Pursuant to Act 458, South Carolina Children First: Resources for Scholarships and Tuition Act of 1996, of the 1995-1996 Appropriations Bill, the Commission on Higher Education shall promulgate regulation and establish procedures to administer the South Carolina Need-based Grants Program. The purpose of the South Carolina Need-based Grants Program is to provide additional financial aid assistance to South Carolina’s neediest students. The program will assist students who wish to attend public or independent colleges or universities in the State.

Editor's Note

See SCSR 45-8 Doc. No. 5048, effective August 13, 2021 for 90 days, which promulgated emergency amendments to SC ADC 62-450 to 62-505, providing the maximum funding amount that students may receive in a South Carolina Need-based Grant, as well as providing the institutions the ability to award and disburse the SC Need-based Grant for up to three terms a year, within the maximum annual funding amount to eligible students.

See SCSR 45-11 Doc. No. 5094, effective November 10, 2021 for 90 days, which promulgated emergency amendments to SC ADC 62-450 to 62-505, providing the maximum funding amount that students may receive in a South Carolina Need-based Grant, as well as providing the institutions the ability to award and disburse the SC Need-based Grant for up to three terms a year, within the maximum annual funding amount to eligible students.

HISTORY: Added by State Register Volume 21, Issue No. 6, Part 2, eff June 27, 1997. Amended by State Register Volume 22, Issue No. 6, Part 3, eff June 26, 1998; State Register Volume 26, Issue No. 2, eff February 22, 2002; State Register Volume 27, Issue No. 6, Part 2, eff June 27, 2003; State Register Volume 32, Issue No. 6, eff June 27, 2008; State Register Volume 33, Issue No. 6, eff June 26, 2009; State Register Volume 35, Issue No. 6, eff June 24, 2011; SCSR 46-5 Doc. No. 5054, eff May 27, 2022.