Present, future, and former authority members, officers, and employees of the State Budget and Control Board, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, the Public Employee Benefit Authority, the Retirement System Investment Commission, and contract investment managers and agents retained by the commission, as well as present, future, and former State Treasurers, officers, and employees of the State Treasurer, and contract investment managers and agents retained by the State Treasurer must be indemnified from the General Fund of the State and held harmless by the State from all claims, demands, suits, actions, damages, judgments, costs, charges, and expenses, including court costs and attorney's fees, and against all liability, losses, and damages of any nature whatsoever that these present, future, or former authority members, officers, employees, agents or contract investment managers shall or may at any time sustain by reason of any decision to restrict, reduce, or eliminate investments pursuant to this chapter.
HISTORY: 2014 Act No. 267 (H.3021), Section 1, eff September 7, 2014.
Code Commissioner's Note
At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the "Budget and Control Board", the "State Budget and Control Board" or the "board" were changed to the "State Fiscal Accountability Authority", the "authority", or the "Division of Procurement Services" of the "State Fiscal Accountability Authority", pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(B), effective July 1, 2015.