SECTION 101 - F03-BUDGET
AND CONTROL BOARD
101.1. (BCB: Southern
Maritime Collection) The Budget and Control Board, on behalf of the Hunley
Commission is authorized to expend funds appropriated for such purpose to pay
the outstanding note
entered into to finance the
purchase of the Southern Maritime Collection and the Hunley Commission will
assume custody and management of the Collection for the State. The board is
authorized to use up to $500,000 of the funds transferred for implementation of
this proviso. The balance of the funds transferred may be used by the board
for costs associated with other Museum operations. The General Assembly will
provide for funds in future fiscal years to cover the costs of the financing of
the Southern Maritime Collection.
101.2. (BCB:
Procurement of Art Objects) Before any governmental body, with the exception
of the South Carolina Museum Commission, the Budget and Control Board and the
South Carolina Hunley Commission as defined under the South Carolina
Consolidated Procurement Code, procures any art objects such as paintings,
antiques, sculptures, or similar objects above $1,000, the head of the
Purchasing Agency shall prepare a written determination specifying the need for
such objects and benefits to the State. The South Carolina Arts Commission
shall review such determination for approval prior to any acquisition.
101.3. (BCB: State
House Operation & Maintenance Account) Funds appropriated to the Budget
and Control Board - for State House Maintenance & Operations &
Renovations must be set aside in a separate account for the operation and
maintenance of the State House. The Budget and Control Board shall report
annually to the State House Committee on the amount expended from this fund.
101.4. (BCB: Wireless
Communications Tower) The Budget and Control Board is directed to coordinate
tower and antenna operations within South Carolina state government. The Board
shall (1) approve all leases regarding antenna placement on state owned towers
and buildings, (2) coordinate all new tower construction on state owned
property, (3) promote and market excess capacity on the State’s wireless
communications infrastructure, (4) generate revenue by leasing, licensing, or
selling excess capacity on the State’s wireless communications infrastructure,
and (5) construct new communications assets on appropriate state owned property
for the purpose of generating revenue pursuant to this proviso. All revenue
from tower and antenna leases and contracts after July 1, 2001 must be remitted
to a separate fund established by the Board and shall be transferred to the
Educational Television Commission which shall retain and expend such funds for
agency operations. The commission shall be authorized to carry forward
unexpended funds from the prior fiscal year into the current fiscal year.
Agencies owning tower and antenna assets will be allowed to recover expenses
associated with implementing this proviso from this fund. The Board shall
annually report to the Chairmen of the Senate Finance and House Ways and Means
Committees by October first of each year all revenue collected and disbursed.
This report shall also include a summary of each agency’s overall revenues,
whether retained by the agency or remitted to the separate fund.
101.5. (BCB:
Compensation - Reporting of Supplemental Salaries) No supplement shall be paid
to an agency’s employee unless the agency head or designated official of the
employing agency has approved the conditions and amount of salary supplement.
Any compensation, excluding travel reimbursement, from an affiliated public
charity, foundation, clinical faculty practice plan, or other public source or
any supplement from a private source to the salary appropriated for a state
employee and fixed by the State must be reported by the employing agency to the
Human Resources Division of the Budget and Control Board. The report must
include the amount, source, and any condition of the supplement. The employing
agency must report this information on or before August thirty-first of each
year and must include the total amount and source of the salary supplement
received by the employee during the preceding fiscal year (July first through
June thirtieth). The Human Resources Division of the Budget and Control Board
shall formulate policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the reporting
provisions of this proviso.
101.6. (BCB:
Compensation Increase - Appropriated Funds Ratio) Appropriated funds may be
used for compensation increases for classified and unclassified employees and
agency heads only in the same ratio that the employee’s base salary is paid
from appropriated sources.
101.7. (BCB: Vacant
Positions) In the event that any permanent position in an agency remains
vacant for more than twelve months the position may be deleted by the Budget
and Control Board.
101.8. (BCB: Carry
Forward - Local Government Assistance) The Budget and Control Board may carry
forward from prior fiscal years to the current fiscal year funds appropriated
for the purpose of providing financial assistance and for matching federal
funds for financial assistance to local governments with water, wastewater, and
sewer projects.
101.9. (BCB: State
Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund) In the event that any state funds
remain after fully matching federal grants for the State Revolving Funds under
the Clean Water Act or Safe Drinking Water Act, such funds may be deposited
into the South Carolina Infrastructure Revolving Loan Fund established pursuant
to Section 11-40-50.
101.10. (BCB: Carry
Forward Calculation) For purposes of calculating the amount of funds which may
be carried forward by the Budget and Control Board, grant and loan program
funds carried forward by the Office of Local Government shall be excluded from
the calculation of the carry forward authorized by provision elsewhere in this
Act.
