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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1860. Use of funds.

(A) The State Board of Education may use the funds appropriated by Sections 59-53-1810 to 59-53-1870 for the payment of the salaries of teachers, supervisors, or directors of career and technology subjects, for the purchase of supplies and equipment to be used by career and technology classes, for the maintenance of classes for training teachers of career and technology subjects or for the administration of career and technology education, including necessary supervision and clerical help.
(B) Due to the special characteristics of agriculture education work experiences which require instruction during the summer and on a year-round basis, monies appropriated for this purpose must be available on a full-time twelve-month a year basis to those high schools and joint career and technology schools whose teachers of career and technology agriculture are responsible for the following programs of instruction on a full-time basis during the interim between academic years:
(1) supervision and instruction of students in agriculture experience programs;
(2) group and individual instruction of farmers and agribusinessmen;
(3) supervision of student members of "Future Farmers of America" who are involved in leadership training or other activities as part of their career and technology education instructional program;
(4) a program of career and technology agriculture established by the State Board of Education.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-696; 1952 Code Section 21-696; 1942 Code Section 5431; 1932 Code Sections 5617 to 5620; Civ. C. '22 Sections 2735 to 2738; 1919 (31) 49; 1980 Act No. 503, Section 2; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment designated subsection (A) and (B) and substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" throughout.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1880. Affiliation among school districts to develop and maintain career and technology education facilities and programs.

For the purpose of developing and maintaining career and technology education facilities and programs to serve an area not exclusively within the boundaries of a single school district, the school districts serving this area are empowered to affiliate with each other under the terms and conditions, not in conflict with this section and Section 59-53-1890, as they see fit. The affiliation must be evidenced by a written instrument to be filed with the secretary and administrative officer of the State Board of Education and with the county boards of education concerned.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-698; 1966 (54) 2144; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" and made nonsubstantive language changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1890. Affiliation agreements.

The affiliation agreement must provide:
(1) for the affiliating school districts to appoint a liaison committee which shall recommend organizational and administrative procedures and measures to assure adequate accounting procedures;
(2) procedures by which career and technology education funds appropriated by the federal, state, or county government may be applied for and received;
(3) procedures by which one of the affiliating school districts may hold title to real and personal property acquired with affiliated funds for the benefit of all affiliated school districts; and
(4) that each of the affiliating school districts shall have an equity in the joint assets to the extent that the assessed tax value of the property within the school district bears to the aggregate assessed tax value of the property within the combined area of the school districts. If less than an entire school district is served by the career and technology education facilities or programs, only the area served must be considered in computing equities in joint assets.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-699; 1966 (54) 2144; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment designated items (a) to (d) as paragraphs (1) to (4); in paragraphs (1) and (4) substituted "career and technology" for "vocational"; and, in paragraph (3), deleted "for the benefit of all" following "hold title" and at the end substituted "affiliated funds for the benefit of all affiliated school districts" for "such funds".
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1900. Two or more school districts joining to create career and technology schools; composition of board; terms; vacancies.

(A) A group of two or more school districts of the State, without regard to county lines, may join to create career and technology school boards (board) to construct, operate, govern, supervise, manage, and control career and technology schools. However, the provisions of this section are not applicable to a school district with a career and technology center serving only those students residing within its geographical limits. Each board consists of six appointed members, to be apportioned among the districts joining in the creation of the board as the districts may agree. Members must be selected by the school boards of trustees from the members of their respective district school boards of trustees. The terms of the members of the board must be concurrent with their terms on the district school board of trustees. If vacancies occur or members of the boards cease to be members of their respective boards of trustees, the vacancies must be filled by members from the same school board of trustees of which the withdrawing member was a member, selected by the trustees of that district or county.
(B) The superintendent of each participating district shall serve as an ex officio nonvoting member of the board. The superintendents must be administrative members of the board and jointly shall nominate staff and assume such responsibilities and perform duties as may be prescribed by law or by regulations of the State Board of Education or as prescribed by the career and technology school board.
(C) The respective boards of trustees of participating districts shall select their members and the boards shall convene and organize by electing one member as chairman and one as vice chairman. The terms of chairman and vice chairman are for one year. The boards shall have other officers and prescribe terms as considered necessary.
(D) The members of the boards must be paid compensation as the boards may provide by resolution; provided, that the compensation must not exceed fifty dollars for each meeting and mileage at a rate of fourteen cents a mile.
HISTORY: 1975 (59) 272; 1979 Act No. 90, Section 1; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment, in subsection (A), in the first and second sentences substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" and made nonsubstantive language changes throughout.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1910. Joint career and technology school funding.

