers and employees; pay increases.

 (A) All persons elected or appointed under the provisions of this chapter shall receive such compensation as the General Assembly shall determine.  (B) Notwithstanding any other law, the Speaker must authorize and allocate any base pay increase, merit pay, or bonus among the staff of the House of Representatives in the manner the Speaker determines after consultation with the Operations and Management Committee and chairmen of the standing committees of the House.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-64; 1952 Code Section 30-64; 1942 Code Section 2062; 1932 Code Section 2062; Civ. C. '22 Section 25; Civ. C. '12 Section 25; Civ. C. '02 Section 23; G. S. 23; R. S. 23; 1877 (16) 294; 1951 (47) 506; 1961 (52) 254; 1967 (55) 719; 1968 (55) 2855; 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part VI.M.
SC Code § 2-3-175 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-175. Outside employment.

 Full-time employees of the House of Representatives and the Senate are prohibited from outside employment during normal working hours, except with the permission of an employee's department head, and annual leave must be taken for any approved outside employment.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part VI.J.
SC Code § 2-3-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-180. Lists of appointments shall be filed with Treasurer.

 All officers making any of the appointments provided for in this chapter shall forthwith, when each appointment is made, furnish correct lists thereof to the clerks of the two houses respectively and copies of such lists, together with a list of the officers or attaches elected by the two houses, shall be filed by said clerks with the State Treasurer.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-65; 1952 Code Section 30-65; 1942 Code Section 2063; 1932 Code Section 2063; Civ. C. '22 Section 26; Civ. C. '12 Section 26; Civ. C. '02 Section 24; G. S. 24; R. S. 24; 1877 (16) 294.
SC Code § 2-3-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-190. Qualification for appointment of officers and employees.

 No person holding or exercising the duties of any office in this State and no person not a permanent resident of this State shall be eligible to election or appointment to any of the offices or positions provided for in this chapter.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-66; 1952 Code Section 30-66; 1942 Code Section 2061; 1932 Code Section 2061; Civ. C. '22 Section 24; Civ. C. '12 Section 24; Civ. C. '02 Section 22; G. S. 22; R. S. 22; 1877 (16) 294.
SC Code § 2-3-200 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-200. Pay certificates for members.

 The clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives shall furnish each member of their respective bodies a pay certificate for the amount of his mileage and compensation, to include such dates as the General Assembly shall, by concurrent resolution, direct.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-67; 1952 Code Section 30-67; 1942 Code Section 2064; 1932 Code Section 2064; Civ. C. '22 Section 27; Civ. C. '12 Section 27; Civ. C. '02 Section 25; G. S. 25; R. S. 25.
SC Code § 2-3-210 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-210. Certification and attestation of pay certificates.

 Such certificates shall be certified by the President of the Senate and attested by the clerk of the Senate for all members of that body and by the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the clerk of the House for all members of that body.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-68; 1952 Code Section 30-68; 1942 Code Section 2065; 1932 Code Section 2065; Civ. C. '22 Section 28; Civ. C. '12 Section 28; Civ. C. '02 Section 26; G. S. 26; R. S. 26; 1869 (14) 310.
SC Code § 2-3-220 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-220. Pay certificates of officers and employees.

 The subordinate officers and employees of the General Assembly shall, in like manner, be furnished with certificates of pay in such amounts as shall be fixed by that branch of the General Assembly to which such officers and employees shall respectively belong except that the pay certificates for services common to the two houses shall be signed by the President of the Senate and countersigned by the Speaker of the House of Representatives.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-69; 1952 Code Section 30-69; 1942 Code Section 2066; 1932 Code Section 2066; Civ. C. '22 Section 29; Civ. C. '12 Section 29; Civ. C. '02 Section 27; G. S. 27; R. S. 27; 1869 (14) 310.
SC Code § 2-3-225 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-225. Reimbursement of travel and other expenses.

 The Speaker of the House is authorized to reimburse travel and other expenses incurred by employees of the House of Representatives for official business in accordance with applicable policies and regulations.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part VI.A.
SC Code § 2-3-235 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 3 - Organization, Employees And Compensation|Section 2-3-235. State House and L. Marion Gressette Senate Office Building nursing staff; annual leave; health and accident insurance coverage.

 Nursing personnel employed to staff the Nursing Stations in the State House and in the L. Marion Gressette Senate Office Building shall accrue annual leave and receive the same annual leave allowance and receive the same basic health and accident insurance coverage as is provided pursuant to law to other state employees.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part VI.G.
SC Code § 2-5-10 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-10. Short title.

