Bill 410

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                       410
Type of Legislation:               General Bill GB
Introducing Body:                  Senate
Introduced Date:                   19970225
Primary Sponsor:                   Hayes 
All Sponsors:                      Hayes 
Drafted Document Number:           jic\5442htc.97
Residing Body:                     House
Current Committee:                 Ways and Means Committee 30
                                   HWM
Date of Last Amendment:            19970527
Subject:                           Coroners, county; state salary
                                   supplements provided for

Body    Date      Action Description                       Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  _______________________________________  _______ ____________
House   19970528  Introduced, read first time,             30 HWM
                  referred to Committee
Senate  19970527  Amended, read third time,
                  sent to House
Senate  19970515  Read second time, ordered to
                  third reading with notice of
                  general amendments
Senate  19970515  Committee amendment adopted
Senate  19970514  Committee report: Favorable with         11 SJ
                  amendment
Senate  19970225  Introduced, read first time,             11 SJ
                  referred to Committee

AS PASSED BY THE SENATE

May 27, 1997

S. 410

S. Printed 5/27/97--S.

Read the first time February 25, 1997.

TO AMEND SECTION 8-15-65, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO STATE SALARY SUPPLEMENTS FOR COUNTY OFFICERS, SO AS TO INCLUDE CORONERS AMONG THOSE OFFICERS RECEIVING THE SUPPLEMENT.

Amend Title To Conform

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

SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 17-5-45. (A) The General Assembly annually shall appropriate salary supplements for coroners. The supplement shall be one thousand five hundred seventy-five dollars per coroner or ten percent of the respective coroner's salary, whichever is less.

(B) The amounts appropriated for salary supplements pursuant to subsection (A) must include both salary and related employers' contributions and are in addition to amounts provided as compensation for the coroners by counties. To the extent that compensation for the coroner is reduced by a county or there is any other reduction of expenditures in the operation of the office, a corresponding reduction must be made in the distribution otherwise due the county pursuant to Chapter 27 of Title 6, the State Aid to Subdivisions Act.

(C) Amounts appropriated pursuant to this section must be paid to county treasurers in a lump sum at the beginning of the fiscal year and paid to the coroners over a twelve-month period in the same manner that salaries are paid county employees."

SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 1998.