The career and technology school does not constitute a separate school district but is a joint project for the establishment of a career and technology school by the cooperating school districts. The career and technology school must be funded by the respective district boards, as the district boards may agree upon. The costs of acquiring real property and the improvements on it are to be borne by the respective district boards according to their agreement.
HISTORY: 1975 (59) 272; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" in the first and second sentences and made nonsubstantive language changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1920. Powers of joint career and technology school boards.

The boards must be empowered to operate, govern, supervise, manage, control, direct, acquire, construct, maintain, improve, and extend the facilities of the schools. The boards shall have the powers to:
(1) have perpetual succession;
(2) sue and be sued;
(3) adopt, use, and alter an institutional seal;
(4) define a quorum for meetings;
(5) establish a principal office;
(6) make bylaws for the management and regulation of their affairs;
(7) acquire, build, construct, equip, maintain, and operate a career and technology school or schools;
(8) select a career and technology school director or directors;
(9) accept gifts or grants of services, properties, or monies from private individuals or entities, from the State of South Carolina, the United States, or its agencies;
(10) make contracts and execute and deliver all instruments necessary or convenient for the carrying on of the business of the career and technology school;
(11) acquire in the name of the cooperating districts, as tenants in common, by purchase or gift, all land and interest in it which the boards shall consider necessary to enable them to fully and adequately discharge their responsibilities;
(12) appoint officers, agents, and employees and prescribe their duties, fix their compensation, and determine if and to what extent they must be bonded for the faithful performance of their duties; and to make contracts for construction, architectural, engineering, legal, and other services and materials;
(13) determine each school year the student capacity of the career and technology school, with the capacity to be apportioned by agreement among the cooperating districts. If a board fails to fulfill its quota, the other boards must be permitted to fill the unused allocation with students from their county. The boards utilizing the unused allocation shall pay for each student on a pro rata part of the year's current operating expenses based upon the budget. This amount must be paid at the beginning of the fiscal year, except that the actual cost must not be computed until the end of the current school year or the end of each semester and adjustments must be made at that time. Nothing in this section must be construed to limit the cost of maintenance, support, and operations of the career and technology schools jointly;
(14) perform other actions necessary or convenient to carry out a responsibility, function, or power committed or granted to the boards.
HISTORY: 1975 (59) 272; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment, in items (7), (8), (10) and (13), substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" and made nonsubstantive language changes throughout.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1930. Fiscal year; audits.

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.
HISTORY: 1975 (59) 272; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment made nonsubstantive changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1940. Injury to or destruction of facilities of joint career and technology board; penalty.

It is unlawful for a person to wilfully injure or destroy, or in any manner hurt, damage, tamper with, or impair the facilities of a career and technology board, or a part of it. A person violating the provisions of this section, upon conviction, must be fined not less than ten dollars and not more than one hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days at the discretion of the court, and is liable to pay the cost of all damages.
HISTORY: 1975 (59) 272; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment, in the first sentence, substituted "career and technology" for "vocational" and, in the second sentence, deleted " shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and" preceding "upon conviction" and made nonsubstantive language changes.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1950. Appropriations for purchase of career and technology training equipment; priorities.

