South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 1 - General Provisions
Section 59-1-400. Sick leave for public school employees.

(A) All full-time employees of public schools accrue sick leave on the basis of one and one-fourth days of sick leave for each month of active service or twelve days for nine months of active service. Sick leave accrued but not used may be accumulated up to ninety days if the employees do not violate their respective contracts. Provisions for the additional benefits provided for in this section must be made on the same basis as existing sick leave benefits.
A school employee using sick leave as provided for in this section may not be terminated from employment nor during a continuing sick leave of less than ninety-one days.
The provisions of this section do not apply to employees of a school district which provides more liberal sick leave benefits. Any benefits accrued under school district sick leave policies in effect prior to July 1, 1976, are not lost as a result of this section.
Sick leave accumulated in compliance with this section is transferable to any school district in the State or to the State Department of Education by the employee with the earned leave.
(B) For the purposes of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 "full-time employee" means any person employed in a position for which certification is required by the State Department of Education or a person who has been employed in the school district for five months and works at least thirty hours per week.
(C) School districts shall report to the State Board of Education costs incurred in implementing subsection (A) of this section. The State Department of Education shall report the assembled cost data to the Executive Budget Office and the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 628 Sections 1, 2; 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 47; 1990 Act No. 388, Section 1.

Structure South Carolina Code of Laws

South Carolina Code of Laws

Title 59 - Education

Chapter 1 - General Provisions

Section 59-1-10. Short title.

Section 59-1-20. Purpose of South Carolina School Code.

Section 59-1-30. Construction.

Section 59-1-40. Scope of State system of public education.

Section 59-1-50. Educational achievement goals for high school graduates and students.

Section 59-1-110. "Private school" defined.

Section 59-1-120. "Public school" defined.

Section 59-1-130. "Teacher" defined.

Section 59-1-140. "Teacher aide" defined.

Section 59-1-150. "Kindergarten," "elementary school," "middle school," "secondary school," "junior high school," and "high school" defined.

Section 59-1-160. "School district" defined.

Section 59-1-170. "State Board" defined.

Section 59-1-180. "State Educational Finance Commission" defined.

Section 59-1-190. "State Department" defined.

Section 59-1-200. "Scholastic year" defined.

Section 59-1-310. Superintendents of education may administer oaths and probate certain papers.

Section 59-1-320. Display of United States and State flags.

Section 59-1-325. Patriotic depictions in schools.

Section 59-1-330. Pledge to State flag.

Section 59-1-340. Meetings of boards of trustees and boards of education.

Section 59-1-350. Compensation of members of boards of trustees and boards of education.

Section 59-1-360. Audiovisual properties may be loaned.

Section 59-1-370. Closing of educational institutions on general election day.

Section 59-1-375. Student identification cards; contact information for National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.

Section 59-1-380. Mandatory tobacco and alternative nicotine product-free local school board policy.

Section 59-1-390. Courses necessitating wearing of protective eye devices; purchase of devices; protective-corrective devices.

Section 59-1-400. Sick leave for public school employees.

Section 59-1-403. Restoration of sick leave of certain employees who changed employment from school district to State Department of Education.

Section 59-1-405. Distribution of contraceptives on school grounds prohibited.

Section 59-1-410. "Teacher Recognition Day."

Section 59-1-425. Beginning and length of school term; make-up days; waiver; instructional days.

Section 59-1-435. Religious Viewpoints Antidiscrimination Act.

Section 59-1-441. Policy to permit student to deliver message.

Section 59-1-442. Policy to permit opening or closing message at school-sponsored athletic events.

Section 59-1-443. Schools shall provide minute of mandatory silence at beginning of each school day.

Section 59-1-445. Violations of mandatory test security; penalties; investigations.

Section 59-1-447. Regulations for mandatory test security procedures.

Section 59-1-448. Use of appropriated funds to raise salaries of principals or career and technology school directors.

Section 59-1-449. State Department of Education to report state and local funding requirements to local entities.

Section 59-1-450. Parent education programs.

Section 59-1-451. Costs of the Target 2000-School Reform for the Next Decade Act; provisions not mandatory; local school districts not prohibited from implementing similar provisions.

Section 59-1-452. Public school employee cost savings program.

Section 59-1-453. Oversight Committee.

Section 59-1-454. Parental involvement program; parent/teacher conferences.

Section 59-1-455. Time for pledge of allegiance required.

Section 59-1-460. Excused school attendance for religious instruction.

Section 59-1-465. Youth patriotic societies; public school event addresses.

Section 59-1-470. Distribution of funds for deferred compensation.

Section 59-1-475. Continuing education on domestic violence; adoption as part of curriculum by school districts.

Section 59-1-480. Lapsed funds; priority of use.

Section 59-1-490. Data use and governance policy.

Section 59-1-495. Committee to review Title 59 and related federal laws.

Section 59-1-500. Biological gender-based and coeducational school sports teams; birth certificates; remedies.

Section 59-1-510. Guidelines and regulations for recruiting and hiring staff in professional areas.

Section 59-1-520. Intervention by State Department of Education for non-compliance with EIA or development of affirmative action plan.

Section 59-1-525. Grant program to enhance teaching of grade specific standards and increase K-5 performance in core academic areas; criteria.