Friday Reports

Members of the General Assembly returned to Columbia on Wednesday, pursuant to the sine die resolution ( S. 292 ), to take up the conference report on the FY 2025-26 budget bill, H. 4025 as well as...

The Senate spent most of the week on the floor debating and ultimately passing H. 3594, the “Open Carry Without Training Act.” The House continued meeting in budget subcommittees and also spent time...

The House this week passed the 2024-25 state budget including an increase to the Local Government Fund. A Senate Medical Affairs subcommittee took up S. 763, a bill that would alleviate the financial...

The Senate spent most of this week on the floor working through its calendar in preparation for the Thursday, April 11 crossover deadline. This deadline requires any bill that has not crossed over to...

The Senate debated and gave second and third readings to the FY 24-25 Appropriations Act ( H. 5100) and Capital Reserve Fund ( H. 5101) this week. The House worked on the floor and in committees...

Tuesday marked the beginning of the General Assembly’s 126th Legislative Session. Because this is the first year of a two-year session, a plethora of bills were pre-filed and introduced this week in...

The General Assembly met on Wednesday in Joint Assembly to elect judges. The House Labor, Commerce, and Industry Committee briefly debated and passed the comprehensive energy bill ( H. 3309) on...

The House continued their work in chamber debating and passing several bills, including the school voucher bill ( S. 62 ), in preparation to debate the budget bill on the floor in a few weeks. House...

The Senate spent a large portion of their time this week on the floor debating several amendments to S. 244, the tort reform bill, in a continued effort to reach a compromise. As of Thursday, the bill...

The full Senate met in perfunctory session this week while the Senate Finance Committee debated and passed their version of the budget bill, H. 4025 , and the Capital Reserve Fund bill, H. 4026 . The...

Senators began the week addressing amendments made by the House to S. 62 , the “Education Scholarship Trust Fund Act.” The Senate also set H. 3127 , failure to stop, and H. 3276 , the “South Carolina...

The House continued meeting in budget subcommittees to hear from various state agencies and groups on requests for FY 2024-25. The Senate spent time on the floor debating and passing H. 3690, a bill...