reglab/housing_qa huggingface dataset:
SC Code § 44-20-1170 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 20 - South Carolina Intellectual Disability, Related Disabilities, Head Injuries, And Spinal Cord Injuries Act|Section 44-20-1170. Special funds; disposition of revenues; withdrawal of funds.

 (A) Following the execution and delivery of its obligations, the commission shall remit to the State Treasurer all its revenues, including accumulated revenues not applicable to prior obligations, for credit to a special fund. The special fund must be applied to meet the sums due by the commission under its obligations. These monies from the special fund must be applied by the State Treasurer to the payment of the principal of and interest on outstanding state capital improvement bonds.  (B) If the accumulation of revenues of the commission in the special fund exceeds the payment due or to become due during the then current fiscal year and an additional sum equal to the maximum annual debt service requirement of the obligations for a succeeding fiscal year, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority or the Department of Administration, as applicable, may permit the commission to withdraw the excess and apply it to improvements that have received the approval of the authority or department, as applicable, or to transfer the excess out of the special fund for contract awards to local disabilities and special needs boards for needed improvements at the local level and for nonrecurring prevention, assistive technology, and quality initiatives at the regional centers and local boards.  HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 496, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 3; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1078; 1994 Act No. 497, Part II, Section 5; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 2, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-21-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 21 - Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs Family Support Services|Section 44-21-20. Definitions.

 As used in this chapter:  (1) "Department" means the Department of Disabilities and Special Needs.  (2) "Family support" means goods and services needed by individuals or families to care for themselves or their family members with intellectual disability or related disabilities or head injuries, spinal cord injuries, or similar disabilities and to enjoy a quality of life comparable to other community members.  (3) "Family Support Program" means a coordinated system of family support services administered by the department directly or through contracts with private nonprofit or governmental agencies across the State, or both.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 38, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 344, Section 2; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 3, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-21-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 21 - Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs Family Support Services|Section 44-21-30. Authority to contract or make grants.

 The department may contract with or make grants to agencies or individuals to provide for a Family Support Program in accordance with this chapter. Services and supports developed must be flexible to address individual and family needs.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 38, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 344, Section 2; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 3, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-21-40 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 21 - Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs Family Support Services|Section 44-21-40. Focus of Family Support Program.

 The focus of the Family Support Program is supporting:  (1) families with children with intellectual disability or related disabilities or head injuries, spinal cord injuries, or similar disabilities, twenty-one years of age and younger;  (2) persons older than twenty-one years of age with intellectual disability or related disabilities or head injuries, spinal cord injuries, or similar disabilities who choose to live with their families;  (3) persons older than twenty-one years of age with intellectual disability or related disabilities or head injuries, spinal cord injuries, or similar disabilities who are residing in the community in an unsupported setting, not a state or federally funded program.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 38, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 344, Section 2; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 3, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-21-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 21 - Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs Family Support Services|Section 44-21-50. Contracted agency to assist families in assessing needs and preparing plan.

 The contracted agency shall assist each individual or family for whom services will be provided in assessing its needs and shall prepare a written plan with the person and family. The needs and preferences of the individual and family will be the basis for determining what goods and services will be provided within the resources available.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 38, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 344, Section 2; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 3, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-21-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 21 - Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs Family Support Services|Section 44-21-60. Services included in Family Support Program.

 The services in the Family Support Program include, but are not limited to, family support services coordination, information, referral, advocacy, educational materials, emergency and outreach services, and other individual and family-centered assistance services such as:  (1) respite care;  (2) personal assistance services;  (3) child care;  (4) homemaker services;  (5) minor home and work site modifications and vehicular modifications;  (6) specialized equipment and maintenance and repair;  (7) specialized nutrition and clothing and supplies;  (8) transportation services;  (9) health-related costs not otherwise covered;  (10) licensed nursing and nurses' aid services;  (11) family counseling, training, and support groups;  (12) financial assistance;  (13) emergency services;  (14) recreation and leisure needs.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 38, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 344, Section 2; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 3, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-21-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 21 - Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs Family Support Services|Section 44-21-70. Implementation contingent upon annual appropriations.

