(A) The board may allocate up to ten dollars of each renewal fee to the South Carolina Engineers and Surveyors Education and Research Fund, which must be established as a separate and distinct account and used exclusively for:
- (1) advancement of education and research for the benefit of individuals and firms licensed under this chapter and for individuals in training to become licensed;
- (2) analysis and evaluation of factors that affect the engineering and surveying professions in this State and activities that support initiatives of the board; and
- (3) dissemination of the results of the research.
- (B) The board shall submit to the chairman of the House and Senate Labor, Commerce and Industry Committees by August first of each year a report on how the funds were expended for the preceding fiscal year.
HISTORY: 2007 Act No. 58, Section 1.