{"data":{"id":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-2-2-10","jurisdiction":"us-sc","citation":"S.C. Code Ann. § 2-2-10","heading":"Definitions.","body":"As used in this chapter:\n(1) \"Agency\" means an authority, board, branch, commission, committee, department, division, or other instrumentality of the executive or judicial departments of state government, including administrative bodies. \"Agency\" includes a body corporate and politic established as an instrumentality of the State. \"Agency\" does not include:\n(a) the legislative department of state government; or\n(b) a political subdivision.\n(2) \"Investigating committee\" means any standing committee or subcommittee of a standing committee exercising its authority to conduct an oversight study and investigation of an agency within the standing committee's subject matter jurisdiction.\n(3) \"Program evaluation report\" means a report compiled by an agency at the request of an investigating committee that may include, but is not limited to, a review of agency management and organization, program delivery, agency goals and objectives, compliance with its statutory mandate, and fiscal accountability.\n(4) \"Request for information\" means a list of questions that an investigating committee serves on a department or agency under investigation. The questions may relate to any matters concerning the department or agency's actions that are the subject of the investigation.\n(5) \"Standing committee\" means a permanent committee with a regular meeting schedule and designated subject matter jurisdiction that is authorized by the Rules of the Senate or the Rules of the House of Representatives.","path":["Title 2 - GENERAL ASSEMBLY","CHAPTER 2 Legislative Oversight of Executive Departments"],"source_url":"https://www.scstatehouse.gov/code/t02c002.php","current_through":"2025 Session of the General Assembly","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:17:49Z","sha256":"b5db0cd2cfbd4f5fc6cd75e9aab22787b4026ba9a0e1813b8a1609615c9cefd9","source_id":"us-sc","stale":false,"prev":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-2-2-5","next":"us-sc/s.c.-code-ann.-2-2-20"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}