S.C. Code Ann. § 59-28-120 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 28 / Section 59-28-120
SECTION 59-28-120. State agency involvement.
Status: in_force

The Governor shall require state agencies that serve families and children to collaborate and establish networks with schools to heighten awareness of the importance of parental influence on the academic success of their children and to encourage and assist parents to become more involved in their children's education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-71-520 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 71 / Article 5 / Section 59-71-520
SECTION 59-71-520. Revision of retail sales tax not precluded by pledge.
Status: in_force

The pledge of such revenue derived from such retail sales tax shall not preclude the revision of such retail sales tax as to rate or as to the item taxed, either or both, if the State Auditor shall certify that his estimate of the revenue to be derived annually from the tax as thus revised will not be less than one hundred and fifty per cent of that sum which is equal to the maximum annual principal and interest requirements on all State school bonds outstanding or then requested to be issued on the date such certificate bears. Such certificate shall be appended to the enrolled act reducing such tax and be presented to the joint assembly of the General Assembly on the occasion such act is presented for ratification.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-100 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 59-67-100
SECTION 59-67-100. Seating space; aisle; seats; number and location of pupils.
Status: in_force

Sufficient seating space must be provided so far as practicable for each passenger transported inside each school bus, an aisle in the school bus must not be less than twelve inches in width and all seats must be securely fastened to the floor or body of the vehicle. All students must be within the body of the bus at all times while the bus is in motion. Students are not permitted any place outside the bus and may not ride with heads or arms protruding through open windows. The number of students assigned to a school bus must not be greater than the manufacturer certified seating capacity, and all passengers transported must have adequate seating area to comply with the occupant protection performance standards required in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards. Provided, however, that a limited number of excess passengers on regular routes may be permitted until the bus routes can be adjusted to accommodate the overload but not to exceed twenty school days. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment, in the second sentence, substituted "students" for "pupils", rewrote the third sentence to eliminate the reference to riding on the running boards, rewrote the fourth sentence relating to seating capacity, in the fifth sentence, substituted "excess passengers on regular routes" for "standees", and made nonsubstantive changes throughout.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-111-730 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 111 / Article 9 / Section 59-111-730
SECTION 59-111-730. "Environmental Scholars Endowment" at qualifying institutions; private match funds.
Status: in_force

(A) After the fund has reached four hundred thousand dollars, each qualifying institution may request the transfer of one hundred thousand dollars for the sole purpose of being held and administered by the institution as the corpus of a perpetual endowment fund known as the "Environmental Scholars Endowment". Only an annual amount no greater than the annual interest income earned from the corpus of the endowment is to be expended for the award of scholarships or fellowships to students pursuing graduate level degrees in environmental studies or environmental sciences. The corpus of the fund must not be invaded by the institution. (B) A qualifying institution that establishes an Environmental Scholars Endowment must agree to raise one hundred thousand dollars in private match funds before July 1, 1999. If an institution fails to raise the one hundred thousand dollars in private match funds before July 1, 1999, the corpus of the endowment reverts to the fund.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-103-17 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 103 / Article 1 / Section 59-103-17
SECTION 59-103-17. Interstate reciprocity for postsecondary distance education.
Status: in_force

(A) The Commission on Higher Education may enter into interstate reciprocity agreements, including, but not limited to, the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreement, that authorize accredited degree-granting institutions of higher education that offer postsecondary distance education to do so through such reciprocity agreements. The commission shall administer these agreements and shall approve or disapprove participation in these agreements by accredited degree-granting institutions of higher education in this State. The commission may assume and exercise all powers, duties, and responsibilities associated with and required under the terms of an interstate reciprocity agreement. (B) The commission may develop policies, procedures, or regulations necessary for the implementation of this section, including the establishment of fees to be paid by participating institutions to cover direct and indirect administrative costs incurred by the commission. Participation in interstate reciprocity agreements shall be voluntary to eligible institutions of higher education in this State. (C) Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit institutions of higher education in this State that do not participate in any interstate reciprocity agreement entered into by the commission from offering postsecondary distance education. (D) Nothing in this section may be construed to prohibit or reduce the commission's authority over institutions of higher education offering distance education in this State if the institution is not a participant in the interstate reciprocity agreement in which the commission participates.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-6-110 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 6 / Section 59-6-110
SECTION 59-6-110. Duties of Accountability Division.
Status: in_force

The division must examine the public education system to ensure that the system and its components and the EIA programs are functioning for the enhancement of student learning. The division will recommend the repeal or modification of statutes, policies, and rules that deter school improvement. The division must provide annually its findings and recommendations in a report to the Education Oversight Committee no later than February first. The division is to conduct in-depth studies on implementation, efficiency, and the effectiveness of academic improvement efforts and: (1) monitor and evaluate the implementation of the state standards and assessment; (2) oversee the development, establishment, implementation, and maintenance of the accountability system; (3) monitor and evaluate the functioning of the public education system and its components, programs, policies, and practices and report annually its findings and recommendations in a report to the commission no later than February first of each year; and (4) perform other studies and reviews as required by law. The responsibilities of the division do not include fiscal audit functions or funding recommendations except as they relate to accountability. It is not a function of this division to draft legislation and neither the director nor any other employee of the division shall urge or oppose any legislation. In the performance of its duties and responsibilities, the division and staff members are subject to the statutory provisions and penalties regarding confidentiality of records as they apply to students, schools, school districts, the Department of Education, and the Board of Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-380 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 4 / Section 59-63-380
SECTION 59-63-380. School official reporting school-related crimes; immunity.
Status: in_force

A person affiliated with a school in an official capacity is granted immunity from criminal prosecution and civil liability when making a report of school-related crime in good faith, to the extent that the exposure to criminal prosecution or civil liability arises from the same report of school-related crime.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-18-1640 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 18 / Article 16 / Section 59-18-1640
SECTION 59-18-1640. State-of-education emergency declarations for districts.
Status: in_force

(A) The State Superintendent of Education may seek a state-of-education emergency declaration for a district that he has the capacity to serve under the following circumstances: (1) the district is identified as underperforming for three consecutive years; (2) the district's accreditation is denied; (3) the Superintendent of Education determines that a district's turnaround plan results are insufficient; or (4) the district is classified as being in a fiscal emergency status pursuant to Section 59-20-90, or financial mismanagement resulting in a deficit has occurred. (B) If the State Superintendent of Education determines that a district state-of-education emergency declaration is justified, then he must request that the State Board of Education meet to approve or disapprove the declaration and cite the circumstances justifying that the district has failed to satisfactorily address circumstances. The State Board of Education must meet within ten days of the request to approve or disapprove the declaration. (C) Upon the approval of a state-of-education emergency, the State Superintendent of Education shall: (1) notify the Governor and the appropriate district superintendent, local school board, and local legislative delegation; and (2) assume management of the district and all schools in the district. (D) The local district board may, upon a majority vote, appeal the State Board of Education's approval of the declaration to the Administrative Law Court within ten business days of receipt of the notice of the declaration. A request for a hearing must be made in accordance with the court's rules; provided, however, that a request for a contested case hearing for an emergency declaration does not stay the declaration. (E)(1) The local district board of trustees shall be dissolved upon the State Board of Education's approval of the state-of-education emergency declaration and upon the expiration of the ten-business-day appeal window as provided in subsection (D). (2)(a) Once a district subject to subsection (C) has met annual targets identified in the district's revised strategic plan for sustained improvement for a minimum of three consecutive years, the State Superintendent of Education shall submit to the State Board of Education documentation of such. The State Board of Education shall approve that an interim local district board of trustees be appointed. The interim local district board of trustees shall consist of five members appointed in the following manner with a chairman elected by the appointees: (i) one member appointed by the Governor; (ii) one member appointed by the local legislative delegation; and (iii) three members appointed by the State Superintendent of Education in consultation with the local legislative delegation. (b) All appointees must be residents of the school district for which the interim appointments are being made. In making appointments to the interim local district board of trustees, the appointing authority shall consider knowledge and experience in the field of education and also shall take into account race, gender, and other demographic factors, such as residence in a rural or urban area, so as to represent, to the greatest extent possible, all segments of the population of the affected district. However, consideration of these factors in making an appointment in no way creates a cause of action or basis for an employee grievance for a person appointed or for a person who fails to be appointed. The members of the interim local district board of trustees shall represent the educational needs of the district. (c) The interim local district board shall be appointed to begin serving within forty-five days of the State Board of Education's approval of the appointments of the interim local district board and shall serve for a minimum of three years. (d) Any vacancy shall be filled in the original manner of appointment. (3) For a minimum of three years and until the State Board of Education votes to end the state-of-education emergency, the interim local district board shall remain in place, and its appointed members shall continue to serve. (F)(1) Upon an affirmative vote by the State Board of Education to end the state-of-education emergency, the department, in consultation with the district and interim board, shall develop a transition plan and timeline for returning management of the district to a local board of trustees. Beginning with the next regularly scheduled election, members for the local district board of trustees will be elected or appointed pursuant to statutory requirements. (2) Upon the swearing in of a new local district board of trustees, the declaration of a state-of-education emergency shall expire, and the powers and duties of the district superintendent and local district school board of trustees are restored. (G) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a district in a state-of-education emergency pursuant to this section shall have its fiscal authority relating to taxing authority and levying millage transferred to its county council until the state-of-education emergency is lifted. The county council may not exceed millage limitations established pursuant to Section 6-1-320 or otherwise established prior to the state-of-education emergency declaration.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-103-170 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 103 / Article 2 / Section 59-103-170
SECTION 59-103-170. Counseling sessions; Education Options Week.
Status: in_force

After pilot testing, the Commission on Higher Education shall work with this state's public institutions of higher education and private higher education institutions wishing to participate, to provide annually for the state's eighth grade students and their parents or guardians small group and one-on-one counseling on required high school courses and post-secondary options, financial requirements, and assistance available for a post-secondary education. These sessions must be held at each of the state's public schools which house an eighth grade class. The counseling may be provided during a week declared to be "Education Options Week" or at another time convenient to the school and the cooperating institution of higher education. The annual sessions will be phased in over two years and by school year 1993-94 will be in the individual schools in accordance with Sections 59-103-165 through 59-103-190.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-460 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 59-25-460
SECTION 59-25-460. Notice of dismissal; evidentiary hearings; costs.
Status: in_force

(A) A teacher may not be dismissed unless written notice specifying the cause of dismissal first is given to the teacher by the superintendent and the teacher is given an opportunity for an evidentiary hearing. The superintendent or his designee may meet with the teacher before issuing a notice of dismissal to discuss alternative resolutions. The parties attending this meeting must have the option of having a representative present. This written notice must include the fact that a hearing before the board or its designee is available to the teacher upon request if the request is made in writing within fifteen days as provided in Section 59-25-470. Any such hearing must be public unless the teacher requests in writing that it be private. A board that chooses to delegate the evidentiary hearing to one or more designees, as provided in this section, shall indicate in board policy that it engages in this practice. The hearing process becomes effective when the board adopts the policy, and must be communicated to all affected employees within fifteen days. A subsequent change only may be made pursuant to the board policy revision process. (B)(1) If the board chooses to delegate the evidentiary hearing to a designee, the designee must be: (a) an attorney licensed to practice law in this State; (b) certified by the South Carolina Supreme Court as a mediator or arbitrator; and (c) designated by the board to hear all evidentiary hearings in the district for the school year, except when: (i) both parties consent to use an alternate hearing officer; or (ii) the district uses more than one designee, in which case the parties may by mutual consent select one of these designees for their hearing or, if they fail to reach such an agreement, the board randomly shall select one of its designees for the hearing. (2) If the designee holds the evidentiary hearing, he shall issue a written report and recommendation containing findings of facts and conclusions of law to the board, superintendent, and teacher within fifteen days after the hearing concludes. The superintendent and the teacher may submit a written response to this report and recommendation to the board within ten days after the date on which the report and recommendation are issued, after which the board shall issue a decision affirming or withdrawing the notice of suspension or dismissal within thirty days. In the interim, the board may conduct a hearing on the order to consider any written responses from the superintendent and teacher, but this hearing may not operate to extend the thirty-day limit in which the board shall issue its decision affirming or withdrawing the notice of suspension or dismissal. The board retains final decision-making authority regarding the teacher dismissal or suspension recommendation based on its consideration of the record, the report and recommendation, and any written submission of the superintendent and teacher. (C) If the board holds the evidentiary hearing, the board shall issue its decision within the thirty days after the hearing. This decision must be in writing and must include findings of facts and conclusions of law. (D) The board shall determine if the evidence shows good and just cause for the notice of suspension or dismissal, and accordingly shall render a decision to affirm or withdraw the notice of suspension or dismissal. (E) The District Board of Trustees as provided in subsection (C), or its designee, as provided in subsection (B), may issue subpoenas requiring the attendance of witnesses at the hearing and, at the request of the teacher against whom a charge is made, shall issue these subpoenas, but it may limit the number of these witnesses to ten. Testimony at a hearing must be taken under oath. A member of the board, or its designee, may administer oaths to witnesses. The board, or its designee, shall cause a record of the proceedings to be kept and shall employ a competent reporter to take stenographic or stenotype notes of all testimony. (F) If the board's decision is favorable to the teacher, the board shall pay the cost of the reporter's attendance and services at the hearing. If the decision is unfavorable to the teacher, one-half of the cost of the reporter's attendance and services must be borne by the teacher. A party desiring a transcript of the hearing must pay for the costs of obtaining the transcript. Effect of Amendment 2016 Act No. 221, SECTION 3, rewrote the section, providing that the hearings are evidentiary hearings, providing the hearings may be conducted by school boards or their designees, providing required qualifications for board designees, providing for preliminary meetings at which parties and their representatives may discuss alternative resolutions, revising the process for districts to adopt certain policies concerning their dismissal procedures, and providing miscellaneous requirements concerning the conduct of hearings and related matters.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-29-230 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 29 / Article 1 / Section 59-29-230
SECTION 59-29-230. Old and New Testament era courses.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) A school district board of trustees may authorize, to be taught in the district's high schools, an elective course concerning the history and literature of the Old Testament era and an elective course concerning the history and literature of the New Testament era. (2) Each course offered must be taught in an objective manner with no attempt to influence the students as to either the truth or falsity of the materials presented. (3) Students must be awarded the same number of Carnegie units that are awarded to other classes of similar duration. (4) A particular version of the Old or New Testament to be used in either course may be recommended by the board of trustees; provided, that the teacher of the course and students enrolled in the course may use any version of the Old and New Testaments. (B) The board of trustees of a district that offers a course pursuant to this section must: (1) maintain supervision and control of the course; (2) hire any new teachers that it determines are required to teach the course in the same manner all other teachers are hired; (3) assure that all teachers teaching the course are certified by the State; and (4) make no inquiry into the religious beliefs, or the lack of religious beliefs, held by a teacher when determining which teacher shall teach the class. (C) The State Board of Education shall develop and adopt academic standards and appropriate instructional materials that must be used by high schools offering a course pursuant to this section. These academic standards and instructional materials must ensure that the courses do not disparage or encourage a commitment to a set of religious beliefs. (D) The academic standards and appropriate instructional materials developed and adopted by the board must: (1) be designed to help students gain a greater appreciation of the Old Testament and the New Testament as great works of literature, art, and music; assist students in gaining greater insight into the many historical events recorded in the Old Testament and the New Testament; and provide students with a greater awareness of the many social customs that the Old Testament and the New Testament have significantly influenced; and (2) provide that the Old Testament is the primary text for the course exploring the history and literature of the Old Testament era and that the New Testament is the primary text for the course exploring the history and literature of the New Testament era. (E) The academic standards developed and adopted may provide that students may be assigned period-appropriate secular historical and literary works to supplement the primary text.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-117-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 117 / Article 1 / Section 59-117-40
SECTION 59-117-40. Board constituted body corporate and politic; powers.
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of the University of South Carolina is and is hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law under the name of the University of South Carolina. Such corporation has the following powers: (1) To have perpetual succession; (2) To sue and be sued by the corporate name; (3) To have a common seal and to alter it at pleasure; (4) To make contracts and to have, to hold, to purchase and to lease real estate and personal property for corporate purposes; and to sell and dispose of personal property and any buildings that are deemed by it as surplus property or not further needed and any buildings that it may need to do away with for the purpose of making room for other construction. All such powers shall be exercised in a manner consistent with the provisions of Chapter 35 of Title 11 of the 1976 Code. (5) To appoint a chairman of the board of trustees and to appoint a University president, treasurer and secretary, and in the appointment of these latter three to prescribe their duties and their terms of office and to fix their compensation; (6) To appoint or otherwise provide for the appointment of subordinate and assistant officers and agents, faculty members, instructors and other employees prescribing the terms of their employments, their duties, and fixing their compensations; (7) To make bylaws and all rules and regulations deemed expedient for the management of its affairs and its own operations not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States; (8) To condemn land for corporate purposes as provided in Section 59-117-70; (9) To fix tuition fees and other charges for students attending the University, but these shall not be inconsistent with statutes where the legislature undertakes to fix such fees and charges; (10) To confer degrees upon students and such other persons as in the opinion of the board of trustees may be qualified to receive them; (11) To accept, receive and hold all moneys or other properties, real and personal, that may be given, conveyed, bequeathed or devised to the University and to use them for the benefit of the University but in those cases where such money or property is received charged with any trust then in every case such money or property shall be held and used strictly in accordance with the terms of such trust; provided, however, where the terms of any such trust would require something to be done other than merely to administer the trust no obligation in receiving the trust over and above merely its administration shall be binding upon the University or the State except such as are accepted by the General Assembly; (12) To assign any member of the faculty to additional duties in any other University department than that in which the faculty member may at the time be working and without additional salary; (13) In all investigations touching the affairs of the University the board of trustees is invested with full powers to compel by subpoena, rule and attachment witnesses to appear and testify and papers to be produced and read before such board; (14) To adopt such measures and make such regulations as may in the discretion of the board of trustees be necessary for the proper operation of the University; (15) To appoint for the University a board of visitors of such number as the board of trustees may deem expedient, and to regulate the terms during which the members of such board shall serve, and to prescribe the functions of such board of visitors; (16) To remove any officer, faculty member, agent or employee for incompetence, neglect of duty, violation of University regulations, or conduct unbecoming a person occupying such a position; (17) To appoint an executive committee not exceeding six members of the board who have all the powers of the board during the interim between meetings of the board but not the power to do anything which is inconsistent with the policy or action taken by the board. The executive committee at each meeting of the board shall report fully all action taken by it during the interim; and (18) To appoint committees of the board of trustees or officers or members of the faculty of the University, with such power and authority and for such purposes in connection with the operation of the University as the board of trustees may deem wise.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1740 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 20 / Section 59-53-1740
SECTION 59-53-1740. Commission to keep certain records; audit; filing of audit.
Status: in_force