The General Assembly shall provide funds in the annual general appropriations act for the purchase of equipment for career and technology training pursuant to the Department of Education's State Plan for Career and Technology Education. The highest priority in funding for career and technology education must be given to work force preparation, occupational proficiency courses in areas related to:
(1) current high technology trades, businesses, and industries;
(2) high labor market and high labor intensive demand;
(3) small business management; and
(4) new and emerging trades, industries, and businesses which foster and enhance the economic development, stability, and diversification of the state's economy.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision A, SubPart 5, Section 1(B); 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment substituted "career and technology" for "vocational", "Career and Technology Education" for "vocational technical education", and "work force preparation" for "job preparatory"; and redesignated items (a) to (d) as items (1) to (4).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1960. Work force preparation program placement requirements; surveys; waiver; notification of possible discontinuance.

To continue existing work force preparation programs, other than career and technology agriculture, fifty percent of the graduates available for placement must be placed during the prior three years in the area for which training was provided. Each graduate of a work force preparation career and technology education program must be surveyed by his school district ten months after graduation to determine job placement status. The school districts shall make an annual report to the State Board of Education of the findings of its survey. The State Board of Education shall report the results of the district surveys to the Governor, General Assembly, and the Advisory Council on Career and Technology Education. The State Board of Education may waive the fifty percent requirement upon recommendation of the school district, if the district demonstrates that a program responds to the employment needs of new or expanding businesses or industries. Students must be advised before enrollment in a work force preparation program of possible discontinuation of the program, if placement data indicate possible discontinuation, and of the employment outlook for graduates of the program. A student enrolling in career and technology programs that are not preparatory for employment must be advised clearly of this fact by the school district.
HISTORY: 1984 Act No. 512, Part II, Section 9, Division II, Subdivision A, SubPart 5, Section 1(C); 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment deleted "Commencing with 1987-88,' at the beginning of the first sentence, substituted "work force preparation" for "job preparatory" and "career and technology" for "vocational" and "Advisory Council on Career and Technology Education" for "Advisory Council on Vocational Education", and made nonsubstantive language changes throughout.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-1980. Committee to study areas of career and technology training; recommendations.

The Governor shall appoint a committee to study areas of career and technology training in South Carolina. The committee is composed of representatives of the business community, the General Assembly, and the various agencies involved in career and technology training. Based on the findings of the committee, the Governor shall make recommendations to the General Assembly related to a coordinated statewide program of career and technology training which addresses the following concerns:
(1) duplication of services and people served;
(2) need for a comprehensive assessment of future job opportunities in South Carolina and the relationships of those opportunities to the direction of future job training efforts;
(3) need for a unified plan to coordinate job training efforts;
(4) need for a standard management information system;
(5) insufficient emphasis on entrepreneur training and information and service occupations;
(6) narrow missions of special schools;
(7) training systems not prepared to handle federal cutbacks in funding;
(8) insufficient coordination with private employers to provide job training;
(9) insufficient coordination of training needs for special target groups;
(10) lack of coordination of illiteracy efforts with job training programs;
(11) other barriers which prevent a coordinated, accessible, and efficient job training effort in South Carolina.
HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 9(H); 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment, in the introductory paragraph, added "and technology" in three places following "career" and redesignated items (a) to (k) as items (1) to (11).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2010. Definitions.

As used in this article:
(1) "Program" means a statewide motorcycle safety instruction program.
(2) "Coordinator" means the administrator of the program.
(3) "Board" means the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education.
HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 565, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2020. Motorcycle Safety Instruction Program created; administration; instructors; curriculum.

(A) The State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education is authorized to establish a Motorcycle Safety Instruction Program. The board shall designate an individual who is currently an employee of the technical education system to coordinate and administer the program subject to the availability of funds necessary to support such activity. The executive director of the board, or his designee, is responsible for the planning, curriculum, and completion requirements of the program in accordance with subsection (C).
(B) The program must be implemented through the state technical education system at institutions which choose to provide the program. The coordinator shall select and facilitate the training and certification of instructors who shall implement the program.
(C) The program of instruction must incorporate the Motorcycle Safety Foundation Motorcycle Rider Course core curriculum or equivalent as determined by the executive director.
HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 565, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2050. Reduction of insurance rates upon completion of program.

A person may apply for a reduction in motorcycle insurance rates under the jurisdiction of the Department of Insurance upon proof of satisfactory completion of the program.
HISTORY: 1990 Act No. 565, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1573.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2400. Definitions.