101.11. (BCB: Local
Provider Health Insurance) The local health care providers of the Department
of Disabilities and Special Needs shall be awarded funding increases as
prescribed for state agencies to cover the employer’s share for the cost of
providing health and dental insurance to their employees.
101.12. (BCB:
Geodetic Mapping Program) Funds appropriated or authorized to the Budget and
Control Board as a Special Item for Mapping, shall be used for county boundary
determination and resolution of the boundary between the states of South
Carolina and North Carolina.
101.13. (BCB:
Military Service) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 8-11-610 of the
1976 Code, a permanent full-time state employee who serves on active duty as a
result of an emergency or conflict declared by the President of the United
States, and performs such duty, may use up to forty-five days of accumulated
annual leave and may use up to ninety days of accumulated sick leave in a
calendar year as if it were annual leave.
101.14. (BCB:
Antenna and Tower Placement) All leases for antenna and tower operations
within institutions of higher learning campuses must conform to master plans
for such property, as determined solely by the institution of higher learning.
101.15. (BCB:
Lawsuit Funding) The Executive Director shall pay from the Insurance Reserve
Fund the defense costs of the State, which are incurred in the current fiscal
year, in the Abbeville school funding litigation and the prisoner mental health
care litigation. The appropriate official from the House of Representatives
and the Senate must certify to the Executive Director on a monthly basis the
costs incurred in defense of this litigation. Upon receipt of the
certification, the Executive Director shall pay the provider of these services
the amount certified.
101.16. (BCB:
Election File Merge) In order to assist the County Registration and Election
Commissions to ensure that registered voters are assigned to proper election
districts, the Research and Statistics Division, in conjunction with the South
Carolina Election Commission, shall merge the voter registration file with the
division’s Geocoded Address List and the district boundaries of the Congress,
South Carolina Senate, South Carolina House of Representatives, county
councils, and such other districts as the office possesses official district
boundary records in electronic format. The merged systems will allow the
Research and Statistics Division to provide the respective county officials
with a list of potential voters who are possibly assigned to the wrong election
district. File merger is required only for those districts in which elections
are scheduled. Counties and municipalities shall release GIS to the Research
and Statistics Division upon the division’s written request. Written request
must be sent to the chief administrative officer of the county or municipality
and advise the county or municipality that failure to comply within thirty days
of request may result in the withholding of ten percent of the county’s or
municipality’s state aid. The Director of the Research and Statistics Division
may grant additional time for good cause and must waive release if the county
or municipality does not possess GIS data. For counties and municipalities
that possess GIS data but do not release it, the Director of the Research and
Statistics Division shall notify the State Treasurer of the failure to comply
with this provision after the required notice. Notification shall result in
the withholding of ten percent of subsequent payments of state aid to the
entity until the GIS data is provided. Municipal and county data acquired by
the Research and Statistics Division in the course of performing its
responsibilities may be used for other functions of the office as well as
shared with other state agencies. For this provision GIS data includes, but is
not limited to, road centerlines; orthophotography; parcel boundaries; address
points; political boundaries; and administrative boundaries.
101.17. (BCB: Base
Closure Fund Carry Forward Transfer) The balance of the funds previously
appropriated to the Budget and Control Board for the Base Closure Fund shall be
carried forward into the current fiscal year and transferred to the Department
of Commerce, and shall be used for the South Carolina Military Base Task Force.
101.18. (BCB: SC/NC
Boundary Dispute) The Budget and Control Board is directed to submit a report
to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee
regarding the progress of the South Carolina and North Carolina Boundary
Dispute within sixty days of the close of each fiscal year until such dispute
is resolved.
101.19. (BCB: SC
Boundary Commission) There is hereby created the South Carolina Boundary
Commission to be composed of seven members as follows: one member appointed by
the President Pro Tempore of the Senate; one member appointed by the Speaker of
the House of Representatives; one member appointed by the Chairman of the
Senate Finance Committee; one member appointed by the Chairman of the House
Ways and Means Committee; the Director of the Budget and Control Board’s Office
of Research and Statistics; the Director of the Department of Natural
Resources, or his designee; and the technical advisor of the Geodetic and
Mapping Survey Program appointed by the Director of the Office of Research and
Statistics who shall serve as the coordinator and chairman of the commission.
The purpose of the commission is to work with the North Carolina Boundary
Commission to resolve undocumented boundaries between South Carolina and North
Carolina.