 Implementation of this chapter and the Family Support Program is contingent upon annual appropriation of sufficient funding for the program and benefits. This chapter does not establish or authorize creation of an entitlement program or benefit.  HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 38, Section 1; 1994 Act No. 344, Section 2; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 3, eff June 7, 2011.
SC Code § 44-21-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 21 - Department Of Disabilities And Special Needs Family Support Services|Section 44-21-80. Regional tertiary level developmental evaluation centers.

 (A) The Medical University of South Carolina, the Prisma Health-University of South Carolina Medical Group, and the Prisma Health-University Medical Group are each hereby authorized, as agents of the State of South Carolina, to fulfill the role of Regional Tertiary Level Developmental Evaluation Centers providing comprehensive developmental assessment and treatment services for children with developmental disabilities, significant developmental delays, or behavioral or learning disorders.  (B) As developmental evaluation centers, the above named institutions shall provide a seamless continuum of developmental services, including medically necessary diagnostic and treatment services for the purpose of correcting or ameliorating physical or mental illnesses and conditions which, left untreated, would negatively impact the health and quality of life of South Carolina's children. Further, these centers shall work collectively with the teaching, training, and research entities of each institution, extending the state's efforts to prepare professionals to work in the field of developmental medicine, while lending expertise to the research efforts in this field.  (C) The developmental evaluation centers shall be involved in research, planning, and needs assessment of issues related to developmental disabilities and shall be committed to develop a regionalized system of community-based, family-centered care for children with developmental and behavioral disabilities. In so doing, the centers shall serve as primary points of entry for developmental evaluation services and as regional coordinators for the delivery of the services and are encouraged to affiliate with other providers thus enhancing the availability of high quality services for the children of South Carolina.  HISTORY: 1996 Act No. 458, Part II, Section 86; 2011 Act No. 47, Section 3, eff June 7, 2011; 2021 Act No. 49 (S.431), Section 1, eff May 17, 2021.  Effect of Amendment  2021 Act No. 49, Section 1, in (A), substituted "Medical University of South Carolina, the Prisma Health-University of South Carolina Medical Group, and the Prisma Health-University Medical Group" for "Department of Pediatrics of the Medical University of South Carolina, the University Pediatrics of the University Affiliated Program of the University of South Carolina, and the Children's Hospital of the Greenville Hospital System,".
SC Code § 44-22-20 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-20. Right to writ of habeas corpus.

 Patients have the right to the writ of habeas corpus.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-22-30 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-30. Right to counsel for involuntarily committed persons suffering from mental illness or chemical dependency.

 Persons suffering from mental illness or chemical dependency have the right to be represented by counsel when involuntarily committed to the department pursuant to Sections 44-17-530 and 44-52-110.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-22-50 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-50. Treatment suited to needs; least restrictive care and treatment.

 (A) A patient receiving services for mental illness or alcohol and drug abuse shall receive care and treatment that is suited to his needs and which is the least restrictive appropriate care and treatment. The care and treatment must be administered skillfully, safely, and humanely with full respect for the patient's dignity and personal integrity.  (B) Persons who operate facilities of the department shall ensure that restrictions on a residential patient's liberty are confined to those minimally necessary to establish the therapeutic objectives for the patient. The department and the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services shall make every effort to ensure that no patient is admitted to a facility unless a prior determination has been made that residence in the facility is the least restrictive setting feasible for the patient.  (C) In cases of emergency admissions, when the least restrictive setting is not available, patients must be admitted to the nearest appropriate facility until the patient may be moved to the least restrictive setting.  (D) No patient may remain at a level of care that is more expensive and restrictive than is warranted to meet his needs when the appropriate setting is available.  (E) Patients have a right to the least restrictive conditions necessary to achieve the purposes of treatment. The facility shall make every attempt to move residents from:  (1) more to less structured living;  (2) larger to smaller facilities;  (3) larger to smaller living units;  (4) group to individual residences;  (5) segregated from the community to integrated into the community living;  (6) dependent to independent living.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1080.
SC Code § 44-22-60 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-60. Explanation of rights with regard to admission to facility; individualized treatment plan.

