South Carolina H 3553: County Election Directors State Supplement

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2025-2026 Bill 3553 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3553

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 8-15-65, RELATING TO ANNUAL SALARY SUPPLEMENTS FOR CERTAIN COUNTY 
OFFICERS, SO AS TO INCLUDE DIRECTORS OF COUNTY BOARDS OF VOTER REGISTRATION AND 
ELECTIONS AMONG THOSE RECEIVING THE SUPPLEMENT.

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

SECTION 1. Section 8-15-65 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
8-15-65. (A) The General Assembly 
shall appropriate annually salary supplements for the following county 
officers:

 (1) 
clerks of court;

 (2) 
probate judges;

 (3) 
sheriffs;

 (4) 
registers of deeds;

 (5) 
auditors;

 (6) 
treasurers;

 (7) directors of county boards of voter 
registration and elections.

 (B) 
The amounts appropriated for salary supplements pursuant to subsection (A) must 
include both salary and related employer contributions and are in addition to 
amounts provided as compensation for these officials by counties. To the extent 
that compensation for these officers is reduced by a county or there is any 
other reduction of expenditures in the operations of their offices, 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) 
Except as provided in subsection (B), the salary supplement must be uniform 
with respect to a particular county officer but may vary between the different 
category of officers.

 (D) 
Amounts appropriated for the officers listed in subsection (A)(1), (2), (3), 
and (4) must be paid to county treasurers in a lump sum at the beginning of the 
fiscal year and paid to these officers over a twelve-month period in the same 
manner that salaries are paid county employees. Amounts appropriated pursuant 
to this section for the officers listed in subsection (A)(5), and (6), and (7) must be administered by the Office of the 
Comptroller General and paid in accordance with the schedule and method of 
payment provided for state employees.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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