S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-410 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 5 / Section 59-104-410
SECTION 59-104-410. Research Investment Fund.
Status: in_force

A Research Investment Fund is created to establish or expand research programs in public institutions of higher learning in this State which are related to the continued economic development of South Carolina. The fund must consist of appropriations to the State Commission on Higher Education which it allocates to the institutions for research. The funds must be apportioned among the three senior universities and the four-year colleges in a manner that takes into account the previous year's expenditures of externally generated funds for research by the institutions as reported to the commission. However, the commission may make exceptions to accommodate economic development opportunities in any area of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-32-36 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 32 / Section 59-32-36
SECTION 59-32-36. Comprehensive health education program.
Status: in_force

(A) A nurse, counselor, teacher, principal, or other official or staff at a public school shall not knowingly: (1) encourage or coerce a minor to withhold from the minor's parent or legal guardian the fact that the minor's perception of his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex, as defined in Section 44-42-310; or (2) withhold from a minor's parent or legal guardian information related to the minor's perception that his or her gender is inconsistent with his or her sex, as defined in Section 44-42-310. (B) The principal, vice principal, or counselor at a public school shall immediately notify in writing a minor's parent or legal guardian if the minor: (1) asserts to any school employee that the minor's gender is inconsistent with his or her sex, as defined in Section 44-42-310; or (2) requests a school employee to address a minor using a pronoun or title that does not align with the minor's sex.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-111-570 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 111 / Article 7 / Section 59-111-570
SECTION 59-111-570. Deposits and disbursements.
Status: in_force

The funds appropriated for the purposes of this article and all sums received in repayment of loans must be placed in the State Treasury to the credit of The South Carolina Medical and Dental Loan Fund. Loan payments must be paid out of this fund upon a voucher to the State Comptroller General signed by the chairman and the executive secretary of the Department.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1430 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 17 / Section 59-53-1430
SECTION 59-53-1430. Powers of commission.
Status: in_force

When funds are appropriated by the General Assembly the commission is authorized and empowered to do all things necessary or convenient to promote the objects of the program instituted by the former provisions which created the Advisory Committee for Technical Training, and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, shall be impounded as follows: (1) to adopt and use a corporate seal; (2) to adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations for the conduct of business and the expenditure of appropriated funds as it may deem advisable; (3) when funds are made available by the General Assembly, to acquire a site within Sumter County and to construct and equip thereon appropriate facilities in accordance with the standards and specifications promulgated by the former State Advisory Committee; (4) to acquire by gift, or purchase, or otherwise, all kinds and descriptions of real and personal property; (5) to accept gifts, grants, donations, devises and bequests; (6) to provide appropriate supervision of the maintenance of any facility established to promote vocational or technical education; (7) to provide the necessary administrative services required by the State program; (8) to employ such personnel as may be necessary to enable the commission to fulfill its functions; (9) to establish, promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations, in conjunction with those promulgated by the State agency, for the operation of its facilities; (10) to operate its affairs on a fiscal year coinciding with that of Sumter County; (11) to expend any funds received in any manner, including the proceeds derived from any bonds which may be issued to defray any costs incident to the establishment of adequate facilities for the program, and thereafter to expend such funds as may be appropriated for the operation, maintenance and improvement of the facilities; (12) to apply for, receive, and expend moneys from all governmental agencies, both State and Federal; (13) to exercise all powers contemplated for local agencies by the former provisions which created the Advisory Committee for Technical Training, and all other laws modifying, amending or implementing it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-960 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 9 / Section 59-119-960
SECTION 59-119-960. Pledge of state faith and credit prohibited; statement; personal liability.
Status: in_force

The faith and credit of the State must not be pledged for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds, and there must be on the face of each bond a statement plainly worded to that effect. Neither the trustees nor any other person signing the bonds is personally liable therefor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-5-68 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 5 / Section 59-5-68
SECTION 59-5-68. Uniform grading scale.
Status: in_force

The General Assembly finds that given the fact the State provides substantial financial academic assistance to students of the State based on cumulative grade point averages and districts currently use a variety of grading scales, it is in the best interest of the students of South Carolina for a uniform grading scale to be developed and adopted by the State Board of Education to be implemented in all public schools of the State. Therefore, the State Board of Education is directed to establish a task force comprised of superintendents, principals, teachers, and representatives of school boards and higher education no later than June 30, 1999. The task force shall make recommendations to the board including, but not limited to, the following: consistent numerical breaks for letter grades; consideration of standards to define an honors course; appropriate weighting of courses; and determination of courses and weightings to be used in the calculation of class rank. The task force shall report its findings to the State Board of Education no later than December 1, 1999. The State Board of Education shall then adopt and school districts of the State shall begin using the adopted grading scale no later than the 2000-2001 school year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-50-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 50 / Section 59-50-40
SECTION 59-50-40. Admissions; criteria, standards, procedures.
Status: in_force

The school shall admit students in accordance with the admission criteria, standards, and procedures as established and approved by the board. To be eligible for admission to the school, an applicant must be a legal resident of South Carolina unless a special exemption is established to accept out-of-state or international exchange students. Students must be identified as artistically talented and possess a high level of commitment, motivation, and maturity. The board shall assure, as far as possible and without jeopardizing admission standards, that an equal number of students are admitted from each of the state's congressional districts. Out-of-state or international exchange students admitted to the school shall pay tuition as determined by the board. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment at the end of the second sentence deleted "or until the Governor and board change the requirement" and added the fifth sentence requiring out-of-state or international exchange students to pay tuition.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-540 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 7 / Section 59-53-540
SECTION 59-53-540. Accounts of commission; audit.
Status: in_force

The commission shall keep full and accurate accounts of its acts, receipts, and expenditures, and at least once 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 delivered to the legislative delegations and the governing bodies of Chesterfield, Dillon, and Marlboro Counties. Effect of Amendment The 2004 amendment in the first sentence substituted "commission" for "Committee" and deleted "at all times" preceding "keep full and accurate", in the second sentence added ", Dillon," and substituted "must" for "shall" near the end of the first sentence and in the second sentence.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 59-67-10
SECTION 59-67-10. "School bus" defined.
Status: in_force

When used in this article, "school bus" shall be construed to mean every motor vehicle owned by a public or governmental agency and operated for the transportation of children to or from school or privately owned and operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from school.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-5-67 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 5 / Section 59-5-67
SECTION 59-5-67. Reduction of paper work; computerization; grants for improving teaching practices and procedures.
Status: in_force

(A) The State Department of Education shall provide for continuous training for district personnel to operate the computers provided and for continuous selection and evaluation of software. (B) The State Board of Education, acting through the State Department of Education, shall establish and administer a competitive grant program whereby teachers will be awarded grants for the purpose of improving teaching practices and procedures within the budgetary limitations authorized by the General Assembly. The respective local school districts shall act as the fiscal agent for the grants. For purposes of this section the term "teacher" includes teachers, librarians, guidance counselors, and media specialists.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-320 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 3 / Section 59-119-320
SECTION 59-119-320. Board of trustees shall be governing body; recorder.
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of Clemson University and their successors in office shall have perpetual control and direct the affairs of such municipal corporation. The board, by a majority vote, shall recommend a suitable person as recorder, who shall be commissioned by the Governor, shall have the same jurisdiction within the territory described in Section 59-119-310 as a magistrate and may carry out and enforce all ordinances of the board of trustees of Clemson University and punish violations thereof by fine or imprisonment within the jurisdiction hereinabove defined. Said board of trustees shall make such rules for the maintenance of order and provide such punishments, within the jurisdiction above defined, by fine or imprisonment, as will keep the territory within their jurisdiction free from nuisances and enforce the police regulations of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-795 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 7 / Section 59-63-795
SECTION 59-63-795. Increased access to free school breakfast and lunches for students in poverty.
Status: in_force

(A) Each public school district annually shall identify the number of its students who live in poverty and increase access to free school breakfasts and lunches for these students. This number must be obtained from the annual State Aide to Classrooms formulation in the annual state budget. For purposes of this section, "students in poverty" means students who: (1) qualify for Medicaid benefits; (2) qualify for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits; (3) qualify for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits; or (4) are homeless, transient, or in foster care. (B) The local board of trustees of a district in which all schools are eligible to receive the free federal reimbursement rate for all reimbursable school breakfasts and lunches served, pursuant to the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) in Section 1759(a) of Title 42 of the United States Code, shall adopt a resolution indicating its degree of participation, if any, in CEP. If a district is unable to participate in CEP because participation would cause a financial hardship, its board shall adopt a resolution stating that it is unable to participate in CEP and demonstrate the financial hardship. The resolution must be published on a public meeting agenda concurrently with the proposed district budget as an action item. A majority of the board members is required to approve any resolution under this subsection. The requirements of this subsection shall be suspended if CEP is suspended or discontinued by federal action. (C) A district shall ensure that the parents or guardians of students eligible for free and reduced lunch receive the necessary applications and instructions and, upon request, are provided with assistance in completing the paperwork. If a student is unable to pay for a meal or accrues meal debt, the student's district or school may not publicly identify or penalize the student in any way including, but not limited to, denying meals, serving alternative meals, discarding meals after serving them to the student, requiring chores or work in exchange for meals, prohibiting participation in extracurricular activities, denying participation in graduation, withholding diplomas, or refusing transcript requests. Communications from the district or school regarding any meal debt owed only may be directed to the parent or guardian of the student and may be sent home through the student.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-73-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 73 / Section 59-73-40
SECTION 59-73-40. Petition for and notice of election.
Status: in_force

Upon the written petition or request of at least one third of the resident electors and a like proportion of the resident freeholders of the age of twenty-one years being filed with the county board of education, asking for the same and stating the rate of tax levy proposed, which shall not exceed fifteen mills, the county board of education shall order the board of trustees of such school district to hold an election at some place within the district, after giving notice of the time and place thereof for at least two weeks in some newspaper published within the county and by posting notice thereof in at least three public places within such school district for such length of time, unless there be no newspaper published within the county, in which event the posting of the notices as above shall suffice.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-151-100 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 151 / Section 59-151-100
SECTION 59-151-100. Purpose.
Status: in_force

(A) The General Assembly declares that by this chapter it is establishing the South Carolina LightRail Consortium in response to growing demand for South Carolina academic institutions to expand their capacity for high speed, highly available bandwidth across the State, nation, and world in support of their missions, and to connect directly to national and regional networks for purposes directly related to their missions. (B) For this purpose, the South Carolina LightRail shall provide facilities-based advanced high performance communications infrastructure in support of the missions of the South Carolina academic institutions that are members of the South Carolina LightRail Consortium. The General Assembly declares its intent that this infrastructure must not compete with the commercial communications or information offerings of private sector participants. (C) The goal of the South Carolina LightRail Consortium is to promote collaboration among participating clinical, research, and educational institutions throughout the State, region, and nation to accomplish the objectives stated above. Editor's Note 2012 Act No. 284, SECTION 11, provides as follows: "The provisions of this act do not expand, diminish, or otherwise affect the provisions of Chapter 151, Title 59 regarding the South Carolina LightRail Consortium"
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-56-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 56 / Section 59-56-30
SECTION 59-56-30. Annual written financial report.
Status: in_force

The commission shall submit to the Beaufort and Jasper Counties Legislative Delegations at least once a year a written report in which it must show an accounting of all funds under control of the commission, a statement of all receipts and disbursements not previously reported, and a statement of its estimated financial needs for the ensuing year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-190 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-190
SECTION 59-19-190. Purchase of land by trustees; reassignment or disposal of land purchased with state funds.
Status: in_force

Whenever a board of trustees deems it expedient to acquire lands for public school purposes with any State funds, it may purchase, subject to the prior written approval of the State Board of Education, the lots or parcels of land necessary for such purchase. The reassignment or disposal of such parcels of land purchased after 1952 with any State funds shall be subject to the prior written approval of the State Board of Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-470 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 59-1-470
SECTION 59-1-470. Distribution of funds for deferred compensation.
Status: in_force

Funds appropriated by the General Assembly for a deferred compensation employer matching contribution must be distributed by the State Department of Education to school districts for the purpose of providing an employer matching contribution for eligible school district employees making contributions to deferred compensation plans offered by the South Carolina Deferred Compensation Commission or, after December 31, 2013, the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority, or other approved and qualified plans of other providers. These funds must be distributed in a manner consistent with the provisions of Section 8-23-110. The employer matching contribution by the school district may not exceed three hundred dollars for each eligible employee a year. Effect of Amendment The 2012 amendment inserted "or, after December 31, 2013, the South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority," and removed "Individuals eligible for the matching contribution must be classified as required in Section 9-20-20, the Optional Retirement Program for Teachers and School Administrators.".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-18-330 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 18 / Article 3 / Section 59-18-330
SECTION 59-18-330. Coordination and annual administration of National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP).
Status: in_force

The State Department of Education is directed to coordinate the annual administration of the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) to obtain an indication of student and school performance relative to national performance levels. A school randomly selected by NAEP must comply with the administration of the assessment to obtain an indication of state performance relative to national performance levels. Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment rewrote this section by deleting the second sentence which provided "The first administration of this test must occur no later than the 2000-2001 school year" and added the fourth sentence relating to teacher training and the fifth sentence relating to modifications to the readiness assessment to provide literacy development information. The 2008 amendment omitted SECTION 59-18-330 relating to first grade readiness tests and renumbered this section from SECTION 59-18-340; in the first sentence substituted "Department" for "Board" and "coordinate the annual administration of" for "administer annually" and added the second sentence.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-54-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 54 / Section 59-54-50
SECTION 59-54-50. Memoranda of agreements involving local technical college commissions and local school boards; effect of failure to enter into memoranda of agreement.
Status: in_force

(A) To assure a coordinated and articulated local delivery of career, technical, and adult basic and adult secondary education and job training, each local technical college commission and local school boards within each service area, as presently established by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education for the various technical colleges, shall enter into memoranda of agreement that must demonstrate the following: (1) cooperation between the technical college and the career and technology school in the planning and delivery of adult career and technology education; (2) articulation of secondary career and technology courses to post- secondary courses in the curricula of the technical colleges; (3) coordination among local boards, other local community agencies, literacy councils, private and nonprofit groups in planning and delivering adult basic education, adult secondary education, and literacy programs. (B) A technical college commission or local school board that fails to enter into memoranda of agreement which substantially agrees with the provisions of this chapter within two years of the effective date of this chapter may not receive further state funding for post-secondary or secondary career and technology education until such time as memoranda of agreement that substantially agree with this chapter have been executed. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment, in subsection (A), (A)(1), (2) and (B), substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" and made nonsubstantive language changes in subsection (B).
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-103-195 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 103 / Article 2 / Section 59-103-195
SECTION 59-103-195. Regulation of culinary arts instruction requiring student under 21 to taste alcoholic beverage.
Status: in_force

The State Commission on Higher Education shall have review authority in order to determine the legitimacy and appropriateness of the tasting requirements pursuant to Sections 63-19-2440 and 63-19-2450. The commission shall also establish reasonable rules and restrictions through regulation, as appropriate, with regard to any proposed course of instruction in the culinary arts which any private or public institution desires to offer to students under twenty-one years of age in which the tasting of beer, ale, porter, wine, or other similar malt or fermented beverage or alcoholic liquor is required. Unless approved by the commission, no such course and no student under twenty-one years of age enrolled in such course shall qualify for the exceptions provided under Sections 63-19-2440, 63-19-2450, 61-6-4070, or 61-4-90. A course of instruction on bartending or any similar curriculum does not qualify for exception or approval by the commission under this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-107-120 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 107 / Section 59-107-120
SECTION 59-107-120. Denominations of bonds; interest rate; maturity; redemption.
Status: in_force

The state institution bonds must be in the denomination of one thousand dollars or in any multiple thereof. They shall bear interest, payable semiannually, at a rate or rates not exceeding the maximum interest rate specified in the State Fiscal Accountability Authority's request for the issuance of the state institution bonds. Each issue of state institution bonds shall mature in annual series or installments, the last of which shall mature not more than twenty years after the date of the bonds. The installments or series may be equal or unequal in amount. The state institution bonds may, in the discretion of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, be made subject to redemption at par and accrued interest, plus such redemption premium as it may approve, and on such occasions as may be specified in the request for the issuance of the state institution bonds. State institution bonds may not be redeemable before maturity unless they contain a statement to that effect.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-111-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 111 / Article 1 / Section 59-111-40
SECTION 59-111-40. South Carolina defense scholarship fund; Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963 and Nurse Training Act of 1964.
Status: in_force