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101.21. (BCB: First
Responder Interoperability) The Budget and Control Board, through its Division
of State Information Technology, is directed to administer and coordinate First
Responder Interoperability operations for the statewide Palmetto 800 MHz radio
system to better coordinate public safety disaster responses and
communications. First Responder Interoperability administration and
coordination shall be funded as provided in this Act. The cost-proportional
funds shall be utilized for radio user fees of state agencies and public safety
first responders (Fire, EMS and Law Enforcement) that participate in the
statewide Palmetto 800 MHz radio system (Palmetto 800 participants). The
Division of State Information Technology, in consultation with the State Law
Enforcement Division, the Department of Public Safety, and the State Emergency
Management Division, and a representative of the South Carolina Sheriff’s
Association, shall set a baseline number of radios used by each Palmetto 800
participant based on the technical aspects of the Palmetto 800 MHz radio system
and the jurisdictional requirements of the participant. If a Palmetto 800
participant reduces the baseline number of radios in use, the amount of funds
allocated for the participant’s radio user fees shall be reduced in a
proportional amount. The funds shall also be utilized to provide private
county and city 800 MHz radio systems with grant funds to be used for purchases
of equipment that support interoperability with the statewide Palmetto 800 MHz
radio system and its users. Grant funds shall be allocated to private county
and city 800 MHz radio systems based on the criteria used for Palmetto 800
Participants and in amounts proportional to the amounts allocated to
support the per-site radio user fees of Palmetto 800 participants. A matching
share is required by a Palmetto 800 participant or by a private county or city
800 MHz radio system in order to qualify for receipt of funds pursuant to this
proviso. Each fiscal year the Budget and Control Board, through the Division
of State Information Technology, shall establish the level of match required based
upon funding provided by this Act. These entities shall be required to furnish
such documentation as may be required by the Division of State Information
Technology to verify that the matching funds requirement is met. Upon funding
state agency and public safety first responder user fees and private county and
city 800 MHz equipment purchases, any remaining funds may be used to enhance
and expand the statewide Palmetto 800 MHz radio system. All funds shall be
held in a separate account established by the Board for the purposes set forth
herein. Any unexpended portion of these funds may be carried forward and used
for the same purpose. In the calculation of any across-the-board budget
reduction mandated by the Budget and Control Board or General Assembly, the
amount appropriated to the Budget and Control Board for First Responder
Interoperability must be excluded from the Board’s base budget.
The Budget and Control Board
shall provide a report on the status of the integration of the statewide
Palmetto 800 MHz radio system which shall include, but not be limited to, a
list of entities who are not integrated into the system as of the end of the
immediately preceding fiscal year and the reason why they are not integrated.
The report shall be submitted by October 1, of the current fiscal year to the
Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee and the Chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee.
101.22. (BCB:
Employee Compensation) The amounts appropriated to the Budget and Control
Board for Employee Pay Increases must be allocated by the Board to the various
state agencies to provide for employee pay increases in accordance with the
following plan:
1. With respect to
classified and non-judge judicial classified employees, effective on the first
pay date that occurs on or after July first of the current fiscal year, the
compensation of all classified employees shall be increased by zero percent.
2. With respect to
unclassified and non-judge judicial unclassified employees or unclassified
executive compensation system employees not elsewhere covered in this act,
effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after July first of the
current fiscal year the compensation of all unclassified employees shall be
increased by zero percent. Any employee subject to the provisions of this
paragraph shall not be eligible for compensation increases provided in
paragraphs 1, 3, 4, 5, or 6.
3. Effective on the first
pay date that occurs on or after July first of the current fiscal year, agency
heads not covered by the Agency Head Salary Commission, shall receive an
annualized base pay increase of zero percent.
4. With respect to local
health care providers compensation increases shall be zero percent effective on
the first pay date that occurs on or after July first of the current fiscal
year. With respect to Area Agencies on Aging funded by the Lieutenant Governor’s
Office on Aging, compensation shall be increased by zero percent effective on
the first pay date that occurs on or after July first of the current fiscal
year. With respect to local councils on aging or local providers of services
funded by the Lieutenant Governor’s Office on Aging through Area Agencies on
Aging, no pay increases will be allowed. School Bus Driver salary and fringe
funding to school districts shall be increased by zero percent.
5. Effective on the first
pay date that occurs on or after July first of the current fiscal year, the
Chief Justice and other judicial officers shall receive an annualized base pay
increase of zero percent.
6. Effective on the first
pay date that occurs on or after July first of the current fiscal year, county
auditors and county treasurers shall receive an annualized base pay increase of
zero percent.
