To ensure effective use of funds, awards under contract for First Steps Partnerships, with the approval of the Office of First Steps to School Readiness, may be carried forward and used in the following fiscal year. Funds appropriated to South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness may also be carried forward into subsequent years.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 99, Section 2; 2014 Act No. 287 (H.3428), Section 17, eff June 18, 2014.
Editor's Note
2018 Act No. 152, Section 8, provides as follows:
"SECTION 8. Section 20B. of Act 287 of 2014 [reauthorizing the South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Act until July 1, 2016] is repealed. Act 99 of 1999, South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness Act, as amended by this act, is reauthorized until June 30, 2025."
Effect of Amendment
2014 Act No. 287, Section 17, deleted "County" before "First Steps Partnerships".
Structure South Carolina Code of Laws
Chapter 152 - South Carolina First Steps To School Readiness
Section 59-152-10. First Steps to School Readiness initiative established.
Section 59-152-25. Definitions.
Section 59-152-32. Comprehensive long-range initiative.
Section 59-152-33. School readiness assessment.
Section 59-152-40. Board of Trustees to oversee initiative.
Section 59-152-50. Office of South Carolina First Steps to School Readiness established; duties.
Section 59-152-60. Local First Steps Partnership Boards.
Section 59-152-90. Local partnership boards; grant funding.
Section 59-152-100. Local partnership boards; use of grant funding.
Section 59-152-120. Local partnerships; funding use restrictions.
Section 59-152-130. Matching funds.
Section 59-152-140. Carrying funds forward into subsequent years.
Section 59-152-160. Internal evaluation policies and procedures.