The provisions of Section 59-111-30 shall apply to students and institutions of higher learning which otherwise qualify under the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1963 (P.L. 88-129) and the Nurse Training Act of 1964 (P.L. 88-851).
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-610 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 7 / Section 59-104-610
SECTION 59-104-610. Statewide planning system.
Status: in_force

The State Commission on Higher Education shall maintain a statewide planning system to address strategic issues in public and private higher education. The system must focus upon the following goals to: (1) identify future directions for higher education in South Carolina and recommend appropriate methods for meeting the resultant challenges; (2) review major goals identified by the public and private institutions of higher learning in this State and ascertain their relationship to higher education in South Carolina; (3) assure the maintenance and continued development of the quality of higher education in South Carolina; (4) assure the maintenance and continued provision of access to and equality of educational opportunity in higher education in South Carolina; (5) measure and monitor an institution's standard of achievement in regard to the performance indicators for quality academic success as contained in Section 59-103-30.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-20-41 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 20 / Section 59-20-41
SECTION 59-20-41. Inclusion of children admitted to residential institutions of the Department of Mental Health.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of law: All school districts providing educational services to children admitted or committed to residential institutions of the Office of Mental Health are authorized to count children admitted or committed to residential institutions of the Office of Mental Health from the first day of residency in such institutions, provided, that the first day is within the particular district's school year. The inclusion of these children is for the purpose of participation in the districts' educational programs for handicapped children supported under the Education Finance Act of South Carolina. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-107-110 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 107 / Section 59-107-110
SECTION 59-107-110. Negotiability and registration.
Status: in_force

State institution bonds issued pursuant to this chapter 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 institution 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 institution 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. § 59-63-790 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 7 / Section 59-63-790
SECTION 59-63-790. School districts to implement breakfast program in each school.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 59-63-765 of the 1976 Code, by school year 1993-94 each school district shall implement in each school in the district a nutritional, well-balanced school breakfast program.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-152-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 152 / Section 59-152-30
SECTION 59-152-30. Goals.
Status: repealed

The goals for South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness are to: (1) provide parents with access to the support they might seek and want to strengthen their families and to promote the optimal development of their preschool children; (2) increase comprehensive services so children have reduced risk for major physical, developmental, and learning problems; (3) promote high-quality preschool programs that provide a healthy environment that will promote normal growth and development; (4) provide services so all children receive the protection, nutrition, and health care needed to thrive in the early years of life so they arrive at school ready to succeed; and (5) mobilize communities to focus efforts on providing enhanced services to support families and their young children so as to enable every child to reach school healthy and ready to succeed. Editor's Note 2018 Act No. 152, SECTION 8, provides as follows: "SECTION 8. Section 20B. of Act 287 of 2014 [reauthorizing the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Act until July 1, 2016] is repealed. Act 99 of 1999, South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Act, as amended by this act, is reauthorized until June 30, 2025." Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 287, SECTION 8, in paragraph (3), substituted "high-quality" for "high quality", and in paragraphs (4) and (5), substituted "ready to succeed" for "ready to learn".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 1 / Section 59-63-20
SECTION 59-63-20. Age of attendance.
Status: in_force

It is not lawful for any person who is less than five or more than twenty-one years of age to attend any of the public schools of this State, including kindergarten, except that: (1) Persons over twenty-one years of age may attend night schools; (2) When a pupil is in the graduating class and becomes twenty-one years of age before graduation, he is permitted to complete the term if otherwise qualified to do so; (3) Students may enter kindergarten in the public schools of this State if they will attain the age of five on or before September first of the applicable school year or have substantially initiated a public school kindergarten program in another state that has a different attendance age requirement from South Carolina; (4) Students may not enter the first grade in the public schools of this State unless they will attain the age of six on or before September first of the applicable school year or have substantially initiated a first grade program in another state that has a different attendance age requirement from South Carolina or have attended a public school kindergarten program for one full school year; (5) The restrictions in this section may be waived by the local board of school trustees in any proper case. However, that if the provisions of items (3) and (4) of this section are not complied with, the school district is not entitled to receive any state aid for any students who fail to meet these requirements; (6) Four-year-olds may attend optional child development programs and all three-year-old, four-year-old, and five-year-old children with disabilities in accordance with their individual education program, may participate in any public education preschool program, including optional child development programs. Children with disabilities served in four-year-old optional child development programs may be counted for funding under both funding sources.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-18-920 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 18 / Article 9 / Section 59-18-920
SECTION 59-18-920. Report card requirements for charter, alternative, and career and technology schools.
Status: in_force

A charter school established pursuant to Chapter 40, Title 59 shall report the data requested by the Department of Education necessary to generate a report card and a rating. The performance of students attending charter schools sponsored by the South Carolina Public Charter School District must be included in the overall performance ratings of each school in the South Carolina Public Charter School District. The performance of students attending a charter school authorized by a local school district must be reflected on a separate line on the school district's report card. An alternative school is included in the requirements of this chapter; however, the purpose of an alternative school must be taken into consideration in determining its performance rating. The Education Oversight Committee, working with the State Board of Education and the School to Work Advisory Council, shall develop a report card for career and technology schools. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment made nonsubstantive language changes throughout and in the second sentence substituted "career and technology" for "vocational". The 2006 amendment rewrote this section. The 2008 amendment reprinted this section without apparent change. The 2012 amendment inserted ", unless there is a mutual agreement to include the scores in the local school district ratings". 2017 Act No. 94, SECTION 13, amended the section, deleting provisions prohibiting the use of charter school student performance in a district's overall performance ratings.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-480 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 5 / Section 59-63-480
SECTION 59-63-480. Attendance at schools in adjacent county.
Status: in_force

If school children in one county reside closer to schools in an adjacent county, they may attend such schools upon the school authorities of the county of their residence arranging with the school officials of the adjacent county for such admission and upon payment of appropriate charges as herein authorized. The board of trustees in the school district in which the pupils reside shall make written application through its county board of education to the board of trustees of the district in which the school is located for the admission of such children, giving full information as to ages, residence and school attainment, and the board of trustees in the school district, agreeing to accept such pupils, shall give a written statement of agreement. Upon receipt of such application the board of trustees of the school and its county board of education shall determine the monthly per pupil cost of all overhead expenses of the school, which will include all expenses of the school not paid by the State. Upon proper arrangement being made for the payment monthly of such overhead per pupil cost for each such child the same shall be admitted to the schools of the adjacent county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-47-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 47 / Section 59-47-40
SECTION 59-47-40. Officers and meetings of board.
Status: in_force

The board of commissioners shall elect a chairman, vice chairman and secretary from their number and shall meet annually at the institution and at such other times and places as the chairman of the board shall direct.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-118-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 118 / Section 59-118-50
SECTION 59-118-50. Use of disbursements.
Status: in_force

Disbursements from the earnings must be used to provide funds for academic purposes, to include academic scholarships, and are then eligible to receive state matching funds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-180 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 59-67-180
SECTION 59-67-180. General supervision of bus by driver.
Status: in_force

The driver of every school bus while the bus is being operated as such shall have general supervision of it and shall not permit or allow any person in the bus to occupy such a position as will interfere with the vision of the driver either to the front, either side or rear of the vehicle while it is in motion.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-103-5 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 103 / Article 1 / Section 59-103-5
SECTION 59-103-5. Definitions.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this chapter (1) "public higher education" shall mean state-supported education in the post-secondary field, including comprehensive and technical education; (2) "public institution of higher learning" shall mean any state-supported-post-secondary educational institution and shall include technical and comprehensive educational institutions.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-103-35 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 103 / Article 1 / Section 59-103-35
SECTION 59-103-35. Submission of budget; new and existing programs.
Status: in_force

All public institutions of higher learning shall submit annual budget requests to the commission in the manner set forth in this section. The State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education shall submit an annual budget request to the commission representing the total requests of all area-wide technical and comprehensive educational institutions. The budget submitted by each institution and the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education must include all state funds, federal grants, tuition, and fees other than funds derived wholly from athletic or other student contests, from the activities of student organizations, from approved private practice plans, and from the operation of canteens and bookstores which may be retained by the institutions and be used as determined by the respective governing boards, subject to annual audit by the State. Fees established by the respective governing boards for programs, activities, and projects not covered by appropriations or other revenues may be retained and used by each institution as previously determined by the respective governing boards, subject to annual audit by the State. The budget request for the public higher education system shall be submitted by the commission to the Governor and appropriate standing committees of the General Assembly in conjunction with the preparation of the annual general appropriations act for the applicable year. Supplemental appropriations requests from any public institution of higher education must be submitted first to the commission. If the commission does not concur in the requests, the affected institution may request a hearing on the requests before the appropriate committee of the General Assembly. The commission may appear at the hearing and present its own recommendations and findings to the same committee. The provisions of this paragraph do not apply to any capital improvement projects funded in whole or in part prior to July 30, 1996. No new program may be undertaken by any public institution of higher education without the approval of the commission. The provisions of this chapter apply to all college parallel, transferable, and associate degree programs of technical and comprehensive education institutions. All other programs and offerings of technical and comprehensive education institutions are excluded from this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-39-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 59-39-10
SECTION 59-39-10. Establishment and maintenance of high schools.
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of any school district, acting singly or in cooperation with the boards of trustees of adjoining school districts, may establish and maintain a high school, with the privileges herein granted; provided, that such high school meets all the requirements of this article and the regulations of the State Board of Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-142-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 142 / Section 59-142-40
SECTION 59-142-40. Funds allocation methodology.
Status: in_force

Funds must be allocated in a given year to institutions using a methodology that considers state resident Pell Grant recipients so that each public institution shall receive an amount sufficient to provide a similar level of support per state resident Pell recipient when compared to tuition and required fees. However, no institution shall receive a smaller proportion of funding than would be provided under the student enrollment methodology used in years prior to fiscal year 2008-2009. Funds must be awarded to eligible students according to the financial need of the student. Effect of Amendment The 2011 amendment rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 59-67-80
SECTION 59-67-80. Windshield wiper, brakes, lights, and rear view mirrors.
Status: in_force

Every school bus shall be equipped with a power-driven windshield wiper, adequate brakes and efficient lights which shall at all times when in use be in good working order and also with a rear view mirror or mirrors of such dimensions as will enable the driver, from the driver's seat, to see reflected in them not only the occupants of the vehicle but also the road to the left and to the rear of the vehicle for a proper distance adequately to observe traffic in his rear.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-390 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-390
SECTION 59-150-390. Primary and secondary technology funding.
Status: in_force

The State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Administration's Office of Information Resources, the State Library, and the Education Television Commission, shall administer primary and secondary technology funding provided for in Section 59-150-350. These funds are intended to provide technology connectivity, hardware, software, and training for the K-12 public schools throughout the State and, to the maximum extent possible, involve public-private sector collaborative efforts. Funds allocated to the local school districts for technology expenditures must be distributed based on the number of students eligible for the free and reduced lunch program in grades 1-3. Editor's Note see Editor's Note to SECTION 59-150-350 relevant to amending provisions relating to guidelines for appropriation of lottery proceeds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-130 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 2 / Section 59-63-130
SECTION 59-63-130. Prohibited conduct; reports by witnesses.
Status: in_force

(A) A person may not engage in: (1) harassment, intimidation, or bullying; or (2) reprisal, retaliation, or false accusation against a victim, witness, or one with reliable information about an act of harassment, intimidation, or bullying. (B) A school employee, student, or volunteer who witnesses, or has reliable information that a student has been subject to harassment, intimidation, or bullying shall report the incident to the appropriate school official.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-153-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 153 / Article 1 / Section 59-153-20
SECTION 59-153-20. Funds and assets held in trust; trustee; investments.
Status: in_force

(A) All endowment funds and assets purchased with them are held in trust. The board of trustees of each institution of higher learning is the trustee of all endowment funds held in the name of that institution by the State Treasurer. The trustee has the exclusive authority to invest and manage those funds and assets and may invest and reinvest the funds, subject to all the terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions imposed by Article 7, Chapter 9, Title 11, upon the investment of sinking funds of the State, and, subject to like terms, conditions, limitations, and restrictions, may hold, purchase, sell, assign, transfer, and dispose of any of the securities and investments in which the endowment funds have been invested, plus the proceeds of these investments and any monies belonging to these funds. Additionally, the trustee may invest and reinvest its endowment funds in equity securities of a corporation within the United States that is registered on a national securities exchange as provided in the Securities Exchange Act, 1934, or a successor act, or quoted through the National Association of Securities Dealers Automatic Quotations System, or a similar service. (B) If endowment funds are invested in a security issued by an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (15 U.S.C. Section 80 a-1, et seq.), the assets of the system include the security, but not assets of the investment company.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-18-930 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 18 / Article 9 / Section 59-18-930
SECTION 59-18-930. Publication of report cards; issuance date; advertising results.
Status: in_force

(A) The State Department of Education annually shall publish on its website home page the report card to all schools and districts of the State no later than November fifteenth, for the 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 School Years. To further increase transparency and accountability, for the 2018-2019 School Year, the school's report card must be furnished to parents and the public no later than October first. For the 2019-2020 School Year, and every subsequent year, the school's report card must be furnished to parents and the public no later than September first. The home page report card must be capable of being downloaded into a portable document format (PDF) and must contain National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores or other national scores or comparisons, if available. The report card summary must be made available to all parents of the school and the school district. (B) The school, in conjunction with the district board, also must inform the community of the school's report card by advertising the results in at least one South Carolina daily newspaper of general circulation in the area. This notice must be published within forty-five days of receipt of the report cards issued by the State Department of Education and must be a minimum of two columns by ten inches (four and one-half by ten inches) with at least a twenty-four point bold headline. (C) If an audited newspaper of general circulation in a school district's geographic area has previously published the entire school report card results as a news item, the requirement of subsection (B) may be waived. Effect of Amendment The first 2008 amendment created the second undesignated paragraph from the third and fourth sentences of the existing section; rewrote the first undesignated paragraph to require an executive summary of the annual report card; and in the second sentence of the second undesignated paragraph substituted "forty-five days" for "ninety days". The second 2008 amendment made identical changes. The 2009 amendment designated subsections (A) and (B) and added subsection (C) relating to waiving the advertising requirement. 2017 Act No. 94, SECTION 14, amended (A), providing the department may publish the report card on its website in a certain manner, and providing certain national assessment scores may be included.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-280 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 3 / Section 59-63-280
SECTION 59-63-280. "Paging device" defined; adoption of policies addressing student possession.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section, "paging device" means a telecommunications, to include mobile telephones, device that emits an audible signal, vibrates, displays a message, or otherwise summons or delivers a communication to the possessor. (B) The board of trustees of each school district shall adopt a policy that addresses student possession of paging devices as defined in subsection (A). This policy must be included in the district's written student conduct standards. If the policy includes confiscation of a paging device, as defined in subsection (A), it should also provide for the return of the device to the owner.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-152-25 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 152 / Section 59-152-25
SECTION 59-152-25. Definitions.
Status: repealed

For the purposes of this title: (A) "Evidence-based program" means a program based on a clear and consistent program model that is designated as such by the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees because the program: (1)(a) is grounded in published, peer-reviewed research that is linked to determined outcomes; (b) employs well-trained and competent staff to whom the program provides continual professional development that is relevant to the specific model being delivered; (c) demonstrates strong linkages to other community-based services; and (d) is operated to ensure program fidelity; or (2) is commonly recognized by experts in the field as such a program. (B) "Board of trustees" or "board" means the First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees pursuant to Article 17, Title 63. (C) "Evidence-informed program" means a program that does not satisfy the criteria of an evidenced-based program model but that the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees determines is supported by research indicating its potential effectiveness. (D) "Partnership" refers to a local First Steps organization designated as such by the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Board of Trustees, organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code as a nonprofit corporation, and formed to further, within the coverage area, the purpose and goals of the First Steps initiative as stated in Sections 59-152-20 and 59-152-30. (E) "Preschool child" means a child from the prenatal stage to entry into five-year-old kindergarten. (F) "Prevalent program investment" means a program administered by a partnership and funded with state grant money, which accounts for at least ten percent of total programmatic spending in First Steps. (G) "School readiness" means the level of child development necessary to ensure early school success as measured in the following domains: physical health and motor skills; emotional and social competence; language and literacy development; and mathematical thinking and cognitive skills. School readiness is supported by the knowledge and practices of families, caregivers, healthcare providers, educators, and communities. Editor's Note 2018 Act No. 152, SECTION 8, provides as follows: "SECTION 8. Section 20B. of Act 287 of 2014 [reauthorizing the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Act until July 1, 2016] is repealed. Act 99 of 1999, South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Act, as amended by this act, is reauthorized until June 30, 2025."
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-360 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 101 / Article 1 / Section 59-101-360
SECTION 59-101-360. Certain revenue from tax on catalog sales creditable to Mail Order Sales Tax Fund; disposition.
Status: in_force

