Beginning on January 1, 2023, and annually thereafter, the Office of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities shall submit a report to the General Assembly concerning the payment of a subminimum wage in South Carolina. The report shall:

1. (1) identify all providers in this State that maintain a Section 14(c) certificate;
2. (2) identify which of those providers pay a subminimum wage;
3. (3) identify which of those providers used to pay a subminimum wage but have stopped that practice;
4. (4) identify which of those providers that stopped paying a subminimum wage did so due to an increase in the federal minimum wage; and
5. (5) provide data regarding the success in obtaining minimum wage employment of individuals with severe intellectual disabilities as compared to individuals with mild or moderate intellectual disabilities.

HISTORY: 2022 Act No. 209 (S.533), SECTION 2, eff May 23, 2022.

Code Commissioner's Note

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, certain references in the S.C. Code to the State Department of Mental Health, South Carolina Mental Health Commission, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs, Department of Disabilities and Special Needs Commission, Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, and other related terms were changed to reflect the restructuring of these agencies into component offices under the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, pursuant to 2025 Act No. 3, SECTION 18.

At the direction of the Code Commissioner, pursuant to the authority to codify permanent law, the provisions of Section 1 and Section 2 of 2022 Act No. 209 were codified as Section 41-6-10 and Section 41-6-20, respectively.