Bill 3852

                    Current Status

Bill Number:               3852
Ratification Number:       372
Act Number                 339
Introducing Body:          House
Subject:                   Leave transfer program for state
                           employees

(A339, R372, H3852)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 8-11-720 AND 8-11-730, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE LEAVE-TRANSFER PROGRAM, SO AS TO PROVIDE THE AMOUNT OF LEAVE AN EMPLOYEE MAY DONATE IN ONE YEAR AND TO PROVIDE THAT APPROVAL BY THE BUDGET AND CONTROL BOARD OR ITS DESIGNEE IS FINAL.

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

Leave transfer program for state employees

SECTION 1. Section 8-11-720 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 524 of 1988, is amended to read:

"Section 8-11-720. In conformity with guidelines established by the division and following receipt of additional information it may require, the employing agency, subject to approval by the Budget and Control Board or its designee, may select leave recipients within the agency for participation in the leave-transfer program from among the potential leave recipients of the agency requesting leave under Section 8-11-710. The selections of the employing agency after approval of the Budget and Control Board or its designee are final, and there is no administrative or judicial appeal of the selections. Unless the personal emergency involves a medical condition affecting the leave recipient, the employing agency may consider the likely impact on morale and efficiency within the agency in considering a leave recipient's request to use transferred leave."

Sick and annual leave transfer pool

SECTION 2. Section 8-11-730(A) of the 1976 Code, added by Act 524 of 1988, is amended to read:

"(A) An employee of an employing agency may request voluntarily, in writing, that a specified number of hours of his accrued annual or sick leave or both be transferred from his annual or sick leave account to a pool account the agency establishes to distribute leave to leave recipients employed by the agency pursuant to this article, except that an employee with less than fifteen days in his sick leave account may not transfer any sick leave to the pool account, and an employee with more than fifteen days in his sick leave account may transfer sick leave to the pool account if he retains a minimum of fifteen days in his own sick leave account. An employee may donate no more than one-half of the annual or sick leave he earns within a calendar year to the appropriate pool leave account for that calendar year. Once leave of an employee has been transferred to the pool account, it may not be restored or returned to the leave donor."

Time effective

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

Approved the 27th day of February, 1990.