(A) Sales tax revenue derived pursuant to Section 12-36-2620 from the tax on catalog sales which exceeds the total of revenue from such sales in fiscal year 1991-92 must be credited by the State Treasurer to the Mail Order Sales Tax Fund, which is separate and distinct from the general fund of the State. Revenues in this fund may not be used to supplant general fund appropriations for higher education, and must be appropriated according to the distribution formulas provided in subsections (B), (C), and (D). (B) The first one hundred million dollars credited to the Mail Order Sales Tax Fund must be distributed as follows: (1) sixty-five percent for higher education formula funding; (2) five percent to public higher education institutions with teacher education programs according to a formula developed by the Commission on Higher Education; (3) twenty percent to the Education Improvement Act Fund; (4) ten percent for tuition grants as provided pursuant to Chapter 113 of this title. (C) Amounts in excess of one hundred million dollars credited to the Mail Order Sales Tax Fund must be distributed as provided in subsection (B) with the exception of item (4) thereof, in which case the ten percent distribution must be for K-12 public school construction. (D) At any time the higher education funding formula is fully funded, further distribution of that sixty-five percent share must be distributed as follows: (1) sixty-five percent for K-12 public school construction; (2) thirty-three and one-third percent for public higher education dedicated to academic equipment; (3) one and two-thirds percent to the higher education tuition grants program under Chapter 113 of this title.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-59-70 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-59-70
SECTION 59-59-70. Implementation of career development plan for educational professionals in career guidance.
Status: in_force

During the 2006-07 school year, the department shall begin implementing a career development plan for educational professionals in career guidance that provides awareness, training, release time, and preparatory instruction. The plan must include strategies for certified school counselors effectively to involve parents, guardians, or individuals appointed by the parent or guardian to serve as their designee in the career guidance process and in the development of the individual graduation plans. The plan also must include innovative approaches to recruit, train, and certify professionals needed to carry out the career development plan.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-121-360 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 121 / Article 3 / Section 59-121-360
SECTION 59-121-360. Liability of State and persons signing bonds for payment of principal and interest.
Status: in_force

The faith and credit of the State must not be pledged for the payment of the principal and interest of such bonds, and there must be on the face of each bond a statement plainly worded to that effect. Neither the visitors nor any other person signing the bonds is personally liable therefor.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-139-11 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 139 / Section 59-139-11
SECTION 59-139-11. Use of SACS Plan by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools accredited institutions.
Status: in_force

A school accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) may substitute the SACS five-year plan and annual updates for the comprehensive plan and updates required by Section 59-139-10(B), provided that all requirements for information and evaluation and the participation requirements for the community and School Improvement Council are met as mandated in Chapters 18 and 139 of Title 59. Beginning with 2001, with approval by the State Board of Education, a school district may request to have its combined strategic plan/accountability system cycle required by Chapters 18 and 139 adjusted to coincide with its schools' SACS review.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-100 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-100
SECTION 59-150-100. Commission employees; personnel program and compensation; conflicting financial interests; background investigation; criminal record of applicants; bond requirement.
Status: in_force

(A) The commission shall establish and maintain a personnel program for its employees and fix the compensation and terms of compensation of its employees. (B) An employee of the commission or an immediate family member of an employee of the commission must not have a financial interest in a lottery vendor doing business or proposing to do business with the commission. (C) An employee of the commission who has decision-making authority shall not participate in a decision involving a lottery retailer with whom the employee has an economic interest as defined in the South Carolina Ethics Reform Act. (D) An employee of the commission who leaves his employment at the commission must not represent a lottery vendor or lottery retailer before the commission for a period of one year following termination of employment with the commission. (E) A background investigation must be conducted on each applicant who has reached the final selection process before employment by the commission at the level of division director and above and at any level within any division of security and as otherwise required by the board. The commission shall pay for the actual cost of the investigations and may contract with SLED for the performance of the investigations. The results of a background investigation are not a record open to the public pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. (F) A person who has been convicted of a felony or bookmaking or other forms of unlawful gambling must not be employed by the commission. (G) The commission shall bond commission employees who have access to commission funds or lottery revenue in an amount provided by the board and may bond other employees as necessary.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-28-210 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 28 / Section 59-28-210
SECTION 59-28-210. Dissemination of informational materials.
Status: in_force

The Education Oversight Committee shall disseminate the informational materials prepared pursuant to Section 59-28-200 to all districts and schools.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 59-25-10
SECTION 59-25-10. Employment of teachers related to board members or serving as board members.
Status: in_force

No person who is a member of the board of trustees or a member of the immediate family of a member of the board of trustees of any school district shall be employed by the board as a teacher without the written approval of the board of trustees of the district and, when applicable, of the board of education of the county, or unless a majority of the parents or guardians of the children attending the school for which such teacher is employed requests such employment in writing. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any teacher who was employed prior to the time he or his family member became a board member. For purposes of this section, the immediate family of a member of the board of trustees shall include only his parents, children, brothers or sisters. Provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to school bus drivers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-112-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 112 / Section 59-112-10
SECTION 59-112-10. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter: (A) The words "state institution" mean those post- secondary educational institutions under the jurisdiction of: (1) the Board of Trustees, Clemson University; (2) the Board of Trustees, Medical University of South Carolina; (3) the Board of Trustees, South Carolina State University; (4) the Board of Trustees, College of Charleston; (5) the Board of Trustees, Lander University; (6) the Board of Trustees, Francis Marion University; (7) the Board of Visitors, The Citadel; (8) the Board of Trustees, the University of South Carolina; (9) the Board of Trustees, Winthrop University; (10) the Board of Trustees, Coastal Carolina University; (11) the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education. (B) The word "student" shall mean any person enrolled for studies in any State Institution. (C) The word "residence" or "reside" shall mean continuous and permanent physical presence within this State, provided, that temporary absences for short periods of time shall not affect the establishment of a residence. (D) The word "domicile" shall mean a person's true, fixed, principal residence and place of habitation; it shall indicate the place where such person intends to remain, and to which such person expects to return upon leaving without establishing a new domicile in another state. For purposes of this section one may have only one legal domicile; one is presumed to abandon automatically an old domicile upon establishing a new one. Housing provided on an academic session basis for students at State Institutions shall be presumed not to be a place of principal residence, as residency in such housing is by nature temporary. (E) The words "in-state rates" shall mean charges for tuition and fees established by State Institutions for persons who are domiciled in South Carolina in accordance with this chapter; the words "out-of-state rates" shall mean charges for tuition and fees established by State Institutions for persons who are not domiciled in South Carolina in accordance with this chapter. (F) The words "independent person" shall mean a person in his majority, or an emancipated minor, whose predominant source of income is his own earnings or income from employment, investments, or payments from trusts, grants, scholarships, loans or payments of alimony or separate maintenance made pursuant to court order. (G) The words "dependent" or "dependent person" mean: (1) one whose financial support is provided not through his own earnings or entitlements, but whose predominant source of income or support is payments from a parent, spouse, or guardian, and who qualifies as a dependent or an exemption on the federal tax return of the parent, spouse, or guardian; or (2) one for whom payments are made, under court order, for child support and the cost of his college education by an independent person meeting the provisions of Section 59-112-20 (A) or (B). The words "dependent" or "dependent person" do not include a spouse or former spouse who is the recipient of alimony or separate maintenance payments made pursuant to court order. (H) The word "minor" shall mean a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years; and the words "emancipated minor" shall mean a minor whose parents have entirely surrendered the right to the care, custody and earnings of such minor and are no longer under any legal obligation to support or maintain such minor. (I) The word "parent" shall mean a person's natural or adoptive father or mother; or if one parent has custody of the child, the parent having custody; or if there is a guardian or other legal custodian of such person, then such guardian or legal custodian; provided, however, that where circumstances indicate that such guardianship or custodianship was created primarily for the purpose of conferring South Carolina domicile for tuition and fee purposes on such child or dependent person, it shall not be given such effect. (J) The word "spouse" shall mean the husband or wife of a married person.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-356 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-356
SECTION 59-150-356. Use of Education Lottery funds for technology.
Status: in_force

Of the funds appropriated from the Education Lottery for technology, one-half must be used for a University Technology Program and awarded to public four-year universities, excluding the University of South Carolina-Columbia, Clemson University, and the Medical University of South Carolina. Funds must be awarded to these institutions according to the following formula: thirty-five percent of available dollars must be allocated equally among eligible institutions, with the remaining sixty-five percent to be prorated among the eligible institutions based on total FTE enrollment in the immediately previous year. The remaining one-half of these funds appropriated for technology must be Technology Program funds to be used for technology upgrades across the public two-year institutions and the technical college system for the support and development of technology. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, prior approval or involvement of the Commission on Higher Education beyond allocation of funds as described in this section is not required.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-71-140 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 71 / Article 1 / Section 59-71-140
SECTION 59-71-140. Minimum sales price.
Status: in_force

All such bonds must be sold at a price of not less than par and accrued interest to the date of delivery.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-144-150 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 144 / Article 2 / Section 59-144-150
SECTION 59-144-150. Qualification for funds.
Status: in_force

To qualify for funds under this chapter, each school district shall meet the provisions of this chapter and any regulations promulgated hereunder. Funds must be withheld from districts when inappropriate reporting of facilities' needs is found or when inappropriate use of funds is documented.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 1 / Section 59-119-50
SECTION 59-119-50. General powers and duties of board.
Status: in_force

The board of trustees shall elect one of their number to be president and elect a secretary and fix his salary. It shall prescribe the course of study, declare the professorships, elect the professors and define their duties and fix their salaries and make all rules and regulations for the government of the university. It may employ such superintendent, head workman and laborers for the farm, shops and grounds as may be necessary and fix their compensation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-65-230 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 65 / Article 3 / Section 59-65-230
SECTION 59-65-230. Certification of attendance supervisors by State Board of Education.
Status: in_force

Attendance supervisors shall be certified by the State Board of Education. Qualifications for the certification of attendance supervisors shall be determined by the State Board of Education in the same manner as the Board now determines qualifications for all other teachers, provided, that such certification requirements shall not adversely affect attendance supervisors who were employed prior to the passage of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-111-340 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 111 / Article 5 / Section 59-111-340
SECTION 59-111-340. Institutions to which article applies.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this article apply to: (1) those institutions enumerated in Section 59-107-10 and to the branches and extensions of those institutions; (2) those institutions under the jurisdiction of the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-39-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 59-39-20
SECTION 59-39-20. Board of trustees of high schools.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise expressly provided, if a single school district establish a high school, the board of trustees of such district shall be the high school board of trustees; and if any two or more districts establish a high school, the board of trustees of the district wherein the high school is located, together with the chairman of each of the cooperating districts, shall constitute the high school board of trustees. And except as otherwise expressly provided, if three or more adjoining school districts, none of which contains an incorporated town of twenty-five hundred inhabitants according to the last preceding census, shall cooperate to establish a centralized high school, the chairmen of the several cooperating districts shall constitute the board of trustees for the centralized high school.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-122-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 122 / Section 59-122-80
SECTION 59-122-80. Bonds may be registered; debt by book-entry only system permitted; verification of bonds.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued pursuant to this chapter may be in fully registered form with ownership recorded on books of registry kept for that purpose by or at the direction of the board. The board may also provide for the incurrence of debt through use of a book-entry only system to be maintained by a securities depositary. The bonds may be executed by the manual or facsimile signatures of the officers as may be designated by the board, or the board may provide for such other means of verification of authenticity of the bonds as it may consider appropriate. In the event of any change in officials, bonds executed before the change continue to be valid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-13-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 13 / Section 59-13-60
SECTION 59-13-60. General duties of county and district superintendents.
Status: in_force

Each county and district superintendent of education shall assume such responsibilities and perform such duties as may be prescribed by law or by rules and regulations of the State Board of Education or as may be assigned or prescribed by the county board of education or the district board of trustees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-131-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 131 / Section 59-131-20
SECTION 59-131-20. Bond issue authorized upon approval.
Status: in_force

If the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, is obtained and expressed by a resolution adopted by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, the trustees of the College shall be authorized to issue, from time to time, bonds of the trustees, payable from the revenues required by this chapter to be pledged therefor, in such amount as the trustees and the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, shall approve.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-130 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-130
SECTION 59-19-130. Acquisition of supplies and equipment.
Status: in_force

Each district board of trustees shall have the power to purchase, rent, lease, or otherwise acquire the supplies and equipment necessary for the operation of the public schools and other school facilities of the district.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-430 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 59-25-430
SECTION 59-25-430. Dismissal of teachers; grounds; opportunity for hearing; suspension pending resolution of charges.
Status: in_force

Any teacher may be dismissed at any time who shall fail, or who may be incompetent, to give instruction in accordance with the directions of the superintendent, or who shall otherwise manifest an evident unfitness for teaching; provided, however, that notice and an opportunity shall be afforded for a hearing prior to any dismissal. Evident unfitness for teaching is manifested by conduct such as, but not limited to, the following: persistent neglect of duty, willful violation of rules and regulations of district board of trustees, drunkenness, conviction of a violation of the law of this State or the United States, gross immorality, dishonesty, illegal use, sale or possession of drugs or narcotics. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 59-25-450, when any teacher is charged with a violation of the law of this State or the United States which upon conviction may lead to, or be cited as a reason for, dismissal, such teacher may be suspended pending resolution of the charges and receive his usual compensation during the suspension period, such compensation not to exceed the term of his teaching contract. If the teacher is convicted, including pleading guilty or nolo contendere to the charges, he may then be subject to dismissal proceedings. If no conviction results, his suspension shall be terminated.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-155-210 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 155 / Section 59-155-210
SECTION 59-155-210. Guidance for program implementation.
Status: in_force

The department shall translate the statutory requirements for reading and writing specified in this chapter into guidance for districts, boards, and other organizations as appropriate. In this effort, they shall solicit the advice of education stakeholders who have a deep understanding of the science of reading, as well as school boards, administrators, and others who play key roles in facilitating support for and implementation of effective reading instruction. Effect of Amendment 2024 Act No. 114, SECTION 11, in the first sentence, substituted "The department" for "The board and department" and "guidance for districts, boards, and" for "standards, practices, and procedures for school districts, boards, and their employees and for", and in the second sentence, inserted "the science of".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-15-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 15 / Section 59-15-50
SECTION 59-15-50. Oath of board members and trustees.
Status: in_force

Each member of a county board of education or board of trustees shall take the oath prescribed in the Constitution of South Carolina.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-720 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 7 / Section 59-119-720
SECTION 59-119-720. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article: (1) "Bond" or "bonds" means any note, bond, installment contract, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to this chapter. (2) "Clemson" means Clemson University. (3) "Facilities" means any or all of the following facilities operated to provide for the students, faculty, or staff at Clemson: dining or food service facilities; laundry facilities; canteen facilities; vending machines; convenience stores; any other facilities for the sale of sundry items; health services; book stores; parking lots and vehicle registration; and all furniture, furnishings and equipment in them, which are now owned by Clemson, or which may be acquired by Clemson for any of these purposes. (4) "Revenues" of any facilities means the entire receipts of Clemson from the operation of the facilities. 'Net revenues' means these receipts reduced by the necessary expenses for operation and maintenance of the facilities. (5) "Authority" means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. (6) "Trustees" means the Board of Trustees of Clemson or any successor body.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-158-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 158 / Section 59-158-30
SECTION 59-158-30. Extension of agreements beyond participation eligibility prohibited.
Status: in_force

A name, image, or likeness contract with an intercollegiate athlete may not extend beyond their eligibility to participate in an intercollegiate athletics program at an institution of higher learning. 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 3, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-430 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 5 / Section 59-104-430
SECTION 59-104-430. Comprehensive reports to be made at the end of fiscal year.
Status: in_force

At the end of each fiscal year, comprehensive reports must be made to the Commission on Higher Education on the expenditures of funds and the results realized from the research programs. At the end of two fiscal years and each fiscal year after that, the commission shall reexamine the process of appropriating funds for research and the results obtained from the expenditures and recommend changes and alterations in the funding of research by the State if the changes are considered advisable by the commission.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-260 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 59-31-260
SECTION 59-31-260. School districts and counties authorized to establish rental or free textbook systems.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in this article shall abrogate the power to set up rental or free textbook systems of any school district or county that may have such right, and all rentals received by any such district or county from rental of books belonging to such district or county shall be retained by such district or county. And school districts enrolling five thousand or more school pupils shall have the right to set up rental or free textbook systems and choose and purchase their own textbooks. All rentals received by such districts from rental of books belonging to such districts shall be retained by such districts. But any such county or school district having its own rental or free textbook system shall be entitled to receive all benefits under the rental library provisions of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-59-105 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-59-105
SECTION 59-59-105. Duties of career specialists.
Status: in_force

