S.C. Code Ann. § 47-13-130

Whenever the commission certifies to the Governor that an outbreak of disease in animals or poultry has occurred within the State and that state or federal law has established an eradication program for the disease concerned, there must be appropriated out of the general fund of the State amounts necessary to cover indemnity payments provided for in Section 47-13-360. The amounts appropriated must be made available to the State Livestock-Poultry Health Commission and used for the payment of destroyed animals and poultry and for other expenses necessary and incident to the eradication of the diseases.