As used in this article:
(1) "Authority" means a technical college Enterprise Campus Authority.
(2) "Board" means the governing body of an authority.
(3) "Commission" means an area commission as defined by Section 59-53-52.
(4) "Enterprise campus" means the real and personal property subject to the management and control of an authority. The enterprise campus may consist of one or more tracts or parcels of real property and none of the tracts or parcels must be contiguous with other properties constituting the enterprise campus.
HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 71, Section 3, eff June 16, 2009.
Editor's Note
2008 Act No. 71, Section 2 provides as follows:
"This act may be cited as the 'State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education Enterprise Campus Authority Act'."
2008 Act No. 71, Section 4 provides as follows:
"Nothing in the article may be construed to alter, amend, or otherwise affect an existing technical or community college enterprise campus or Enterprise Campus Authority currently in existence."
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2410. Technical College Enterprise Campus Authorities created; purpose.

(A) There are created bodies politic and corporate known as the Aiken Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority, the Greenville Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority, the Orangeburg-Calhoun Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority, the Spartanburg Community College Enterprise Campus Authority, the Technical College of the Lowcountry Enterprise Campus Authority, the Horry-Georgetown Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority, the Tri-County Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority, and the York Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority. The authorities are public instrumentalities of the State and the exercise by them of a power conferred in this article is the performance of an essential public function. The authorities are governed by a board, which consists of members of the respective commissions. All members serve ex officio. Persons serving as chairman, vice chairman, treasurer, and secretary of the respective commissions shall serve in the same capacity on their respective board. Members of a board shall receive per diem as provided for members of boards, commissions, and committees and actual expenses incurred in the performance of their duties.
(B) A board shall exercise the powers of an authority.
(C) The purpose of an authority is to provide for the management, development, and operation of an enterprise campus.
HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 71, Section 3, eff June 16, 2009; 2010 Act No. 148, Section 1, eff April 20, 2010; 2010 Act No. 276, Section 1, eff June 16, 2010; 2019 Act No. 2 (S.228), Section 1, eff February 21, 2019.
Effect of Amendment
The first 2010 amendment, 2010 Act No. 148, Section 1, inserted "the Technical College of the Lowcountry Enterprise Campus Authority," in the first sentence.
The second 2010 amendment, 2010 Act No. 276, Section 1, in the first sentence of subsection (A) inserted "the Technical College of the Lowcountry Enterprise Campus Authority, the Horry-Georgetown Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority,".
2019 Act No. 2, Section 1, in (A), in the first sentence, inserted "the Tri-County Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority," following "the Horry-Georgetown Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority".
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2430. Lease and lease purchase agreements; approval; compliance with Title 11, Chapter 35 and Section 1-11-65.

(A) An authority must comply with the provisions of Chapter 47, Title 2, but only State Department of Administration or State Fiscal Accountability Authority, as appropriate, approval is required for leases and lease purchase agreements, including ground lease agreements, the terms and conditions thereof, and the consideration involved, for the construction or use of facilities on an enterprise campus. Upon the expiration of the lease purchase agreements, including ground lease agreements, the private entity shall surrender to an authority the premises with the existing buildings, other structures, and improvements constructed and located on an enterprise campus, 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. Subject to the provisions of this article, the approval of the State Department of Administration or State Fiscal Accountability Authority, as appropriate, required for leases and lease purchase agreements, including ground lease agreements, is in lieu of or a substitute for any other approval required by another provision of law or regulation. The full faith and credit of the State toward the lease obligations may not be pledged, and a statement to the contrary is void as a matter of public policy.
(B) Notwithstanding another provision of this chapter, all powers granted to an authority must be exercised in a manner consistent with the provisions of Title 11, Chapter 35 and Section 1-11-65. Approval by the State Fiscal Accountability Authority is not a substitute for the requirements of Title 11, Chapter 35. An authority shall adhere to fire, life, and safety codes as required by the Office of State Engineer.
HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 71, Section 3, eff June 16, 2009.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2440. Issuance of bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness.

