S.C. Code § 44-10-10
Short title
This chapter may be referred to and cited as the "Interstate Healthcare Compact".
South Carolina Code Title 44, Chapter 10 — Interstate Healthcare Compact
South Carolina · statute · S.C. Code tit. 44, ch. 10 · 12 active provisions
S.C. Code § 44-10-20
Compact enacted into law
The Interstate Healthcare Compact is hereby enacted into law and entered into by this State with any other states legally joining the compact in a form substantially similar to the form contained in this chapter.
S.C. Code § 44-10-30
Definitions
As used in this chapter: (1) "Commission" means the Interstate Advisory Health Care Commission. (2) "Effective date" means the date upon which this compact shall become effective for purposes of the operation of state and federal law in a member state, which shall be the later of: (a) the date upon which this compact s…
S.C. Code § 44-10-40
Pledge
Member states shall take joint and separate action to secure congressional consent to this compact in order to return the authority to regulate health care to the member states consistent with the goals and principles articulated in this compact. Member states shall improve health care policy within their respective ju…
S.C. Code § 44-10-50
Legislative power
The legislature of each member state has the primary responsibility to regulate health care in their state.
S.C. Code § 44-10-60
State control
Each member state, within its jurisdiction, may enact legislation to suspend the operation of all federal laws, rules, regulations, and orders regarding health care that are inconsistent with the laws, rules, regulations, and orders adopted by the member state pursuant to this compact. Federal and state laws, rules, re…
S.C. Code § 44-10-70
Funding
(A) Each federal fiscal year, each member state shall have the right to federal monies up to an amount equal to its member state current year funding level for that federal fiscal year, funded by Congress as mandatory spending and not subject to annual appropriation, to support the exercise of member state authority un…
S.C. Code § 44-10-80
Interstate Advisory Health Care Commission
(A) The Interstate Advisory Health Care Commission is established. The commission consists of members appointed by each member state through a process to be determined by each member state. A member state may not appoint more than two members to the commission and may withdraw membership from the commission at any time…
S.C. Code § 44-10-90
Congressional consent
This compact shall be effective on its adoption by at least two member states and congressional consent. This compact shall be effective unless the United States Congress, in consenting to it, alters its fundamental purposes, which are to: (1) secure the right of the member states to regulate health care in their respe…
S.C. Code § 44-10-100
Amendments
Member states, by unanimous agreement, may amend this compact from time to time without prior congressional consent or approval and any amendment shall be effective unless, within one year, the Congress disapproves that amendment. Any state may join this compact after the date by adoption into law under its state const…
S.C. Code § 44-10-110
Withdrawal; dissolution
A member state may withdraw from this compact by adopting a law to that effect, but no such withdrawal shall take effect until six months after the withdrawing member state has given notice of the withdrawal to the other member states. A withdrawing state shall be liable for any obligations that it may have incurred pr…
S.C. Code § 44-10-120
Exemptions
South Carolina's participation in the compact does not include the administration of Medicare (42 U.S.C. 1395, et seq.) or the Children's Health Insurance Program unless the General Assembly takes action that specifically authorizes inclusion of the Medicare program or the Children's Health Insurance Program in the com…