South Carolina S 63: Agency Employee Salary

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2025-2026 Bill 63 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 17, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 63

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 8-11-165, RELATING TO SALARY AND FRINGE BENEFIT SURVEYS FOR AGENCY 
HEADS, LIMITS ON SALARIES OF AGENCY EMPLOYEES AND PRESIDENTS OF A TECHNICAL 
COLLEGE, AGENCY HEAD SALARY ADJUSTMENTS, AND NEW MEMBERS OF AGENCY GOVERNING 
BOARDS, SO AS TO REMOVE THE MAXIMUM LIMITS OF COMPENSATION FOR AN EMPLOYEE OF 
AN AGENCY REVIEWED BY THE AGENCY HEAD SALARY COMMISSION.

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

SECTION 1. Section 8-11-165 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
8-11-165. (A) It is the intent of 
the General Assembly that:

 (1) 
A salary and fringe benefit survey for agency heads must be conducted by the 
State Fiscal Accountability Authority every four years. The staff of the 
authority shall serve as the support staff to the Agency Head Salary 
Commission.

 (2) 
Beginning with the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 and every four years thereafter, the 
Agency Head Salary Commission shall commission a study to recommend a salary 
range for the term of each state constitutional officer listed in Section 
1-1-1210, with the exception of the Governor and Lieutenant Governor, based on 
each state constitutional officer's job duties and responsibilities as well as 
the pay of other state constitutional officers in other states. The commission 
shall then determine a salary for the term of each such state constitutional 
officer within the recommended pay range subject to funding being provided in 
the annual appropriations act.

 (B) No employee of agencies 
reviewed by the Agency Head Salary Commission may receive a salary in excess of 
ninety-five percent of the midpoint of the agency head salary range or the 
agency head actual salary, whichever is greater, except on approval of the 
Director of the Division of State Human Resources at the Department of 
Administration, and except for employees of higher education technical 
colleges, colleges, and universities.

 (C)(B) The Agency Head Salary Commission may recommend to the 
General Assembly that agency head salaries be adjusted to the minimum of their 
salary ranges and may recommend to the board that agency head salaries be 
adjusted when necessary up to the midpoints of their respective salary ranges. 
These increases must be based on criteria developed and approved by the Agency 
Head Salary Commission.

 (D)(C) All new members appointed to a governing board of an 
agency where the performance of the agency head is reviewed and ranked by the 
Agency Head Salary Commission shall attend the training in agency head 
performance appraisal provided by the commission within the first year of their 
appointment unless specifically excused by the chairman of the Agency Head 
Salary Commission.

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

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