(A) An authority may issue bonds in the same manner and for the same purposes, including the purposes of an authority, pursuant to the provisions of the Higher Education Revenue Bond Act, as provided in Chapter 147, Title 59.
(B) The issuance by an authority of bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness is subject to approval by resolution of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority.
(C) Bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness of an authority do not constitute a debt or a pledge of the faith and credit of the State of South Carolina, the commission, or any of the state's political subdivisions other than an authority, but are payable only from the revenue, money, or property of an authority as provided in this article. The bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness of an authority do not constitute an indebtedness of the State within the meaning of any state constitutional or statutory limitation. A member of the board or a person executing bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness of an authority is not liable personally on the bonds, notes, other obligations, or indebtedness by reason of their issuance or execution. Each bond, note, other obligation, or indebtedness must contain on its face a statement to the effect that:
(1) the State, the commission, the State's political subdivisions, or an authority is not obligated to pay the principal of or interest on the bond or other costs incident to the bond except from the revenue, money, or property of an authority pledged;
(2) the full faith and credit, and the taxing power of the State and its political subdivisions, is not pledged to the payment of the principal of or interest on the bond, note, other obligation, or indebtedness; and
(3) an authority does not have taxing power.
HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 71, Section 3, eff June 16, 2009.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2450. Annual report.

An authority shall submit an annual report on the development and use of the enterprise campus to the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, the Governor, the State Fiscal Accountability Authority and the Department of Administration, the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives, and the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Senate. The report must be submitted not later than six months after the end of each fiscal year.
HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 71, Section 3, eff June 16, 2009.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › Section 59-53-2460. Exemptions from taxes.

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.
HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 71, Section 3, eff June 16, 2009.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 53 - Technical And Vocational Education And Training › 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.
HISTORY: 2009 Act No. 71, Section 3, eff June 16, 2009.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 54 - South Carolina Employment Revitalization Act › Section 59-54-10. Short title; meaning of "unserved or underserved persons or clients".

(A) This chapter is known and may be cited as the South Carolina Employment Revitalization Act of 1986.
(B) As used in this chapter or Chapter 53, Title 59 of the 1976 Code, the term "unserved or underserved persons or clients" means persons who have not previously been primary beneficiaries of vocational education, adult basic and adult secondary education, and technical education programs and specifically including recipients of public assistance payments through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, and at-risk youth.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 394, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 54 - South Carolina Employment Revitalization Act › Section 59-54-20. State Occupational Training Advisory Committee; duties and recommendations.

(A) The State Council on Vocational and Technical Education membership shall comply with all requirements of Section 112 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act of 1990. In addition, a majority of the council membership appointed by the Governor must be members of the Commission on Higher Education, provided that members of the commission meet the federal requirements of the establishment of the council. Further, at least four members of the council shall represent secondary career and technology education.
(B) The Commission on Higher Education shall serve as the State Occupational Training Advisory Committee and in this regard shall make recommendations to the State Board of Education, the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, the Governor's Office, and the public for:
(1) improving the coordination among the state's plans and programs for adult career and technology education, adult basic and adult secondary education, post-secondary technical education, and secondary career and technology education;
(2) assuring the compatibility of these educational plans and programs with the state's economic development strategies;
(3) improving the articulation between secondary career and technology education and post-secondary technical education and between post-secondary technical education and four-year degree programs;
(4) improving service to groups or communities in the State which are unserved or underserved and need additional training and education to be employed or to move into the work force and off of public assistance;
(5) improving the accountability systems and effectiveness of the adult career and technology education, adult basic and adult secondary education, post-secondary technical education, and secondary career and technology education programs;
(6) improving the implementation of the South Carolina Employment Revitalization Act of 1986.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 394, Section 5; 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 82A; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 12, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment, in subsections (A), (B)(1),(3) and (5), substituted "career and technology" for "vocational".
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 54 - South Carolina Employment Revitalization Act › Section 59-54-30. Progress reports of area occupational advisory committees and State Occupational Training Advisory Committee.

