Current Status BillNumber: 2838 Ratification Number: 594 Act Number: 493 Introducing Body: House Subject: Procurement codes for school districtsView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
(A493, R594, S2838)
AN ACT TO PROVIDE THAT ANY SCHOOL DISTRICT WHOSE BUDGET EXCEEDS SEVENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS ANNUALLY IS SUBJECT TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA CONSOLIDATED PROCUREMENT CODE AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE DISTRICT IS EXEMPT FROM THE SOUTH CAROLINA PROCUREMENT CODE, EXCEPT FOR A PROCUREMENT AUDIT EVERY THREE YEARS, IF THE DISTRICT HAS ITS OWN PROCUREMENT CODE SIMILAR TO THE SOUTH CAROLINA PROCUREMENT CODE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Certain districts subject to Procurement Code
SECTION 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any school district whose budget of total revenues as shown in the most recently published annual report of the State Superintendent of Education exceeds seventy-five million dollars annually is subject to the provisions of Chapter 35 of Title 11, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976 (South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code); provided, however, that if a district has its own procurement code which is in the written opinion of the Division of General Services of the State Budget and Control Board substantially similar to the provisions of the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code, the district is exempt from the provisions of the South Carolina Consolidated Procurement Code except for a procurement audit which shall be performed every three years by the Division of General Services.
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 27th day of June, 1984.