The Budget and Control
Board shall allocate associated compensation increases for retirement employer
contributions based on the retirement rate of the retirement system in which
individual employees participate.
The Executive Director of the
Budget and Control Board is authorized to use excess appropriations for the
current fiscal year, as determined by the Director of the Office of State
Budget, designated for statewide employer contributions for other statewide
purposes. At the discretion of the Executive Director of the Budget and
Control Board, such action may be considered a permanent transfer into the
receiving agency’s base budget.
Funds appropriated in Part
IA, F30, Section 103, Budget and Control Board, Employee Benefits may be
carried forward from the prior fiscal year into the current fiscal year.
101.23. (BCB: Public
Procurement Unit) For purposes of participation in the Minnesota Multi State Contracting
Alliance for Pharmacy (MMCAP), a private, non-profit corporation that provides
only free medical care may be allowed to participate as a local public
procurement unit in the MMCAP cooperative purchase. The participation of
non-profit corporations in the program is contingent upon approval of the
Minnesota Multi-State Contracting Alliance for Pharmacy. Participating
non-profit corporations must comply with all applicable federal laws or
regulations for participation in the MMCAP cooperative purchase. The state
shall not be liable for any action or inaction of such a non-profit
corporation.
101.24. (BCB: Sale
of Surplus Real Property) Up to fifty percent of the proceeds, net of selling
expenses, from the sale of surplus real properties shall be retained by the
Budget and Control Board and used for the deferred maintenance of state-owned
buildings. The remaining fifty percent of the net proceeds shall be returned
to the agency that the property is owned by, under the control of, or assigned
to and shall be used by that agency for non-recurring purposes. This provision
applies to all state agencies and departments except: institutions of higher
learning; the Public Service Authority; the Ports Authority; the MUSC Hospital
Authority; the Myrtle Beach Air Force Redevelopment Authority; the Department
of Transportation; the Columbia State Farmers Market; the Department of
Agriculture’s Columbia Metrology Lab building and property; the Charleston
Naval Complex Redevelopment Authority; the Department of Commerce’s Division of
Public Railways; the Midlands Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority;
the Trident Technical College Enterprise Campus Authority; the Commissioners
residence at the Department of Corrections and the Educational Television
Commission’s Key Road property.
The Educational Television
Commission shall be authorized to retain the net proceeds from the sale of its
property on Key Road, and such proceeds may be used for the renovation of the
ETV Telecommunications Center and other maintenance and operating expenses. If
it is determined that sufficient net proceeds are not to be derived from the
sale of its property on Key Road to cover the cost of all renovations of the
Telecommunications Center, the property on Key Road shall not be sold. Any
proposed sale hereunder shall, prior to said sale, be submitted to the Budget
and Control Board for approval as being in compliance with the requirements of
this subsection.
The Department of Corrections
shall be authorized to retain the net proceeds from the sale of the residence
provided for the Commissioner of the Department of Corrections and use such
proceeds for deferred maintenance needs at the Department of Corrections.
The Forestry Commission shall
be authorized to retain the net proceeds from the sale of surplus land for use
in firefighting operations and replacement of firefighting equipment.
The Department of Mental
Health shall be authorized to retain the net proceeds it receives for sale of
the property sold in accordance with, and identified in Exhibit A of the Sale and Purchase Agreement dated December 16, 2010
between the Department of Mental Health and Hughes Development Corporation for
the sale of 165.79± acres on the Bull Street Campus, as approved by the Budget
and Control Board on June 14, 2011.
The Department of Natural
Resources shall be authorized to retain the net proceeds from the sale of
existing offices originally purchased with a federal grant or with restricted
revenue from hunting and fishing license sales for the improvement,
consolidation, and/or establishment of regional offices and related facilities.
The Department of Vocational
Rehabilitation shall be authorized to retain the net proceeds from the sale of
3.205 acres located at 22861 Highway 76 East in Clinton, South Carolina to be
used for capital projects and deferred maintenance.
The Department of
Agriculture, the Educational Television Commission, the Department of
Corrections, the Department of Natural Resources, the Department of Mental
Health, the Forestry Commission, and the Department of Vocational
Rehabilitation shall annually submit a report, within sixty days after the
close of the fiscal year, to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways
and Means Committee on the status of the sale of the identified property and a
detailed accounting on the expenditure of funds resulting from such sale.
This provision is
comprehensive and supersedes any conflicting provisions concerning disposition
of state owned real property whether in permanent law, temporary law or by
provision elsewhere in this act.
Any unused portion of these
funds may be carried forward into succeeding fiscal years and used for the same
purposes.
