South Carolina H 3734: Drug offenses

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2025-2026 Bill 3734 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 15, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3734

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION 
8-15-15 SO AS TO PROVIDE POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THIS STATE AND SCHOOL 
DISTRICTS MAY BY ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION ENGAGE IN COLLECTIVE BARGAINING WITH 
THEIR EMPLOYEES, TO PROVIDE REQUIREMENTS FOR SUCH ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS, 
AND TO PROVIDE POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS SHALL VOTE ON 
WHETHER TO ADOPT SUCH AN ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION IN CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCES, AND 
TO DEFINE TERMINOLOGY; AND BY AMENDING SECTION 8-11-83, RELATING TO PAYROLL 
DEDUCTIONS FOR DUES OF CERTAIN PUBLIC EMPLOYEE ASSOCIATIONS, SO AS TO REMOVE A 
PROVISION PROHIBITING DEDUCTIONS TO ASSOCIATIONS THAT ENGAGE IN COLLECTIVE 
BARGAINING OR ENCOURAGE MEMBERS TO STRIKE.

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 15, Title 8 of the S.C. Code is amended by 
adding:

 Section 
8-15-15. (A) A political subdivision 
of this State, including a school district, may by local ordinance or 
resolution engage in collective bargaining with its employees or an association 
or labor organization advocating on behalf of its employees. Any such ordinance 
or resolution must provide procedures for the certification and decertification 
of exclusive bargaining representatives of such an association or labor 
organization, including reasonable public notice and opportunity for an 
association or labor organization to intervene in the process for designating 
an exclusive representative of a bargaining unit of employees.

 (B) No 
ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to subsection (A) may include 
provisions that restrict authority of the governing body of the subdivision or 
school district to establish its budget or appropriate funds.

 (C) For 
the governing body of a local government or school district that has not 
adopted an ordinance or resolution providing for collective bargaining, such 
governing body shall, within one hundred and twenty days after receiving 
certification from a majority of public employees in a unit considered by such 
employees to be appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining, take a 
vote to adopt or not adopt an ordinance or resolution to provide for collective 
bargaining by such public employees and any other public employees considered 
appropriate by the governing body. Nothing in this subsection may be construed 
to require any governing body to adopt an ordinance or resolution authorizing 
collective bargaining.

 (D) For 
the purposes of this section, "collective bargaining" means the negotiation by 
an employer and the bargaining unit of employees, or their representatives, 
concerning representation or terms and conditions of employment of these 
employees in a mutually genuine effort to reach an agreement with reference to 
the subject under negotiation. The bargaining unit shall be defined pursuant to 
subsection (C), and a majority of public employees in a unit considered by such 
employees to be appropriate for the purposes of collective bargaining.

SECTION 2. Section 8-11-83(A) of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 (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.

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

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