The commission shall keep full and accurate account of its activities, receipts, and expenditures, and within four months, following the close of its fiscal year, a complete audit of its affairs must be made by a qualified public accountant. Copies of the audit must be filed with the clerks of court for Richland, Lexington, and Fairfield counties, secretaries of the Richland, Lexington, and Fairfield County Legislative Delegations, and the secretaries of the county councils for Richland, Lexington, and Fairfield counties. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 239, SECTION 4, added Fairfield county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-29-110 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 29 / Article 1 / Section 59-29-110
SECTION 59-29-110. Instruction in military science and tactics.
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of any State high school district may, with the approval and consent of the county board of education, provide for theoretical and practical instruction and training in military science and tactics in their high school, prescribe the grades in which such instruction and training shall be given and provide the necessary instructors and materials for the same. The State Board of Education shall establish and promulgate proper and suitable rules and regulations governing such instructions and training, and the Adjutant General shall assist and cooperate with the State Board of Education in the preparation of suitable rules and regulations to govern and control such instruction and training in State high schools and shall exercise such supervision and control of such instruction and training as the State Board of Education may approve and require. Any such high school may, under such rules and regulations as the State Board of Education may prescribe, install and maintain United States junior reserve officers training corps units.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-140 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-140
SECTION 59-19-140. Rules and regulations governing use of equipment.
Status: in_force

Each district board of trustees may adopt rules and regulations which are not inconsistent with State law or the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education governing the use of school equipment for purposes other than normal school activity.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-365 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-365
SECTION 59-150-365. South Carolina Workforce Industry Needs Scholarship.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) A student who is pursuing a professional certificate, industry-recognized credential (IRC), diploma, or degree from a public South Carolina technical college, meeting the qualifying criteria, shall receive a South Carolina Workforce Industry Needs Scholarship (SCWINS). The SCWINS scholarship is equal to the cost of tuition, fees, or expenses for required course-related materials after applying all other federal or state scholarships or grants, not to exceed five thousand dollars each year for no more than three years of instruction, including the student's freshman year, if the student is enrolled in an associate degree program, or no more than two years of instruction, including the student's freshman year, if enrolled in an IRC, diploma, or professional certificate program. (2) A qualifying student must: (a) be a South Carolina resident; (b) be enrolled in a career education program that meets the eligibility guidelines promulgated by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education (SBTCE); and (c) meet one of the following criteria: (i) be employed; (ii) take a financial literacy course offered at the public technical college; or (iii) complete one hundred hours of voluntary time contributing to a nonprofit or public service organization approved by the SBTCE. (B) The SBTCE shall promulgate regulations to define what constitutes a career-eligible education program to include the process for determining eligible programs with regional or statewide workforce needs. Additionally, the SBTCE shall communicate and provide to the colleges an annual approved list of eligible programs and identification of those programs with regional or statewide workforce needs before disbursement of funds and no later than March thirty-first. SBTCE also shall communicate with high school guidance counselors regarding the list of eligible programs in a timely manner. (C) Credit-seeking recipients of SCWINS shall maintain their scholarship eligibility by showing substantial progress on their coursework and maintaining a grade point average of 2.0 or better on a 4.0 grading scale. (D) A student may not be eligible to receive the SCWINS scholarship for more than one certificate, IRC, diploma, or degree within any five-year period following the student's last scholarship disbursement unless the additional certificate, diploma, or degree constitutes progress in the same field of study. (E) South Carolina public technical colleges shall allocate a minimum of five percent of their total SCWINS allocation towards dual-enrollment students eligible under this section. (F) Priority for scholarship awards must be given to students seeking a degree, diploma, professional certificate, or industry-recognized credential (IRC) in an industry sector with regional or statewide workforce needs as identified yearly by SBTCE. (G) If an eligible program is placed on suspension during the SBTCE's annual program evaluation process, that program no longer qualifies for SCWINS funds at that specific college. Students must be advised on how to complete their program by transferring to another technical college or serving as a transient student at another technical college to complete specified courses. (H) The SBTCE shall provide an annual report by April fifteenth, to the Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee and the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee detailing the use of funds received in the prior fiscal year. The report must include, at a minimum, a list of programs for each technical college that received funding, the amount spent on each program, the number of students that received scholarships, the average scholarship amount for each student, a list of credential categories completed by scholarship students, the average amount of money received by the scholarship student for each credential category, and job placement rates for scholarship students by credential category. (I) The SBTCE and the South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce shall collaborate to inform individuals who are receiving unemployment insurance about short-term training programs available at their local technical college through the SCWINS Program. Editor's Note 2022 Act No. 204, SECTION 2, provides as follows: "SECTION 2. This act takes effect on July 1, 2022, and applies to the 2022-2023 School Year."
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-18-1920 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 18 / Article 19 / Section 59-18-1920
SECTION 59-18-1920. Modified school year or school day schedule; grant program established; application; implementation plan.
Status: in_force

(A) The State Board of Education, through the Department of Education, shall establish a grant program to encourage school districts to pilot test or implement a modified school year or school day schedule. The purpose of the grant is to assist with the additional costs incurred during the intersessions for salaries, transportation, and operations, or for additional costs incurred by lengthening the school day. For a district to qualify for a grant, all the schools within a specific feeder zone or elementary-to-middle-to-high-school attendance area, must be pilot testing or implementing the modified year or day schedule. (B) To obtain a grant, a district shall submit an application to the state board in a format specified by the Department of Education. The application shall include a plan for implementing a modified year or day that provides the following: more time for student learning, learning opportunities that typically are not available in the regular student day, targeted assistance for students whose academic performance is significantly below promotion standards, more efficient use of facilities and other resources, and evaluations of the impact of the modified schedule. Local district boards of trustees shall require students whose performance in a core subject area, as defined in Section 59-18-300, is the equivalent of a "D" average or below to attend the intersessions or stay for the lengthened day and receive special assistance in the subject area. Funding for the program is as provided by the General Assembly in the annual appropriations act. Each grant award for program pilot testing or implementation may not exceed a three-year period. Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment, in subsection (A), deleted the fourth sentence giving districts declared to be impaired a priority in obtaining the grants.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-58-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 58 / Section 59-58-50
SECTION 59-58-50. Licenses required; effect of changes in licensed institution; applications; term of license.
Status: in_force

(A) No nonpublic educational institution established in South Carolina or offering a course or program in South Carolina has the authority to operate, to solicit students for enrollment, or to confer degrees or other educational credentials unless a license is first secured from the commission. The commission shall approve through licensure the location of and programs offered by the institution. The commission shall promulgate regulations to amend a license for and changes in location and for additional or amended courses or programs. The commission shall not license any institution to offer a degree if the commission determines that the degree adversely affects the goals of the commission's plan to improve access and equity minority affairs programs in public institutions of higher education. The commission shall promulgate regulations to make the determination. (B) After a license is issued, it is the institution's responsibility to notify immediately the commissioner of significant changes in either the course or program offerings, facilities, finances, or personnel. (C) In the event of the sale of an institution, the license is not transferable. The new owner must comply with all the requirements of this chapter. (D) Applications for licenses must be filed in the manner prescribed by the commission. The applications must be signed by the applicants and must contain that information as may be required. (E) Licenses are restricted to the courses or programs of instruction specifically indicated on the license. Additional courses or programs of instruction may be approved during the effective period of the license if a supplementary approval application is submitted and the license is amended. (F) Licenses for nondegree-granting institutions shall normally be granted for twelve months, renewable annually from date of issue, or other date in excess of twelve months set by the commission to stagger the renewal dates of all institutions. The commission may issue licenses to nondegree-granting institutions for less than twelve months as circumstances justify. Licenses and renewal of licenses for degree-granting institutions may be granted for periods not to exceed five years. Renewal is contingent upon filing appropriate applications for renewal with the commissioner. The institution and its courses or programs, facilities, faculty, and all other operations must meet the requirements for an original license at the effective date of the renewal.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-59-160 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-59-160
SECTION 59-59-160. Parental participation; annual parent counseling conferences.
Status: in_force

Parental participation is an integral component of the clusters of study system. Beginning with students in the sixth grade and continuing through high school, schools must schedule annual parent counseling conferences to assist parents, guardians, or individuals appointed by the parents or guardians and their children in making career choices and creating individual graduation plans. These conferences must include, but are not limited to, assisting the student in identifying career interests and goals, selecting a cluster of study and an academic focus, and developing an individual graduation plan. In order to protect the interests of every student, a mediation process that includes parent advocates must be developed, explained, and made available for conferences upon request of the parent or student.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-480 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 5 / Section 59-53-480
SECTION 59-53-480. Exemptions from statutory bonding, leasing, procurement, and disposition of surplus property requirements; adoption of procurement policy.
Status: in_force

(A) The authority and its permanent improvements and the financing of them are exempt from the provisions of Chapter 47 of Title 2, and the leasing of property and the granting of easements and rights-of- way by the authority are exempt from the provisions of Sections 1-11-55, 1-11-56, 1-11-57(1), and 10-1-130. (B) For all matters associated with the enterprise campus, the authority is exempt from the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code; except that, the authority shall adopt a procurement policy requiring competitive solicitations, and the policy must be filed with and approved by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. The policy must include provisions for audit and recertification. (C) The authority is exempt from all regulations and general laws governing disposal of surplus government property.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-21-390 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 59-21-390
SECTION 59-21-390. Employment of architects and other personnel.
Status: in_force

The Board may employ architects, consultants and sufficient personnel to assist the county boards of education in the preparation of the county plans required under Section 59-21-360.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-107-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 107 / Section 59-107-10
SECTION 59-107-10. Institutions to which chapter is applicable; "state institution" defined.
Status: in_force

The several state-supported institutions of higher learning, within the contemplation of this chapter, are declared to be: The University of South Carolina, Clemson University, in Clemson, The Citadel, The Medical University of South Carolina, Winthrop University, South Carolina State University, Francis Marion University, Lander University, The College of Charleston, Coastal Carolina University, Technical Education Colleges and Centers. Hereafter in this chapter such institutions shall be denoted by the term "state institution".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-58-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 58 / Section 59-58-60
SECTION 59-58-60. Use of "college" or "university" in name.
Status: in_force

No individual, school, board, association, corporation, business, institution, or other entity may use the term "college" or "university" or use any other name, title, literature, catalogs, pamphlets, or descriptive matter which implies that it is an institution of higher learning or that it may grant educational credentials or credit or academic or professional degrees, except as follows: (A) An institution the commission licenses may use the term "college" in its name only if it offers at least one program leading to an associate or higher degree. (B) An institution may use the term "university" in its name if the institution is: (1) operating and licensed in South Carolina and using the term " university" in its name before the effective date of this chapter, or (2) an out-of-state institution that is chartered or licensed in its home state using the term "university" in its name. Any other institution must petition the commission for approval to use the term "university" in its name.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1250 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 15 / Section 59-53-1250
SECTION 59-53-1250. Expenses of district.
Status: in_force

The share of each participating county in the operating expenses of the district shall be determined by agreement between the district commission and the respective county governing bodies.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-73-120 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 73 / Section 59-73-120
SECTION 59-73-120. Discontinuance of special school levies when purpose satisfied.
Status: in_force

Whenever the special levy in any school district shall have provided sufficient funds to pay and satisfy the purposes and obligations for which it was authorized, then, upon the written petition of the board of trustees of such school district or upon the written petition of three fourths of the residents in the school district subject to such levy and taxes, the auditor of the county in which the school district is located shall discontinue the assessment authorized.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-21-530 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 59-21-530
SECTION 59-21-530. State Superintendent authorized to employ additional personnel; salaries.
Status: in_force

The State Superintendent of Education may employ on the staff of the State Department of Education additional personnel, if such be necessary, of suitable professional qualifications, whose duties shall be, under the direction of the State Superintendent of Education, to help develop and supervise the special education program authorized in this article. The State Superintendent of Education is authorized to pay the salary of such additional personnel from the appropriation to the State Department of Education for the hard of hearing and speech program.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-107-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 107 / Section 59-107-40
SECTION 59-107-40. Application for funds for permanent improvements and other expenses; content of application.
Status: in_force

The respective Boards of Trustees, Area Commissions, through the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, or the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education for any Technical Education College or Center not governed and supervised by an Area Commission of such state institutions may make application to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, for funds to be used for any one or more of the following purposes: (a) to construct, reconstruct, maintain, improve, furnish and refurnish the buildings and other permanent improvements for such state institutions, (b) to defray the costs of acquiring or improving land needed as sites for such improvements or for the campus of any such state institution, (c) to reimburse such institution for expenses incurred in anticipation of the issuance of such bonds, or (d) to refund state institution bonds heretofore issued for such institutions and which shall on such occasion be outstanding. Such application shall contain: (1) A description of the improvement sought, or the amount of outstanding bonds it wishes to have refunded; (2) An estimate of cost, or an estimate of the money required to effect the refunding; (3) A statement establishing the aggregate sum received from tuition fees for the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year in which such application is dated; (4) The schedule of tuition fees in effect; (5) A suggested maturity schedule for bonds issued pursuant to this chapter; and (6) A statement showing the unmatured state institution bonds theretofore issued for such state institution. The application shall contain an agreement upon the part of the Board of Trustees, Area Commission, or State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education that such schedule of tuition fees shall be revised from time to time and whenever necessary to provide the annual principal and interest requirements on the proposed bonds and on all outstanding state institution bonds issued for such state institution.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-55-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 55 / Section 59-55-50
SECTION 59-55-50. Powers of State Department of Education over junior colleges.
Status: in_force

The State Department of Education shall have the same supervision, control and powers over any such junior college, when established hereunder, as it now has over other departments of the public school system of this State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-109-140 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 109 / Section 59-109-140
SECTION 59-109-140. Enforcement of rights of bondholders.
Status: in_force

Any holder of bonds issued under the provisions of this chapter and the trustee under any trust agreement, except to the extent the rights herein given may be restricted by any proceedings authorizing the issuance of or any such trust agreement securing such bonds, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, protect and enforce any and all rights under the laws of the State or granted hereunder or under such proceedings or trust agreement, and may enforce and compel the performance of all duties required by this chapter or by such proceedings or trust agreement to be performed by the authority or by any officer, employee, or agent thereof, including the fixing, charging, and collecting of the rates, rents, fees, charges, and other amounts herein authorized and required by the provisions of such proceedings or trust agreement to be fixed, established, and collected.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-40-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 40 / Section 59-40-60
SECTION 59-40-60. Charter application; revision; formation of charter school; charter committee; application requirements.
Status: in_force