After one year from the effective date of this chapter, each area occupational advisory committee shall make a written progress report to the State Occupational Training Advisory Committee. The report must indicate the progress of area technical college commissions and local school boards in reaching the agreement required by Section 59-54-50 and specifically identify issues, if any, delaying final agreement. The State Occupational Training Advisory Committee shall report area technical college commissions and local school boards that have not made appropriate progress toward reaching an agreement to the Governor, General Assembly, State Board of Education, and the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education.
Based upon a review of the written reports required of the area occupational advisory committees by Section 59-54-40, the memoranda of agreement, and other pertinent information, the State Occupational Training Advisory Committee shall report to the Governor and General Assembly upon the cooperation, articulation, and coordination between technical college commissions and local school boards. The State Occupational Training Advisory Committee shall make its report within one year of the execution of memoranda of agreement between all affected technical college commissions and local school boards or within three years of the effective date of this chapter, whichever comes first. The report is not limited to but must specifically identify technical college commissions and local school boards whose agreements have not achieved coordination and articulation, specify the deficiencies, and make recommendations for removing deficiencies. The report of the State Occupational Training Advisory Committee shall contain the written responses, if any, of the State Board of Education, the State Board for Technical and Comprehensive Education, technical college commissions, and local school boards to the State Occupational Training Advisory Committee's findings.
In 1989-90 and every two years thereafter, the State Occupational Training Advisory Committee shall monitor the implementation of the memoranda of agreement and assess the cooperation, coordination, and articulation between technical college commissions and local school boards in a report to the Governor and General Assembly.
Other appropriate state agencies shall assist the State Occupational Training Advisory Committee in preparing the reports required by this section so that the reports may be prepared using existing personnel.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 394, Section 6.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 54 - South Carolina Employment Revitalization Act › 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.

(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.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 394, Section 12; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 14, eff May 3, 2005.
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).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 54 - South Carolina Employment Revitalization Act › Section 59-54-60. Annual reports of state agencies offering certain educational programs.

Each state agency offering career, technical, occupational, or adult basic and adult secondary education programs shall include in its annual report at least the following:
(1) a summary of students or clients served each year and the cost for each student served each year of the training or educational programs;
(2) the completion and placement rate and further education of students enrolled in career, technical, and occupational training and the completion and further education of students enrolled in adult basic and adult secondary education programs;
(3) the number of new programs started with an assessment of future job opportunities;
(4) the number of programs discontinued;
(5) the effectiveness of coordination efforts among education and training entities;
(6) the effectiveness of articulation efforts with other education and training entities;
(7) the effectiveness of the coordination of the training or education program to economic development efforts in each area of the State and the State as a whole;
(8) the degree to which unserved or underserved clients or areas previously identified are now being served or referred to other entities for service including the effectiveness of the training and education programs to assist public assistance clients and at-risk youth to move into the work force;
(9) a summary report of follow-up studies reflecting employer satisfaction and earnings rate of a sample of persons completing various educational and training programs and students participating in cooperative education programs.
HISTORY: 1986 Act No. 394, Section 13; 2005 Act No. 49, Section 15, eff May 3, 2005.
Effect of Amendment
The 2005 amendment in the introductory paragraph and in item (1), substituted "career" for "vocational".
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 55 - Junior College Courses › Section 59-55-10. Establishment and maintenance of departments of junior college work by school boards.

The school board of any independent or special school district, when authorized by a three-fourths vote of the district so to do, may establish and maintain a department of junior college work to consist of not more than two years' work beyond a four-year high school course.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-711; 1952 Code Section 21-711; 1942 Code Section 5416; 1935 (39) 490.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 55 - Junior College Courses › Section 59-55-20. Establishment and maintenance of junior college in cities of 5,000 or more.

In any school district in this State whose limits are coextensive with the limits of any city of five thousand inhabitants or more the school board, when authorized to do so by the majority vote of the electors of any such school district voting on the proposition, may establish, maintain or discontinue a junior college to consist of not more than two years of college work beyond a four-year high school course and may charge such tuition fees for instruction in such junior college as shall be fixed by any such school board.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-712; 1952 Code Section 21-712; 1942 Code Section 5419; 1935 (39) 490.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 55 - Junior College Courses › Section 59-55-30. Buildings and equipment.