An individual employed by school districts to provide career services pursuant to Section 59-59-100 shall work to ensure the coordination, accountability, and delivery of career awareness, development, and exploration to students in kindergarten through twelfth grade. To ensure the implementation and delivery of this chapter, this individual shall: (1) coordinate and present professional development workshops in career development and guidance for teachers, school counselors, and work-based constituents; (2) assist schools in promoting the goals of quality career development of students in kindergarten through twelfth grade; (3) assist school counselors and students in identifying and accessing career information and resource material; (4) provide educators, parents, and students with information on career and technology education programs offered in the district; (5) support students in the exploration of career clusters and the selection of an area of academic focus within a cluster of study; (6) learn and become familiar with ways to improve and promote career development opportunities within the district; (7) attend continuing education programs on the certified career development facilitator curriculum sponsored by the State; (8) assist with the selection, administration, and evaluation of career interest inventories; (9) assist with the implementation of the district's student career plan or individual graduation plan; (10) assist schools in planning and developing parent information on career development; (11) coordinate with school counselors and administration career events, career classes, and career programming; (12) coordinate community resources and citizens representing diverse occupations in career development activities for parents and students; and (13) assist with the usage of computer assisted career guidance systems.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-200 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 59-67-200
SECTION 59-67-200. Complete stop to receive or discharge passenger required.
Status: in_force

Each school bus must come to a complete stop with clutch disengaged before any passenger is permitted to alight or enter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-40-55 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 40 / Section 59-40-55
SECTION 59-40-55. Sponsor powers and duties; retention of funds.
Status: in_force

(A) In order to promote the quality of charter school outcomes and oversight, the charter school sponsor shall adopt national industry standards of quality charter schools and shall authorize and implement practices consistent with those standards. (B) A charter school sponsor shall: (1) approve charter applications that meet the requirements specified in Sections 59-40-50 and 59-40-60; (2) decline to approve charter applications according to Section 59-40-70(C); (3) negotiate and execute sound charter contracts with each approved charter school; (4) monitor, in accordance with charter contract terms, the performance and legal/fiscal compliance of charter schools to include collecting and analyzing data to support ongoing evaluation according to the charter contract; (5) conduct or require oversight activities that enable the sponsor to fulfill its responsibilities outlined in this chapter, including conducting appropriate inquiries and investigations, only if those activities are consistent with the intent of this chapter, adhere to the terms of the charter contact, and do not unduly inhibit the autonomy granted to public charter schools; (6) collect, in accordance with Section 59-40-140(H), an annual report from each of its sponsored charter schools and submit the reports to the Department of Education; (7) notify the charter school of perceived problems if its performance or legal compliance appears to be unsatisfactory and provide reasonable opportunity for the school to remedy the problem, unless the problem warrants revocation and revocation timeframes apply; (8) take appropriate corrective actions or exercise sanctions short of revocation in response to apparent deficiencies in charter school performance or legal compliance. These actions or sanctions may include requiring a school to develop and execute a corrective action plan within a specified timeframe; (9) determine whether each charter contract merits renewal, nonrenewal, or revocation; (10) provide to parents and the general public information about charter schools authorized by the sponsor as an enrollment option within the district in which the charter school is located to the same extent and through the same means as the district in which the charter school is located provides and publicizes information about all public schools in the district. A charter school shall notify its sponsor of its enrollment procedures and dates of its enrollment period no less than sixty days before the first day of its enrollment period; and (11) permanently close any charter school at the conclusion of the school year after receiving the lowest performance level rating as defined by the federal accountability system for three consecutive years in accordance with Section 59-40-110(E). (C) The South Carolina Public Charter School District may retain no more than two percent of the total state appropriations for each charter school it authorizes to cover the costs for overseeing its charter schools. The sponsor's administrative fee does not include costs incurred in delivering services that a charter school may purchase at its discretion from the sponsor. The sponsor's fee is not applicable to federal money or grants received by the charter school. The sponsor shall use its funding provided pursuant to this section exclusively for the purpose of fulfilling sponsor obligations in accordance with this chapter. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 288, SECTION 2, added subsection (A), redesignated former subsections (A) and (B) as subsections (B) and (C); added subsection (B)(11); and made other nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-47-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 47 / Section 59-47-80
SECTION 59-47-80. Expenses of applicants.
Status: in_force

The whole or part of the expenses of the several applicants shall be paid, according to the opinion which the commissioners may form as to the pecuniary condition of the applicants. In case there are more applicants than would exhaust the annual appropriation, the commissioners shall make selection according to their opinion of the deserts of the various applicants.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-39-340 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 39 / Article 3 / Section 59-39-340
SECTION 59-39-340. Payments to school districts.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education shall allow to each school district operating a driver education training program an amount equal to thirty dollars per pupil completing the standard prescribed course in the program in that school district during the preceding fiscal year in accordance with the regulations set forth by the State Board of Education for instructing pupils in driver education and training.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-380 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-380
SECTION 59-150-380. Educational Lottery Teaching Scholarship Grants Program.
Status: in_force

The Commission on Higher Education, in consultation with the State Department of Education, must develop an Education Lottery Teaching Scholarship Grants Program to provide certified teachers in the public schools of this State grants not to exceed one thousand dollars per year to attend public or private colleges and universities for the purposes of upgrading existing content area skills or obtaining a Master's Degree in the teacher's content area. If there are insufficient funds in the Education Lottery Account to provide the grant to each eligible recipient for a particular year, priority must be given to those teachers whose subject areas are critical subject needs as determined by the State Department of Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-28-140 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 28 / Section 59-28-140
SECTION 59-28-140. Design of parental involvement and best practices training programs; incorporation into teacher and principal preparation programs.
Status: in_force

The State Superintendent of Education shall: (1) design parental involvement and best practices training programs in conjunction with higher education institutions and the pre-K through grade 12 education community, including parental program coordinators, which shall include: (a) practices that are responsive to racial, ethnic, and socio-economic diversity, and are appropriate to various grade-level needs; (b) establishment and maintenance of parent-friendly school settings; (c) awareness of community resources that strengthen families and assist students to succeed; and (d) other topics appropriate for fostering partnerships between parent and teacher; (2) work collaboratively with the Commission on Higher Education to incorporate parental involvement training into teacher preparation and principal preparation programs consistent with the training provided in item (1) of this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1930 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 21 / Section 59-53-1930
SECTION 59-53-1930. Fiscal year; audits.
Status: in_force

The boards shall conduct their affairs on the fiscal year basis employed by the State. As soon after the close of each fiscal year as may be practicable, an audit of school affairs must be made by a certified public accountant, to be designated by the boards. Copies of the audits, incorporated into annual reports of the boards, must be filed with the cooperating school districts. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-69-215 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 69 / Article 5 / Section 59-69-215
SECTION 59-69-215. Treasurer of county to disburse funds to school district.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the provisions of this article, the treasurer of any county shall disburse to any school district within his county any funds which he may have on hand available for use in the operation of the school district; provided, the governing body of the school district requests disbursement to the school district funds as they become available and; provided, further, that the governing body of the county concurs in the request made by the district. Upon receipt of the school district funds, it may maintain its own bank account for the purpose of making disbursement for the payment of expenses approved by the governing body of the district. Funds received by the school district from the county treasurer which are not needed for immediate disbursement may be invested by the district in interest bearing accounts or certificates of deposit issued by banking institutions or savings and loan associations licensed to do business in this State or in securities issued by or guaranteed by the United States Government. Upon establishing the disbursement method from the county treasurer to the district, the disbursement by the county treasurer shall continue to the district as funds become available unless the procedure is rescinded by action of the governing body of the district or the county governing body.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-71-550 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 71 / Article 5 / Section 59-71-550
SECTION 59-71-550. Disposition of proceeds of sale.
Status: in_force

The proceeds of the sale of State school bonds shall be received by the State Treasurer and placed by him to the credit of the State Board of Education, except that the premium, if any, shall be placed in the sinking fund established by Section 59-71-570 and the accrued interest, if any, shall be used to discharge in part the first interest to become due on such bonds. On the occasion that he receives the proceeds of State school bonds from the purchasers, the State Treasurer shall segregate that part of the proceeds which are intended for allocation to school districts for capital improvements and other purposes from that portion intended for the purchase of school bus equipment, but the purchasers of such bonds shall in no wise be liable for the proper application of the proceeds to the purposes for which they are intended. The State Board of Education shall in turn credit each of the several school districts with its proportionate share of the proceeds of the bonds applicable to capital improvements and other purposes, each district's share being determined in the ratio of its public school enrollment to the enrollment of the State as a whole.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-133-220 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 133 / Article 3 / Section 59-133-220
SECTION 59-133-220. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this article: (1) "Admissions fee" means the specially designated admissions fee or charge which may, in addition to other charges, be imposed by the trustees upon any person admitted to any event held at an athletic facility. (2) "Athletic department" means the athletic department of Francis Marion University. (3) "Athletic facilities" means all facilities designated by the trustees as intercollegiate athletic facilities now owned or which may be acquired by Francis Marion University. (4) "Bond" or "bonds" means any note, bond, installment contract, or other evidence of indebtedness issued pursuant to this article. (5) "Bond reserve fund" means the special fund which may be established by the trustees pursuant to this article, which must be in the custody of the State Treasurer or its corporate trust designee, and which is primarily established for the purpose of providing a reserve with which to meet the payment of the principal of and interest on bonds in the event that payments otherwise required from the debt service fund are insufficient to meet the payment of the principal and interest as and when they become due and payable. (6) "Debt service fund" means the fund established by this article for the payment of principal of and interest on bonds, which must be in the custody of the State Treasurer or its corporate trust designee. (7) "Net revenues" means all revenues remaining after payment of the operating and maintenance expenses of the athletic department but before provision is made for depreciation, amortization, nonmandatory transfers, and interest expenses of the athletic department for a given fiscal year. (8) "Revenues" means all revenues or other income, including investment income, received by the athletic department from the operation of the athletic department and the athletic facilities, and all gifts, bequests, contributions, and donations received by the trustees or Francis Marion from any persons, including from any athletic booster organization, for use in connection with the operations of the athletic department, plus any other unrestricted revenues of the athletic department not otherwise pledged that may be made applicable by the trustees to the payment of the principal and interest of the bonds, including such revenues which may fall into the category of nonmandatory transfers as such term is used in generally accepted accounting principles, but excluding: (i) gifts, bequests, contributions, and donations restricted to a particular purpose inconsistent with their use for the payment of the principal, premium, or interest on any obligations of the trustees or Francis Marion; (ii) the proceeds of any borrowings; (iii) state appropriations of any sort; and (iv) revenues, income, receipts, and money received by the trustees or Francis Marion University for purposes other than those related to the athletic department. (9) "Special student fee" means the fee authorized by this article to be established by the trustees and which may be imposed upon persons in attendance at any academic session of Francis Marion University in order to provide funds to assist in the repayment of bonds. (10) "Authority" means the State Fiscal Accountability Authority. (11) "Trustees" means the Board of Trustees of Francis Marion University or any successor body. (12) "Francis Marion" means Francis Marion University.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-420 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 5 / Section 59-104-420
SECTION 59-104-420. Criteria for use of fund.
Status: in_force

(A) The fund must be used for research which: (1) has a direct, positive impact on economic development, education, health, or welfare in this State; (2) has an existing base in faculty expertise, resources, and facilities; (3) serves to improve the quality of undergraduate and graduate education for South Carolina citizens in accordance with the institutions' stated missions as given in the commission's master plan and as developed by the institution and approved by the commission as provided in Section 59-103-45(5). (B) The fund must not be used for capital construction projects.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-50
SECTION 59-150-50. Duties of the board.
Status: in_force

The board shall: (1) approve, disapprove, amend, or modify the budget recommended by the executive director for the operation of the commission; (2) approve, disapprove, amend, or modify the terms of procurements recommended by the executive director; (3) hear appeals of hearings required by this chapter; (4) promulgate regulations relating to the categories of lottery games and the conduct of lottery games pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act and as specified in this chapter; and (5) perform other functions specified by this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-160 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-160
SECTION 59-19-160. Gifts to school district; bond as prerequisite to receipt.
Status: in_force

The trustees of any school district of this State may take and hold in trust for their particular school district any property granted, devised, given or bequeathed to such school district and apply the same in the interest of the schools of their district in such manner as in their judgment seems most conducive to the welfare of the schools when not otherwise directed by the terms of the grant, devise, gift or bequest. Before such trustees shall assume control of any grant, devise, gift or bequest, they shall give a bond, to be approved by the county board of education of the county in which such grant, devise, gift or bequest is made, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in them in respect to such property, which bond shall be deposited with the clerk of the court of the county.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-41-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 41 / Section 59-41-30
SECTION 59-41-30. Grants payable from appropriations.
Status: in_force

The State scholarship grants provided for in Section 59-41-20 shall be payable from funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the payment thereof.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-102-120 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 102 / Section 59-102-120
SECTION 59-102-120. Cancellation of agency contract by student.
Status: in_force

(A) A student athlete, or if the athlete is a minor, his parent or guardian may cancel an agency contract by giving notice of the cancellation to the athlete agent in a record within fourteen days after the contract is signed. (B) The right to cancel an agency contract provided in subsection (A) may not be waived. (C) If a student athlete, parent, or guardian cancels an agency contract, the student athlete, parent, or guardian is not required to pay consideration under the contract or to return consideration received from the athlete agent to induce the athlete to enter into the contract. Comment Effect of Amendment 2018 Act No. 235, SECTION 1, in (A), inserted ", or if the athlete is a minor, his parent or guardian" following "A student athlete"; rewrote (B); and in (C), inserted ", parent, or guardian" in two places and substituted "induce the athlete" for "induce the student athlete".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-29-530 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 29 / Article 3 / Section 59-29-530
SECTION 59-29-530. Applications for grants; criteria.
Status: in_force

(A) To obtain a grant, a school district shall submit an application to the Financial Literacy Office in a format specified by the Financial Literacy Board of Trustees. The application shall include, as appropriate to the level of grant applied for, the level of funding requested, a description of needs of the school, assets and resources available, and the proposed strategies to address needs as they relate to the goals of the Financial Literacy Initiative. (B) The allocations for the grants must take into consideration the quality of the grant proposal; the percentage of students who are eligible for the free and reduced price lunch program; and average per capita income. The criteria also must take into account the standing of the geographical area in relation to the statewide Kids Count indicators.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1310 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 16 / Section 59-53-1310
SECTION 59-53-1310. Creation of commission; membership; terms; election of chairman and officers.
Status: in_force

There is hereby created the York Commission for Technical Education (hereinafter referred to as the "commission"), which is a body politic and corporate and which shall have the functions and duties set forth to serve the counties of York, Chester, and Lancaster. The commission must be composed of nine members, to be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of the members of the county legislative delegation residing in York County. The terms of the members are for four years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. All vacancies must be filled in the manner of the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term only. The commission shall meet as soon after appointment as practicable and shall organize by electing a chairman and such other officers, as it considers necessary. Thereafter, the 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 York County Legislative Delegation. In addition to the nine members of the commission provided for above, there shall be two additional members of the commission, one who must be a resident of Chester County appointed by the Governor upon recommendation by the Chester County Legislative Delegation and one who must be a resident of Lancaster County appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of the Lancaster County Legislative Delegation. These two members shall serve for four-year terms and until their successors are appointed and qualify.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-21-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 59-21-60
SECTION 59-21-60. Part-time teachers not covered.
Status: in_force

No person who teaches daily less than four periods of forty-five minutes each shall receive any pay under the provisions of Section 59-21-20, except the superintendent of a school system employing more than ten teachers.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-59-220 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-59-220
SECTION 59-59-220. Development of appropriate resources and instructional materials.
Status: in_force

With the implementation of the clusters of study system, appropriate resources and instructional materials, aligned with the state's content standards, must be developed or adopted by the State Department of Education and made available to districts.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-158-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 158 / Section 59-158-60
SECTION 59-158-60. Interpretation of chapter; athlete agent compliance with federal law.
Status: in_force