 This chapter shall be known as the "Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act."  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-401; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-20. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter:  (a) "Attack" means any action or series of actions taken by an enemy of the United States resulting in substantial damage or injury to persons or property in this State whether through sabotage, bombs, missiles, shellfire, or atomic, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, or biological means or other weapons or methods.  (b) "Unavailable" means absent from the place of session (other than on official business of the General Assembly), or unable, for physical, mental or legal reasons, to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of a member of the General Assembly, whether or not such absence or inability would give rise to a vacancy under existing constitutional or statutory provisions.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-402; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-30. Designation of emergency interim successors.

 Each member of the General Assembly (hereinafter referred to as legislator) shall designate not fewer than three nor more than seven emergency interim successors to his powers and duties and specify their order of succession. Each legislator shall review and, as necessary, promptly revise the designations of emergency interim successors to his powers and duties to insure that at all times there are at least three such qualified emergency interim successors.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-403; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-40. Qualifications, powers and terms of successors.

 An emergency interim successor is one who is designated for possible temporary succession to the powers and duties, but not the office, of a legislator. No person shall be designated or serve as an emergency interim successor unless he may under the Constitution and statutes hold the office of the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed, but no constitutional or statutory provision prohibiting a legislator from holding another office or prohibiting the holder of another office from being a legislator shall be applicable to an emergency interim successor. An emergency interim successor shall serve at the pleasure of the legislator designating him or of any subsequent incumbent of the legislative office.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-404; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-50. Designation of successors when legislator does not designate sufficient number.

 Prior to an attack, if a legislator fails to designate the required minimum number of emergency interim successors within thirty days following April 7, 1962, or, after such period, if for any reason the number of emergency interim successors for any legislator falls below the required minimum and remains below such minimum for a period of thirty days, then the presiding officer of the same house as such legislator shall promptly designate as many emergency interim successors as are required to achieve such minimum number, but the presiding officer shall not assign to any of his designees a rank in order of succession higher than that of any remaining emergency interim successor previously designated by a legislator for succession to his own powers and duties. Each emergency interim successor designated by the presiding officer shall serve at the pleasure of the person designating him, but the legislator for whom the emergency interim successor is designated or any subsequent incumbent of his office may change the rank in order of succession or replace at his pleasure any emergency interim successor so designated.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-405; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-60. Effective dates of designations, removals and changes in order of succession.

 Each designation of an emergency interim successor shall become effective when the legislator or presiding officer making the designation files with the Secretary of State the successor's name, address and rank in order of succession. The removal of an emergency interim successor or change in order of succession shall become effective when the legislator or presiding officer so acting files this information with the Secretary of State. All such data shall be open to public inspection. The Secretary of State shall inform the Governor, the State Office of Civil Defense, the clerk of the House concerned and all emergency interim successors, of all such designations, removals and changes in order of succession. The clerk of each House shall enter all information regarding emergency interim successors for the House in its public journal at the beginning of each legislative session and shall enter all changes in membership or order of succession as soon as possible after their occurrence.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-406; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-70. Oath of successors.

 Promptly after designation each emergency interim successor shall take the oath required for the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed. No other oath shall be required.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-407; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-80. Successor shall keep himself informed.

 Each emergency interim successor shall keep himself generally informed as to the duties, procedures, practices and current business of the General Assembly, and each legislator shall assist his emergency interim successors to keep themselves so informed.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-408; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-90. Change of place of session.

 Whenever in the event of an attack, or upon finding that an attack may be imminent, the Governor deems the place of session then prescribed to be unsafe, he may change it to any place within or without the State which he deems safer and convenient.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-409; 1962 (52) 2192.
SC Code § 2-5-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 2 - General Assembly|Chapter 5 - Emergency Interim Legislative Succession Act|Section 2-5-100. Sessions after attack.

 In the event of an attack, the Governor shall call the General Assembly into session as soon as practicable, and in any case within ninety days following the inception of the attack. If the Governor fails to issue such call, the General Assembly shall, on the ninetieth day from the date of inception of the attack, automatically convene at the place where the Governor then has his office. Each legislator and each emergency interim successor, unless he is certain that the legislator to whose powers and duties he is designated to succeed or any emergency interim successor higher in order of succession will not be unavailable, shall proceed to the place of session as expeditiously as practicable. At each session or at any session in operation at the inception of the attack, and at any subsequent sessions, limitations on the length of session and on the subjects which may be acted upon shall be suspended.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-410; 1962 (52) 2192.