SECTION 102 - E50-REVENUE AND FISCAL AFFAIRS OFFICE

     102.1.   (RFAO: Geodetic Mapping Program)  Funds appropriated or authorized to the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office for Mapping, shall be used to clarify county boundary determinations as directed by Section 27-2-105, of the 1976 Code and resolution of the boundary between the states of South Carolina and North Carolina.

     An affected party disagreeing with a county boundary certified by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office may appeal the certification to the South Carolina Administrative Law Court, which is vested with jurisdiction to hear and decide the case subject to the provisions of Section 1-23-380 of the 1976 Code, except that the case must be heard ‘de novo.’  Additionally, for purposes of determining the timelines of an appeal, notice is deemed to have been provided on the date of the written notice to affected parties.  An affected party has sixty calendar days from the date of a written notice sent to the affected party to file an appeal with the Administrative Law Court.

     102.2.   (RFAO: 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 Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, in conjunction with the South Carolina Election Commission, shall merge the voter registration file with the office’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 Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office 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 Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office upon the office’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  Executive Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office 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 Executive Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office 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 Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office 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.

     102.3.   (RFAO: 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 Executive Director, or his designee, of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office; 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 Executive Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office 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 oversee and approve work re‑establishing the boundary between South Carolina and North Carolina.

     The Executive Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office is directed to submit a report to the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee regarding the progress of re‑establishing the South Carolina-North Carolina boundary within sixty days of the close of each fiscal year until such re-establishment is completed.

     102.4.   (RFAO: SC Health & Human Services Data Warehouse)  There is hereby established within the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, the South Carolina Health and Human Services Data Warehouse.  The purpose of the Warehouse is to ensure that the operation of health and human services agencies may be enhanced by coordination and integration of client information.  Client data is defined as person-level data that is created, received, and/or maintained by state agencies and other entities required to report client information to the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office under this provision.  To integrate client information, client data from health and human services state agencies will be linked to improve client outcome measures, enabling state agencies to analyze coordination and continuity of care issues.  The addition of these data will enhance existing agency systems by providing client data from other state agency programs to assist in the provision of client services.  Certain client information shall be delivered to the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office in order to assist in the development and maintenance of this Warehouse.  The following agencies shall report client information:

     •  Departments of:

              (1)    Health and Human Services;

              (2)    Health and Environmental Control;

              (3)    Mental Health;

              (4)    Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services;

              (5)    Disabilities and Special Needs;

              (6)    Social Services;

              (7)    Vocational Rehabilitation;

              (8)    Education;

              (9)    Juvenile Justice;

               (10)  Corrections;

              (11)  Probation, Parole and Pardon Services;

     •  Department of Administration:

              (1)    Children’s Foster Care Review Board;

              (2)    Continuum of Care;

     •  Office of the Lieutenant Governor, Division on Aging;

     •  South Carolina School for the Deaf and the Blind;

     •  Commission for the Blind; and

     •  Other entities as deemed necessary by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office.

     These agencies and departments shall collect and provide client data in formats and schedules to be specified by the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office (Office).  The Office shall establish a Memorandum of Agreement with each agency, department or division.  These Memorandums of Agreement shall specify, but are not limited to, the confidentiality of client information, the conditions for the release of data that may identify agencies, departments, divisions, programs and services, or clients, any restrictions on the release of data so as to be compliant with state and federal statutes and regulations on confidentiality of data, conditions under which the data may be used for research purposes, and any security measures to be taken to insure the confidentiality of client information.

     To ensure accountability and the coordinated, efficient delivery of health and human services, the Office shall implement, in consultation with state health and human services agencies and other entities as deemed necessary by the Office, an integrated data system that includes client data from all participating agencies.

     In order to provide for inclusion of other entities into the South Carolina Health and Human Services Data Warehouse and other research and analytic-oriented applications that will assist the state in the efficient and effective provision of services, the Office shall have the authority to enter into agreements or transactions with any federal, state or municipal agency or other public institution or with any private individual, partnership, firm, corporation, association or other entity to provide statistical, research and information dissemination services including, but not limited to, program and outcomes evaluation, program monitoring/surveillance, projects to determine the feasibility of data collection and/or analyses, information dissemination and research.  The confidentiality of data collected under these initiatives shall comply with applicable state and federal laws governing the privacy of data.  The Office shall have the power to promulgate regulations, policies and procedures, in consultation with the participating agencies, for the development, protection and operation of the Data Warehouse, other research and analytic-oriented applications, and their underlying processes.

     The Office shall develop internet-accessible secure analytic query tools (such as analytic cubes) using integrated client data from the Warehouse.  All agencies shall cooperate with the Office in the development of these analytic tools. It is the intent of this provision that the analytic tools developed under this provision shall be made available to members of the South Carolina General Assembly and their research staff members, state agencies, and researchers.  To that end, the Office shall, in consultation with the participating agencies, promulgate regulations addressing access to and use and release of information generated through use of the query tools.

     All state agencies participating in the Warehouse shall utilize it and its associated software applications in the day-to-day operation of their programs and for coordination, collaboration, program evaluation and outcomes analysis.  The Department of Health and Environmental Control shall be exempt from usage of the integrated client management system and the analytic query tools in the day-to-day operation of their Client Automated Record and Encounter System and their South Carolina Community Assessment Network, but shall provide the Warehouse with client data from the system and network.

     No state agency shall duplicate any of the responsibilities of this provision.

     For purposes of this subsection, all state laws, regulations, or any rule of any state agency, department, board, or commission having the effect or force of law that prohibits or is inconsistent with any provision of this subsection is hereby declared inapplicable to this subsection.

     102.5.   (RFAO: E911 PSAPs)  The Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, utilizing the funds appropriated and or authorized herein for the E911 program, must ensure that any new plans or proposed amendments to existing plans maintain comprehensive coverage for the full Public Safety Answering Points area as well as improve cost effectiveness.  No new plans or amendments may be considered by Revenue and Fiscal Affairs that do not include the written agreement of all jurisdictions affected by the new plan or proposed change as well as provide cost savings on the state and local level.  Local Public Safety Answering Points are encouraged to cooperate to find ways to continue to improve cost effectiveness and efficiencies for all affected entities.

     102.6.   (RFAO: Revenue for Goods and Services)  The respective sections of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office are authorized to provide and receive from other governmental entities, including other divisions, state and local agencies and departments, and the private sector, goods and services, as will in its opinion promote efficient and economical operations.  The sections may charge and pay the entities for the goods and services, the revenue from which shall be deposited in the state treasury in a special account and expended only for the costs of providing the goods and services, and such funds may be retained and be expended for the same purposes.

     102.7.   (RFAO: 911 Advisory Committee)  For the current fiscal year, the Executive Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office shall appoint an individual with technical or operational knowledge of E-911 systems to the South Carolina 911 Advisory Committee, which formerly had an appointment of a director of a division of the State Budget and Control Board, ex officio.  In addition to the members designated to serve on the advisory committee, the Executive Director of the Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office may appoint a designee to serve on the advisory committee on his behalf.