(A) If there is a conflict between the provisions of this chapter and those of Chapter 102, then the provisions of this chapter govern. An athlete agent representing an intercollegiate athlete in a transaction authorized pursuant to this chapter also shall comply with all provisions contained in Chapter 102 that do not conflict with the provisions of this chapter. (B) An athlete agent shall comply with the federal "Sports Agent Responsibility and Trust Act", 15 U.S.C. Sections 7801-7807. 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 6, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-123-270 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 123 / Section 59-123-270
SECTION 59-123-270. Bonds and interest tax exempt.
Status: in_force

The bonds authorized by Sections 59-123-210 through 59-123-320 and all interest to become due thereon shall be exempt from taxation in the State of South Carolina as provided in Section 12-1-60.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-44-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 44 / Section 59-44-20
SECTION 59-44-20. Declaration of purpose.
Status: in_force

The General Assembly finds that in recognition of the fact that the school, as the prime educational institution of the community, is most effective when it involves the people of that community in a process designed to fulfill their education needs, and since community education promotes a more efficient use of community facilities through an extension of buildings, personnel, and equipment, it is the purpose of this chapter to facilitate the provision of recreational, educational, cultural, social, health and other community services, in accordance with the needs, interests and concerns of the community, through the establishment of the community education programs, for such activities, in cooperation with other governmental agencies and community service organizations.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-21-320 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 59-21-320
SECTION 59-21-320. Annual grant for financing needed capital improvements.
Status: in_force

In order to assist school districts in financing needed capital improvements, the General Assembly shall annually allocate to the Board a sum equivalent to thirty dollars multiplied by the number of pupils enrolled in grades one through twelve of the public schools and, effective beginning in Fiscal Year 1988-89, fifteen dollars multiplied by the number of students enrolled in public kindergarten programs. The calculation must be based on the one hundred thirty-five day count of the average daily membership during the school year ending in the calendar year prior to the calendar year in which the fiscal year begins. In no year may the amount allocated be less than the total sum required to meet principal and interest payments becoming due to that fiscal year on state school bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-150-180 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 150 / Section 59-150-180
SECTION 59-150-180. Lottery retail contract; cancellation, suspension, revocation, termination; hearing; appeal bond.
Status: in_force

(A) A retail contract executed by the commission pursuant to this chapter must specify the reasons for which the contract may be canceled, suspended, revoked, or terminated by the commission including, but not be limited to: (1) a violation of this chapter, a regulation, or a policy or procedure of the commission; (2) failure to account accurately or timely for lottery game tickets, lottery games, revenues, or prizes as required by the commission; (3) fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation; (4) insufficient sales; (5) conduct prejudicial to public confidence in the lottery; (6) filing for or placement in bankruptcy or receivership of the lottery retailer; (7) a material change, as determined in the sole discretion of the commission, in a matter considered material by the commission in executing the contract with the lottery retailer; or (8) failure to meet any of the objective criteria established by the commission pursuant to this chapter. (B) If cancellation, denial, revocation, suspension, or rejection of renewal of a lottery retailer contract is in the best interest of the lottery, the public welfare, or the State of South Carolina, the executive director or his designee, in his discretion, may cancel, suspend, revoke, or terminate, after notice and a right to a hearing, a contract issued pursuant to this chapter. A hearing must be held within sixty days of notice of cancellation, suspension, revocation, or termination and conducted by the executive director or his designee. A party to the contract aggrieved by the decision of the executive director or his designee may appeal the adverse decision to the board, and then to the Administrative Law Court, pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act. (C) If a party files an action to appeal the final decision of the board pursuant to subsection (B) and seeks to enjoin the implementation, termination, or performance of a contract, he must post a bond payable to the State in an amount determined by the trier of fact to be sufficient to compensate the State for its losses including, but not limited to, reasonable attorney's fees and court costs resulting from the delay, if the party does not prevail in its appeal. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, "Administrative Law Court" was substituted for all references to "Administrative Law Judge Division", pursuant to 2004 Act No. 202, SECTION 3.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-59-55 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 59 / Section 59-59-55
SECTION 59-59-55. Model for addressing at-risk students.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education shall develop a state model for addressing at-risk students. This model shall include various programs and curriculum proven to be effective for at-risk students.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-125-630 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 125 / Article 5 / Section 59-125-630
SECTION 59-125-630. Provisions for adequate payment of principal and interest on bonds.
Status: in_force

To the end that provisions be made for the adequate payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds: (1)(a) The trustees shall maintain in full force and effect any necessary admissions fees or special student fee on a basis and in such amounts as will be sufficient, after taking into account net revenues and any other funds pledged to the payment of the bonds as provided under Section 59-125-640(4), to provide for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds as the same mature and to provide the required reserve therefor in any bond reserve fund. It is the duty of Winthrop to calculate the debt service requirements of the bonds not less frequently than annually and, if required at such time, appropriate revisions of any admissions fees or special student fee must be made by the trustees if such revisions are required, after taking into account net revenues for the year, to make adequate provisions for the payment of the principal of and interest on the bonds and the maintenance of any required reserve in a bond reserve fund. (b) The admissions fees and the special student fee, if any, must bear such nomenclature as the trustees shall prescribe. The special student fee may, in the discretion of the trustees, be included as a part of any other fee. The trustees shall account for the receipt from any admissions fees and special student fee to the State Treasurer, for deposit by the State Treasurer in the debt service fund. (2) The trustees shall cause to be established with the State Treasurer or its corporate trust designee on or before the occasion of the delivery of any bonds pursuant to this article, a debt service fund into which must be deposited annually sufficient funds as provided in this article to meet the payment of principal of and interest on the bonds for such year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-153-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 153 / Article 1 / Section 59-153-50
SECTION 59-153-50. Investing and managing assets; objectives and policies.
Status: in_force

(A) In investing and managing assets of an endowment fund pursuant to Section 59-153-40, the trustee: (1) shall consider among other circumstances: (a) general economic conditions; (b) the possible effect of inflation or deflation; (c) the role that each investment or course of action plays within the overall portfolio of the endowment funds; (d) needs for liquidity, regularity of income, and preservation or appreciation of capital; and (e) the adequacy of funding for the plan based on the university's spending policy; (2) shall diversify the investments of the endowment funds unless the trustee reasonably determines that, because of special circumstances, it is clearly prudent not to do so; (3) shall make a reasonable effort to verify facts relevant to the investment and management of assets of an endowment fund; (4) may invest in any kind of property or type of investment consistent with this chapter and Article 7, Chapter 9, Title 11; (5) may consider benefits created by an investment in addition to investment return only if the trustee determines that the investment providing these collateral benefits would be prudent even without the collateral benefits. (B) Each trustee shall adopt a statement of investment objectives and policies for its portion of the endowment fund. The statement must include the desired rate of return on assets overall, the desired rates of return and acceptable levels of risk for each asset class, asset-allocation goals, guidelines for the delegation of authority, and information on the types of reports to be used to evaluate investment performance. At least annually, the trustee shall review the statement and change or reaffirm it. The relevant portion of this statement may constitute parts of the annual investment plan required pursuant to Section 59-153-330.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-103-140 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 103 / Article 1 / Section 59-103-140
SECTION 59-103-140. Contracts with colleges and universities for provision of teacher training programs.
Status: in_force

The Commission on Higher Education, in consultation with the State Board of Education, may contract with selected public or private colleges and universities, or groupings of such institutions, to provide centers of excellence in programs designed to train teachers. The Commission shall devise guidelines and procedures by which institutions, or groups of institutions, may apply for such contracts by the Commission. Such guidelines and procedures shall include participation by local schools or school districts in such programs as may be appropriate. Funds for implementing this activity shall be appropriated annually to the Commission on Higher Education which, in consultation with the State Board of Education, shall monitor the performance of participating institutions and may or may not elect to renew such contracts to any original college or university.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-1110 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 11 / Section 59-63-1110
SECTION 59-63-1110. Consent to search person or his effects.
Status: in_force

Any person entering the premises of any school in this State shall be deemed to have consented to a reasonable search of his person and effects.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-950 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 9 / Section 59-119-950
SECTION 59-119-950. Bonds payable from revenues and fee proceeds; additional pledges; abandonment of use; disposal of facilities.
Status: in_force

Bonds issued pursuant to this article are payable from the revenues or the net revenues as designated by the trustees, as well as from proceeds of the admission fee and the special student fee. Bonds issued pursuant to this article may be further secured by such additional pledges of other revenues or fees of Clemson as Clemson may be authorized to grant pursuant to other laws of this State. The trustees may abandon the use of any portion of the athletic facilities or sell or dispose of any portion of the athletic facilities upon the receipt of a written recommendation by the chief financial officer of Clemson to the effect that such action does not adversely affect the ability of Clemson to discharge its obligations to the holders of bonds issued pursuant to this article and upon such further conditions as prescribed in the resolution of the trustees providing for the issuance of bonds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-6-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 6 / Section 59-6-30
SECTION 59-6-30. Reports by State Board of Education; Business-Education Subcommittee to report to Business-Education Partnership; recommendations by Partnership; Business-Education staff to serve Business-Education Partnership.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education shall provide an assessment of the South Carolina Education Improvement Act of 1984 for consideration by the Business-Education Subcommittee and the General Assembly. A special assessment shall be provided on March 1, 1985. Commencing in 1985, an annual assessment must be provided by December first of each year and an appropriate amount of funding must be provided for this purpose. The Business-Education Subcommittee shall provide a report on the assessment to the Business-Education Partnership, and the partnership shall submit its recommendations to the General Assembly prior to February first. The staff of the Business-Education Subcommittee shall serve as the primary staff to the Business-Education Partnership and may solicit the assistance of the staffs of the House Education and Public Works Committee, the Senate Education Committee, the Education Oversight Committee, the Public Accountability Division, and the Governor's Office.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-810 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 59-25-810
SECTION 59-25-810. Appeal to State Board of Education.
Status: in_force

Within thirty days after the receipt of any such notice of such decision of the county board, any party thereto shall have the right to appeal to the State Board of Education by filing a notice of appeal, stating the grounds thereof, with the county board of education. Upon such appeal being filed, the county board, within thirty days thereafter, shall file a full and complete certified transcript of the proceedings had before it with the State Board of Education. Upon receipt of such appeal, the State Board of Education shall fix a time and place for the hearing thereof and give notice, by registered mail, to the parties involved. Such appeal shall be heard upon the transcript of the proceedings from the county board and such other investigation and additional testimony as the State Board may elect to take, all of which, if taken, shall be reported and made a part of the record. The State Board of Education shall review all questions of law and fact and, in determining the matter, exercise its discretion as an original duty imposed upon it. All powers and remedies herein conferred on county boards as to subpoenaing witnesses, enforcing attendance, taking and production of evidence and other procedural matters are hereby conferred upon the State Board.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-340 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 59-31-340
SECTION 59-31-340. School districts responsible for proper protection, use and care of books.
Status: in_force

The director shall hold each school district in the State responsible for the proper protection, use and care of all schoolbooks allotted to each such district under the terms of this article. Each school district shall make reports to the director when required by the director as to the books on hand and their condition and shall, within thirty days after the end of each school term, return all schoolbooks allocated to such district to the place or places required by the director. The director shall, as soon as practicable after the close of each school term, determine the loss and damage, if any, ordinary wear and tear excepted, sustained by such books in any school district or other educational unit and shall make demand for the payment for such damage upon the various districts and units against which loss and damage shall have been assessed. Any such district or unit feeling itself aggrieved by any such determination may appeal to the State Board of Education. Unless such appeal be taken and sustained, any such district or unit shall forthwith pay for such loss and damage.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-130-210 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 130 / Article 3 / Section 59-130-210
SECTION 59-130-210. "Equipment" defined.
Status: in_force

For purposes of this article "equipment" means items with a useful life of at least fifteen years.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1781 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 20 / Section 59-53-1781
SECTION 59-53-1781. Definitions.
Status: in_force

As used in this subarticle, unless the context clearly requires otherwise: (1) "Authority" means the Midlands Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority. (2) "Board" means the governing body of the authority. (3) "Commission" means the Midlands Technical College Commission. (4) "Enterprise Campus" means the real and personal property subject to the management and control of the authority. The Enterprise Campus may consist of one or more tracts or parcels of real property and none of the tracts or parcels has to be contiguous with other properties constituting the Enterprise Campus.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-13-70 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 13 / Section 59-13-70
SECTION 59-13-70. Superintendent shall keep record of school district bonds.
Status: in_force

All county superintendents of education shall keep a complete and full record in a suitable book of all bonds issued by the respective school districts in the respective counties of this State. The book shall contain the following data: Date of issue of bonds; amount of bonds; maturity of bonds; date of interest of bonds; interest due periods of bonds; and sale price of bonds. The book required to be kept by the county superintendents of education in this State shall be paid for by the respective counties of this State upon order of the county superintendent of education. The county superintendent of education shall keep the book herein required of him on file in the office of the clerk of court or register of deeds. Whenever the bonds have been paid, the superintendent of education shall enter in the book herein provided to be kept by him the date of payment. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment in the county jail or upon the public works of the county for a period of not more than thirty days, in the discretion of the court.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-41-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 41 / Section 59-41-40
SECTION 59-41-40. School districts shall provide supplements to grants; levy of taxes.
Status: in_force

It shall be a prerequisite to the grant above permitted that the local school district in which the school child resides make available a grant of local funds to such school child and to that end the trustees of each school district within the State are hereby authorized to appropriate funds in addition to the State scholarship grants provided for in Section 59-41-20 in such amount that is equal to the per pupil cost to the school district exclusive of all State funds received for such purposes. The trustees of each school district are authorized to levy taxes where the school district has the power to tax, to raise funds for the payment of such local supplements to the State scholarship grants. The State Board of Education shall render such assistance to the trustees as may be necessary to determine annual per pupil expenditures of the school district for the purpose of fixing the amount of any supplement to be paid under this section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-63-1390 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 63 / Article 13 / Section 59-63-1390
SECTION 59-63-1390. Regulations; annual review.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education shall promulgate regulations for establishment, maintenance, and operation of alternative school programs to include clear procedures for annual review of the implementation and progress of the alternative school program and a three-year cycle evaluation shall examine the success of this initiative. If an annual review or the evaluation finds a program is not making progress to carry out the alternative school plan or meeting the locally established measures of success, the Department of Education shall provide technical assistance and future funding may be terminated.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1820 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 21 / Section 59-53-1820
SECTION 59-53-1820. Board authorized to cooperate with local or State agencies for educational advancement.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Career and Technology Training may cooperate with any local or state agency for the advancement of agricultural and industrial education. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment substituted "State Board of Career and Technology Training" for "State Board of Vocational Training".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-440 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 59-25-440
SECTION 59-25-440. Written notice to teacher of possible dismissal; school administrator required to make reasonable effort to assist teacher in corrective measures; reasonable time for improvement required.
Status: in_force

Whenever a superior, principal, where applicable, or supervisor charged with the supervision of a teacher finds it necessary to admonish a teacher for a reason that he believes may lead to, or be cited as a reason for, dismissal or cause the teacher not to be reemployed he shall: (1) bring the matter in writing to the attention of the teacher involved and make a reasonable effort to assist the teacher to correct whatever appears to be the cause of potential dismissal or failure to be reemployed and, (2) except as provided in Section 59-25-450, allow reasonable time for improvement.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-340 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-340
SECTION 59-19-340. Child development programs for three and four-year-old children.
Status: in_force

The board of trustees of each school district may establish and provide for the education of children who will attain the age of four on or before September first of the applicable school year in child development programs. The board of trustees of school districts having programs serving three and four-year-olds on the date of enactment of this section may continue to serve three-year-old children.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-125-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 125 / Article 1 / Section 59-125-20
SECTION 59-125-20. Composition of board of trustees.
Status: in_force

(A) The Board of Trustees of Winthrop University is composed of the Governor and the State Superintendent of Education or their designees who are members ex officio of the board, ten other members each to be elected by the joint vote of the General Assembly, as hereinafter provided, and two graduates of Winthrop University to be appointed by the Winthrop University Alumni Association or its successors, as hereinafter provided. (B) In addition to the members of the board in subsection (A), there shall be one additional member of the board appointed by the Governor. The Governor shall make the appointment 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 the State of South Carolina. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment, in subsection A, substituted "nine" for "seven" with regard to the number of other members. The 2012 amendment substituted "ten" for "nine" in subsection (A).
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-1780 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 20 / Section 59-53-1780
SECTION 59-53-1780. Short title.
Status: in_force

This subarticle may be cited as the Midlands Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-70 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 1 / Section 59-53-70
SECTION 59-53-70. Branches of University of South Carolina.
Status: in_force

All four-year and three-year branches of the University of South Carolina shall continue to exist as branches of the University of South Carolina and three-year branches may add the fourth year upon approval of the Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-73-130 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 73 / Section 59-73-130
SECTION 59-73-130. Tax levy in Saluda County for benefit of Ridge Spring School District No. 2.
Status: in_force

The county board of education of Aiken County shall notify the auditor of Saluda County in writing, on or before June thirtieth of each year, of the proposed tax levy for that portion of Saluda County involved in the consolidated school district, and the auditor of Saluda County shall levy, and the treasurer shall collect from the taxpayers of the area of Saluda County known as the Ridge Spring School District No. 2, such amount annually as represented in the written request submitted by the county board of education of Aiken County as provided herein. Provided, that such tax levy shall not exceed that levied for that portion of Aiken County involved in the same attendance area for school purposes. Provided, further, that no tax levy for school purposes in Saluda County shall be increased unless approval therefor shall have been first obtained in writing from the legislative delegation of the county, including the Senator.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-330 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 59-31-330
SECTION 59-31-330. Fumigation or disinfection of books.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education, in conjunction with the Department of Health and Environmental Control, shall adopt rules and regulations governing the fumigation or disposal of textbooks from quarantined homes and for the regular disinfection of all textbooks used in the public schools of the State.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-58-130 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 58 / Section 59-58-130
SECTION 59-58-130. Remedies for violations.
Status: in_force

(A) Whenever it appears to the commission that any person is or has been violating any provisions of this chapter or the regulations promulgated hereunder, the commission shall request the Attorney General, the solicitor, or any appropriate official having jurisdiction in the county in which the nonpublic educational institution or its agent is located, to bring a civil action to restrain that person from the violation, and for other appropriate relief. The action may be brought in the court of common pleas in the county in which the person resides, has his principal place of business, or conducts or transacts business. The courts may issue orders and injunctions to restrain and prevent violations of this chapter, and these orders and injunctions must be issued without bond. (B) If a court finds that any person is wilfully violating or has wilfully violated this chapter, the commission, upon petitioning the court, may recover a civil penalty not exceeding five thousand dollars for each violation. Each degree, diploma, or certificate granted by an institution without the required license is a separate violation and each student enrolled by an agent is a separate violation for purposes of this section. (C) The commission may bring a civil action against a person who violates the terms of an injunction issued under this section for a civil penalty of not more than fifteen thousand dollars. For purposes of this section, the court of common pleas issuing an injunction shall retain jurisdiction, and the cause may be continued and in these cases the commission may petition for recovery of civil penalties. (D) For purposes of this section, a wilful violation occurs when the person committing the violation knew or should have known that his conduct was a violation of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-26-100 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 26 / Section 59-26-100
SECTION 59-26-100. Incentives for teachers serving as mentors.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education, acting through the Department of Education, shall establish a program whereby schools and school districts may be awarded funds to develop various types of incentives for those teachers who are trained and serve as mentors to new teachers as a part of the induction program established in Section 59-26-20. Among the incentives that may qualify are additional pay, release time, and additional assistance in the classroom. To qualify for these funds, the school or school district must meet the criteria established by the state board.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-102-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 102 / Section 59-102-10
SECTION 59-102-10. Citation of chapter.
Status: in_force

This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Athlete Agents Act of 2018". Effect of Amendment The 2004 amendment rewrote this section. 2018 Act No. 235, SECTION 1, substituted "Uniform Athlete Agents Act of 2018" for "Uniform Athlete Agents Act of 2004".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-2-130 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 2 / Section 59-2-130
SECTION 59-2-130. SCCIP Trust Fund monies not to be considered an asset for purposes of eligibility for grant, scholarship, or work opportunity except as required by funding source.
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any provision of law, no monies on deposit in the SCCIP Trust Fund shall be considered an asset of either the parent, guardian, or student for purposes of determining an individual's eligibility for a need based grant, a need based scholarship, or a need based work opportunity offered or administered by any state agency except as may be required by the funding source of such financial aid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-250 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 1 / Section 59-19-250
SECTION 59-19-250. Sale or lease of school property by trustees.
Status: in_force

The school trustees of the several school districts may sell or lease school property, real or personal, in their school district whenever they deem it expedient to do so and apply the proceeds of any such sale or lease to the school fund of the district. The consent of the county board of education or, in those counties which do not have a county board of education, the governing body of the county, shall be first obtained by the trustees desiring to make any such sale or lease. The board of trustees, within thirty days after making any such sale or lease, shall send a report thereof to the county board of education or, in those counties which do not have a county board of education, the governing body of the county, setting forth the terms and amount of the sale or lease.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-340 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 101 / Article 1 / Section 59-101-340
SECTION 59-101-340. Allocation of funds appropriated for the "Cutting Edge: Research Investment Initiative".
Status: in_force

Twenty-five percent of funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the "Cutting Edge: Research Investment Initiative" must be allocated to the state's senior public colleges. If the number of quality proposals for funding submitted by the senior colleges does not require the full allocation, the balance of the allocation must be distributed by the Commission on Higher Education to the state's public universities.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-117-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 117 / Article 1 / Section 59-117-80
SECTION 59-117-80. Board authorized to lease or sell real property donated during fund campaign.
Status: in_force

After obtaining the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, the board of trustees of the University of South Carolina is authorized to lease or to sell and convey from time to time any real property which may have been or may hereafter be donated to the University in the course of its current greater university fund campaign, or any similar campaign which may be conducted at any future time, for such consideration and upon such terms and at such times and in such manner as shall be set forth in the resolution of approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate. The proceeds of any such lease or sale shall be applied to the original purpose of the donation of the property leased or sold.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-139-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 139 / Section 59-139-60
SECTION 59-139-60. Evaluating fulfillment of purposes of chapter; assessments of students, schools, and districts; sharing of results.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education, through the State Department of Education and in consultation with the Education Oversight Committee, shall establish an assessment system to evaluate the degree to which the purposes of this chapter are met. To that end, the State Board of Education, through the Department of Education shall: (1) develop or adapt a developmentally appropriate assessment program to be administered to all public school students by the end of grade three that is designed to measure a student's strengths and weaknesses in skills required to perform academic work considered to be at the fourth grade level. Information on each student's progress and on areas in need of improvement must be provided to the student's parent and fourth grade teacher. Aggregated information on student progress must be given to the students' kindergarten through third grade schools so that deficiencies in the schools' academic programs can be addressed; (2) review the performance of students on the eighth grade basic skills assessment test pursuant to Section 59-30-10, or its equivalent, for progress in meeting the skill levels required by these examinations. Student data must be aggregated by the schools the students attended so that programs' deficiencies can be addressed; (3) review the data on students overage for grade in each school at grades four and nine; (4) monitor the performance of schools and districts so that continuing weaknesses in the programs preparing students for the fourth grade and ninth grade shall receive special assistance from the Department of Education; and (5) propose other methods or measures for assessing how well the purposes of this chapter are met. Effect of Amendment 2014 Act No. 155, SECTION 3, in subsection (2), deleted reference to exit examinations in the first sentence; and in subsection (4), deleted reference to exit examination.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-149-130 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 149 / Section 59-149-130
SECTION 59-149-130. Promulgation of regulations and procedures; monitoring grades to ensure accountability.
Status: in_force

The commission shall promulgate regulations and establish procedures to administer the provisions of this chapter. In addition, the commission must ensure accountability for the scholarship by monitoring the distribution of grades at the institutions which receive these scholarship funds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-5-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 5 / Section 59-5-10
SECTION 59-5-10. Composition and organization of State Board of Education.
Status: in_force

The State Board of Education shall be composed of one member from each judicial circuit. The members shall serve terms of four years and until their successors are elected and qualify, except of those first elected, the members from the fifth, tenth and fourteenth circuits shall serve terms of one year; the members from the first, sixth, eighth and twelfth circuits shall serve terms of two years and the members from the fourth, seventh, ninth and eleventh circuits shall serve terms of three years. The terms of all members shall commence on January first following their election. The legislative delegations representing the counties of each judicial circuit shall meet upon written call of a majority of the members of the delegations of each judicial circuit at a time and place to be designated in such call for the purpose of electing a member of the Board to represent such circuit. A majority present, either in person or by written proxy, of the members of the county legislative delegations from a given circuit shall constitute a quorum for the purpose of electing a member, but no person shall be declared elected who shall fail to receive a majority vote of all the members of the county legislative delegations from the circuit. The joint county legislative delegations of each circuit shall be organized by the election of a chairman and a secretary and such joint legislative delegations shall, subject to the provisions herein, adopt such rules as they deem proper to govern the election. Any absentee may vote by written proxy. When the election is completed, the chairman and secretary of the joint county legislative delegations of each circuit shall immediately transmit the name of the person elected to the Secretary of State who shall forthwith issue to such person, after he has taken the usual oath of office, a certificate of election as a member of the State Board of Education. The Governor shall thereupon issue a commission to such person and pending such issuance the certificate of election shall be a sufficient warrant to such person to perform all of the duties and functions of his office. Any vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment for the unexpired portion of the term. Representation of a given judicial circuit on the State Board of Education shall be rotated among the counties of the circuit, except by unanimous consent of all members of the county legislative delegations from the circuit. No member shall succeed himself in office except by unanimous consent of the members of the county legislative delegations from the circuit. Members of the legislative delegation of any county entitled to a member of the Board shall nominate persons for the office, one of whom shall be elected to the Board. The Board shall select its chairman and other officers to serve for such terms as the Board may designate. Provided, the Superintendent of Education shall serve as secretary and administrative officer to the Board. The Board shall adopt its own rules and procedures. The chairman and other officers shall have such powers and duties as may be determined by the Board not inconsistent with the law. At the initial meeting of the legislative delegations representing the counties of each circuit, it shall be determined by lot the sequence in which each county shall be entitled to nominate persons for the office.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-40-130 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 40 / Section 59-40-130
SECTION 59-40-130. Leave for employment at charter school; continuation of benefits; exceptions.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) If an employee of a local school district makes a written request for leave to be employed at a charter school before July 1, 2006, the school district shall grant the leave for up to five years as requested by the employee. The school district may require that the request for leave or extension of leave be made by the date provided for by state law for the return of teachers' contracts. Employees may return to employment with the local school district at its option with the same teaching or administrative contract status as when they left but without assurance as to the school or supplemental position to which they may be assigned. (2) Notwithstanding the provisions of item (1) and subject to the provisions of subsection (B), a charter school employing after June 30, 2006, an individual on leave from a local school district shall participate in the South Carolina Retirement Systems as a covered employer with respect to that employee on leave through the earlier of the date the employee on leave returns to employment by the district or June 30, 2011, and only if the charter school and the employee have made required employer and employee contributions to the South Carolina Retirement Systems from the employee's date of employment with the charter school. (B) A charter school employing an individual on leave from a local school district shall participate in the South Carolina Retirement Systems as a covered employer with respect to the employee on leave it hires. The employee on leave from a local school district employed by a charter school shall accrue benefits and credits in the South Carolina Retirement Systems. The charter school shall remit to the Retirement Systems the employer contributions required by law for participating employers. The employee shall make the employee contributions to the Retirement Systems required by law and the contributions must be picked up in accordance with Section 9-1-1020. The South Carolina Retirement Systems may impose reasonable requirements to administer this section. (C) The provisions of this section do not apply to teachers and other employees of a converted school whose employment relation is governed by Section 59-40-100. Effect of Amendment The 2006 amendment, in subsection (A), added "before July 1, 2006" in the first sentence; and rewrote subsection (B). The 2012 amendment rewrote subsection (A).
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-24-65 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 24 / Article 1 / Section 59-24-65
SECTION 59-24-65. Principals' Executive Institute (PEI); program design task force; purpose; governing regulations; focus.
Status: in_force

The State Department of Education shall establish a Principals' Executive Institute (PEI) with the funds appropriated for that purpose. (1) A task force appointed by the State Superintendent of Education shall begin on or before July 1, 1999, to design this program so that the first class of participants shall begin during school year 1999-2000. The task force shall include, but is not limited to, representatives from the State Department of Education, business leaders, university faculty, district superintendents, school principals, South Carolina Teachers of the Year, representatives from professional organizations, members of the Education Oversight Committee, and appropriate legislative staff. (2) The purpose of the PEI is to provide professional development to South Carolinas principals in management and school leadership skills. (3) By January 1, 2000, the State Board of Education shall establish regulations governing the operation of the PEI. (4) The focus of the first year of the Principals' Executive Institute shall be to serve the twenty-seven principals from impaired schools and other experienced principals as identified by the South Carolina Leadership Academy of the Department of Education and as approved by the local public school districts which employ such principals. (5) The creation of the Principals' Executive Institute shall not duplicate the State Department of Educations Leadership Academy programs but shall provide intensive, in-depth training in business principles and concepts as they relate to school management and the training and developmental programs for principals mandated under the 1998 Education Accountability Act.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-121-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 121 / Article 1 / Section 59-121-80
SECTION 59-121-80. Burial of past presidents and their wives.
Status: in_force

The board of visitors of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, is hereby authorized to set aside a suitable plot, the size and location thereof to be determined by the board and by the State Department of Administration, wherein may be interred the remains of past presidents of The Citadel who may be so minded to be buried therein with their wives, if so desired; provided, that the approval and selection of such past presidents and their wives to be buried therein shall be wholly in the discretion of the board of visitors of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-39-115 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 39 / Article 1 / Section 59-39-115
SECTION 59-39-115. Issuance of diploma to high school student who enlisted in military during WWII; documentation; posthumous diplomas.
Status: in_force

(A) A South Carolinian who enlisted in any branch of the United States military while enrolled as a student in any high school of this State during the period December 8, 1941, through September 1, 1946, must be issued a high school diploma upon presentation of documentation of school enrollment and a copy of an honorable discharge or honorable discharge papers (DD-214) to the South Carolina Department of Education. (B) A posthumous high school diploma must be awarded to any person meeting the criteria of this section upon written request of a member of the individual's family.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 1 / Section 59-53-30
SECTION 59-53-30. Open admissions; tuition and fees; literacy and vocational programs; parallel programs.
Status: in_force

Institutions of the South Carolina Technical Education System shall maintain open admissions policies unless determined to be economically unfeasible by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority and establish and maintain low tuition and fees in order to provide access to post-secondary education and insure that such educational opportunities shall not be denied to anyone. Upon request and justification and with the approval of the State Board of Education, the Board may authorize an institution within its jurisdiction to contract with local school districts to offer adult literacy courses and programs and secondary-level vocational courses and programs. Upon request and justification and with the approval of the Commission on Higher Education, the Board may authorize an institution within its jurisdiction to offer two-year college parallel programs. The Commission on Higher Education shall approve all criteria for college parallel courses.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-19-560 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 19 / Article 3 / Section 59-19-560
SECTION 59-19-560. Appeal to court of common pleas.
Status: in_force

Any party aggrieved by the order of the county board of education shall have the right to appeal to the court of common pleas of the county by serving a written verified petition upon the chairman of the county board of education and upon the adverse party within ten days from the date upon which copy of the order of the county board of education was mailed to the petitioner. The parties so served shall have twenty days from the date of service, exclusive of the date of service, within which to make return to the petition or to otherwise plead, and the matter in controversy shall be tried by the circuit judge, de novo, with or without reference to a master or special referee. The county board of education shall certify to the court the record of the proceedings upon which its order was based, and the record so certified shall be admitted as evidence and considered by the court, along with such additional evidence as the parties may desire to present. The court shall consider and dispose of the cause as other equity cases are tried and disposed of, and all parties at interest shall have such rights and remedies, including the right of appeal, as are now provided by law in such cases.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-125-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 125 / Article 1 / Section 59-125-50
SECTION 59-125-50. Secretary of State shall notify board members of election; effect of failure to accept.
Status: in_force

The Secretary of State shall furnish a certificate to each trustee within ten days after his election notifying him that he has been so elected and if any trustee fail for the space of thirty days to inform the Governor of his acceptance then his election shall be void and his place shall be filled as heretofore provided in cases of vacancy.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-500 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 1 / Article 5 / Section 59-1-500
SECTION 59-1-500. Biological gender-based and coeducational school sports teams; birth certificates; remedies.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section, a statement of a student's biological sex on the student's official birth certificate is considered to have correctly stated the student's biological sex at birth if the statement was filed at or near the time of the student's birth. (B)(1) Interscholastic, intercollegiate, intramural, or club athletic teams or sports that are sponsored by a public elementary or secondary school or public postsecondary institution must be expressly designated as one of the following based on the biological sex at birth of team members: (a) males, men, or boys; (b) females, women, or girls; or (c) coed or mixed, including both males and females. (2) Athletic teams or sports designated for males, men, or boys shall not be open to students of the female sex, unless no team designated for females in that sport is offered at the school in which the student is enrolled. (3) Athletic teams or sports designated for females, women, or girls shall not be open to students of the male sex. (4) A private school or a private institution sponsoring an athletic team or sport in which its students or teams compete against a public school or institution must also comply with this section for the applicable team or sport. (C)(1) A student who is deprived of an athletic opportunity or suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a violation of this section may initiate a cause of action against the school or postsecondary institution as provided in subsection (C)(4). (2) A student who is subject to retaliation or other adverse action by a school, postsecondary institution, or athletic association or organization as a result of reporting a violation of this section to an employee or representative of the school, institution, or athletic association or organization, or to any state or federal agency with oversight of schools or postsecondary institutions in this State, may initiate a cause of action against the school, postsecondary institution, or athletic association or organization as provided in subsection (C)(4). (3) A school or postsecondary institution that suffers any direct or indirect harm as a result of a violation of this section may initiate a cause of action against the governmental entity, licensing or accrediting organization or athletic association or organization as provided in subsection (C)(4). (4) An action arising under this section must be commenced within two years after the alleged injury and subject to the South Carolina Tort Claims Act, as provided in Section 15-78-10, et seq. Editor's Note 2022 Act No. 193, SECTIONS 1, 2, provide as follows: "SECTION 1. This act must be known and may be cited as the 'Save Women's Sports Act'. "SECTION 2. (A) It is the intent of the General Assembly to maintain opportunities for female athletes to demonstrate their strength, skills, and athletic abilities, and to provide them with opportunities to obtain recognition and accolades, college scholarships, and numerous other long-term benefits that result from participating and competing in athletic endeavors. "(B) The General Assembly finds that: "(1) maintaining the fairness for women's athletic opportunities is an important state interest; and "(2) requiring the designation of separate sex specific athletic teams or sports is necessary to maintain fairness for women's athletic opportunities."
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-270 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 59-67-270
SECTION 59-67-270. Inspection of buses.
Status: in_force

(A)(1) All publicly owned or leased school buses, including buses owned or leased by a public school district, must be inspected annually in compliance with either the State Department of Education's annual school bus inspection program or the federal Department of Transportation annual inspection program if the standards of the federal inspection program meet or exceed the standards of the state's program. The State Department of Education shall assist school districts using the Department of Education's program by providing the training and certification of a limited number of personnel designated by a school district to perform the inspection, providing the inspection manuals and forms, and supplying the inspection certificate stickers for the school buses. The State Department of Education's assistance must be free of charge. Any savings resulting from the ability to be inspected by either the State Department of Education or the federal Department of Transportation shall be expended on accountability programs set forth in Chapter 18 of this title. (2) All privately owned vehicles designed and used to transport ten or more preprimary, primary, or secondary students to or from school, school-related activities, or childcare must be inspected annually. Inspections for these privately owned vehicles must comply with applicable federal inspection requirements. A copy of the vehicle inspection report must be kept on these vehicles at all times. (3) The owner or lessee of a school bus shall be solely responsible for the implementation and accountability of school bus inspections. (B) All school buses are subject to inspection at any time or place by officers of the State Transport Police or inspection forces. A school bus may not continue in operation in the transportation of students when the annual inspection is more than twelve months old or the school bus is found to be unsafe after any inspection until the unsafe conditions disclosed by the inspection have been corrected. Effect of Amendment The 2007 amendment added subsection (A) and designated the existing text as subsection (B), substituting in the first sentence "Transport Police" for "Highway Patrol", in the second sentence substituting "students" for "pupils" and adding " the annual inspection is more than twelve months old or the school bus is" and "after any inspection", and making nonsubstantive changes throughout. The 2008 amendment, in paragraph (A)(1), added the provisions relating to inspection of buses by the Federal Department of Transportation and the fourth sentence relating to use of any savings.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-47 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 59-25-47
SECTION 59-25-47. Unused leave payments authorized.
Status: in_force

(A) A local school district board of trustees or, in the case of a charter school, the governing body of a charter school, is authorized to adopt a policy consistent with the school district or, in the case of a charter school, the school budget, providing that all certified and noncertified public school teachers identified in the Professional Certified Staff listing, certified special school classroom teachers, certified school librarians, certified school counselors, and career specialists who are employed by a school district or a charter school who earn, but do not use sick and annual leave in excess of ninety days, may be eligible to receive payment at the end of each fiscal year for these earned days in excess of ninety days for each excess day at a district's or charter school's established rate of substitute pay for their individual job classification, or another amount, subject to approval by the local school board, or, in the case of a charter school, the governing body of the charter school. This provision applies only to sick leave and annual leave in excess of ninety days that is accrued after July 1, 2018. (B) A local school district board of trustees or, in the case of a charter school, the governing body of a charter school, must adopt a policy enabling all district or charter school employees to contribute any unused sick or annual leave in excess of sixty days to a sick leave bank that is made available to all district or charter school employees. Such policy must include criteria for employee eligibility to apply for use of the sick leave bank, procedures for review of applications for use of the sick leave bank, and criteria for the maximum number of days an employee may access from the sick leave bank during a single fiscal year. (C) Notwithstanding any provision contained in this section, this section does not and may not be construed to amend or to repeal: (1) the rights of a school district, charter school, or legislative delegation to set or restrict any existing teacher incentive payment programs; or (2) any existing teacher incentive payment programs provided by current law or any existing limitation on the fiscal autonomy of a school district or charter school that is more restrictive than any incentives provided in subsection (A). (D) A local district, prior to the effective date of this act, who has implemented a leave bank policy or a policy that advances the full annual leave balance to a new employee with the first payroll disbursement shall be exempt from the requirements of this section. 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 3, rewrote the section.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 1 / Section 59-25-40
SECTION 59-25-40. Effective date of pay increase resulting from examination.
Status: in_force

In the event that a teacher takes the teacher's examination and becomes entitled to a pay increase as a result thereof such increase shall become effective and payable commencing with the semester following the date of examination.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-65-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 65 / Article 1 / Section 59-65-80
SECTION 59-65-80. Enrollment or attendance of expelled or suspended child not authorized.
Status: in_force

Nothing herein shall be construed as granting authority to require enrollment or attendance of a child who has been or may be expelled or suspended by the board of trustees of the district or any other person acting with authority from the board of trustees.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-107-30 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 107 / Section 59-107-30
SECTION 59-107-30. Remittance and application of tuition fees.
Status: in_force

All tuition fees received by any State institution shall be remitted from time to time to the State Treasurer under such regulations as he shall prescribe. The State Treasurer shall apply the same as directed by this chapter. For all purposes of this chapter the term "tuition fees" shall include those fees charged by any State institution for tuition, matriculation and registration. The term "tuition fees" shall not include sums charged for enrolling in courses or classes offered at any summer school term or in any special seminar, nor shall the term relate to or include fees levied or charged for purposes other than for the purposes of this chapter.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-720 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 5 / Section 59-67-720
SECTION 59-67-720. Payment of premiums.
Status: in_force

The premiums on all insurance contracts procured under the authority of Section 59-67-710 shall be paid out of the annual appropriation for transportation operated by the State Board of Education. Such premiums shall be considered a part of the general expenses of operating school bus transportation.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-24-5 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 24 / Article 1 / Section 59-24-5
SECTION 59-24-5. Importance of leadership of principal recognized.
Status: in_force

The General Assembly finds that the leadership of the principal is key to the success of a school, and support for ongoing, integrated professional development is integral to better schools and to the improvement of the actual work of teachers and school staff.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-117-65 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 117 / Article 1 / Section 59-117-65
SECTION 59-117-65. Authority to enter ground lease agreements.
Status: in_force

The Board of Trustees of the University of South Carolina with the approval of the Department of Administration or State Fiscal Accountability Authority, as appropriate, may enter into lease agreements with a private entity whereby the private entity will provide all services necessary for the creation and operation of student housing facilities at the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg including, but not limited to, ground leasing, financing, designing, construction, managing, operating, maintaining, and related services. Upon expiration of the agreement term, the private entity shall surrender to the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg, such premises with the existing buildings, other structures and improvements constructed and located thereon and therein, in the same condition as when the construction of the buildings, other structures, and improvements were completed, only natural and normal wear and tear excepted. The Department of Administration or State Fiscal Accountability Authority, as appropriate, first must approve all agreement terms and conditions including the consideration involved, and the full faith and credit of the State toward the lease obligations must not be pledged, and any statement to the contrary is deemed null and void as a matter of public policy. The private entity may be a nonprofit organization. The Department of Administration or State Fiscal Accountability Authority, as appropriate, approval required shall be in lieu of or a substitute for any other approval required by any other provision of law or regulation in connection with the undertaking of the private entity and the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg; however, the private entity and the University of South Carolina-Spartanburg shall adhere to fire, life, and safety codes as required by the Office of State Engineer. Neither this section, nor the approval required by this section, exempts any transaction or entity from complying with Chapter 35 of Title 11. Effect of Amendment The 2008 amendment added the undesignated paragraph at the end relating to compliance with the Procurement Code.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-127-15 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 127 / Article 1 / Section 59-127-15
SECTION 59-127-15. South Carolina State College changed to South Carolina State University.
Status: in_force

South Carolina State College is changed to South Carolina State University, effective July 1, 1992, and wherever in the 1976 Code or in any other provision of law the name South Carolina State College appears, it must be construed to mean South Carolina State University.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-104-440 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 104 / Article 5 / Section 59-104-440
SECTION 59-104-440. Allocation of funds.
Status: in_force

(A) With the exception of the University of South Carolina, Clemson University, and the Medical University of South Carolina, institutions seeking financial support from the fund for research projects shall submit proposals to the commission for its review and approval. (B) The portion of the fund allocated to the three senior universities excepted in subsection (A) must be distributed in a manner that takes into account the previous year's expenditures of externally generated funds for research which each university reported to the commission. (C) No funds allocated under the provisions of this chapter nor matching funds received pursuant to terms of this chapter may be used to increase an institution's future years' formula funding as computed by the Commission on Higher Education.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-210 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 101 / Article 1 / Section 59-101-210
SECTION 59-101-210. Institutional reports of certain violations; contents; availability; redress for violations.
Status: repealed

(A)(1) Beginning with the 2016-2017 academic year, a public institution of higher learning, excluding technical colleges, shall maintain a report of actual findings of violations of the institution's Conduct of Student Organizations by fraternity and sorority organizations formally affiliated with the institution. (2) The report of actual findings of violations of the Conduct of Student Organizations is required for offenses involving: (a) alcohol; (b) drugs; (c) sexual assault; (d) physical assault; and (e) hazing. (3) The report of actual findings of violations must contain: (a) the name of the organization; (b) when the organization was charged with misconduct; (c) the dates on which the citation was issued or the event occurred; (d) the date the investigation was initiated; (e) a general description of the incident, the charges, findings, and sanctions placed on the organization; and (f) the date on which the matter was resolved. (4) The report must include no personal identifying information of the individual members and shall be subject to the requirements of the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. 1232g. (5) The institution shall update this report at least forty-five calendar days before the start of the fall and spring academic semesters. (6) The institution shall provide reports required under this section on its Internet website in a prominent location. The webpage that contains this report must include a statement notifying the public: (a) of the availability of additional information related to findings, sanctions, and organizational sanction completion; (b) where a member of the public may obtain the additional information that is not protected under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), 20 U.S.C. 1232g; and (c) that the institution is required to provide this additional information pursuant to the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act. (7) The institution shall furnish a printed notice of the nature and availability of this report and the website address where it can be found to attendees at student orientation. (8) The institution shall maintain reports as they are updated for four years. Information that is four years old may be removed from the record by the institution as it updates its records. (B) A public institution of higher learning shall submit to the Commission on Higher Education a statement within fourteen calendar days that the reports have been updated as required in subsection (A)(4). The commission shall publish on their webpage a link to the institution's updated reports. (C) A member of the public who believes that an institution is not complying with the information disclosure required under this section may seek relief as provided for under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act. Editor's Note 2019 Act No. 24, preamble, and SECTIONS 1 to 3, provide as follows: "Whereas, in 2016, the General Assembly enacted the "Tucker Hipps Transparency Act" in Act 265 of 2016, requiring public institutions of higher learning in this State to maintain reports of actual findings of certain misconduct by fraternity and sorority organizations, among other things; and "Whereas, the sunset provision of Act 265 of 2016 will result in the expiration of the act on June 29, 2019, unless the provisions of the act are extended or reenacted by the General Assembly; and Whereas, the General Assembly finds that the success of the "Tucker Hipps Transparency Act" merits its permanent continuation, making it necessary to eliminate this sunset provision. Now, therefore, [text of Act]. "SECTION 1. The 'Tucker Hipps Transparency Act', as established by Act 265 of 2016 and contained in Section 59-101-210, is permanently enacted by the provisions of this act. "SECTION 2. SECTION 4 of Act 265 of 2016 is repealed. "SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor [April 26, 2019]."
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-149-160 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 149 / Section 59-149-160
SECTION 59-149-160. Additional staff to administer scholarship program authorized.
Status: in_force

The Commission on Higher Education is authorized two additional FTEs to administer the LIFE Scholarship Program established by this chapter, the compensation for whom shall be provided from funds appropriated to the commission by the General Assembly.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-69-220 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 69 / Article 5 / Section 59-69-220
SECTION 59-69-220. Approval of warrants by county superintendent of education or his agent.
Status: in_force

No school warrants issued by any board of school trustees against any public school fund shall be paid by the county treasurer or other officer having the custody of such fund until the warrant has been approved by the county superintendent of education of the county in which such warrant is drawn or by such person in the office of such county superintendent as may be designated by him in writing, provided the person designated shall have furnished good and sufficient bond payable to the county for the faithful performance of his duties in the sum of one thousand dollars or in the sum of the bond of the county superintendent of education, whichever is higher.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-49-160 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 49 / Section 59-49-160
SECTION 59-49-160. Campus police; public safety.
Status: in_force

(A) The board of trustees may employ campus police to police the buildings and grounds of the school. These campus police shall work under the supervision of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division and may not enter into such employment unless and until they have been appointed Governor's constables with general authority as peace officers. (B) All traffic laws of the State are in full force and effect on the streets and roads of the school, whether such streets and roads are considered public or private. (C) The board may promulgate reasonable additional regulations relating to vehicular traffic within the grounds of the school including, but not limited to, parking of vehicles and reduced vehicular speeds, notwithstanding any other provision of law, and to provide penalties for violations of these regulations, not to exceed a fine of one hundred dollars. These regulations have the full force and effect of law and violations of them are triable in magistrates court. The board also may charge parking fees, issue parking passes, and erect gates and guard houses to control entry to the campus.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-21-400 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 21 / Article 3 / Section 59-21-400
SECTION 59-21-400. Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

The Board shall prescribe reasonable rules and regulations in order to ensure that funds derived from the State public school building fund will not be used improvidently or unwisely and that the efficiency of the public school system will be increased by the expenditure of the funds.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-121-40 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 121 / Article 1 / Section 59-121-40
SECTION 59-121-40. Board created body corporate and politic; general powers.
Status: in_force

The board of visitors of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina, is hereby created a body corporate and politic of this State, by the name and style of "The Board of Visitors of The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina," and by said name it and its successors in office shall have perpetual succession and be able and capable in law to have, receive and enjoy to it and its successors and convey lands, tenements and hereditaments of any kind or value in fee or for life or years and perpetual property of any kind whatever and all sums of money of any amount whatsoever which may be granted, devised or bequeathed to it for the purpose of building, erecting, endowing or supporting The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina. But in receiving any such bequest no liabilities of any character shall be made binding or obligatory upon the State, except such as are accepted by the General Assembly. The board shall have a common seal for themselves and their successors with liberty to alter the same from time to time.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-21-120 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 21 / Article 1 / Section 59-21-120
SECTION 59-21-120. Allowance for maintenance and operation.
Status: in_force

In addition to all other State aid, each school district or operating unit shall be allowed, for maintenance and operation, ten dollars a school year for each pupil. Such allowance shall be based on enrollment. These funds shall be disbursed monthly along with the disbursement of funds for teachers' salaries.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-103-45 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 103 / Article 1 / Section 59-103-45
SECTION 59-103-45. Additional duties and functions of commission regarding public institutions of higher learning.
Status: in_force