(A) An approved charter application constitutes an agreement between the charter school and the sponsor. (B) A contract between the charter school and the sponsor must be executed and must reflect all provisions outlined in the application as well as the roles, powers, responsibilities, and performance expectations for each party to the contract. A contract must include the proposed enrollment procedures and dates of the enrollment period of the charter school. All agreements regarding the release of the charter school from school district policies must be contained in the contract. The Department of Education shall develop a contract template to be used by charter schools and the sponsor. The template must serve as a foundation for the development of a contract between the charter school and the sponsor. (C) A material revision of the terms of the contract between the charter school and the sponsor may be made only with the approval of both parties. (D) Except as provided in subsection (F), an applicant who wishes to form a charter school shall: (1) organize the charter school as a nonprofit corporation pursuant to the laws of this State; (2) form a charter committee for the charter school which includes one or more teachers; and (3) submit a letter of intent and a written charter school application to the board of trustees or area commission from which the committee is seeking sponsorship. (E) A charter committee is responsible for and has the power to: (1) submit a letter of intent and an application to operate as a charter school, sign a charter school contract, and ensure compliance with all of the requirements for charter schools provided by law; (2) employ and contract with teachers and nonteaching employees, contract for services, and develop pay scales, performance criteria, and discharge policies for its employees. All teachers whether certified or noncertified must undergo the background checks and other investigations required for certified teachers, as provided by law, before they may teach in the charter school; and (3) decide all other matters related to the operation of the charter school, including budgeting, curriculum, and operating procedures. (F) The charter school application, based on an application template with compliance guidelines developed by the State Department of Education, must include: (1) an executive summary, not to exceed two pages; (2) the mission statement of the charter school, which must be consistent with the principles of the General Assembly's purposes pursuant to Section 59-40-20; (3) the goals, objectives, and academic performance standards to be achieved by the charter school, and a description of the charter school's admission policies and procedures; (4) evidence that an adequate number of parents or legal guardians with students eligible to attend the proposed school pursuant to Section 59-40-50 support the formation of a charter school and justify the projected per pupil allocation in the application budget; (5) a description of the charter school's educational program, including how it will meet or exceed the academic performance standards and expectations, including academic standards adopted by the State Board of Education and how the instructional design, learning environment, class size and structure, curriculum, and teaching methods enable each pupil to achieve these standards; (6) a description of the charter school's plan for evaluating pupil achievement and progress toward accomplishment of the school's achievement standards in addition to state assessments, the timeline for meeting these standards, and the procedures for taking corrective action if that pupil achievement falls below the standards; (7) evidence that the plan for the charter school is economically sound, a proposed budget for the term of the charter, a description of the manner in which an annual audit of the financial and administrative operations of the charter school, including any services provided by the sponsor, is to be conducted; (8) a description of the governance and operation of the charter school, including a detailed school start-up plan, resumes and background information on the charter committee members, the capacity and experience of the school leadership and management team, any involvement with the replication of existing successful public charter schools, any proposed management company or educational service provider responsibilities, and the nature and extent of parental, professional educator, and community involvement in the governance and operation of the charter school; (9) a description of how the charter school plans to ensure that the enrollment of the school is similar to the racial composition of the local school district in which the charter school is to be located or the targeted student population of the local school district that the charter school proposes to serve and provide assurance that the school does not conflict with any school district desegregation plan or order in effect for the school district in which the charter school is to be located; (10) a description of how the charter school plans to meet the transportation needs of its pupils; (11) a description of the building, facilities, and equipment and how they shall be obtained; (12) an explanation of the relationship that shall exist between the proposed charter school and its employees, including a staffing chart aligned with the budget and student enrollment projections, descriptions of evaluation procedures, and evidence that the terms and conditions of employment have been addressed with affected employees; (13) a description of a reasonable grievance and termination procedure, as required by this chapter, including notice and a hearing before the governing body of the charter school. The application must state whether or not the provisions of Article 5, Chapter 25, Title 59 apply to the employment and dismissal of teachers at the charter school; (14) a description of student rights and responsibilities, including behavior and discipline standards, and a reasonable hearing procedure, including notice and a hearing before the board of directors of the charter school before expulsion; (15) an assumption of liability by the charter school for the activities of the charter school and an agreement that the charter school must indemnify and hold harmless the sponsor, its servants, agents, and employees, from any and all liability, damage, expense, causes of action, suits, claims, or judgments arising from injury to persons or property or otherwise which arises out of the act, failure to act, or negligence of the charter school, its agents and employees, in connection with or arising out of the activity of the charter school; and (16) a description of the types and amounts of insurance coverage to be obtained by the charter school. (G) Nothing in this section shall require a charter school applicant to provide a list of prospective or tentatively enrolled students or prospective employees with the application. Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment, in subsection (B), deleted "local" preceding "school district policies"; in subsection (D), in paragraph (3), substituted "charter school advisory committee and the" for "local" and "from which the committee is seeking sponsorship" for "for the school district in which the charter school is to be located"; and, in subsection (F), in paragraph (4) substituted "State Board of Education and the chartering district" for "school district in which the charter school is located" and rewrote paragraph (8). The 2012 amendment removed ", and the terms must be the terms of a contract" from subsection (A); rewrote subsection (B); substituted "to the board of trustees or area commission" for "the school board of trustees"; in subsection (D)(3); removed "shall be a proposed contract and" from subsection (F); substituted "sponsor" for "chartering district" in subsection (F)(4); substituted "sponsor" for "school district" in subsections (F)(6) and (F)(14); made other, nonsubstantive, changes throughout. 2014 Act No. 288, SECTION 3, rewrote subsections (D), (E), and (F).
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-59-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-59-80
SECTION 59-59-80. Integrating career awareness programs into curricula for first through fifth grades.
Status: in_force

During the 2006-07 school year, the department's school guidance and counseling program model along with career awareness and exploration activities must be integrated into the curricula for students in the first through fifth grades.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-123-100 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 123 / Section 59-123-100
SECTION 59-123-100. Rules governing admissions not changed.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in Sections 59-111-510 to 59-111-580 shall be construed to alter in any manner the law, rules or regulations governing admissions of students to The Medical University of South Carolina and all admissions of beneficiaries of scholarships under said sections shall be likewise subject to approval by the admitting authorities in the same manner as otherwise provided by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-4-70 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 4 / Section 59-4-70
SECTION 59-4-70. Annual financial report.
Status: in_force

Upon implementation of the program, the director or his designee shall prepare an annual financial report of the fund and the program. This report must be submitted to the Treasurer on the date and in the format prescribed by the Treasurer. The director or his designee annually shall evaluate the actuarial soundness of the fund and report this information to the Treasurer. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment deleted the third sentence relating to audits by the State Auditor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-530 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 5 / Section 59-119-530
SECTION 59-119-530. Additional terms of bonds.
Status: in_force

Such revenue bonds may be issued in one or more series, may bear such date or dates, may mature at such time or times, not exceeding forty years from their respective dates, may bear interest at such rate or rates, not exceeding four per cent per annum, payable semiannually, may be payable in such medium of payment and at such place or places, may be in such denomination or denominations, may be in such form, either coupon or registered, may carry such registration privileges, may be subject to such terms of redemption before maturity, with or without premium, and may contain such terms, covenants and conditions as the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds may provide. Such bonds shall be fully negotiable within the meaning of and for all the purposes of the Uniform Commercial Code.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-620 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 101 / Article 2 / Section 59-101-620
SECTION 59-101-620. Educational fee waivers.
Status: in_force

A public institution of higher learning may offer educational fee waivers to no more than four percent of the undergraduate student body.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-125-640 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 125 / Article 5 / Section 59-125-640
SECTION 59-125-640. Powers vested in trustees to secure payment of principal and interest on bonds.
Status: in_force

To the end that the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized hereby are adequately secured, the trustees are empowered in their discretion: (1) to issue bonds in such amount, within the limitations herein provided for, as the trustees consider necessary, it is lawful for the trustees to use a portion of the principal proceeds derived from any sale of bonds, except bonds issued to effect refunding of outstanding bonds, to meet the payment of interest on such bonds for a period equal to the period of construction or renovation of the athletic facilities to be financed with the proceeds of such bonds, plus a period not exceeding six months, it being recognized by the General Assembly, that until the athletic facilities to be constructed or renovated with the proceeds of the bonds are completed, an undue burden may be imposed upon then existing revenues or other sources of payment of the bonds; (2) to impose admissions fees and a special student fee upon such basis and in such amounts as the trustees shall determine; (3) to pledge the revenues or the net revenues as designated by the trustees, and the proceeds of any admissions fees and special student fee, as security for the payment of such bonds, whether then or thereafter to be existing. However, any surplus of such revenues or net revenues available after the payment of costs of operation and maintenance of the athletic department and of athletic facilities and of debt service on such bonds, and the establishment of any debt service reserve obligation in a bond reserve fund under the proceedings providing for the issuance of such bonds, may be placed in a contingency and improvement fund for athletic facilities in order to restore depreciated or obsolete athletic facilities, to make improvements to such athletic facilities, to defray the cost of unforeseen contingencies with regard to such athletic facilities, to prevent defaults under such bonds or to redeem any of such bonds, or may be reflected in the opening balance of the operating fund of the department for the next succeeding fiscal year and used for any purpose approved by the trustees; (4) to further secure the bonds with a pledge of any additional revenues or fees of Winthrop as may be authorized under other laws of the State; (5) to specify and limit the athletic facilities which may be made use of free of charge; (6) to covenant to establish and maintain such system of rules as will ensure the continuous and effective use of the athletic facilities; (7) to covenant that an adequate schedule of rates and charges for attendance at events held at any athletic facilities will be maintained, and that net athletic revenues plus any proceeds of the admissions fees and the special student fee will be sufficient to: (a) pay the cost of operating and maintaining the athletic department and the athletic facilities, including the cost of fire, extended coverage and use, and occupancy insurance; (b) pay the principal and interest of the bonds as they respectively become due; (c) provide any necessary debt service coverage ratios; (d) create and maintain any bond reserve fund established to meet the payment of principal and interest of any of the bonds; and (e) create and at all times maintain an adequate reserve for contingencies and for major repairs and replacement of athletic facilities; (8) to covenant against the mortgaging or disposing of the athletic facilities and against permitting or suffering any lien to be created thereon, equal or superior to any lien created thereon for the benefit of the holders of such bonds. However, the trustees reserve the right, under such terms as they shall prescribe, to issue additional bonds on a parity with, or subordinate to, the bonds authorized by this article; (9) to covenant as to the use of the proceeds derived from the sale of any bonds issued pursuant to this article; (10) to provide for the terms, form, registration, exchange, execution, and authentication of bonds, and for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds; (11) to make covenants with respect to the operation of the athletic department and the athletic facilities; (12) to covenant that all revenues or net revenues pledged for the payment of the bonds must be duly segregated into special funds and that such funds will be used solely for the purposes for which they are intended and for no other purpose; (13) to covenant for the mandatory redemption of bonds on such terms and conditions as the resolutions authorizing such bonds shall prescribe; (14) to provide for early defeasance of bonds through the establishment of special escrow accounts maintained by a corporate trustee, which may be the State Treasurer, of cash, or United States government obligations, or obligations of agencies thereof, which escrows may be funded with proceeds of bonds issued hereunder or revenues or net revenues or other funds available to Winthrop; (15) to prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of the contract with the bondholders may be amended, the number of bonds whose holders must consent thereto, and the manner in which consent shall be given; (16) to covenant as to the maintenance of the athletic facilities, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of proceeds from any insurance policy; (17) to prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which all or any bonds become or may be declared due before maturity, and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived; (18) to impose a statutory lien upon any athletic facilities as security for the payment of the bonds. The lien shall extend to such athletic facilities, to their appurtenances and extensions, to their additions, improvements, and enlargements to the extent specified in the resolutions and shall inure to the benefit of the holders of the bonds secured thereby. These athletic facilities shall remain subject to such statutory lien until the payment in full of the principal and interest of the bonds. Any holder of any of the bonds, or any of the coupons representing interest thereon, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, protect and enforce the statutory lien, and may, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings enforce and compel performance of all duties of the trustees, including the fixing of sufficient rates, the proper segregation of the revenues, and the proper application thereof. However, the statutory lien must not be construed to give any such bond or coupon holder authority to compel the sale of any of the athletic facilities or any part thereof; (19) to covenant that, if there be any default in the payment of the principal of or interest upon any of the bonds, any court having jurisdiction in any proper action may appoint a receiver to administer and operate the athletic department, with power to fix rates and charges for athletic facilities and other activities of the athletic department, and to apply the income and revenues of the athletic department to the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon; (20) to establish on or before the occasion of the delivery of any bonds issued pursuant to this article a bond reserve fund and to cause the same to be maintained by the State Treasurer or its corporate trustee designee, and to that end, the trustees are empowered to utilize any monies available for the funding of any such bond reserve fund, including revenues or net revenues previously accumulated prior to the issuance of bonds or available proceeds of the admissions fee or the special student fee. In the discretion of the trustees, in lieu of cash, such a bond reserve fund may be funded with a surety bond, insurance policy, letter of credit, line of credit, or similar guarantee. At the discretion of the trustees, Winthrop may purchase an insurance policy ensuring payment of both principal and interest on any issuance of bonds hereunder; (21) with the consent of the State Treasurer, to appoint a corporate trustee and a paying agent for the bondholders, either of whom may be the State Treasurer, and to prescribe the manner in which revenues or net revenues, as well as proceeds of admissions fees and special student fees shall be utilized and disposed of. Any such corporate trustee shall serve in a fiduciary capacity as trustee for the bondholders under the resolutions of the trustees authorizing the issuance of bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-44-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 44 / Section 59-44-60
SECTION 59-44-60. School district may coordinate community education program.
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of each school district of the State is hereby authorized to, but not obligated to, coordinate a community education program in its district. Each participating board shall provide the general supervision of the program.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-210 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-210
SECTION 59-150-210. Sales restrictions.
Status: in_force

(A) A person shall not sell a lottery game ticket or share at a price other than that established by the commission. A person, other than a duly certified lottery retailer, shall not sell lottery game tickets, but a person may purchase lawfully lottery game tickets or shares and make a gift of the lottery game tickets or shares to another. The commission may designate certain agents and employees to sell lottery game tickets or shares directly to the public. (B) Lottery game tickets or shares shall not be purchased and given by merchants as a means of promoting goods or services to customers or prospective customers, except as approved in writing by the commission. (C) A lottery retailer shall not sell a lottery game ticket or share except from the locations listed in the lottery retailer's contract and as evidenced by the lottery retailer's certificate of authorization unless the commission authorizes, in writing, a temporary location not listed in the lottery retailer's contract. (D) Lottery game tickets or shares must not be sold to persons under eighteen years of age, but a person eighteen years of age or older may purchase lawfully lottery game tickets or shares and make a gift to a person of any age. If a minor lawfully receives a winning lottery game ticket, the commission may direct payment of proceeds of a lottery prize in an amount not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars to the parent or guardian of the minor without court approval and without appointment of a conservator. In the case of a lottery prize greater than two thousand five hundred dollars and not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars, payment must be made in accordance with the procedures outlined in Section 62-5-103 as they relate to distribution. In the case of a prize in an amount greater than twenty-five thousand dollars, payment must be made to a duly appointed conservator to be held for the benefit of the minor, pursuant to Section 62-5-433. (E) A lottery ticket or share must not be sold on the date of any general or primary election; for a lottery game other than that defined in Section 59-150-20(7); or for a lottery game with corporate sponsorship. (F) A lottery ticket or share must not be sold on the campus of a public institution of higher learning as defined in Section 59-103-5.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-108-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 108 / Section 59-108-40
SECTION 59-108-40. Powers of commission; liability of counties represented on commission.
Status: in_force

To carry out this purpose and objective, the commission, with the approval of a majority of its members, is empowered to enter into contracts, make binding agreements, negotiate with educators and educational institutions, and to take actions in its name as are necessary to secure for its member counties the educational facilities above described; provided, that any county represented on the commission shall not be bound nor held liable for any acts or omissions of the commission, nor by any provision of any contract or agreement, expressed or implied, except upon the written approval and consent of a majority of the governing body of that county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-28-200 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 28 / Section 59-28-200
SECTION 59-28-200. Development of informational materials.
Status: in_force

The Education Oversight Committee and the State Superintendent of Education shall develop and publish jointly informational materials for distribution to all public school parents and to teachers. The informational materials for distribution shall include: (1) an explanation of the grade-level academic content standards and advice on how parents can help their children achieve the standards and the relationship of the standards to the state assessments; and (2) printed information about the standards and advice relative to parental involvement in their children's education for visible display and use in every public school K-12 classroom. Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment, at the end of item (1), substituted "state assessments" for "Palmetto Achievement Challenge Tests (PACT)".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-3-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 3 / Section 59-3-30
SECTION 59-3-30. General duties.
Status: in_force

The State Superintendent of Education shall: (1) Serve as secretary and administrative officer to the State Board of Education. (2) Have general supervision over and management of all public school funds provided by the State and Federal Governments. (3) Organize, staff and administer a State Department of Education which shall include such division and departments as are necessary to render the maximum service to public education in the State. (4) Keep the public informed as to the problems and needs of the public schools by constant contact with all school administrators and teachers, by his personal appearances at public gatherings and by information furnished to the various news media of the State. (5) Have printed and distributed such bulletins, manuals, and circulars as he may deem necessary for the professional improvement of teachers and for the cultivation of public sentiment for public education, and have printed all forms necessary and proper for the administration of the State Department of Education. (6) Administer, through the State Department of Education, all policies and procedures adopted by the State Board of Education. (7) Assume such other responsibilities and perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law or as may be assigned by the State Board of Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-11-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 11 / Section 59-11-30
SECTION 59-11-30. Bylaws must be filed with Secretary of State.
Status: in_force

