South Carolina General Assembly
104th Session, 1981-1982

Bill 472

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               472
Ratification Number:       107
Act Number                 68
Introducing Body:          Senate
Subject:                   State Employee Grievance Committee
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(A68, R107, S472)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 8-17-30, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE STATE EMPLOYEE GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE COMMITTEE MAY ALTER GRIEVANCE HEARING DECISIONS OF AGENCIES BUT MAY NOT ALTER SUCH DECISIONS INVOLVING CASES OF MENTAL, PHYSICAL OR THREATENED ABUSE EXCEPT UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES.

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

Certain decisions may not be altered

Section 1. Section 8-17-30 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Section 44, Part II, of Act 644 of 1978, is further amended by adding before the last paragraph:

"The Committee may sustain, reject or modify a grievance hearing decision of an agency except that in cases involving mental, physical or threatened abuse the agency's decision shall not be altered by the Committee unless the agency's finding of facts is not sustained by the Committee, unless the Committee finds that the agency's disciplinary action was not within its established grievance policies, procedures or regulations unless the Committee finds that agency's action was arbitrary or capricious."

Time effective

Section 2. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor.