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SC Code § 11-11-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-20. Information to be secured by Governor.

 On or before the first day of November in each year the Governor and his assistants shall complete a careful survey of all the departments, bureaus, divisions, officers, boards, commissions, institutions and other agencies and undertakings of the State, through which it shall be in possession of the working knowledge upon which to base his recommendations to the General Assembly.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-722; 1952 Code Section 1-722; 1942 Code Section 3218; 1932 Code Section 3218; Civ. C. '22 Section 914; 1919 (31) 187; 1950 (46) 3605.  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).
SC Code § 11-11-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-30. Annual estimates.

 On or before the first day of November, annually, each of the several state departments, bureaus, divisions, officers, commissions, institutions and other agencies and undertakings receiving or asking financial aid from the State shall report to the Governor, on official estimate blanks furnished for such purpose, an estimate in itemized form showing the amount needed for the year beginning with the first day of July thereafter. The official estimate blanks which must be used in making these reports shall be furnished by the board, shall be uniform and shall clearly designate the kind of information to be given thereon.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-723; 1952 Code Section 1-723; 1942 Code Section 3213; 1932 Code Section 3213; Civ. C. '22 Section 909; 1919 (31) 187; 1933 (38) 218; 1950 (46) 3605.  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).
SC Code § 11-11-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-40. Annual statements from Comptroller General.

 On or before the first day of each November the Comptroller General shall furnish to the Governor the following statements, classified and itemized in strict accordance with the budget classifications adopted by the Governor:  (1) A statement showing the balance standing to the credit of the several appropriations for each department, bureau, division, officer, board, commission, institution or other agency or undertaking of the State at the end of the last preceding appropriation year;  (2) A statement showing the monthly expenditures and revenues from each appropriation account and the total monthly expenditures and revenues from all the appropriation accounts, including special and other appropriations, in the twelve months of the last preceding appropriation year;  (3) A statement showing the annual expenditures in each appropriation account and the revenues from all sources, including expenditures and revenues from special and other appropriations, for each of the last two appropriation years, with a separate column showing the increase or decrease for each item;  (4) An itemized and complete financial balance sheet for the State at the close of the last preceding fiscal year ending June thirtieth; and  (5) Such other statements as the board shall request.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-724; 1952 Code Section 1-724; 1942 Code Section 3215; 1932 Code Section 3215; Civ. C. '22 Section 911; 1919 (31) 187; 1933 (38) 218; 1950 (46) 3605.  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).
SC Code § 11-11-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-50. Comptroller General shall furnish annual estimate of needs of State.

 On or before the first day of December, annually, the Comptroller General shall furnish to the Governor an estimate of the financial needs of the State, itemized in strict accordance with the budget classifications adopted by the Governor and certified and approved by the presiding officer of each House for each year beginning with the first day of July thereafter; and he shall also furnish an estimate of the financial needs of the judiciary, as provided by law, itemized in strict accordance with the budget classification adopted by the Governor, for each year, beginning with the first day of July thereafter. The Comptroller General shall transmit to the Governor with these estimates full and detailed explanations of all increases or decreases. These estimates together with the accompanying explanations of increases and decreases shall be included in the budget by the Governor without revisions, but with its recommendations thereon.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-725; 1952 Code Section 1-725; 1942 Code Section 3214; 1932 Code Section 3214; Civ. C. '22 Section 910; 1919 (31) 187; 1933 (38) 218; 1950 (46) 3605.  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).
SC Code § 11-11-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-70. Budgets submitted to General Assembly.

 (A) Within five days after the beginning of each regular session of the General Assembly the Governor shall submit to the presiding officer of each house printed copies of a budget, based on his own conclusions and judgments, containing a complete and itemized plan of all proposed expenditures for each state department, bureau, division, officer, board, commission, institution, or other agency or undertaking, classified by functions, character, and object, and of estimated revenues and borrowings for each year, beginning with the first day of the next fiscal year. Opposite each item of the proposed expenditures the budget must show in separate parallel columns the amount appropriated for the last preceding appropriation year, for the current appropriation year and the increase or decrease.  (B) The budget which is submitted by the board to the presiding officer of each house must conform to the funding requirements contained in Section 36, Article III of the Constitution of this State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-727; 1952 Code Section 1-727; 1942 Code Section 3219; 1932 Code Section 3219; Civ. C. '22 Section 915; 1919 (31) 187; 1933 (38) 218; 1950 (46) 3605; 1988 Act No. 385, Section 2.  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).
SC Code § 11-11-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-80. Statements, balance sheet, and general survey to accompany budget.

 The Governor shall accompany the budget with:  (1) A statement of the revenues and expenditures for each of the two appropriation years next preceding, classified and itemized in accordance with the official budget classification adopted by the board;  (2) A statement of the current assets, liabilities, revenues and surplus or deficit of the State;  (3) A statement of the debts and funds of the State;  (4) A statement showing the board's itemized estimates of the condition of the State Treasury as of the beginning and end of each year;  (5) An itemized and complete financial balance sheet for the State at the close of the last preceding fiscal year ending June thirtieth; and  (6) A general survey of the State's financial and natural resources, with a review of the general economic, industrial and commercial condition of the State.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-728; 1952 Code Section 1-728; 1942 Code Section 3219; 1932 Code Section 3219; Civ. C. '22 Section 915; 1919 (31) 187; 1933 (38) 218; 1950 (46) 3605.  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).
SC Code § 11-11-100 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-100. General Assembly may amend budget bill.

 The General Assembly may increase or decrease items in the budget bill as it may deem to be in the interest of greater economy and efficiency in the public service.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-730; 1952 Code Section 1-730; 1942 Code Section 3221; 1932 Code Section 3221; Civ. C. '22 Section 917; 1919 (31) 187.
SC Code § 11-11-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-110. Expenses of certain committee chairmen of the General Assembly.

 The Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives and the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate shall receive, in addition to their per diem, their actual traveling expenses, to be audited and approved by the Comptroller General.  HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 1-731; 1952 Code Section 1-731; 1942 Code Section 3217; 1932 Code Section 3217; Civ. C. '22 Section 913; 1919 (31) 187; 1951 (47) 506.
SC Code § 11-11-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-140. Limits on appropriation of surplus general fund revenues; revenue derived from change in accounting method.

 (A)(1) In the Governor's annual budget recommendation to the General Assembly, no recommendation may be made for the appropriation of surplus general fund revenues in excess of amounts officially recognized as such by the Board of Economic Advisors.  (2) In any bill or joint resolution appropriating general fund revenues, no surplus general fund revenue may be appropriated in excess of amounts officially recognized as such by the Board of Economic Advisors.  (B) In making the annual budget recommendation to the General Assembly, the Governor shall not incorporate or realize any revenue derived on the basis of any future change in a method of accounting, as determined by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, unless the change in a method of accounting is based on statutory authority specifically granted to the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office or a statutory enactment changing the method of accounting.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 162, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 7A; 1995 Act No. 142, Section 1; 1997 Act No. 155, Part II, Section 13A.  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).
SC Code § 11-11-150 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-150. Estimated income tax revenues; deductions in calculations; Trust Fund for Tax Relief; appropriation of funds.

 (A) In calculating estimated state individual and corporate income tax revenues for a fiscal year the Board of Economic Advisors shall deduct amounts sufficient to pay the reimbursement required pursuant to:  (1) Reserved;  (2) Section 12-37-270 for the homestead exemption for persons over age sixty-five or disabled, but not including the portion attributable to school operating millage;  (3) Section 12-37-935(B) for manufacturer's additional depreciation;  (4) Section 12-37-450 for the inventory tax exemption; and  (5) Section 4-10-540(A) for the reimbursement provided for personal property taxes not collected on private passenger motor vehicles, motorcycles, general aviation aircraft, boats, and boat motors.  (B) There is established in the State Treasury the Trust Fund for Tax Relief (Trust Fund) which must be maintained separately from the general fund of the State and all other funds. The amounts deducted from state income tax revenues pursuant to subsection (A) are automatically credited to the Trust Fund for the applicable fiscal year. The Board of Economic Advisors shall account for the Trust Fund revenue separately from general fund revenues in reports to the Governor and the General Assembly.  (C) The tax as collected must be apportioned to the Trust Fund and to the General Fund in proportion to the reimbursement estimates of the Board of Economic Advisors, as required in subsection (A).  (D) An unexpended balance in the Trust Fund at the end of a fiscal year must remain in the Trust Fund.  (E) The provisions of this section must not be construed as affecting funding levels for public education.  (F) Earnings on the Trust Fund must be credited to the general fund of the State.  (G)(1) Nothing in this section prohibits appropriations by the General Assembly of additional revenues to the Trust Fund.  (2) Regardless of amounts transferred or appropriated to the Trust Fund for a fiscal year, there is appropriated to the Trust Fund from the general fund of the State any additional amounts necessary to pay the reimbursements due from the Trust Fund.  HISTORY: 1998 Act No. 419, Part II, Section 29A; 2000 Act No. 387, Part II, Section 99B; 2006 Act No. 388, Part I, Section 4.A.
SC Code § 11-11-155 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-155. Homestead Exemption Fund established.

 (A) The revenue from the tax imposed pursuant to Article 11, Chapter 36, Title 12 is automatically credited to a fund separate and distinct from the state general fund known as the "Homestead Exemption Fund". The Board of Economic Advisors shall account for the Homestead Exemption Fund revenue separately from general fund revenues, and the board shall make an annual estimate of the receipts by the Homestead Exemption Fund by February fifteenth of each year. This estimate shall be transmitted to the State Treasurer, Comptroller General, the Chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee, and to each school district and county. No portion of these revenues may be credited to the Education Improvement Act (EIA) Fund.  (B) An amount equal to the total reimbursements paid pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-37-251 and the school operating millage portion of the reimbursements paid pursuant to Section 12-37-270 in fiscal year 2006-2007 also must be credited to the Homestead Exemption Fund. Revenue deposited in the Homestead Exemption Fund each year in an amount equal to the total reimbursements paid pursuant to the provisions of Section 12-37-251, the school operating portion of the reimbursement paid pursuant to Section 12-37-270 in fiscal year 2006-2007 shall be used together with the revenues from the additional sales and use tax imposed pursuant to Section 12-36-1110 to provide reimbursements to school districts in the manner required by law.  (C) Subject to the provisions of Section 11-11-156(C), an unexpended balance in the Homestead Exemption Fund at the end of a fiscal year must remain in the Homestead Exemption Fund.  (D) Earnings on the Homestead Exemption Fund must be credited to the Homestead Exemption Fund.  (E) Nothing in this section prohibits appropriations by the General Assembly of additional revenues to the Homestead Exemption Fund and nothing in this section prevents the General Assembly from directing the use of these additional appropriations for specified purposes including a rollback of county operating millage on owner-occupied residential property.  (F) Revenues credited to this fund must be used as provided pursuant to Section 11-11-156.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 388, Part I, Section 2; 2007 Act No. 57, Section 4.
SC Code § 11-11-157 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-157. Reallocation of local option sales tax.

 Beginning June 1, 2007, funds derived from a one percent local option sales tax imposed in a county which are used to reduce ad valorem property taxes imposed on owner-occupied residential property for school operating purposes must be thereafter applied on a pro rata basis to reduce ad valorem property taxes levied for other purposes as the county governing body shall provide.  HISTORY: 2006 Act No. 388, Part II, Section 3(B).
SC Code § 11-11-160 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-160. Transfers of appropriations; reduction of authorized spending when receipts less than estimated.

 The General Assembly shall appropriate all state funds and authorize or appropriate, or both, the use of all federal and other funds for the operations of state agencies and institutions for the current fiscal year. Transfers of these appropriations or authorizations may be approved by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority under its authority or by the agency as provided in the annual general appropriations act. An agency which requests or transfers personal service funds must indicate on the transfer document whether or not a reduction in force is involved. To the extent practicable, all agencies and institutions having federal or other funds available for the financing of their operation shall expend these funds in accordance with the provisions of the annual general appropriations act. The authorization to spend federal and other funds must be decreased to the extent that receipts from these sources do not meet the estimates as reflected in each section of the annual general appropriations act and any increase must be authorized through the review process as provided in Chapter 65 of Title 2.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part XI.A.  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.
SC Code § 11-11-180 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-180. Declaration of operating deficit; meeting to address deficit; borrowing of surpluses authorized.

 (A) By August thirty-first of each year, the Comptroller General shall report to the State Budget and Control Board the amounts of general fund revenues and expenditures recorded for the preceding fiscal year and any resulting surplus or deficit of the general fund from a budgetary-based perspective. If the Comptroller General determines that annual expenditures exceeded revenues, an operating deficit must be declared in the report and the State Budget and Control Board must meet to address the deficit within sixty days of receiving the report or earlier at any previously scheduled meeting. The operating deficit must be the first item on the agenda of the first State Budget and Control Board meeting held after the Comptroller General reports a deficit pursuant to this section.  (B) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, if the Comptroller General reports an operating deficit for the preceding fiscal year and it is determined funds are needed to balance the Budgetary General Fund after the use of the General Reserve Fund as provided in Section 11-11-310(B), the State Fiscal Accountability Authority is authorized to borrow the amount needed to balance the Budgetary General Fund by borrowing from any department of state government any surplus to the credit of the state department on hand in the Office of the State Treasurer. Upon approval by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority of a repayment schedule, the State Treasurer is authorized to transfer to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority from the general fund the amount necessary to repay the loan with interest no later than June thirtieth of the following fiscal year.  HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 6; 2004 Act No. 256, Section 2.  Code Commissioner's Note  At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in (A) to the former Budget and Control Board have not been changed pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1), until further action by the General Assembly. References in (B) to the former State Budget and Control Board were changed to the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
SC Code § 11-11-190 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 11 - Public Finance|Chapter 11 - State Budget System|Section 11-11-190. Transfer of funds to offset deficits.

 (A) At the close of the state's 2003-2004 fiscal year, the State Treasurer is directed to transfer an amount up to fifty million dollars from the General Reserve Fund to partially offset the fiscal year 2001-2002 accumulated general fund operating deficit.  (B) To the extent balances in the Capital Reserve Fund for fiscal years 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 are available for appropriation by the General Assembly, as provided in Section 36(B)(2), Article III of the Constitution of this State and Section 11-11-320, it is the intent of the General Assembly to offset any remaining fiscal year 2001-2002 accumulated operating deficit in an amount not to exceed fifty million dollars in fiscal year 2004-2005 and fifty-five million dollars in fiscal year 2005-2006, if so much is necessary, as the first order of priority in the appropriation of the Capital Reserve Fund for the respective fiscal years.  (C) The General Assembly declares that the term "other nonrecurring purposes" pursuant to Section 36(B)(2), Article III of the Constitution of this State includes operating deficits from previous fiscal years.  HISTORY: 2004 Act No. 256, Section 3.