Pursuant to Article III (I) of the compact, the Commission shall file a copy of its bylaws and any amendment thereto with the Secretary of State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-20
SECTION 59-150-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (1) "Administrative expenses" means operating expenses, excluding amounts set aside for prizes, regardless of whether the prizes are claimed, and excluding amounts held as a fidelity fund pursuant to Section 59-150-170. (2) "Board" means the Board of Commissioners of the South Carolina Lottery Commission. (3) "Commission" means the South Carolina Lottery Commission. (4) "Educational purposes and programs" means educational expenses and scholarships as defined in Section 59-150-350(D). (5) "Executive director" means the Executive Director of the South Carolina Lottery Commission or his designee. (6) "Immediate family" means a person who is: (a) a spouse; (b) a child residing in the same household; or (c) claimed as a dependent for income tax purposes. (7) "Lottery", "lotteries", " lottery game", or "lottery games" means a game of chance approved by the General Assembly and operated pursuant to this chapter including, but not limited to, the lottery game categories of instant tickets, on-line lottery games and drawing numbers but excluding keno, pari- mutuel betting, and casino gambling as defined in this section. The operation of the lottery games excludes machines and lottery games, including video poker lottery games, prohibited by Sections 12-21-2710, 16-19-40, and 16-19-50. The access and use of an electronic or mechanical machine designed for a lottery game authorized pursuant to this chapter must be limited to a lottery retailer and his employees only in order to facilitate retail sales of lottery tickets, and such a machine must not dispense anything other than lottery tickets. As used in this item, "casino gambling" means a location or business for the purpose of conducting unlawful gambling activities, but excluding the sale and purchase of lottery game tickets or shares; and "pari-mutuel betting" means a method or system of wagering on actual races including races involving horses or dogs at tracks and the distribution of winnings by pools. (8) "Lottery retailer" means a person who sells lottery game tickets or shares on behalf of the South Carolina Lottery Commission pursuant to a contract. (9) "Lottery vendor" means a person who provides or proposes to provide goods or services to the South Carolina Lottery Commission pursuant to a procurement contract, but does not include an employee of the commission, a lottery retailer, or a state agency or instrumentality of the State. The term includes a corporation whose shares are traded publicly and which is the parent company of the contracting party in a procurement contract. (10) "Member" or "members" means a Commissioner or Commissioners of the Board of the South Carolina Lottery Commission. (11) "Minority business" means a business which meets the definition of a socially and economically disadvantaged small business as described in Article 21, Chapter 35, Title 11, specifically a small business concern which: (a) is at least fifty-one percent owned by one or more citizens of the United States who are determined to be socially and economically disadvantaged; (b) in the case of a concern which is a corporation, at least fifty-one percent of all classes of voting stock of such corporation is owned by an individual determined to be socially and economically disadvantaged; or (c) in the case of a concern which is a partnership, at least fifty-one percent of the partnership interest is owned by an individual or individuals determined to be socially and economically disadvantaged or whose management and daily business operations are controlled by individuals determined to be socially and economically disadvantaged. Those individuals must be involved in the daily management and operations of the business concerned. "Small business" as used in this item means a business which meets the definition of a small business for purposes of the Small Business Administration, an agency of the United States. (12) "Net proceeds" means all revenue derived from the sale of lottery game tickets or shares and all other monies derived from the lottery games, less operating expenses and prizes. (13) "Operating expenses" means all costs of doing business including, but not limited to, prizes, commissions, and other compensation paid to a lottery retailer, advertising and marketing costs, rental fees, personnel costs, capital costs, depreciation of property and equipment, funds for compulsive gambling education and treatment, amounts held in or paid from a fidelity fund pursuant to Section 59-150-170, and other operating costs. (14) "Person" means an individual, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, or other legal entity. (15) "Prize" means an award, gift, or anything of value regardless of whether there are conditions or restrictions attached to its receipt. (16) "Proceeds" means all lottery revenue derived from the sale of lottery game tickets or shares and all other monies derived from the lottery or received by the commission. (17) "Share" means an intangible interest in a lottery ticket, by way of assignment, contractual participation, or other claim or right. (18) "Ticket" means tangible evidence issued by the South Carolina Lottery Commission to provide participation in a lottery game.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-4-110 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 4 / Section 59-4-110
SECTION 59-4-110. New participants prohibited.
Status: in_force

(A) Notwithstanding another provision of law, the South Carolina Tuition Prepayment Program may not accept new participants until the General Assembly authorizes the program to accept new participants by joint resolution. (B) This section does not affect the existing participants in the program, and the South Carolina Tuition Prepayment Program remains in full operation for this purpose.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-105-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 105 / Section 59-105-30
SECTION 59-105-30. Purpose.
Status: in_force

The serious nature and consequences of sexual assault and the particular problems caused by sexual assault within a campus community prompt the General Assembly to encourage institutions of higher learning to develop, with input from students, faculty, and staff, a comprehensive sexual assault policy to address prevention and awareness of sexual assault and to establish procedures that address campus sexual assaults. The General Assembly further encourages institutions of higher learning to make all reasonable efforts to support a student who is the victim of a sexual assault in a full report of the sexual assault to appropriate law enforcement authorities, including institutional and local police, and to make all reasonable efforts to provide assistance to and to cooperate with the student as the report is investigated and resolved.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-110-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 110 / Section 59-110-30
SECTION 59-110-30. Use of funds; priorities.
Status: in_force

(A) Of the funds made available for the Critical Needs Nursing Initiative Fund, amounts must be used for the following nursing initiatives in recommended priority order: (1) faculty salary enhancements; (2) new faculty; (3) student scholarship, loan, and grant programs; (4) establishment of the Office for Health Care Workforce Research; and (5) use of simulation technology and equipment. (B) Once the first priority for faculty salary enhancements has been provided in an amount not exceeding six million dollars in total funds for the program from each year funds are allocated for any year, the commission shall fund other priorities in such amounts as it considers appropriate within available funding.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 1 / Section 59-104-30
SECTION 59-104-30. Developmental education plans, studies, and programs.
Status: in_force

Each public institution of higher learning in this State shall develop a plan for developmental education in accord with provisions, procedures, and requirements developed by the Commission on Higher Education. The commission shall conduct a study as well as evaluations and reviews of developmental education in this State. The commission shall develop appropriate methods of funding developmental education programs and courses.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-50-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 50 / Section 59-50-10
SECTION 59-50-10. Establishment of school; faculty qualifications.
Status: in_force

(A) There is established the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities to provide training for exceptional artistically talented students and serve as a research and resource center for all students and teachers in South Carolina. The school is dedicated to serving talented students in South Carolina who show exceptional talent, promise, aptitude, and interest in creative writing, dance, music, theater, and the visual arts. This residential school shall provide intensive pre- professional and professional instruction in the arts and a strong academic and humanities program which will lead to a high school diploma and college credits. (B)(1) The arts instructional program must be comprised of faculty who hold advanced degrees in recognized arts fields including, but not limited to, dance, music, theater or drama, visual arts, and creative writing, and previously have taught students in a pre-professional and professional arts instructional program setting or are practicing master artists whose professional expertise can be demonstrated by their training and accomplishments as recognized by state or national arts organizations and affiliations. As an alternative to traditional certification, the faculty for pre-professional and professional instruction shall participate annually in master artists professional development programs. These programs must be modeled from national research-based professional development standards for instructional and practicing master artists. Pursuant to this chapter, the school's board of directors shall adopt policies and regulations governing development of the arts instructional program. The school's annual accountability report must include information on the arts instructional program and faculty participation. (2) The academic program must be comprised of faculty who hold one or more degrees in the specific subject to be taught and who must have achieved traditional state certification in the area of instruction and may have national board teacher certification. State and national teacher certification must be maintained pursuant to state law and regulations. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment designated subsection (A) and added subsection (B).
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-71-100 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 71 / Article 1 / Section 59-71-100
SECTION 59-71-100. Place of payment.
Status: in_force

The bonds issued pursuant to this article shall be made payable at such places, within or without the State, as the authorities shall provide.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-510 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 59-25-510
SECTION 59-25-510. Service of notices.
Status: in_force

All notices to be given under this article by the district board shall be given to both parties and the notices herein required to be given by a party shall be served upon the opposite party prior to the filing thereof. All such notices may be served by registered mail.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-780 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 7 / Section 59-119-780
SECTION 59-119-780. Tax exempt status.
Status: in_force

The bonds authorized by this article and all interest to become due on them have the tax exempt status prescribed by Section 12-1-60.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-425 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 3 / Section 59-67-425
SECTION 59-67-425. Transportation of children attending kindergarten or child development programs.
Status: in_force

Three, four, or five-year old children attending public school-sponsored kindergarten or child development programs must be permitted to ride state-owned buses to the extent funds are made available by the General Assembly or as long as transportation services may be provided at no additional cost to the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-107-70 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 107 / Section 59-107-70
SECTION 59-107-70. Governor and State Treasurer empowered to authorize issuance of bonds.
Status: in_force

It shall be the duty of the Governor and the State Treasurer to examine the request mentioned in Section 59-107-60, and if they shall jointly approve it, and, for themselves, determine that the schedule of tuition fees in force at such state institution will, upon the basis of the sum received by such state institution from tuition fees for the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year in which the application made pursuant to Section 59-107-40, produce funds sufficient to meet the principal and interest requirements on the proposed bonds and on all outstanding state institution bonds issued for such state institution, and provide the margin for such principal and interest requirements to the extent required by paragraph (3) of Section 59-107-50, they shall be empowered to provide for the issuance of state institution bonds in the amount approved by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-200 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-200
SECTION 59-150-200. Lottery retailer rental payments.
Status: in_force

If a lottery retailer's rental payments for the business premises are contractually computed, in whole or in part, on the basis of a percentage of retail sales and the computation of retail sales is not defined explicitly to include sales of lottery game tickets or shares in a state operated or state managed lottery, only the compensation received by the lottery retailer from the commission may be considered the amount of the lottery retail sale for purposes of computing the rental payment.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1960 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 21 / Section 59-53-1960
SECTION 59-53-1960. Work force preparation program placement requirements; surveys; waiver; notification of possible discontinuance.
Status: in_force

To continue existing work force preparation programs, other than career and technology agriculture, fifty percent of the graduates available for placement must be placed during the prior three years in the area for which training was provided. Each graduate of a work force preparation career and technology education program must be surveyed by his school district ten months after graduation to determine job placement status. The school districts shall make an annual report to the State Board of Education of the findings of its survey. The State Board of Education shall report the results of the district surveys to the Governor, General Assembly, and the Advisory Council on Career and Technology Education. The State Board of Education may waive the fifty percent requirement upon recommendation of the school district, if the district demonstrates that a program responds to the employment needs of new or expanding businesses or industries. Students must be advised before enrollment in a work force preparation program of possible discontinuation of the program, if placement data indicate possible discontinuation, and of the employment outlook for graduates of the program. A student enrolling in career and technology programs that are not preparatory for employment must be advised clearly of this fact by the school district. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment deleted "Commencing with 1987-88,' at the beginning of the first sentence, substituted "work force preparation" for "job preparatory" and "career and technology" for "vocational" and "Advisory Council on Career and Technology Education" for "Advisory Council on Vocational Education", and made nonsubstantive language changes throughout.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-143-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 143 / Section 59-143-30
SECTION 59-143-30. Allocation for students attending independent colleges.
Status: in_force

(1) Of the funds made available for higher education scholarship grants from the higher education scholarship grant allocation under Section 59-143-10 of the 1976 Code for any year, a percentage thereof must be allocated for higher education scholarships and grants for students attending South Carolina independent colleges of higher learning in this State. This percentage shall be equivalent to the percentage of the independent colleges' share of the total South Carolina resident undergraduate full-time (FTE) enrollment of all public and independent higher education institutions in South Carolina based on the previous year's data as determined by the Commission on Higher Education and the South Carolina Tuition Grants Commission. (2) The allocation each year to students at the South Carolina independent colleges under item (1) above shall be used to provide tuition grants under Chapter 113 of Title 59 of the 1976 Code, and Palmetto Fellows Scholarships under Section 59-104-20 of the 1976 Code in the manner the General Assembly shall provide in the annual general appropriations act. Of the funds allocated to independent college students, fifty percent shall be awarded for South Carolina Tuition Grants and fifty percent shall be awarded under the Palmetto Fellows Program. The funds allocated for South Carolina Tuition Grants to South Carolina independent colleges students under this subsection shall be included in the annual appropriation to the Commission on Higher Education and transferred annually into the budget of the South Carolina Tuition Grants Commission in the amount prescribed in item (1) above. The funds allocated for Palmetto Fellows Scholarships to South Carolina independent college students under this subsection shall be included in the annual appropriation to the Commission on Higher Education and may only be awarded to eligible students attending South Carolina independent colleges. (3) Independent colleges for purposes of this subsection means those institutions eligible to participate in the South Carolina Tuition Grants Program as defined by Section 59-113-50. (4) Public institutions shall receive the remaining allocation each year of the funds made available for higher education scholarship grants under Section 59-143-10. One-half shall be used to provide higher education need-based grants as provided for in this act or otherwise provided for in state law, and one-half shall be used to provide Palmetto Fellows Scholarships under Section 59-104-20 of the 1976 Code in the manner the General Assembly shall provide in the annual general appropriations act. (5) The maximum amount of funding provided for awards to students attending South Carolina independent colleges from the Children's Education Endowment Fund for South Carolina Tuition Grants and Palmetto Fellows scholarships shall not exceed the percentage funding calculation described under item (1) above.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-116-70 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 116 / Section 59-116-70
SECTION 59-116-70. Bond and reporting requirements of campus police officers.
Status: in_force

Campus police officers shall post, before the assumption of their duties, bond in the amount of two thousand dollars in the manner provided in Section 23-1-70 but are exempt from the reporting requirements of Section 23-1-80 so long as they are employed by the safety and security department.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-115-100 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 115 / Section 59-115-100
SECTION 59-115-100. Fees, charges, interest, and premiums; contracts with United States and others; pledge of money in sinking fund.
Status: in_force

The authority is authorized to fix and collect fees, charges, interest and premiums for making, insuring or guaranteeing student loans, purchasing, endorsing or guaranteeing obligations and any other services performed under this chapter. The authority is further authorized to contract with the United States of America or any agency or officer thereof and with any person, partnership, association, banking institution or other corporation respecting the carrying out of the authority's functions under this chapter. The authority shall at all times endeavor to fix and collect such fees, charges, receipts, premiums and other income so as to have available in the sinking fund at all times an amount which, together with any other funds made available therefor, shall be sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on such bonds as they shall become due and payable and to create reserves for such purposes. Money in the sinking fund, except such part thereof as may be necessary to provide such reserves for the bonds as may be provided for in the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds, shall be set aside in the sinking fund at such regular intervals as may be provided in such resolution and is hereby pledged to, and charged with, the payment of the principal of and interest on such bonds as they shall become due and the redemption price or the purchase price of bonds retired by call or purchase as therein provided. Such pledge shall be valid and binding from the time when the pledge is made. The fees, charges, receipts, proceeds and other revenues and moneys so pledged and thereafter received by the authority shall immediately be subject to the lien of such pledge without any physical delivery thereof or further act, and the lien of any such pledge shall be valid and binding as against all parties having claims of any kind in tort, contract or otherwise against the authority, irrespective of whether such parties have notice thereof. The resolution by which a pledge is created need not be filed or recorded except that a record of the proceedings covering the issuance of the bonds shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of South Carolina, as required by Section 11-15-20. The use and disposition of money to the credit of the sinking fund shall be subject to the provisions of the resolution authorizing the issuance of such bonds. Any such resolution may, in the discretion of the authority, provide for the transfer of surplus money in the sinking fund to the credit of the loan fund. Except as may otherwise be provided in such resolution, such sinking fund shall be a fund for all such bonds without distinction or priority.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-450 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 59-1-450
SECTION 59-1-450. Parent education programs.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education, through the Department of Education and in consultation with the Education Oversight Committee, shall promulgate regulations for establishing parenting/family literacy programs to support parents in their role as the principal teachers of their preschool children. The programs must provide parent education to parents and guardians who have children ages birth through five years and who choose to participate in the programs and must include intensive and special efforts to recruit parents or guardians whose children are at risk for school failure. The program or programs also should include developmental screening for children and offer parents of children from birth through five years opportunities to improve their education if the parents do not possess a high school diploma or equivalent certificate. The State Board of Education, through the Department of Education and after consultation with the Education Oversight Committee, shall promulgate regulations to implement parenting/family literacy programs in all school districts or consortia of school districts. Priority must be given to serving those parents whose children are considered at risk for school failure according to criteria established by the State Board of Education. From funds appropriated for the programs, an adequate number of those parenting programs funded under the Target 2000 Act shall receive priority in funding for fiscal years 1993-94 and 1994-95 and must be funded at no less than the level received in fiscal year 1992-93 contingent upon their agreeing to provide technical assistance to other districts and schools planning and implementing parenting/family literacy programs in concert with the Department of Education's technical assistance process required in this chapter. Only those projects whose evaluations show them to be most effective may be selected based on criteria developed by the State Department of Education in consultation with the Education Oversight Committee. Beginning in fiscal year 1995-96 for districts with Target 2000 Act parenting programs and in fiscal year 1993-94 for all other school districts and district consortia, funding must be allocated to districts and consortia serving more than two thousand pupils on a base amount of not less than forty thousand dollars with any additional appropriation to be distributed based on the number of free and reduced-price lunch-eligible students in grades one through three in a district or consortium relative to the total free and reduced-price lunch-eligible students in grades one through three in the State. The programs developed in each district and consortium may draw upon lessons learned from parenting programs funded under this section. The State Board of Education, through the Department of Education, in developing the regulations for this program shall consult with representatives of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, Department of Social Services, the South Carolina State Library, and Health and Human Services Finance Commission, and with adult education and early childhood specialists. In developing the regulations, the State Board and State Department of Education shall consider the guidelines developed for the Target 2000 Act parenting programs and any available evaluation data. By December, 1993, the chairman of the Human Services Coordinating Council shall convene a committee consisting of supervisors of programs dealing with early childhood and parenting from the Department of Education, Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Department of Social Services, the South Carolina State Library, and the Health and Human Services Finance Commission; at least one representative from each of these agencies who administer these programs at the county and district level; and adult education and early childhood specialists. The Executive Director of the Finance Commission shall chair this committee. By July 1, 1994, this committee shall report to the Education Oversight Committee and the Joint Committee on Children ways to better coordinate programs for parenting and literacy and recommend changes to each agency's state regulations or provisions of law which would better promote coordination of programs. The Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Department of Social Services, and the Health and Human Services Finance Commission shall direct their employees at the county and district levels to cooperate with school district officials in establishing parenting/family literacy programs.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-17-120 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 17 / Section 59-17-120
SECTION 59-17-120. Reissue of school bonds subject to debt service budget and debt limit.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued by a school district under the bonded indebtedness limitation of Article X, Section 15(7)(a) of the South Carolina Constitution and called before the maturity date only may be reissued if the amount required to service the reissuance and to pay off the called bonds does not: (1) increase by more than eight percent in any one year the amount of the district's budget needed to service the original bonded indebtedness; or (2) exceed the debt limit of the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-370 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 59-1-370
SECTION 59-1-370. Closing of educational institutions on general election day.
Status: in_force

All State-supported colleges and universities, technical education centers and public schools shall be closed general election day in November of each even-numbered year. This day shall not be considered as one of the regular school days for the year for public schools.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-102-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 102 / Section 59-102-50
SECTION 59-102-50. Application for registration; contents; registration in another state.
Status: in_force

(A) An applicant for registration shall submit an application for registration to the Department of Consumer Affairs in a form prescribed by the department. An application filed pursuant to this section is a public record. The application must be in the name of a person and, except as otherwise provided in subsection (B), signed or otherwise authenticated by the applicant under penalty of perjury and state or contain: (1) the name, date of birth, and place of birth of the applicant and: (a) the address of his principal place of business; (b) his work and mobile telephone numbers; and (c) any means of communicating with him electronically, including: (i) facsimile number; (ii) electronic mail address; and (iii) personal, business, or employer websites; (2) the name of the applicant's business or employer, if applicable, including for each business or employer its mailing address, telephone number, organizational form, and the nature of the business; (3) each social media account with which the applicant, his business, or his employer is affiliated; (4) any business or occupation engaged in by the applicant for the five years next preceding the date of submission of the application, including self-employment and employment by others, and any professional or occupational license, registration, or certification held by the applicant during that time; (5) a description of the applicant's: (a) formal training as an athlete agent; (b) practical experience as an athlete agent; and (c) educational background relating to his activities as an athlete agent; (6) the names and addresses of three individuals not related to the applicant who are willing to serve as references; (7) the name, sport, and last known team for each individual for whom the applicant acted as an athlete agent during the five years next preceding the date of submission of the application, or, if the individual is a minor, the name of his parent or guardian; (8) the names and addresses of all persons who are: (a) with respect to the athlete agent's business, if it is not a corporation, the partners, members, officers, managers, associates, or profit-sharers of the business who hold an equity interest of five percent or greater in that business; and (b) with respect to a corporation employing the athlete agent, the officers, directors, and any shareholder of the corporation having an interest of five percent or greater; (9) whether the applicant or a person named pursuant to item (8) has been convicted of a crime that would be a crime involving moral turpitude or a felony if committed in this State, and identification of the: (a) crime; (b) law enforcement agency involved; and (c) if applicable, the date of conviction and the fine or penalty imposed; (10) whether, within fifteen years before the date of application, the applicant or a person named under item (8) has been a defendant or respondent in a civil proceeding, including a proceeding seeking an adjudication of legal incompetence and, if so, the date and a full explanation of each proceeding; (11) whether the applicant or a person named under item (8) has an unsatisfied judgment or a judgment of continuing effect, including alimony or a family court order for child support, which is not current at the date of the application; (12) whether, within ten years before the date of application, the applicant or a person named under item (8) was adjudicated bankrupt or was an owner of a business that was adjudicated bankrupt; (13) whether there has been any administrative or judicial determination that the applicant or a person named pursuant to item (8) has made a false, misleading, deceptive, or fraudulent representation; (14) an instance in which the conduct of the applicant or a person named pursuant to item (8) resulted in the imposition against a student athlete or educational institution of a sanction, suspension, or declaration of ineligibility to participate in an interscholastic or intercollegiate athletic event; (15) a sanction, suspension, or disciplinary action taken against the applicant or a person named pursuant to item (8) arising out of occupational or professional conduct; (16) whether there has been a denial of an application for, suspension or revocation of, or refusal to renew the registration or licensure of the applicant or a person named pursuant to item (8) as an athlete agent in any state; (17) each state in which the applicant currently is registered as an athlete agent or has applied to be registered as an athlete agent; (18) if the applicant is certified or registered by a professional league or players association: (a) the name of the league or association; (b) the date of certification or registration, and the date of expiration of the certification or registration, if any; and (c) if applicable, the date of any denial of an application for, suspension or revocation of, refusal to renew, withdrawal of, or termination of, the certification or registration or any reprimand or censure related to the certification or registration; and (19) any additional information required by the department. (B) Instead of submitting an application in the form prescribed pursuant to subsection (A), an applicant for registration in this State, who has applied for and holds a certificate, registration, or licensure as an athlete agent in another state, may submit: (1) a copy of the application for registration in the other state; (2) a statement that: (a) identifies any material change in the information on the application described in item (1), cosigned under penalty of perjury; or (b) verifies there is no such material change provided in subitem (a), signed under penalty of perjury; and (3) a copy of the certificate of registration from the other state. (C) The Department of Consumer Affairs shall accept the application and the certificate from the other state as an application for registration in this State and issue a certificate of registration to the applicant if the application to the other state: (1) was submitted in the other state within six months next preceding the submission of the application in this State and the applicant certifies that the information contained in the application is current; (2) contains information substantially similar to or more comprehensive than that required in an application submitted in this State; (3) was signed by the applicant under penalty of perjury; and (4) the registration has not been revoked or suspended and no action involving the person's conduct as an athlete agent is pending against the person or his registration in any state. (D) For purposes of implementing the provisions of subsection (C), the department shall: (1) cooperate with national organizations concerned with athlete agent issues and agencies in other states which register athlete agents to develop a common registration form and determine which states have laws that are substantially similar to or more restrictive than this chapter; and (2) exchange information, including information related to actions taken against registered athlete agents or their registrations, with those organizations and agencies. Comment Major League Baseball Players Association __________ National Basketball Players Association __________ National Football Players Association __________ National Hockey League Players Association __________ Other __________ None __________ For each item in this part, include: School name, city and state, degree conferred, and year the degree was awarded. Name of employer: __________ Supervisor's name: __________ Supervisor's address and work phone: __________ Initial date of employment (including month and year): __________ Nature of your current employment: __________ __________ Name Effect of Amendment The 2004 amendment rewrote this section. 2018 Act No. 235, SECTION 1, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-510 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 1 / Article 7 / Section 59-1-510
SECTION 59-1-510. Guidelines and regulations for recruiting and hiring staff in professional areas.
Status: in_force

Effective with the 1984-85 school year, the Department of Education shall establish guidelines and regulations to ensure that school districts recruit and hire staff in professional areas including, but not limited to, the employment of teachers, the employment of administrators, teachers' aides, and other personnel needed to implement the provisions of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 on the basis of qualifications and merit. The Department shall further monitor the implementation of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 to ensure that minority educators and minority school districts receive equal and fair treatment under each program and each section of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-95 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 1 / Section 59-63-95
SECTION 59-63-95. Lifesaving medication; obtaining, storing, dispensing, administering, and self-administering; immunity from liability.
Status: in_force

(A) As used in this section, and unless the specific context indicates otherwise: (1) "Administer" means the direct application of a lifesaving medication into the body of a person. (2) "Advanced practice registered nurse" means a registered nurse prepared for an advanced practice registered nursing role by virtue of the additional knowledge gained through an advanced formal education program in a specialty area pursuant to Chapter 33, Title 40. (3) "Designated school personnel" means an employee, agent, or volunteer of a school designated by the governing authority of the school district or the governing authority of the private school who has completed the training required in accordance with the guidelines of the Department of Health and Environmental Control to provide for or administer a lifesaving medication to a student or other individual on a school premises or attending a school function. (4) "Governing authority of a school" means the board of trustees of a school district or the board of trustees of a private school. (5) "Lifesaving medication" means any prescription medication that can be administered to a person experiencing a medical emergency. The Department of Health and Environmental Control, in consultation with the Department of Education, will publish a list of lifesaving medications that can be administered by designated school personnel in response to a medical emergency pursuant to this section and shall publish training guidelines for the administration of such lifesaving medications. (6) "Participating governing authorities" means governing authorities of school districts and governing authorities of private schools that authorize schools to maintain a supply of lifesaving medications and to provide and administer lifesaving medications to students and other people on a school premises or attending a school function pursuant to subsections (B) and (C). (7) "Physician" means a doctor of medicine licensed by the South Carolina Board of Medical Examiners pursuant to Article 1, Chapter 47, Title 40. (8) "Physician assistant" means a health care professional licensed to assist with the practice of medicine with a physician supervisor pursuant to Article 7, Chapter 47, Title 40. (9) "Provide" means to supply one or more lifesaving medications to a student or other person on a school premises or attending a school function. (10) "School" means a public or private school. (11) "Self-administration" means a student or other person's discretionary use of lifesaving medication, whether provided by the student or the other person or by a school nurse or other designated school personnel pursuant to this section. (B) Notwithstanding another provision of law, a physician, including the Director of Public Health for the Department of Health and Environmental Control pursuant to subsection (I); an advanced practice registered nurse licensed to prescribe medication pursuant to Section 40-33-34; and a physician assistant licensed to prescribe medication pursuant to Sections 40-47-955 through 40-47-965 may prescribe lifesaving medications maintained in the name of a school for use in accordance with subsection (D). Notwithstanding another provision of law, licensed pharmacists and physicians may dispense lifesaving medications in accordance with a prescription issued pursuant to this subsection. Notwithstanding another provision of law, a school may maintain a stock supply of lifesaving medications in accordance with a prescription issued pursuant to this subsection. For the purposes of administering and storing lifesaving medications, schools are not subject to Chapter 43, Title 40 or Chapter 99 of the South Carolina Code of State Regulations. (C) The governing authority of a school district or private school may authorize school nurses and other designated school personnel to: (1) provide a lifesaving medication to a student in accordance with a prescription specific to the student that is on file with the school; (2) administer a lifesaving medication to a student in accordance with a prescription specific to the student on file with the school; (3) administer a lifesaving medication to a student or other person on a school premises whom the school nurse or other designated school personnel believes in good faith is experiencing a medical emergency, in accordance with a standing protocol of a physician, including the Director of Public Health for the Department of Health and Environmental Control pursuant to subsection (I); an advanced practice registered nurse licensed to prescribe medication pursuant to Section 40-33-34; or a physician assistant licensed to prescribe medication pursuant to Sections 40-47-955 through 40-47-965, regardless of whether the student or other person has a prescription for a lifesaving medication. (D) The governing authority of a school district or the governing authority of a private school may enter into arrangements with manufacturers of lifesaving medications or third-party suppliers of lifesaving medications to obtain lifesaving medications at fair-market, free, or reduced prices. (E) Participating governing authorities, in consultation with the State Department of Education and the Department of Health and Environmental Control, shall implement a plan for the management of students with life-threatening allergies or medical emergencies enrolled in the schools under their jurisdiction. The plan must include, but need not be limited to: (1) education and training for school personnel on the management of students with life-threatening allergies or medical emergencies, including training related to the administration of lifesaving medications, techniques on how to recognize symptoms of severe allergic reactions or medical emergencies, including anaphylaxis, and the standards and procedures for the storage and administration of lifesaving medications; (2) procedures for responding to life-threatening allergic reactions and medical emergencies, including emergency follow-up procedures; and (3) a process for the development of individualized health care and allergy action plans for every student with a known life-threatening allergy. (F) Participating governing authorities shall make the plan developed pursuant to subsection (E) available on the websites of the school district and private school governing authorities and on the websites of schools; however, if a school does not have a website, make the plan publicly available through other practicable means as determined by participating governing authorities. (G) This section applies only to participating governing authorities. (H)(1) A school, school district, school district governing authority, private school governing authority, the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the State Department of Education, and employees, volunteers, and other agents of all of those entities including, but not limited to, a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, physician assistant, pharmacist, school nurse, and other designated school personnel, who undertake an act under this section, are not subject to civil or criminal liability for damages caused by injuries to a student or another person resulting from the administration or self-administration of a lifesaving medication, regardless of whether: (a) the student's parent or guardian, or a physician, advanced practice registered nurse, or physician assistant, authorized the administration or self-administration; or (b) the other person to whom a school nurse or other designated school personnel provides or administers a lifesaving medication gave authorization for the administration. (2) The immunity granted pursuant to item (1) applies to individuals and entities who: (a) develop or implement, or participate in the development or implementation of, a plan, pursuant to subsection (E), including, but not limited to, providing training to school nurses and other designated school personnel; (b) make publicly available a plan, pursuant to subsection (F); (c) prescribe lifesaving medications, pursuant to subsection (B); (d) dispense lifesaving medications, pursuant to subsection (B); (e) provide lifesaving medications to students or other people for self-administration, pursuant to subsection (C); or (f) administer lifesaving medications to students or other people, pursuant to subsection (C). (3) The immunity granted pursuant to this subsection: (a) does not apply to acts or omissions constituting gross negligence or wilful, wanton, or reckless conduct; and (b) is in addition to, and not in lieu of, immunity provided pursuant to Sections 15-1-310, 15-78-10, and any other provisions of law. (4) The administration of lifesaving medications pursuant to this section is not the practice of medicine or nursing. (I) Notwithstanding another provision of law, the Director of Public Health for the Department of Health and Environmental Control is authorized to issue a standing order for the prescription of lifesaving medication on a schoolwide basis under conditions that he determines are in the best interests of this State and in furtherance of this section. In the event the current director of public health is not a physician, the department may appoint a designee if he is a physician as defined in subsection (A)(7). Editor's Note 2013 Act No. 37, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'Safe Access to Vital Epinephrine Act'." Effect of Amendment 2023 Act No. 47, SECTION 1, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-660 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 7 / Section 59-104-660
SECTION 59-104-660. State-supported institutions to establish procedures and programs to measure student achievement.
Status: in_force

(A) All state-supported institutions of higher learning shall establish their own procedures and programs to measure student achievement which must include, but are not limited to, the performance indicators contained in Section 59-103-30(B)(6) and (7). The procedures and programs must be submitted to the Commission on Higher Education as part of the plan for measuring institutional achievement and must: (1) derive from institutional initiatives, recognizing the diversity of South Carolina public colleges and universities, the tradition of institutional autonomy, and the capacity of faculty and administrators to identify their own problems and solve them creatively; (2) be consistent with each institution's mission and educational objectives; (3) involve faculty in setting the standards of achievement, selecting the measurement instruments, and analyzing the results; (4) follow student progress through the curriculum, as appropriate; (5) include follow-up of graduates. (B) As part of their annual report on institutional achievement, all state-supported colleges and universities shall describe their progress in developing assessment programs and submit information on student achievement to the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-127-330 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 127 / Article 3 / Section 59-127-330
SECTION 59-127-330. Full faith and credit of State not pledged; no personal liability for executing bonds.
Status: in_force

The faith and credit of the State of South Carolina must not be pledged for the payment of the principal and interest on the bonds and there must be on the face of each bond a statement plainly worded to that effect. Neither the trustees nor any other persons executing the bonds are personally liable for them.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-740 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 5 / Section 59-67-740
SECTION 59-67-740. Contracts of insurance on county and district-owned and contract buses.
Status: in_force

