In accordance with the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, there is created the South Carolina Council on the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, referred to in this section as "council".

(A) The council consists of the following eleven members:

(1) the Governor or his designee;

(2) one member appointed by the Governor to represent military installations in the State;

(3) two members of the House of Representatives appointed by the Speaker of the House;

(4) two members of the Senate appointed by the President of the Senate;

(5) two members appointed by the State Superintendent of Education, to include a superintendent of a school district with a high concentration of military families and a member of a military family with experience in the educational challenges that military children face;

(6) the State Board of Education chair and chair-elect; and

(7) the State Superintendent of Education or his designee, who shall serve as chair.

(B) Appointments must be made no later than September 1, 2010, at which time the chair shall call the first meeting. Elected members serve terms coterminous with their terms of office. Citizen members serve at the pleasure of the individual making the appointment. All members may be reappointed. Appointments to fill vacancies, other than by expiration of a term, must be made for the unexpired terms. Vacancies must be filled in the same manner as the original appointments.

(C) The council shall meet on the call of the chairman and, at a minimum, shall meet annually. A majority of members constitutes a quorum. The council may consider any matters related to the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children or the general activities and business of the organization and has the authority to represent the State in all actions of the compact.

(D) The State Superintendent of Education, in coordination with the council, shall appoint or designate a military family education liaison as provided by Article VIII of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children.

(E) The council members serve without compensation. All members must be reimbursed for all reasonable and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of their duties. The costs of expenses of the legislative members incurred in the performance of their duties must be paid from appropriations to the representative body. The costs of expenses of nonlegislative citizen members incurred in the performance of their duties must be paid from funds as provided for this purpose in the annual appropriations act.

(F) The chairman of the council shall submit electronically to the Governor and the General Assembly an executive summary of the interim activity and work of the council no later than the first day of regular session of the General Assembly following the first full year of the council's creation. Thereafter an executive summary must be electronically submitted biennially to the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the Clerk of the Senate and must be posted on the General Assembly's website.

HISTORY: 2010 Act No. 246, Section 1, eff July 1, 2010; 2019 Act No. 1 (S.2), Section 68, eff January 31, 2019.

Editor's Note

2010 Act 246, Section 5, provides as follows:

"This act takes effect July 1, 2010, contingent upon available funding and agreement by the Interstate Commission to SECTION 3 of this act."

Effect of Amendment

2019 Act No. 1, Section 68, in (A)(4), substituted "President of the Senate" for "President Pro Tempore of the Senate".