Any such school board may make use of any existing school building or school equipment or may provide any necessary building or equipment for the establishment and maintenance of any such junior college.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-713; 1952 Code Section 21-713; 1942 Code Section 5420; 1935 (39) 490.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 55 - Junior College Courses › Section 59-55-50. Powers of State Department of Education over junior colleges.

The State Department of Education shall have the same supervision, control and powers over any such junior college, when established hereunder, as it now has over other departments of the public school system of this State.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-715; 1952 Code Section 21-715; 1942 Code Section 5420; 1935 (39) 490.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 55 - Junior College Courses › Section 59-55-60. State aid for public schools not allocated to junior colleges.

No State aid for public schools shall be allocated to any junior college established hereunder.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-716; 1952 Code Section 21-716; 1942 Code Section 5422; 1935 (39) 490.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 56 - Beaufort-jasper Higher Education Commission › Section 59-56-10. Beaufort-Jasper Higher Education Commission; membership; terms of office; vacancies; chairman and secretary; meetings.

(A) There is created the Beaufort-Jasper Higher Education Commission. The commission is composed of nine members appointed by the Governor. Seven must be residents of Beaufort County, and two must be residents of Jasper County. The appointments for Beaufort County members must be based upon the recommendation of a majority of the members of the Beaufort County Legislative Delegation. The appointments for Jasper County members must be based upon the recommendation of a majority of the members of the Jasper County Legislative Delegation.
(B) The members of the commission serve for a term of four years or until their successors are appointed and qualified. Vacancies must be filled for the unexpired term in the manner of the original appointment. The commission shall elect a chairman and a secretary from its membership to serve for two years and organize further as it may desire.
(C) The commission may meet at times it considers necessary, the meetings to be called by the chairman or upon the written request of four of its members. A member who misses three consecutive unexcused meetings is considered to have resigned his office, and a vacancy exists.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 514, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 56 - Beaufort-jasper Higher Education Commission › Section 59-56-20. Powers and duties of commission.

(A) The commission may:
(1) upon the approval of a majority of its members, enter into contracts with institutions of higher learning upon terms and conditions mutually acceptable to the commission and the institution for the establishment and operation of educational centers to be branches of the institution at Beaufort or Jasper County, or both;
(2) obligate itself for the expenditure of a sum for the purposes of this chapter in an amount not to exceed that which is appropriate by law;
(3) bind itself for the furnishing of suitable facilities and accommodations for the educational center when by written prior agreement, it has obtained permission for its furnishing from the authority, agency, or board having control of the accommodations;
(4) accept gifts appropriate to carry out this chapter;
(5) hold title to real and personal property;
(6) borrow funds and receive grants.
(B) The commission shall appoint a group of not less than five nor more than fifteen interested persons from Beaufort and Jasper Counties and the surrounding area known as the Beaufort-Jasper Higher Education Advisory Board. This board may act in an advisory capacity to the commission. Three of the persons appointed must be appointed only upon the recommendation of a majority of each of the Beaufort and Jasper Counties Legislative Delegations.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 514, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 56 - Beaufort-jasper Higher Education Commission › Section 59-56-30. Annual written financial report.

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.
HISTORY: 1994 Act No. 514, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 59 - Education › Chapter 57 - Western Carolina Higher Education Commission › Section 59-57-10. Western Carolina Higher Education Commission created; membership; organization.

There is created the Western Carolina Higher Education Commission composed of ten members, two of whom must be from each of the following counties: Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Colleton, and Hampton. The members must be appointed by the Governor upon the recommendation of a majority of the legislative delegations from the respective counties. The terms of office are for four years and until their successors have been appointed and qualify. One of the commissioners from each county must be appointed initially for a term of two years.
The commission shall meet as soon as practicable after all appointments have been made and elect officers and adopt rules and procedures as it considers desirable to carry out the duties.
The members shall serve without compensation or fees.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 21-721; 1965 (54) 269; 1984 Act No. 270, Section 1.