 (A) Before or when admitted to a facility, a patient or his guardian or parent must be provided with an explanation, in terms and language appropriate to the person's ability to understand, of the rights of the patient while under the care of the facility.  (B) Within six hours of admission a patient must be examined by a physician or authorized health care provider. Within fourteen days of admission, a patient or his parent or guardian must be provided with a written individualized plan of treatment formulated by a multidisciplinary team and the patient's attending physician. Each patient or his parent or guardian shall participate in an appropriate manner in the planning of services. An interim treatment program based on the preadmission evaluation of the patient must be implemented promptly upon admission. An individualized treatment plan must contain:  (1) a statement of the nature and degree of the patient's mental illness or chemical dependency and his needs;  (2) if a physical examination has been conducted, the patient's physical condition;  (3) a description of intermediate and long-range treatment goals and, if possible, future available services;  (4) criteria for release to a less restrictive environment, including criteria for discharge and a description of services that may be needed after discharge;  (5) a statement as to whether or not the patient may be permitted outdoors on a daily basis and, if not, the reasons why. Treatment plans must be updated upon periodic review as provided in Section 44-22-70.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1; 1992 Act No. 279, Section 2; 2015 Act No. 32 (S.474), Section 2, eff June 1, 2015.
SC Code § 44-22-70 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-70. Assessment of patient; establishment and review of individualized treatment plan; discharge plan; notice of discharge.

 (A) The individualized plan of treatment must be reviewed every thirty days by the multi-disciplinary team during the first two months of inpatient treatment. After two months of inpatient treatment, the plan must be reviewed every sixty days, except in long-term nursing care facilities the plan must be reviewed every ninety days. This section does not prohibit review of the plan on a more frequent basis.  (B) After review by the attending physician or multi-disciplinary team, if the results of the examination determine the conditions justifying confinement no longer exist, a notice of intent to discharge must be made immediately to the probate judge having jurisdiction. Notice must be given before discharge to a person who has made a written request to be notified.  (C) For patients committed after a hearing by the probate court for the involuntary inpatient treatment for mental illness or chemical dependency, an appropriate and comprehensive discharge plan must be developed. Planning for a patient's discharge must begin within seventy-two hours of admission, must include input from the patient, and must address community treatment, financial resources, and housing. The facility and community treatment staff must be involved in developing the discharge plan. Representatives of all entities which provide services pursuant to the plan must be consulted and informed about the plan. Based on available resources, the department shall make every effort to implement the discharge plan when the patient, in the opinion of the multi-disciplinary team, is ready for discharge.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1; 1992 Act No. 279, Section 3; 1992 Act No. 324, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-22-80 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-80. Patients' rights.

 Unless a patient has been adjudicated incompetent, no patient may be denied the right to:  (1) dispose of property, real and personal;  (2) execute instruments;  (3) make purchases;  (4) enter into contractual relationships;  (5) hold a driver's license;  (6) marry or divorce;  (7) be a qualified elector if otherwise qualified. The county board of voter registration in counties with department facilities reasonably shall assist patients who express a desire to vote to:  (a) obtain voter registration forms, applications for absentee ballots, and absentee ballots;  (b) comply with other requirements which are prerequisite for voting;  (c) vote by absentee ballot if necessary.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-22-90 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-90. Communications with mental health professionals privileged; exceptions.