101.25. (BCB: Compensation - Agency Head Salary) In the event of an
agency head or technical college president vacancy, the governing board of the
agency or the Governor, or the appointing authority of a technical college
president, must have the prior favorable recommendation of the Agency Head
Salary Commission to set, discuss, offer, or pay a salary for the agency head
or technical college president at a rate that exceeds the minimum of the range
established by the Agency Head Salary Commission. No agency head or technical
college president shall be paid a salary higher than that recommended by the
commission. Boards and commissions, or the Governor if he is the appointing
authority, of newly created agencies or technical colleges shall not offer or
pay a salary to a prospective agency head until a salary range has been
established and the salary approved by the Agency Head Salary Commission. The
funding of the salaries of any agency head or technical college president
should come from resources within the agency. The Budget and Control Board
shall contract every four years for a study of agency head and technical
college president compensation. The cost of the study must be shared by the
participating agencies. The staff of the Budget and Control Board shall serve
as the support staff to the Agency Head Salary Commission. Limited only by the
maximum of the respective salary range, the General Assembly authorizes the
respective appointing authority for an agency head or technical college
president to provide salary increases for an agency head or technical college
president not to exceed that recommended by the Agency Head Salary Commission.
No agency head or technical college president shall be paid less than the
minimum of the pay range nor receive an increase that would have the effect of
raising the salary above the maximum of the pay range.
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101.27. (BCB: Insurance Coverage for Aging Entity
Authorized) The State Budget and Control Board, through the Insurance Reserve Fund, for Fiscal Year 2013-2014,
is also authorized to offer insurance coverage to an aging entity and its
employees serving clients countywide which previously obtained its tort
liability insurance coverage through
the board. The Insurance Reserve Fund and the State of South Carolina shall
not be liable to any person or entity, including an insured, for any
insufficiencies of coverage provided hereunder.
101.28. (BCB:
Statewide Appropriations Budget Module) Funds provided for the Statewide
Appropriations Budget Module known as PBF (the Public Budgeting Formulation Module) shall be used for the design and
implementation of the statewide budgeting system to produce the state’s annual
operating budget through the passage of the Annual Appropriation Act. Project
oversight and direction shall be the responsibility of the State Budget
Division. Unexpended funds shall be carried forward from the prior fiscal year
and expended for continued implementation of the budget module.
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101.30. (BCB: IRF Report) The Budget and Control Board
shall prepare a report on prior fiscal year utilization of the Insurance
Reserve Fund to include for each transaction the amount, the recipient of the
funds, the date of the transfer or payment, and the action or reason that
necessitated the transfer. The report shall be submitted to the President Pro
Tempore of the Senate, the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the Chairman of the House Ways and
Means Committee by October 15, 2013.
101.31. (BCB:
Activation of State House Garage Security System) The Budget and Control
Board, Division of General Services is directed to take the steps necessary to
activate the State House Garage Security System, effective July 1, 2013, which
is to be operated by the Bureau of Protective Services.
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101.33. (BCB:
Consolidation of Administrative Functions) From the funds appropriated to the
Budget and Control Board, the board shall study the feasibility, including a
cost benefit analysis, of assuming certain functions of state agencies that
receive less than five million dollars in total funds appropriations in the
current fiscal year. The functions to be considered shall include, but are not
limited to, personnel administration, human resources, accounting, information
technology, maintenance, and other functions that are administrative in nature
and not agency specific. Upon completion of the study, the board shall submit
a report detailing its findings to the Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee
and the Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. The report must be
submitted no later than January 3, 2014.
101.34. (BCB: Second
Injury Fund Closure Plan) The Budget and Control Board is authorized and
empowered to take all necessary actions to implement and administer the closure
plan for the Second Injury Fund, as adopted pursuant to Section 42-7-320(A) of
the 1976 Code, as amended, and use appropriate accounts for administrative
costs associated with this responsibility. In order for the board to
administer the plan and pay the remaining liabilities of the Second Injury
Fund, applicable subfunds shall be transferred from the former Second Injury
Fund to the Budget and Control Board. The funds shall be transferred and
general ledger accounts established under the Board as soon as practicable
after Fiscal Year 2012-13 closing transactions are processed. Because the
Second Injury Fund terminates July 1, 2013, the board is authorized to act on
behalf of the former Second Injury Fund to process its closing transactions and
appropriately record the transactions. The State Budget Division is directed
to provide the Second Injury Fund and the Budget and Control Board, as
appropriate, other fund spending authority equal to the amount of any remaining
administrative expenditures associated with closing the Second Injury Fund, if
needed and adequately documented. The transferred funds shall continue to be
held as separate and distinct trust accounts by the State Treasurer.
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