SECTION 1. This act may be cited as the “South Carolina Crime Victim Services Act.” PART I Restructure and Consolidation of Victim Services SECTION 2. Chapter 7, Title 1 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding: ”Article 8 South Carolina Crime Victim Services Section 171100. The following agencies, boards, and commissions, including all the allied, advisory, affiliated, or related entities, as well as the employees, funds, property, and all contractual rights and obligations associated with any such agency, except for those subdivisions specifically included under another department, are hereby transferred to and incorporated in and shall be administered as part of the Office of the Attorney General, South Carolina Crime Victim Services Division: (1) State Office of Victim Assistance, provided for in Articles 13 and 14, Chapter 3, Title 16; (2) South Carolina Crime Victim Ombudsman, provided for in Article 16, Chapter 3, Title 16; (3) that portion of the Office of Highway Safety and Justice Programs of the Department of Public Safety that administers the Victims of Crime Act grants, the Violence Against Women Act grants, and the State Victim Assistance Program grants. Section 171110. (A) There is created the South Carolina Crime Victim Services (SCCVS) Division in the Office of the Attorney General under the Attorney General’s authority. The division must be headed by a director appointed by the Attorney General who shall hold office until his successor is appointed and qualified. There are created four departments within the division, the: (1) Department of Crime Victim Compensation; (2) Department of Crime Victim Assistance Grants; (3) Department of Crime Victim Services Training, Provider Certification, and Statistical Analysis; and (4) Department of Crime Victim Ombudsman.
(f) the total funds, by source, allocated to victim services activities, how those funds were expended, and any balances carried forward. (2) The supplementary schedule Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form must be included in the external auditor’s report by an ‘in relation to’ paragraph as required by generally accepted auditing standards when information accompanies the basic financial statements in auditor submitted documents. (3) Within thirty days of issuance of the audited financial statement, the municipality must submit to the State Treasurer a copy of the audited financial statement and a statement of the actual cost associated with the preparation of the supplemental schedule Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form required in this section. Upon submission to the State Treasurer, the municipality may retain and pay from the fines and assessments collected pursuant to this section the actual expense charged by the external auditor for the preparation of the supplemental schedule Uniform Supplemental Schedule Form required in this subsection, not to exceed one thousand dollars each year. (4) The clerk of court and municipal treasurer shall keep records of fines and assessments required to be reviewed pursuant to this subsection in the format determined by the municipal governing body and make those records available for review.” PART IV Proviso Codification SECTION 12. A. Chapter 1, Title 14 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding: “Section 141211.5. (A) A county or municipality may retain carry forward funds that were collected pursuant to Sections 141206(B) and (D), 141207(B) and (D), 141208(B) and (D), and 141211(B) but not more than twentyfive thousand dollars or ten percent of funds collected in the prior fiscal year, whichever is higher. If a county or municipality does not spend at least ninety percent of the funds collected pursuant to Sections 141206(B) and (D), 141207(B) and (D), 141208(B) and (D), and 141211(B) in Article 16, Chapter 3, Title 16 first priority or second priority programs during the fiscal year that the funds are received, then the county or municipality shall remit any unspent funds that are greater than the allowed carried forward funds, regardless of the year