In addition to the powers, duties, and functions of the Commission on Higher Education as provided by law, the commission, notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, shall have the following additional duties and functions with regard to the various public institutions of higher education: (1) establish procedures for the transferability of courses at the undergraduate level between two-year and four-year institutions or schools; (2) coordinate with the State Board of Education in the approval of secondary education courses for the purpose of determining minimum college entrance requirements, and define minimum academic expectations for prospective post-secondary students, communicate these expectations to the State Board of Education, and work with the state board to ensure these expectations are met; (3) review minimum undergraduate admissions standards for in-state and out-of-state students; (4)(a) develop standards for determining how well an institution has met or achieved the performance indicators for quality academic success as enumerated in Section 59-103-30, and develop mechanisms for measuring the standards of achievement of particular institutions. These standards and measurement mechanisms shall be developed in consultation and cooperation with, at a minimum but not limited to, the Council of Presidents of State Institutions, the chairmen of the governing boards of the various institutions and the business community; (b) base the higher education funding formula in part on the achievement of the standards set for these performance indicators including base-line funding for institutions meeting the standards of achievement, incentive funding for institutions exceeding the standards of achievement, and reductions in funding for institutions which do not meet the standards of achievement, provided that each institution under the formula until July 1, 1999, must receive at least its fiscal year 1996-1997 formula amount; (c) promulgate regulations to implement the provisions of subitems (a) and (b) above and submit such regulations to the General Assembly for its review pursuant to the Administrative Procedures Act not later than the beginning of the 1997 Session of the General Assembly. (d) develop a higher education funding formula based entirely on an institution's achievement of the standards set for these performance indicators, this formula to be used beginning July 1, 1999. This new funding formula also must be contained in regulations promulgated by the commission and submitted to the General Assembly for its review in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act; (5) reduce, expand, or consolidate any institution of higher learning including those which do not meet the standards of achievement in regard to the performance indicators for quality academic success enumerated in Section 59-103-30, and beginning July 1, 1999, close any institution which does not meet the standards of achievement in regard to the performance indicators for quality academic success enumerated in Section 59-103-30. The process to be followed for the closure, reduction, expansion, or consolidation of an institution under this item (5) shall be as promulgated in regulations of the commission which shall be submitted to and approved by the General Assembly; (6) review and approve each institutional mission statement to ensure it is within the overall mission of that particular type of institution as stipulated by Section 59-103-15 and is within the overall mission of the State; (7) ensure access and equity opportunities at each institution of higher learning for all citizens of this State regardless of race, gender, color, creed, or national origin within the parameters provided by law.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-1-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 1 / Article 1 / Section 59-1-20
SECTION 59-1-20. Purpose of South Carolina School Code.
Status: in_force

The purpose of the South Carolina School Code is to provide for a State system of public education and for the establishment, organization, operation, and support of such State system.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-24-10 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 24 / Article 1 / Section 59-24-10
SECTION 59-24-10. Assessment of leadership and management capabilities before appointment as principal.
Status: in_force

Beginning with the school year 1999-2000, before permanent appointment as a principal for an elementary school, secondary school, or career and technology center, a person must be assessed for instructional leadership and management capabilities by the Leadership Academy of the South Carolina Department of Education. A district may appoint a person on an interim basis until the assessment is completed. A report of this assessment must be forwarded to the district superintendent and board of trustees. The provisions of this section do not apply to a person currently employed as principal on the effective date of this section or to a person hired as principal before the beginning of school year 1999-2000. Effect of Amendment The 2005 amendment substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" in the first sentence and made nonsubstantive language changes throughout.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-73-60 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 73 / Section 59-73-60
SECTION 59-73-60. Levy of tax; increase, decrease, or repeal of tax.
Status: repealed

Within ten days after such election, if the majority of those voting shall vote for such levy, the board of trustees shall furnish the county auditor with a statement of the amount so levied, and the auditor shall enter the same in the tax duplicates, and he shall annually, each year thereafter, enter such amount in the tax duplicates until the same is increased, by the taxpayers, at an election called for that purpose, or is decreased in a manner provided by law, and he is notified that the same has been increased, decreased or repealed; and if increased or decreased, he shall annually enter it as so increased or decreased. Such election shall be called and notice given in the same way and manner as is herein provided for the calling of elections to make the levy and the giving of the notice that it has been made, and the county treasurer shall collect the same as other county and State taxes. Any tax which may be levied, increased, decreased or repealed after October first in any year shall not take effect until the next succeeding year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-71-450 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 71 / Article 5 / Section 59-71-450
SECTION 59-71-450. Form of bonds; time, place, and medium of payment.
Status: in_force

The State school bonds shall be issued in such form and with such provisions as to time, place or places and medium of payment as may be determined by the Governor and the State Treasurer, subject to the provisions of this article.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-67-140 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 67 / Article 1 / Section 59-67-140
SECTION 59-67-140. Inspection of road conditions on bus routes; duties of drivers.
Status: in_force

During the school year, each school bus driver shall report, in writing, to the proper school official any hazardous road conditions on his routes. The school official shall forward such reports to the county transportation supervisor who shall follow the procedure required of him in Section 59-67-130.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-840 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 7 / Section 59-25-840
SECTION 59-25-840. Filing of unappealed decision; enforcement.
Status: in_force

Any decision of either the county board or the State Board which shall become final by reason of no appeal being taken therefrom as herein provided shall be filed in the office of the clerk of court of the county in which the complaint arose within ten days after such decision becomes final by the board rendering the decision. Any party thereto shall have the right to apply to the circuit court of such county for the enforcement of such decision and the court shall enforce such decision in the same manner as judgments of such court are enforced.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-127-430 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 127 / Article 3 / Section 59-127-430
SECTION 59-127-430. Disposition of monies from other sources for repayment of bonds.
Status: in_force

Except to the extent other monies are restricted inconsistent with these provisions, the trustees are empowered to deposit, in the Debt Service Fund, before the issuance of any bonds, monies derived from other sources, including funds raised by the athletic department of the university. They also are empowered throughout the life of the bonds to make payments from these other sources to the fund, and in calculating the amount or rate of the admission fee or the special student fee, or both, for any year, they may take into account all monies then actually paid to the fund from the other sources which then are available to meet the payment of the principal and interest on the bonds for the year.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-147-80 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 147 / Section 59-147-80
SECTION 59-147-80. Sale of bonds.
Status: in_force

The bonds must be sold at public or private sale upon such terms and conditions as the board of the university considers advisable.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-47-20 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 47 / Section 59-47-20
SECTION 59-47-20. Compensation and expenses of board.
Status: in_force

The board shall receive no compensation for its services. It shall be allowed actual expenses, to be paid by the superintendent of the school.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-26-110 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 26 / Section 59-26-110
SECTION 59-26-110. Youth suicide prevention teacher training.
Status: in_force

(A) Beginning with the 2013-2014 school year, the Department of Education shall require two hours of training in youth suicide awareness and prevention as a requirement for the renewal of credentials of individuals employed in a middle school or high school as defined in Section 59-1-150. The required training shall count toward the one hundred twenty renewal credits specified in Department of Education regulations for renewal of credentials. (B)(1) The department shall develop guidelines suitable for training and materials that may be used by schools and districts; however districts may approve materials to be used in providing training for employees. (2) The training required in this section may be accomplished through self-review of suicide prevention materials that meet guidelines developed by the Department of Education. (C) No person shall have a cause of action for any loss or damage caused by any act or omission resulting from the implementation of the provisions of this section or resulting from any training, or lack of training, required by this section unless the loss or damage was caused by wilful or wanton misconduct. The training, or lack of training, required by the provisions of this section must not be construed to impose any specific duty of care. Editor's Note 2012 Act No. 170, SECTION 1, provides as follows: "This act may be cited as the 'Jason Flatt Act'."
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-31-370 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 31 / Article 3 / Section 59-31-370
SECTION 59-31-370. Collection and payment of rentals.
Status: in_force

The rentals provided hereunder shall be collected by the various school districts in the State, and each school district shall pay the amount thereof due for the use of books by the pupils in such district within thirty days from the date of the opening of the schools or the admission of new pupils to the schools. No schoolbooks shall be delivered to any school child on a rental plan until the rentals have been fully paid.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-156-200 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 156 / Section 59-156-200
SECTION 59-156-200. Duties of Office of First Steps to School Readiness to private providers.
Status: in_force

For all private providers approved to offer services pursuant to this chapter, the Office of First Steps to School Readiness shall: (1) serve as the fiscal agent; (2) verify student enrollment eligibility; (3) recruit, review, and approve eligible providers. In considering approval of providers, consideration must be given to the provider's availability of permanent space for program service and whether temporary classroom space is necessary to provide services to any children; (4) coordinate oversight, monitoring, technical assistance, coordination, and training for classroom providers; (5) serve as a clearing house for information and best practices related to four-year-old kindergarten programs; (6) receive, review, and approve new classroom grant applications and make recommendations for approval based on approved criteria; (7) coordinate activities and promote collaboration with other private and public providers in developing and supporting four-year-old kindergarten programs; (8) maintain a database of the children enrolled in the program; and (9) promulgate guidelines as necessary for the implementation of the program.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-25-420 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 25 / Article 5 / Section 59-25-420
SECTION 59-25-420. Teacher required to notify board of acceptance; opportunity for hearing if not reemployed.
Status: in_force

(A) A teacher who is reemployed by written notification pursuant to Section 59-25-410 shall before May eleventh notify the board of trustees in writing of his acceptance of the contract. Failure on the part of the teacher to notify the board of acceptance within the specified time limit is conclusive evidence of the teacher's rejection of the contract. (B) A teacher, receiving a notice that he will not be reemployed for the ensuing year, has the same notice and opportunity for a hearing provided in this article for a teacher dismissed for cause during the school year. Effect of Amendment 2016 Act No. 221, SECTION 2, in (A), substituted "before May eleventh" for "by April twenty-fifth first" and "is conclusive" for "shall be conclusive"; and in (B), substituted "has the same notice" for "shall have the same notice" and "in this article for a teacher" for "in subsequent sections for teachers".
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-200 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 101 / Article 1 / Section 59-101-200
SECTION 59-101-200. Hazing prohibited; penalties.
Status: in_force

(A) For purposes of this section: (1) "Student" means a person enrolled in a state university, college, or other public institution of higher learning. (2) "Superior student" means a student who has attended a state university, college, or other public institution of higher learning longer than another student or who has an official position giving authority over another student. (3) "Subordinate student" means a person who attends a state university, college, or other public institution of higher learning who is not defined as a "superior student" in item (2). (4) "Hazing" means the wrongful striking, laying open hand upon, threatening with violence, or offering to do bodily harm by a superior student to a subordinate student with intent to punish or injure the subordinate student, or other unauthorized treatment by the superior student of a subordinate student of a tyrannical, abusive, shameful, insulting, or humiliating nature. (B) Hazing at all state supported universities, colleges, and public institutions of higher learning is prohibited. When an investigation has disclosed substantial evidence that a student has committed an act or acts of hazing, the student may be dismissed, expelled, suspended, or punished as the president considers appropriate. (C) The provisions of this section are in addition to the provisions of Article 6, Chapter 3 of Title 16. (D) The provisions of Section 30-4-40(a)(2) and 30-4-70(a)(1) continue to apply to hazing incidents.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-4-50 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 4 / Section 59-4-50
SECTION 59-4-50. Undertakings payable solely from fund monies.
Status: in_force

An act or undertaking of the program is not a debt of the State or any agency, department, institution, or political subdivision of the State, or a pledge of the full faith and credit of the State or any agency, department, institution, or political subdivision, but is payable solely from the monies in the fund.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-730 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 9 / Section 59-53-730
SECTION 59-53-730. Powers and duties of committee.
Status: in_force

The committee may do all things necessary or convenient to promote the objects of the program instituted by the former provisions which created the Advisory Committee for Technical Training, and without in any way limiting the generality of the foregoing, may: (1) Adopt and use a corporate seal; (2) Adopt such bylaws, rules and regulations for the conduct of business and the expenditure of its funds as it may deem advisable; (3) Acquire additional sites within Darlington and Florence Counties and construct and equip thereon appropriate facilities in accordance with the standards and specifications promulgated by the former State Advisory Committee; (4) Acquire by gift, purchase, or otherwise, all kinds and descriptions of real and personal property; (5) Accept gifts, grants, donations, devises and bequests; (6) Provide appropriate supervision of the maintenance of any facility established to promote vocational or technical education; (7) Provide the necessary administrative services required by the State program; (8) Employ such personnel as may be necessary to enable the area committee to fulfill its functions; (9) Establish, promulgate and enforce reasonable rules and regulations, in conjunction with those promulgated by the State agency, for the operation of its facilities; (10) Expend any funds received in any manner, including the proceeds derived from any bonds issued by either Darlington County or Florence County to defray any costs incident to the establishment of adequate facilities for the program, and thereafter expend such funds for the operation, maintenance and improvement of the facilities; (11) Apply for, receive, and expend moneys from all governmental agencies, both State and Federal; and (12) Exercise all powers contemplated for local agencies by the former provisions which created the Advisory Committee for Technical Training, and all other laws modifying, amending or implementing it.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-53-2460 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 53 / Article 27 / Section 59-53-2460
SECTION 59-53-2460. Exemptions from taxes.
Status: in_force

In performing an essential governmental function in the exercise of the powers conferred upon it, an authority is not required to pay taxes or assessments upon property or upon its activities or operations or the income from them, or taxes or assessments upon property acquired or used by an authority or upon the income from them. Bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness issued by an authority and the income from them are free from taxation and assessment of every kind by the State and by the local governments and other political subdivisions of the State. SECTION 59-53-2470. Powers and duties of commission; designation of area and purpose of enterprise campus; management, development, and operation; conveyance of real and personal property. (A) A commission must designate with specificity the area or areas that comprise the enterprise campus and the purpose of the enterprise campus. This information must be submitted to the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education. The state board shall have final approval over the areas designated as part of a Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority and the projects to be undertaken. (B) A commission may provide for the management, development, and operation of part or all of the enterprise campus property by an authority. (C) An area commission is authorized to enter into contracts with the Enterprise Campus Authority for the provision of executive and administrative services to an authority. (D) In the fulfillment of the power contained in this section, the commission is authorized to sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer, or give all or part of its real and personal property and other assets constituting the enterprise campus to the Enterprise Campus Authority upon such terms and conditions as the commission determines. The commission may sell, convey, lease, exchange, transfer, or give all or part of its real and personal property and other assets constituting the enterprise campus, other than the property defined pursuant to paragraph (A), only upon approval by the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education. The commission may buy, purchase, or otherwise acquire and accept real and personal property and other assets from the Enterprise Campus Authority only in accordance with all regulations and general laws applicable to state-supported technical institutions in the acquisition and acceptance of real and personal property and other assets.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-119-580 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 119 / Article 5 / Section 59-119-580
SECTION 59-119-580. Enforcement of provisions of resolution.
Status: in_force

All provisions of a resolution authorizing or providing for the issuance of the bonds in accordance with Section 59-119-520 and of such covenants and agreements shall constitute valid and legally binding contracts between the university and the several holders of the bonds, regardless of the time of issuance of such bonds, and shall be enforceable by any such holder or holders by mandamus or other appropriate action, suit or proceeding at law or in equity in any court of competent jurisdiction.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-101-180 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 101 / Article 1 / Section 59-101-180
SECTION 59-101-180. Sale and disposal of real property; disposal of proceeds.
Status: in_force

The governing body for each state-supported college and university shall review the real property titled in the name of its institution to determine if such property is in excess of the institution's anticipated needs and is available for disposal. All real properties determined to be in excess may be disposed of with the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as appropriate, and the governing body for the college or university. The proceeds of such sales are to be disposed of as follows: (1) if the property was acquired as a gift, or through tuition, student fees or earned income, the proceeds may be retained by the selling institution for use in accord with established needs; (2) if the property was acquired through state appropriations, state capital improvement bonds, or formula funds, the proceeds shall revert to the state general fund. The responsibility for providing any necessary documentation including, but not limited to, documenting the fund source of any real property proposed for sale rests with each respective institution. Code Commissioner's Note At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
S.C. Code Ann. § 59-21-750 — SC Code / Title 59 / Chapter 21 / Article 7 / Section 59-21-750
SECTION 59-21-750. Psychologist employed by State Department of Education.
Status: in_force

The State Superintendent of Education shall employ a school psychologist in the State Department of Education in order to properly supervise the work of school psychologists employed by the counties and school districts and also to be available to help counties and school districts unable to employ a school psychologist.