South Carolina § 2-65-15 - Definitions.

§ 2-65-15. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Appropriations act" means the annual general appropriations act.

(2) "Agency" means any state office, department, institution, board, commission, council, committee, or other entity of the executive, judicial, or legislative branch.

(3) "Block grant" means federal funds distributed to the State in accordance with a statutory formula for use in a variety of activities within a broad functional area.

(4) "Board" means the Executive Budget Office.

(5) "Federal funds" means financial assistance made to a state agency by the United States Government in any form including, but not limited to, a grant, loan, subsidy, reimbursement, contract, donation, or shared federal revenues, or noncash federal assistance in the form of equipment, buildings, and land. Financial assistance which originates with the United States Government, but which is received by a state agency from another state or local agency in any form, is considered "federal funds".

(6) "Indirect costs" means those costs of supportive services within an agency or provided by another agency which benefit more than one program and which may be charged to federal programs in accordance with Office Management and Budget Circular A-87 or A-21.

(7) "Matching funds" means a specific amount of general fund or other funds monies identified by a state agency, and required by the federal government, as a cash contribution for a federal program.

(8) "Other funds" means any revenues received by an agency which are not federal funds and are not general funds appropriated by the General Assembly in the appropriations act.

(9) "Research grant" means an award of funds from the United States Government or other entity for the principal purpose of systematic study and investigation undertaken to discover or establish facts or principles. The principal purpose of a "research grant" is not to provide services to the public or to the employees or clients thereof.

(10) "Major federal program" means a program which:

(a) represents a transfer of program responsibility from the federal to the state level;

(b) is available to the State on a noncompetitive basis;

(c) is financially significant in relation to its proportion of the administering agency's budget.

Any new block grant or any form of federal turnback program is considered a "major federal program".

HISTORY: 1978 Act No. 651, SECTION 2; 1983 Act No. 151, Part II, SECTION 10B; 1986 Act No. 455, SECTION 2(C); 1996 Act No. 458, Part II, SECTION 35A; 1998 Act No. 419, Part II, SECTION 12A; 2011 Act No. 28, SECTION 1, eff May 23, 2011; 2014 Act No. 121 (S.22), Pt VIII, SECTION 23.A, eff July 1, 2015.

Editor's Note

2011 Act No. 28, SECTION 5, provides as follows:

"SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and first applies for agency proposed budget submissions for Fiscal Year 2012-2013 and for all agency requests to the State Budget and Control Board to spend unanticipated federal funds submitted after the effective date of this act."

Effect of Amendment

The 2011 amendment in subsection (7), inserted "or other funds".

2014 Act No. 121, SECTION 23.A, in subsection (4), substituted "Executive Budget Office" for "State Budget and Control Board".