County and district boards of education owning school buses are directed to provide the same insurance coverage for the lawful occupants of a county or district-owned bus as is provided for the lawful occupants of a State-owned school bus under Section 59-67-710. County and district boards of education are further directed to see that this same insurance coverage is provided for all lawful occupants of any contract vehicle operated under contract with such county and district boards of education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-210 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 3 / Section 59-104-210
SECTION 59-104-210. Competitive grants program established.
Status: in_force

A competitive grants program is established to improve undergraduate education in South Carolina. The State Commission on Higher Education shall administer the program, promulgate appropriate regulations, and request annual state appropriations for this purpose. All public and private nonproprietary post-secondary institutions accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools are eligible to participate in this program.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-153-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 153 / Article 1 / Section 59-153-40
SECTION 59-153-40. Standards for discharge of duties by trustee or other fiduciary.
Status: in_force

A trustee or other fiduciary shall discharge duties with respect to an endowment fund: (1) solely in the interest of the endowment fund and beneficiaries; (2) for the exclusive purpose of providing benefits to his beneficiary and paying reasonable expenses of administering the system; (3) with the care, skill, and caution under the circumstances then prevailing which a prudent person acting in a like capacity and familiar with those matters would use in the conduct of an activity of like character and purpose; (4) impartially, taking into account any differing interests of beneficiaries; (5) incurring only those costs that are appropriate and reasonable; and (6) in accordance with a good faith interpretation of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-447 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 59-1-447
SECTION 59-1-447. Regulations for mandatory test security procedures.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education shall by regulation establish detailed mandatory test security procedures.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-44-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 44 / Section 59-44-50
SECTION 59-44-50. Community education advisory council.
Status: in_force

A nine member state community education advisory council, representing recreation, health, cultural, social services, community services, education, business-industry, aged and minority groups, shall be appointed by the State Superintendent of Education, for the purpose of promoting furtherance of this chapter and the advancement of recreational, educational, cultural, social and health opportunities through the maximum utilization of public facilities. Members of the council shall be appointed for a four year term; provided, that staggered terms shall be established so that after the first year no more than one-fourth of the members will be appointed in a given year. A minority of the council constitute a quorum.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-13-90 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 13 / Section 59-13-90
SECTION 59-13-90. Annual report to county treasurer of claims approved.
Status: in_force

The county superintendent of education shall, on or before the fifteenth day of July in each year, report to the county treasurer, by school districts, all school claims approved by him for the school year last preceding, and the county treasurer shall thereupon close the school accounts for that year, carrying over any balance to the credit of each school district to the then current fiscal year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-920 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 9 / Section 59-63-920
SECTION 59-63-920. School compliance and documentation.
Status: in_force

The principal or charter school leader of each school shall comply with the requirements of Section 59-63-910 and document their compliance. Effect of Amendment 2018 Act No. 256, SECTION 3, rewrote the section, requiring documentation of compliance and removing monetary penalties.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-131-25 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 131 / Section 59-131-25
SECTION 59-131-25. Use of proceeds of bonds.
Status: in_force

The proceeds of bonds issued pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited with the State Treasurer and used to defray all or a part of the cost of acquiring and constructing the parking facilities authorized in this chapter and to defray the cost of issuing such bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-59-190 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-59-190
SECTION 59-59-190. Assistance in planning and promoting career information and employment options.
Status: in_force

(A) The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce, in collaboration with the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education and the Commission on Higher Education, shall assist the Department of Education, in planning and promoting the career information and employment options and preparation programs provided for in this chapter by: (1) identifying potential employers to participate in the career-oriented learning programs; (2) serving as a contact point for employees seeking career information and training; (3) providing labor market information including, but not limited to, supply and demand; (4) promoting increased career awareness and career counseling through the management and promotion of the South Carolina Occupational Information System; (5) collaborating with local agencies and businesses to stimulate funds; and (6) cooperating in the creation and coordination of workforce education programs. (B) The South Carolina Department of Employment and Workforce shall assist in providing a link between employers in South Carolina and youth seeking employment. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 149, SECTION 2, in subsection (A), deleted at the end the reference to the establishment of regional education centers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-59-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-59-60
SECTION 59-59-60. Organizing high school curricula around clusters of study and cluster majors.
Status: in_force

Before July 1, 2007, school districts shall: (1) organize high school curricula around a minimum of three clusters of study and cluster majors. The curricula must be designed to provide a well- rounded education for students by fostering artistic creativity, critical thinking, and self-discipline through the teaching of academic content, knowledge, and skills that students will use in the workplace, further education, and life; (2) promote increased awareness and career counseling by providing access to the South Carolina Occupational Information System for all schools. However, if a school chooses another occupational information system, that system must be approved by the State Department of Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-1310 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 13 / Section 59-63-1310
SECTION 59-63-1310. Individual or cooperative programs; funding; sites.
Status: in_force

School districts which choose to establish, maintain, and operate, either individually or as a cooperative agreement among districts, alternative school programs shall be eligible for funding provided by the General Assembly for this purpose. The program must be operated at a site separate from other schools unless operated at a time when those schools are not in session or in another building on campus which would provide complete separation from other students. However, an existing alternative school program located in a defined area within a building which provides complete separation from other students and which otherwise meets the criteria established herein may continue at this site if the location is approved by the Department of Education. Provided, that a school district or consortium may apply for a waiver to the site requirement for a new program if it demonstrates to the satisfaction of the State Department of Education that no separate site is available and the cost of temporary classroom space cannot be justified, then the alternative school program may be established in a defined area within a building which provides complete separation from other students if the location is approved by the Department of Education. This waiver may be granted for a period of two years. In order for the district or consortium to reapply for a waiver, they must outline efforts made to acquire a separate facility.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-5-61 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 5 / Section 59-5-61
SECTION 59-5-61. Secondary occupational career and technology education courses for school district.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education, through local school districts and area career and technology centers, shall establish, maintain, and operate secondary occupational vocational education courses for secondary school students in public schools in accordance with guidelines and standards established by the board and in accordance with federal laws pertaining to career and technology education. The board shall approve secondary occupational career and technology education courses. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" in three places.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-740 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 59-25-740
SECTION 59-25-740. Process and procedure shall be summary and simple.
Status: in_force

The process and procedure under this article shall be as summary and simple as reasonably may be. The county board of education shall have the power, for the purpose of this article, to subpoena witnesses, to administer oaths and to examine such parts of any books and records as relate to the questions involved. Any party to such proceedings may cause to be taken the depositions of witnesses within or without the State and either by commission or de bene esse. Such depositions shall be taken in accordance with and subject to the same provisions, conditions and restrictions as apply to the taking of like depositions in civil actions at law in the court of common pleas, and the same rules with respect to the giving of notice to the opposite party, the taking and transcribing of testimony, the transmission and certification thereof and matters of practice relating thereto shall apply.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-8-145 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 8 / Section 59-8-145
SECTION 59-8-145. Procedures to inform students and their parents of eligibility and approved education service providers; misuse of account funds; records; reporting.
Status: in_force

(A) The department shall adopt procedures to inform students and their parents annually of their eligibility for the program. (B) The department shall adopt procedures to annually inform scholarship students and their parents of the approved education service providers. (C) The department shall provide to parents of a scholarship student written instructions for the allowable uses of an account and the responsibilities of parents and the duties of the department. (D) The department may declare that a student is ineligible for continuation in the program due to substantial misuse of their account funds. (E) The department may conduct or contract for the auditing of accounts, and shall, at a minimum, conduct random audits of education service providers, education trust fund, and scholarship accounts on an annual basis. (F) The department may refer cases of substantial misuse of funds to law enforcement agencies for investigation. (G) The department shall maintain a record of the number of applications received annually for the program, the number of students accepted into the program each fiscal year, and the number of students not accepted into the program each fiscal year with a corresponding explanation as to why the student was not accepted into the program. The department shall compile this information and provide a report on the previous fiscal year to the General Assembly by December thirty-first of each year. Editor's Note 2023 Act No. 8, SECTION 3, provides as follows: "SECTION 3. This act takes effect thirty days after approval by the Governor, provided that upon approval of this act by the Governor, the Department of Education shall begin undertaking and executing responsibilities incidental to the implementation of this act so that the provisions of this act may be fully implemented thirty days after approval by the Governor." 2025 Act No. 11, SECTION 16, provides as follows: "SECTION 16. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. Current eligible participants may continue receiving benefits under the Education Scholarship Trust Fund, until the end of the 2024-2025 School Year." Effect of Amendment 2025 Act No. 11, SECTION 8, in (D), substituted "student" for "parent"; in (E), inserted ", education trust fund,"; deleted former (G), relating to program administration contracts with qualified organizations, and redesignated former (H) as (G); and in (G), twice inserted "fiscal" preceding "year" in the first sentence and inserted "on the previous fiscal year" in the second sentence.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-970 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 9 / Section 59-119-970
SECTION 59-119-970. Resolutions for issuance of bonds; maturation; interest rates; redemption; manner of call for redemption; notice.
Status: in_force

In order to avail themselves of the authorizations set forth in this article, the trustees shall from time to time adopt resolutions providing for the issuance of bonds of Clemson, within the limitations herein mentioned, which resolutions shall prescribe the tenor, terms, and conditions of such bonds. Such bonds must be issued as serial or term bonds, maturing in equal or unequal amounts, at such times and on such occasions as the trustees determine. The last maturing bonds of any issue must be expressed to mature not later than fifty years from their date, and the first maturing bonds of any issue, issued pursuant to this article, shall fall due within five years from their date. The bonds shall bear such rates of interest, payable on such occasion, as the trustees shall prescribe, and the bonds must be in such denominations, must be payable in such medium of payment, and at such place as such resolutions prescribe. All bonds may be issued with a provision permitting their redemption on any interest payment date prior to their respective maturities. Bonds made subject to redemption prior to their stated maturities may contain a provision requiring the payment of a premium for the privilege of exercising the right of redemption, in such amount or amounts as the trustees shall prescribe in the resolutions authorizing their issuance. All bonds that are subject to redemption shall contain a statement to that effect on the face of each bond. The resolutions authorizing their issuance shall contain provisions specifying the manner of call for redemption and the notice of such call that must be given.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-102-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 102 / Section 59-102-60
SECTION 59-102-60. Issuance of certificate of registration; grounds for refusal; application for renewal; renewal application submitted in another state.
Status: in_force

(A) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (B), the Department of Consumer Affairs shall issue a certificate of registration to a person who complies with Section 59-102-50(A) or whose application has been accepted pursuant to Section 59-102-50(B). (B) The department may refuse to issue a certificate of registration if he determines the applicant has engaged in conduct that has a significantly adverse effect on the applicant's fitness to act as an athlete agent. In making the determination, the department may consider whether the applicant has: (1) pleaded guilty or no contest to, has been convicted of, or has charges pending for a crime that would be a crime involving moral turpitude or a felony if committed in this State; (2) made a materially false, misleading, deceptive, or fraudulent representation in the application or as an athlete agent; (3) engaged in conduct that would disqualify the applicant from serving in a fiduciary capacity; (4) engaged in conduct prohibited by Section 59-102-140; (5) had a registration or licensure as an athlete agent suspended, revoked, or denied or been refused renewal of registration or licensure as an athlete agent in any state; (6) engaged in conduct resulting in the imposition against a student athlete or educational institution of a sanction, suspension, or declaration of ineligibility to participate in an interscholastic or intercollegiate athletic event; or (7) engaged in conduct that significantly adversely reflects on the applicant's credibility, honesty, or integrity. (C) In making a determination pursuant to subsection (B), the department shall consider: (1) how recently the conduct occurred; (2) the nature of the conduct and the context in which it occurred; and (3) other relevant conduct of the applicant. (D) An athlete agent registered under subsection (A) may apply to renew a registration by submitting an application for renewal in a form prescribed by the department. An application filed pursuant to this section is a public record. The application for renewal must be signed by the applicant under penalty of perjury and must contain current information on all matters required in an original registration. (E) An athlete agent registered pursuant to Section 59-102-50(C) may renew the registration by proceeding under Section 59-102-50(D) or, if registration in the other state has been renewed, by submitting to the department copies of the application for renewal in the other state and the renewed registration from the other state. The department shall renew the registration if it determines: (1) registration requirements of the other state are substantially similar to or more restrictive than this chapter; and (2) the renewed registration has not been suspended or revoked and no action involving the person's conduct as an athlete agent is pending against him or his registration in any state. (F) A certificate of registration or a renewal of a registration is valid for two years. Comment Effect of Amendment 2018 Act No. 235, SECTION 1, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-2440 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 27 / Section 59-53-2440
SECTION 59-53-2440. Issuance of bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness.
Status: in_force

(A) An authority may issue bonds in the same manner and for the same purposes, including the purposes of an authority, pursuant to the provisions of the Higher Education Revenue Bond Act, as provided in Chapter 147, Title 59. (B) The issuance by an authority of bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness is subject to approval by resolution of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. (C) Bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness of an authority do not constitute a debt or a pledge of the faith and credit of the State of South Carolina, the commission, or any of the state's political subdivisions other than an authority, but are payable only from the revenue, money, or property of an authority as provided in this article. The bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness of an authority do not constitute an indebtedness of the State within the meaning of any state constitutional or statutory limitation. A member of the board or a person executing bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness of an authority is not liable personally on the bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness by reason of their issuance or execution. Each bond, note, other obligation, or indebtedness must contain on its face a statement to the effect that: (1) the State, the commission, the State's political subdivisions, or an authority is not obligated to pay the principal of or interest on the bond or other costs incident to the bond except from the revenue, money, or property of an authority pledged; (2) the full faith and credit, and the taxing power of the State and its political subdivisions, is not pledged to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bond, note, other obligation, or indebtedness; and (3) an authority does not have taxing power.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-102-90 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 102 / Section 59-102-90
SECTION 59-102-90. Fees.
Status: in_force

An application for registration or renewal of registration must be accompanied by a fee of: (1) one thousand five hundred dollars for an initial application for registration; (2) two thousand five hundred dollars for registration based on a certificate of registration issued by another state; (3) seven hundred dollars for an application for renewal of registration; or (4) one thousand dollars for renewal of registration based on a renewal of registration in another state. Comment Editor's Note 2021 Act No. 35, SECTION 7, provides as follows: "SECTION 7. This act takes effect for each institution of higher learning in this State upon the earlier of July 1, 2022, or certification by the Attorney General to the Governor of the enactment of rules consistent with the provisions contained in this act by the institution of higher learning's collegiate governing body [July 1, 2021]. Upon certification by the Attorney General, the provisions of this act are suspended until the General Assembly takes further action." 2022 Act No. 239, SECTION 117.172, provides as follows: "117.172. (GP: Name Image Likeness) For Fiscal Year 2022-23, Act 35 of 2021 in its entirety pertaining to intercollegiate athlete (NIL) name, image, or likeness is suspended." Effect of Amendment 2018 Act No. 235, SECTION 1, inserted (2) and redesignated former (2) as (3), added (4), and made nonsubstantive changes. 2021 Act No. 35, SECTION 5, in (1), substituted "one thousand five hundred dollars" for "five hundred dollars"; in (2), substituted "two thousand five hundred dollars" for "five hundred dollars"; in (3), substituted "seven hundred dollars" for "three hundred dollars"; and in (4), substituted "one thousand dollars" for "three hundred dollars".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-130-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 130 / Article 1 / Section 59-130-10
SECTION 59-130-10. Board of trustees.
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees for the College of Charleston is composed of the Governor of the State or his designee, who is an ex officio of the board, and nineteen members, with seventeen of these members elected by the General Assembly, one member appointed from the State at large by the Governor, and one member appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of the College of Charleston Alumni Association. The General Assembly shall elect and the Governor shall appoint these members based on merit regardless of race, color, creed, or gender and shall strive to assure that the membership of the board is representative of all citizens of this State. Of the seventeen members to be elected, two members must be elected from each congressional district and the remaining three members must be elected by the General Assembly from the State at large. The term of office of the at-large trustee appointed by the Governor is effective upon certification to the Secretary of State and is coterminous with the term of the Governor appointing him. He shall serve after his term has expired until his successor is appointed and qualifies. The member appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of the College of Charleston Alumni Association shall serve for a term of four years, beginning on July 1, 2010, until his successor is appointed and qualifies. The member must be a South Carolina resident and hold an undergraduate or graduate degree from the College of Charleston. Each position on the board constitutes a separate office and the seats on the board are numbered consecutively as follows: for the First Congressional District, Seats One and Two; for the Second Congressional District, Seats Three and Four; for the Third Congressional District, Seats Five and Six; for the Fourth Congressional District, Seats Seven and Eight; for the Fifth Congressional District, Seats Nine and Ten; for the Sixth Congressional District, Seats Eleven and Twelve; for the Seventh Congressional District, Seats Thirteen and Fourteen; for the at-large positions elected by the General Assembly, Seats Fifteen, Sixteen, and Seventeen. The member appointed by the Governor shall occupy Seat Eighteen. The member appointed by the Governor upon recommendation of the alumni association shall occupy Seat Nineteen. Effective July 1, 1988, the even-numbered seats of those members elected by the General Assembly must be filled for four-year terms expiring June 30, 1992. The remaining elective odd-numbered seats on the board must be filled for two-year terms beginning July 1, 1988, and expiring June 30, 1990. The trustees for the odd-numbered seats must then be elected for four-year terms beginning July 1, 1990, and expiring June 30, 1994. Effective July 1, 2012, the member elected to Seat Thirteen on the board must be elected for two-year terms beginning July 1, 2012, and expiring June 30, 2014, and the member elected to Seat Fourteen on the board must be elected to fill a four-year term beginning July 1, 2012, and expiring June 30, 2016. The General Assembly shall hold elections every two years to select successors of the trustees whose four-year terms are then expiring. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no election may be held before April first of the year in which the successor's term is to commence. The term of office of an elective trustee commences on the first day of July of the year in which the trustee is elected. If an elective office becomes vacant, the Governor may fill it by appointment until the next session of the General Assembly. The General Assembly shall hold an election at any time during the session to fill the vacancy for the unexpired portion of the term. A vacancy occurring in the appointed office on the board must be filled for the remainder of the unexpired term by appointment in the same manner of the original appointment. Effect of Amendment The 2010 amendment rewrote this section. The 2012 amendment rewrote this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-117-310 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 117 / Article 3 / Section 59-117-310
SECTION 59-117-310. Sale; advertisement; discounts.
Status: in_force

