S.C. Code Ann. § 2-3-130: Appointment of other officers and employees of the Senate.

There shall be appointed at the commencement of the first session of every term of the General Assembly for the Senate:

(1) By the presiding officer of the Senate the secretary to the president, the secretary between sessions, the pages, the postmistress, a telephone page, three doorkeepers and a keeper of the president's office;

(2) By the clerk of the Senate an assistant clerk, the general desk clerks, the bill clerks, the journal clerks, the general committee clerks, the committee sergeant, the amendment clerks, the assistant amendment clerks, the attendants and the laborers;

(3) By the chairman of the finance committee two stenographers, a clerk and a keeper of the finance committee room;

(4) By the chairman of the judiciary committee the stenographers and a keeper of the judiciary committee room; and

(5) By the chairman of other committees the general committee stenographers as specified in the general appropriation bill.