Each year, South Carolina FBLA contracts with multiple hotels to provide housing for students, advisers, and chaperones who attend the State Leadership Conference (SLC). Housing or hotel room blocks are negotiated to secure safe, appropriate accommodations at the best possible price. Factors for hotel selection include proximity to the conference, type of sleeping rooms appropriate for students, access to a variety of food options, a history of safe housing for student groups, and access to meeting facilities. Securing these hotels requires FBLA to guarantee a minimum level of attendee usage and entails financial liability for the organization.

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Housing Requirement

FBLA members, advisers, chaperones, and guests are required to stay in a hotel that is part of the FBLA housing block of hotels. FBLA requires complete conference registration from student members, advisers, and school-approved chaperones. Student members who are not staying at an official FBLA hotel will not be considered full conference registrants and therefore will not be permitted to compete. The availability of a preferred room type does not exempt you from this policy.

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Eligibility for Housing

Only registered conference attendees are eligible to take advantage of the FBLA-negotiated conference room rates within the FBLA housing block. To accommodate FBLA members and for the safety of all attendees, every guest staying within the FBLA conference block must be registered for the conference.

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Local Chapter Exclusion

Chapters within a 40-mile radius of the State Leadership Conference (SLC) location may opt out of this housing policy and commute to and from the conference each day. If a qualifying chapter opts out of this housing policy, its attendees will be charged a conference registration rate that differs from that of non-commuting chapters.  

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​Housing blocks will be audited against the official registration roster to ensure that attendees comply with the policy.