The bonds must be disposed of in such manner as the trustees determine, except that no sale, privately negotiated without public advertisement, may be made unless the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority is obtained. If the trustees elect to sell the bonds at public sale, at least one advertisement of them must appear in some newspaper of general circulation in this State not less than seven days before the date fixed for the opening of bids. The bonds may be sold at such discount or for such premium as may be determined by the trustees or their designee as being in the best interest of the University.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1910 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 21 / Section 59-53-1910
SECTION 59-53-1910. Joint career and technology school funding.
Status: in_force

The career and technology school does not constitute a separate school district but is a joint project for the establishment of a career and technology school by the cooperating school districts. The career and technology school must be funded by the respective district boards, as the district boards may agree upon. The costs of acquiring real property and the improvements on it are to be borne by the respective district boards according to their agreement. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" in the first and second sentences and made nonsubstantive language changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-180 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 1 / Article 3 / Section 59-1-180
SECTION 59-1-180. "State Educational Finance Commission" defined.
Status: in_force

"State Educational Finance Commission" means the State Board of Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-33-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 33 / Article 1 / Section 59-33-50
SECTION 59-33-50. District programs; contracts between districts; special arrangements for multiple-handicapped children.
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of each school district shall, upon approval of its district's plan by the State Department of Education, establish and operate a program which will insure an appropriate education for each handicapped child resident within the district and shall maintain adequate records of the training and services provided and the children participating in the program. When a school district cannot satisfy the requirements of this section by providing for the education of its resident handicapped children because of insufficient numbers, the district may contract with other districts within the State or school systems or public or private institutions or agencies within or without the State which maintain approved special educational facilities; provided, that such institutions or agencies shall accept applicable children into the program regardless of color, race, sex, or religion. The sending district must document this lack of numbers and receive prior approval from the State Department of Education. The sending district may contract and pay the receiving district or institution the per capita cost of instruction, special equipment and special services not reimbursed to the receiving district by State, Federal and other moneys plus the cost of transportation and of maintenance if the nonresident children must reside away from their homes. The district which enters into such nonresident contract arrangements, which are approved by the State Department of Education, shall be reimbursed by the department for tuition, fees, transportation and books, not to exceed the per pupil cost of educating a handicapped child of identical age in the public schools. Special arrangements for multiple-handicapped children for whom special appropriations are provided because of the severity of their handicaps may be made with the Department.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 1 / Section 59-119-30
SECTION 59-119-30. Name changed to Clemson University.
Status: in_force

The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina shall henceforth be known, named and designated as Clemson University.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-105-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 105 / Section 59-105-20
SECTION 59-105-20. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this act: (1) "Campus" means a building or property: (a) owned or controlled by an institution within the same reasonably contiguous geographic area and used by the institution in direct support of, or in a manner related to, the institution's educational purposes; (b) owned or controlled by a student organization recognized by the institution including, but not limited to, fraternity, sorority, and cooperative houses; (c) controlled by the institution but owned by a third party. (2) "Campus sexual assault" means a sexual assault that occurs on campus. (3) "Institution of higher learning" or " institution" means a public two-year or four-year college, community or junior college, technical school, or university located in this State, and also any private two-year or four-year college, community or junior college, technical school, or university located in this State which elects to be governed by this chapter. (4) "Student" means an individual who is enrolled in an institution of higher learning on a full-time or part-time basis.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-197 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 101 / Article 1 / Section 59-101-197
SECTION 59-101-197. Reporting requirement of financial information for medical school receiving state appropriation.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section "affiliate" means any entity controlled by or under common control with another entity, whether through ownership, interlocking boards or officers, charter, bylaws, or otherwise and including each professional staff office or practice of each medical school receiving an appropriation from the State, and each trust or foundation which has as one of its significant purposes the support of a medical school receiving an appropriation from the State. (B) Not later than September first of each year, each medical school receiving an appropriation from the State shall provide to the General Assembly a written report setting forth: (1) for the prior fiscal year the total compensation paid or accrued by the medical school and its affiliates, including cash, fringe benefits, retirement accounts or arrangements, deferred compensation accounts or arrangements, consultant's, director's, and trustee's fees and honoraria, from all sources to or for each officer, dean, department chairman, and each of the fifty most highly compensated physicians employed by or utilizing the facilities of the medical school or its affiliates; (2) a description of each element of the compensation; (3) the source of each element of the compensation; and (4) the number of out-of-state students and the total number of students in each academic program.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-125-510 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 125 / Article 5 / Section 59-125-510
SECTION 59-125-510. Purpose.
Status: in_force

(A) The General Assembly finds that it is desirable to provide continuing and general statutory authority for Winthrop University to incur debt for the purpose of, among other things, acquiring, constructing, renovating, and equipping certain athletic facilities, which debt is secured by a pledge of the revenues derived from the operation of the athletic department of Winthrop University and by the proceeds of certain related admissions fees and special fees charged to students enrolled at Winthrop University. Winthrop University has demonstrated need for additional funds to provide for acquisition, construction, renovation, and equipping of such facilities. These facilities are needed to replace or renovate aging facilities and to provide additional facilities all to the end that the educational environment at Winthrop University will be enhanced for the benefit of present and future students at Winthrop University. (B) Consideration has been given to this need and to the methods of funding it. It has been determined to be in the best interests of the people of this State to authorize Winthrop University to acquire, construct, renovate, and equip additional such facilities and to incur indebtedness for these purposes which is payable from the revenues derived from the operation of these facilities and from related fees to the extent and under the conditions provided for in this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-97 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-97
SECTION 59-19-97. Evaluation system for continuing contract teachers.
Status: in_force

The teacher's evaluation system for continuing contract teachers, mandated by Act 187 of 1979, must be fully implemented in all school districts by school year 1984-85. A formal evaluation of continuing contract teachers must take place not less than every three years. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the governing bodies of the school districts of this State from establishing higher standards for the evaluation of teachers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-21-590 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 21 / Article 5 / Section 59-21-590
SECTION 59-21-590. Confidentiality of data on handicapped children.
Status: in_force

Names of handicapped children served under this article shall be submitted to the State Department of Education only according to the policies and procedures prescribed by the United States Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare established to protect the confidentiality of data on handicapped children receiving education or related services at public expense.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-165 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-165
SECTION 59-150-165. State and national criminal background investigation.
Status: in_force

(A) Any person required to undergo a background investigation pursuant to this chapter must undergo both a state and national criminal history background investigation as a part of the required investigation. Any person required to undergo a background investigation may be required to supply fingerprints, along with other personal identifying information, for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) through the State Law Enforcement Division (SLED). The commission is authorized to use SLED and FBI criminal history records for the screening of persons required to undergo background investigations. (B) This section applies to persons described in Sections 59-150-40(B)(2), 59-150-100(E), 59-150-130(A), and 59-150-150(C). (C)(1) In the case of an investigation of a person, as defined in Section 59-150-20(14), other than an individual, the required background investigations may be performed on any or all principals of the person, as determined by the commission. (2) For purposes of this section, "principal" means: (a) the directors and officers of an association; (b) all partners of a partnership, limited partnership, or limited liability partnership; (c) all members of a limited liability company, or if the company is a manager-managed company, all members and managers; (d) for a corporation, its directors, officers, and stockholders with a ten percent or more direct or beneficial interest or any person or entity that receives more than ten percent of the net income; and (e) an employee who has day-to-day operational management responsibilities for the business or entity. (3)(a) If a corporation is a member of a controlled group of corporations, as defined in 26 U.S.C. 1563, or a member of an affiliated group of corporations, as defined in 26 U.S.C. 1504, and at least one member of the group of corporations is a publicly-held corporation, only the corporation which seeks the vendor or retailer contract pursuant to this chapter is considered a principal for purposes of this chapter, along with its directors, officers, and stockholders as described in subitem (2)(d). (b) For purposes of subitem (a) of this item, "publicly-held corporation" means a corporation: (i) whose shares are traded on a national exchange; and (ii) whose total assets at the end of the corporation's most recent fiscal quarter exceeded one billion dollars. (D) SLED must collect, retain, expend, and carry forward fees associated with conducting criminal history investigations to offset the cost of performing the investigations. In the case of vendors, the fee for the criminal background investigation must be included in the fee imposed pursuant to Section 59-150-130(A).
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-95 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-95
SECTION 59-19-95. Implementation of student promotion policy.
Status: in_force

The governing body of every school district of this State shall implement a student promotion policy which at least meets the minimum criteria established by the State Board of Education under Section 59-5-65 of the 1976 Code.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-410 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 5 / Section 59-63-410
SECTION 59-63-410. Enrollment of pupils.
Status: in_force

The first two weeks of the opening of any public school in this State shall, for the purposes of this section, be known and designated as enrollment weeks. During these two weeks, all teachers in the free public schools of this State shall receive and enroll such pupils as they present themselves, if otherwise admissible under existing law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-400 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 101 / Article 1 / Section 59-101-400
SECTION 59-101-400. Educational credit for certain courses that are part of the military training or service.
Status: in_force

(A) A state-supported post-secondary educational institution governed by this title, including a technical and comprehensive educational institution, may award educational credit to a student honorably discharged from the Armed Forces of the United States for a course that is part of the military training or service of the student, provided: (1) the award must be made within three years after the enrollment of the student at the institution; (2) the course meets the standards of the American Council of Education or equivalent standards for awarding academic credit; and (3) the award is based upon the admissions standards, role, scope, and mission of the institution. (B) An institution authorized to award educational credit under subsection (A) shall: (1) develop a policy concerning the provisions of subsection (A) before January 1, 2014; and (2) adopt rules and procedures to implement the provisions of this section to become effective on the beginning of the 2013-2014 academic year of the institution. Editor's Note 2013 Act No. 45, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "SECTION 1. This act is known and may be cited as the 'Military Service Occupation, Education, and Credentialing Act'."
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-112-90 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 112 / Section 59-112-90
SECTION 59-112-90. Penalties for willful misrepresentations.
Status: in_force

Where it appears to the satisfaction of officials charged with administration of these provisions that a person has gained domiciliary status improperly by making or presenting willful misrepresentations of fact, such persons shall be charged tuition and fees past due and unpaid at the out-of-state rate, plus interest at a rate of eight percent per annum, plus a penalty amounting to twenty-five percent of the out-of-state rate for one semester; and until these charges have been paid no such student shall be allowed to receive transcripts or graduate from any State Institution.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-71-580 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 71 / Article 5 / Section 59-71-580
SECTION 59-71-580. Retail sales tax provisions as part of contract with bondholders.
Status: in_force

The provisions of Chapter 35 of Title 12 levying the retail sales tax and of this article pledging the proceeds thereof to the payment of the principal and interest of State school bonds and to the sinking fund to be established for the retirement of the outstanding principal of the bonds shall be deemed to partake of the obligation of the contract between the State and the holders of the State school bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-40-111 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 40 / Section 59-40-111
SECTION 59-40-111. Alternative Education Campus.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this chapter, an Alternative Education Campus (AEC) is any charter school with an explicit mission and purpose as outlined in its charter to serve an enrolled student population with: (1) severe limitations that preclude appropriate administration of the assessments administered pursuant to federal and state requirements; (2) fifty percent or more of students having Individualized Education Programs (IEPs) in accordance with federal regulations or a demonstrated need for specific services or specialized instruction as defined in Section 59-40-50, and the school shall provide the needed evidence-based specialized instruction, interventions, services, support, and accommodations based on the needs of the students; or (3) eighty-five percent or more of enrolled students meeting the definition of a "high-risk" student including students who: (a) have been adjudicated as juvenile delinquents or who are awaiting disposition of charges that may result in adjudication; (b) have dropped out of school or who have not been continuously enrolled and regularly attending any school for at least one semester before enrolling in this school; (c) have been expelled from school or who have engaged in behavior that would justify expulsion; (d) have documented histories of personal drug or alcohol use or who have parents or guardians with documented dependencies on drugs or alcohol; (e) have documented histories of personal street gang involvement or who have immediate family members with documented histories of street gang involvement; (f) have documented histories of child abuse or neglect; (g) have parents or guardians in prison or on parole or probation; (h) have documented histories of domestic violence in the immediate family; (i) have documented histories of repeated school suspensions; (j) are under the age of twenty years who are parents or pregnant women; (k) are homeless, as defined in the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act; or (l) have a documented history of a serious psychiatric or behavioral disorder including, but not limited to, an eating disorder or a history of suicidal or self-injurious behaviors. (B) Such schools must be classified as AECs by their sponsor. (C) A high-poverty rating alone shall not qualify any charter school for status as an AEC. (D) Charter school applicants seeking such a designation shall provide sufficient information in their charter application to allow the authorizer to make a determination as to whether that classification applies. (E) Charter schools already in operation may seek AEC classification by petitioning their sponsor. (F) Charter schools receiving an AEC designation either before or after opening, shall be held to applicable state and federal accountability standards along with the academic performance standards and expectations established by written agreement between the sponsor and the school that takes into account the school's specialized mission and student population with comparisons to any available nationally normed data with similar subsets of students and is included in their annual report in accordance with Section 59-40-140(H) and is included in the school report card compiled by the Education Oversight Committee. Effect of Amendment 2016 Act No. 219, SECTION 2, in (A)(1), inserted "and purpose"; in (A)(2), added the text following "in accordance with federal regulations"; and in (F), added the text following "specialized mission and student population".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-410 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 5 / Section 59-53-410
SECTION 59-53-410. Creation of commission; membership; officers; meetings; reports.
Status: in_force

There is created the Area Commission for the Trident Technical College (the area commission). The area commission has the functions and duties set forth in this article. The area commission is comprised of nine members, three of whom must be qualified electors of Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester Counties, respectively. The members from Charleston County must be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of the Charleston County Legislative Delegation. The members from Dorchester County must be appointed by the Governor on the recommendation of the governing body of the county. The members from Berkeley County must be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of the Berkeley County Legislative Delegation. Members shall serve for terms of three years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. Vacancies must be filled in the manner of the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. The area commission shall organize by electing a chairman and other officers as it considers necessary. The area commission shall meet upon the call of the chairman or a majority of its members. It shall make periodic reports of its activities and progress to the legislative delegation from the counties of Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-29-179 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 29 / Article 1 / Section 59-29-179
SECTION 59-29-179. Identification of higher order thinking and problem solving skills.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education shall establish a committee, which includes, but is not limited to, personnel from the State Department of Education, school districts, and institutions of higher education. The purpose of the committee shall be to assist the State Board of Education in the identification of the dimensions of thinking which shall constitute "higher order thinking and problem solving" for purposes of Sections 59-26-30(b)(3), 59-26-30(b)(7), 59-26-30(j), 59-29-179, 59-29-180, 59-29-181, 59-29-182, 59-29-183, 59-30-110, and 59-31-600.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-640 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 7 / Section 59-104-640
SECTION 59-104-640. Prospectus for planning; statewide planning document; revisions.
Status: in_force

(A) The chief executive officer of the Commission on Higher Education shall develop a prospectus for planning each year. (B) In the initial year, the Advisory Council on Planning is responsible for developing a statewide planning document for submission to the commission. (C) After the initial year and annually thereafter, the advisory council shall prepare revisions of the planning document for consideration by the commission. The revisions must conform to, but need not be limited to, the prospectus provided by the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-71-470 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 71 / Article 5 / Section 59-71-470
SECTION 59-71-470. Form of bonds; registration.
Status: in_force