 (A) Communications between patients and mental health professionals including general physicians, psychiatrists, psychologists, psychotherapists, nurses, social workers, or other staff members employed in a patient therapist capacity or employees under supervision of them are considered privileged. The patient may refuse to disclose and may prevent a witness from disclosing privileged information except as follows:  (1) communications between facility staff so long as the information is provided on a "need-to-know" basis;  (2) in involuntary commitment proceedings, when a patient is diagnosed by a qualified professional as in need of commitment to a mental health facility for care of the patient's mental illness;  (3) in an emergency where information about the patient is needed to prevent the patient from causing harm to himself or others;  (4) information related through the course of a court-ordered psychiatric examination if the information is admissible only on issues involving the patient's mental condition;  (5) in a civil proceeding in which the patient introduces his mental condition as an element of his claim or defense, or, after the patient's death, when the condition is introduced by a party claiming or defending through or as a beneficiary of the patient, and the court finds that it is more important to the interests of justice that the communication be disclosed than the relationship between the patient and psychiatrist be protected;  (6) when a competent patient gives consent or the guardian of a patient adjudicated as incompetent gives consent for disclosure;  (7) as otherwise authorized or permitted to be disclosed by statute.  (B) This does not preclude disclosure of information to the Governor's ombudsman office or to the South Carolina Protection and Advocacy System for the Handicapped, Inc.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-22-110 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-110. Access to medical records; appeal of denial of access.

 (A) A patient or the guardian of a patient has access to his medical records, and a person subject to a proceeding or receiving services pursuant to this chapter has complete access to his medical records relevant to this commitment if the access is allowed in the presence of professional mental health staff.  (B) Patients or guardians of patients may be refused access to:  (1) information in medical records provided by a third party under assurance that the information remains confidential;  (2) information in medical records if the attending physician determines in writing that the information is detrimental to the patient's treatment regimen. The determination must be placed in the patient's records and must be considered part of the restricted information.  (C) Patients and guardians denied access to medical records may appeal the refusal to the Director of the Department of Mental Health. The director of the residential program shall notify the patient or guardian of the right to appeal.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1082.
SC Code § 44-22-130 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-130. Physical examination of involuntarily committed patient to rule out physical condition mimicking mental illness.

 Patients involuntarily committed to a facility may have a physical examination to rule out physical conditions which may mimic mental illness.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1.
SC Code § 44-22-140 (2021)
2021 South Carolina Code of Laws|Title 44 - Health|Chapter 22 - Rights Of Mental Health Patients|Section 44-22-140. Authorization of, and responsibility for, treatment and medication; guidelines for medication; rights with respect to refusal of treatment.

 (A) The attending physician, the physician on call, or the authorized health care provider, is responsible for and shall authorize medications and treatment given or administered to a patient. The physician's or authorized health care provider's authorization and the medical reasons for it must be entered into the patient's clinical record. The authorization is not valid for more than ninety days. Medication must not be used as punishment, for the convenience of staff, or as a substitute to or in quantities that interfere with the patient's treatment program. The patient or his legal guardian may refuse treatment not recognized as standard psychiatric treatment. He may refuse electroconvulsive therapy, aversive reinforcement conditioning, or other unusual or hazardous treatment procedures. If the attending physician or the physician on call decides electroconvulsive therapy is necessary and a statement of the reasons for electroconvulsive therapy is entered in the treatment record of a patient who is considered unable to consent pursuant to Section 44-22-10(13), permission for the treatment may be given in writing by the persons in order of priority specified in Section 44-22-40(A)(1-8).  (B) Competent patients may not receive treatment or medication in the absence of their express and informed consent in writing except treatment:  (1) during an emergency situation if the treatment is pursuant to or documented contemporaneously by written order of a physician or authorized health care provider; or  (2) as permitted under applicable law for a person committed by a court to a treatment program or facility.  HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 127, Section 1; 2015 Act No. 32 (S.474), Section 3, eff June 1, 2015.