State school bonds issued pursuant to this article may be in the form of negotiable coupon bonds, payable to bearer, with the privilege to the holder of having them registered in his name on the books of the State Treasurer as to principal only, or as to both principal and interest, and such principal, or both principal and interest, as the case may be, thus made payable to the registered holder, subject to such conditions as the State Treasurer may prescribe. State school bonds so registered as to principal in the name of the holder may thereafter be registered as payable to bearer and made payable accordingly. State school bonds may also be issued as fully registered bonds with both principal and interest thereof made payable only to the registered holder. Such fully registered bonds shall be subject to transfer under such conditions as the State Treasurer may prescribe. Such fully registered bonds may, if the proceedings authorizing their issuance so provide, be convertible into negotiable coupon bonds with the attributes set forth in the first paragraph of this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-10-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 10 / Article 1 / Section 59-10-50
SECTION 59-10-50. Administration of South Carolina Physical Education Assessments; scoring effectiveness.
Status: in_force

(A) Each public school in this State shall administer the South Carolina Physical Education Assessment. Assessment of students in second grade, fifth grade, eighth grade, and high school must be used to assess the effectiveness of the school's physical education program and its adherence to the South Carolina Physical Education Curriculum Standards. The State Department of Education shall develop a procedure for calculating a district and school physical education program effectiveness score. The district and school physical education effectiveness score must be reported to the education community through the district and school report card. (B) The physical education teachers in a school that receives an unsatisfactory program effectiveness score pursuant to subsection (A), will be provided professional development activities designed to assist the school in improving its programs' effectiveness.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-36-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 36 / Section 59-36-80
SECTION 59-36-80. Study of costs; recommendation as to weighting in connection with funding; annual determination of funding level.
Status: in_force

The Committee to Study Formula Funding for Educational Programs shall conduct a study of the costs of the program for preschool children with disabilities and, if appropriate, recommend weights to be included in the Education Finance Act, Section 59-20-40 and report to the General Assembly no later than November 1, 1993. Until the weightings for preschool children with disabilities are developed and funded, four-year-old children with hearing or visual disabilities and all five-year-old children with disabilities will continue to be counted for funding purposes under the Education Finance Act. Funding for all other preschool students with disabilities will be provided for in the General Appropriations Act. The General Assembly shall determine annually in the General Appropriations Act the amount of funding necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-109-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 109 / Section 59-109-60
SECTION 59-109-60. Expenses.
Status: in_force

All expenses incurred in carrying out the provisions of this chapter shall be payable solely from funds provided under the authority of this chapter and no liability shall be incurred by the Authority hereunder beyond the extent to which moneys shall have been provided under the provisions of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 31 / Article 1 / Section 59-31-50
SECTION 59-31-50. Use of disapproved books unlawful.
Status: in_force

In all schools and colleges within this State which are supported in whole or in part from the free school funds it shall be unlawful to use any textbook which has been condemned or disapproved by the State Board of Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-160 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 3 / Section 59-25-160
SECTION 59-25-160. "Just cause" may consist of any one or more of the following:
Status: in_force

(1) incompetence; (2) wilful neglect of duty; (3) wilful violation of the rules and regulations of the State Board of Education; (4) unprofessional conduct; (5) drunkenness; (6) cruelty; (7) crime against the law of this State or the United States; (8) immorality; (9) any conduct involving moral turpitude; (10) dishonesty; (11) evident unfitness for position for which employed; (12) sale or possession of narcotics; or (13) breach of contract. Editor's Note 2025 Act No. 12, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the 'Educator Assistance Act.'" Effect of Amendment 2025 Act No. 12, SECTION 6, added (12) and made other nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-158-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 158 / Section 59-158-40
SECTION 59-158-40. Institutional liability protections; athletic associations and conferences.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) An institution of higher learning may prohibit an intercollegiate athlete from using his name, image, or likeness for compensation if the proposed use of his name, image, or likeness conflicts with institutional values as defined by the institution of higher learning. (2) An intercollegiate athlete may not earn compensation for the use of his name, image, or likeness for the endorsement of tobacco, alcohol, illegal substances or activities, banned athletic substances, or gambling including, but not limited to, sports betting. (B) An institution of higher learning or any officers, trustees, directors, employees, including athletics coaching staff, may not be liable for any damages to an intercollegiate athlete's ability to earn compensation for the use of the intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness resulting from decisions or actions routinely taken in the course of intercollegiate athletics. However, nothing in this section should be construed to bar any common law claims by intercollegiate athletes of fraud, fraudulent misrepresentation, or intentional misrepresentation. (C) An athletic association, an athletic conference, or any other group or organization with authority over an intercollegiate athletic program at an institution of higher learning to which this chapter applies may not: (1) enforce a contract term, a rule, a regulation, a standard, a bylaw, guidance, or any other requirement that prohibits the institution from participating in intercollegiate sports or otherwise penalizes the institution, the institution's intercollegiate athletic program, or intercollegiate athletes for performing, participating in, or allowing an activity required or authorized by this chapter; or (2) prevent an institution of higher learning from establishing agreements with a third-party entity to act on the institution's behalf to identify, facilitate, enable, or support an intercollegiate athlete's name, image, or likeness activities. Editor's Note 2021 Act No. 35, SECTION 7, provides as follows: "SECTION 7. This act takes effect for each institution of higher learning in this State upon the earlier of July 1, 2022, or certification by the Attorney General to the Governor of the enactment of rules consistent with the provisions contained in this act by the institution of higher learning's collegiate governing body [July 1, 2021]. Upon certification by the Attorney General, the provisions of this act are suspended until the General Assembly takes further action." Effect of Amendment 2024 Act No. 207, SECTION 4, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-105-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 105 / Section 59-105-10
SECTION 59-105-10. Short title.
Status: in_force

This act is known and may be cited as the "South Carolina Campus Sexual Assault Information Act".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-121-15 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 121 / Article 1 / Section 59-121-15
SECTION 59-121-15. Authority to change title of The Citadel; conditions.
Status: in_force

At its discretion, the Board of Trustees of The Citadel is authorized to change the title of its governed institution from "The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina" to "The Citadel, the Military University of South Carolina", provided that the institution meets the criteria of a comprehensive university as established by the Commission on Higher Education on December 5, 1991.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-420 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 5 / Section 59-63-420
SECTION 59-63-420. Effect of transfer on enrollment lists.
Status: in_force

In the event that any enrolled pupil ceases to attend the school in which he has been enrolled and desires to attend another public school of this State, the teacher in the school wherein the pupil was last enrolled shall furnish the pupil, upon his application or upon the application of his parent or guardian, a certificate or card, showing the date of the enrollment of such pupil and all other information required by law to be obtained at the time of enrollment. When any pupil applies for admission in any of the public schools of this State subsequent to the two enrollment weeks of the school, he shall, if he has theretofore been enrolled during said year, present to the teacher or superintendent, such certificate or card, and before he shall be so enrolled, the school teacher shall ascertain whether or not he has theretofore been enrolled during that year, and, if it be found that he has, he shall not be included among the enrolled pupils of the school to which he has thus transferred for that year, but a separate list of such pupils shall be kept and maintained and reported on a separate sheet attached to the list of enrolled pupils.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-116-100 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 116 / Section 59-116-100
SECTION 59-116-100. Processing of persons arrested by campus police.
Status: in_force

Persons arrested by a campus police officer must be processed in the manner persons arrested are processed by municipal and county law enforcement officers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-60
SECTION 59-19-60. Removal of trustees; vacancies.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, school district trustees who wilfully commit or engage in an act of malfeasance, misfeasance, chronic unexcused absenteeism, conflicts of interest, misconduct in office, or persistent neglect of duty in office, or are deemed medically incompetent or medically incapacitated, are subject to removal by the Governor upon any of the foregoing causes being made to appear to the satisfaction of the Governor. Before removing any such officer, the Governor shall inform him in writing of the specific charges brought against him and give him an opportunity on reasonable notice to be heard. Vacancies occurring in the membership of any board of trustees for any cause shall be filled for the unexpired term in the same manner as provided for full-term appointments. Effect of Amendment 2022 Act No. 138, SECTION 1, rewrote the section, providing that the Governor may remove trustees and fill vacancies.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-26-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 26 / Section 59-26-10
SECTION 59-26-10. Intent; guidelines for implementation.
Status: in_force

It is the intent of this chapter to provide for a fair, cohesive, and comprehensive system for the training, certification, initial employment, evaluation, and continuous professional development of public educators in this State. The following guidelines, which further constitute the intent of this chapter must be adhered to by all state and local officials, agencies, and boards in interpreting and implementing the provisions of this chapter so that the system provided for herein shall: (a) upgrade the standards for educators in this State in a fair, professional, and reasonable manner; (b) assure that prospective teachers have basic reading, mathematics, and writing skills; (c) improve the educator training programs and the evaluation procedures for those programs; (d) assure that prospective teachers know and understand their teaching areas and are given assistance toward the achievement of their potential; (e) assure that school districts implement a comprehensive system for assisting, developing, and evaluating teachers employed at all contract levels.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-26-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 26 / Section 59-26-60
SECTION 59-26-60. Educational Improvement Task Force; appropriation.
Status: in_force

The General Assembly shall appropriate the necessary funds for operation of the Educator Improvement Task Force.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-32-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 32 / Section 59-32-50
SECTION 59-32-50. Notice to parents; right to have child exempted from comprehensive health education program classes.
Status: in_force

Pursuant to policies and guidelines adopted by the local school board, public school principals shall develop a method of notifying parents of students in the relevant grades of the content of the instructional materials concerning reproductive health, family life, pregnancy prevention, and of their option to exempt their child from this instruction, and sexually transmitted diseases if instruction in the diseases is presented as a separate component. Notice must be provided sufficiently in advance of a student's enrollment in courses using these instructional materials to allow parents and legal guardians the opportunity to preview the materials and exempt their children. A public school principal, upon receipt of a statement signed by a student's parent or legal guardian stating that participation by the student in the health education program conflicts with the family's beliefs, shall exempt that student from any portion or all of the units on reproductive health, family life, and pregnancy prevention where any conflicts occur. No student must be penalized as a result of an exemption. School districts shall use procedures to ensure that students exempted from the program by their parents or guardians are not embarrassed by the exemption.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-121-440 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 121 / Article 3 / Section 59-121-440
SECTION 59-121-440. Powers vested in visitors to secure payment of principal and interest on bonds.
Status: in_force

To the end that the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds authorized hereby are adequately secured, the visitors are empowered in their discretion: (1) to issue bonds in such amount, within the limitations herein provided for, as the visitors consider necessary, it is lawful for the visitors to use a portion of the principal proceeds derived from any sale of bonds, except bonds issued to effect refunding of outstanding bonds, to meet the payment of interest on such bonds for a period equal to the period of construction or renovation of the athletic facilities to be financed with the proceeds of such bonds, plus a period not exceeding six months, it being recognized by the General Assembly, that until the athletic facilities to be constructed or renovated with the proceeds of the bonds are completed, an undue burden may be imposed upon then existing revenues or other sources of payment of the bonds; (2) to impose admissions fees and a special student fee upon such basis and in such amounts as the visitors shall determine; (3) to pledge the revenues or the net revenues as designated by the visitors, or the proceeds of any admissions fees and special student fee, or both, as security for the payment of such bonds, whether then or thereafter to be existing. However, any surplus of such revenues or net revenues available after the payment of costs of operation and maintenance of the athletic department and of athletic facilities and of debt service on such bonds, and the establishment of any debt service reserve obligation in a bond reserve fund under the proceedings providing for the issuance of such bonds, may be placed in a contingency and improvement fund for athletic facilities in order to restore depreciated or obsolete athletic facilities, to make improvements to such athletic facilities, to defray the cost of unforeseen contingencies with regard to such athletic facilities, to prevent defaults under such bonds or to redeem any of such bonds, or may be reflected in the opening balance of the operating fund of the department for the next succeeding fiscal year and used for any purpose approved by the visitors. (4) to further secure the bonds with a pledge of any additional revenues or fees of The Citadel as may be authorized under other laws of the State; (5) to specify and limit the athletic facilities which may be made use of free of charge; (6) to covenant to establish and maintain such system of rules as will ensure the continuous and effective use of the athletic facilities; (7) to covenant that an adequate schedule of rates and charges for attendance at events held at any athletic facilities will be maintained, and that net athletic revenues plus any proceeds of the admissions fees and the special student fee will be sufficient to: (a) pay the cost of operating and maintaining the athletic department and the athletic facilities, including the cost of fire, extended coverage and use, and occupancy insurance; (b) pay the principal and interest of the bonds as they respectively become due; (c) provide any necessary debt service coverage ratios; (d) create and maintain any bond reserve fund established to meet the payment of principal and interest of any of the bonds; and (e) create and at all times maintain an adequate reserve for contingencies and for major repairs and replacement of athletic facilities; (8) to covenant against the mortgaging or disposing of the athletic facilities and against permitting or suffering any lien to be created thereon, equal or superior to any lien created thereon for the benefit of the holders of such bonds. However, the visitors reserve the right, under such terms as they shall prescribe, to issue additional bonds on a parity with, or subordinate to, the bonds authorized by this article; (9) to covenant as to the use of the proceeds derived from the sale of any bonds issued pursuant to this article; (10) to provide for the terms, form, registration, exchange, execution, and authentication of bonds, and for the replacement of lost, destroyed, or mutilated bonds; (11) to make covenants with respect to the operation of the athletic department and the athletic facilities; (12) to covenant that all revenues or net revenues pledged for the payment of the bonds must be duly segregated into special funds and that such funds will be used solely for the purposes for which they are intended and for no other purpose; (13) to covenant for the mandatory redemption of bonds on such terms and conditions as the resolutions authorizing such bonds shall prescribe; (14) to provide for early defeasance of bonds through the establishment of special escrow accounts maintained by a corporate trustee, which may be the State Treasurer, of cash, or United States government obligations, or obligations of agencies thereof, which escrows may be funded with proceeds of bonds issued hereunder or revenues or net revenues or other funds available to The Citadel; (15) to prescribe the procedure, if any, by which the terms of the contract with the bondholders may be amended, the number of bonds whose holders must consent thereto, and the manner in which consent shall be given; (16) to covenant as to the maintenance of the athletic facilities, the insurance to be carried thereon, and the use and disposition of proceeds from any insurance policy; (17) to prescribe the events of default and the terms and conditions upon which all or any bonds become or may be declared due before maturity, and the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and its consequences may be waived; (18) to impose a statutory lien upon any athletic facilities as security for the payment of the bonds. The lien shall extend to such athletic facilities, to their appurtenances and extensions, to their additions, improvements, and enlargements to the extent specified in the resolutions and shall inure to the benefit of the holders of the bonds secured thereby. These athletic facilities shall remain subject to such statutory lien until the payment in full of the principal and interest of the bonds. Any holder of any of the bonds, or any of the coupons representing interest thereon, may, either at law or in equity, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings, protect and enforce the statutory lien, and may, by suit, action, mandamus, or other proceedings enforce and compel performance of all duties of the visitors, including the fixing of sufficient rates, the proper segregation of the revenues, and the proper application thereof. However, the statutory lien must not be construed to give any such bond or coupon holder authority to compel the sale of any of the athletic facilities or any part thereof; (19) to covenant that, if there be any default in the payment of the principal of or interest upon any of the bonds, any court having jurisdiction in any proper action may appoint a receiver to administer and operate the athletic department, with power to fix rates and charges for athletic facilities and other activities of the athletic department, and to apply the income and revenues of the athletic department to the payment of such bonds and the interest thereon; (20) to establish on or before the occasion of the delivery of any bonds issued pursuant to this article a bond reserve fund and to cause the same to be maintained by the State Treasurer or its corporate trustee designee, and to that end, the visitors are empowered to utilize any monies available for the funding of any such bond reserve fund, including revenues or net revenues previously accumulated prior to the issuance of bonds or available proceeds of the admissions fee or the special student fee. In the discretion of the visitors, in lieu of cash, such a bond reserve fund may be funded with a surety bond, insurance policy, letter of credit, line of credit, or similar guarantee. At the discretion of the visitors, The Citadel may purchase an insurance policy ensuring payment of both principal and interest on any issuance of bonds hereunder; (21) with the consent of the State Treasurer, to appoint a corporate trustee and a paying agent for the bondholders, either of whom may be the State Treasurer, and to prescribe the manner in which revenues or net revenues, as well as proceeds of admissions fees and special student fees shall be utilized and disposed of. Any such corporate trustee shall serve in a fiduciary capacity as trustee for the bondholders under the resolutions of the visitors authorizing the issuance of bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-39-110 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 59-39-110
SECTION 59-39-110. Accelerated program of study.
Status: in_force

Each accredited high school in this State shall provide an accelerated program of study whereby any student who demonstrates sufficient ability shall, upon approval of the administrative head of such school and of the parent, guardian or other lawful custodian of such student, be allowed to undertake such courses of study as will enable the student to graduate at the end of eleven years of primary and secondary schooling.