Friday Reports

Both chambers worked through their respective calendars in advance of the April 11 crossover deadline. Bills that have not crossed over from their originating chamber will require a two-thirds vote...

It was a productive week at the State House. The House debated and passed H. 5164 to revise the Education Scholarship Trust Fund Program enacted in 2023. The Senate finished debate and gave third...

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...

Legislators met in a Joint Assembly this week and elected Hon. John W. Kittredge as the new Chief Justice of the South Carolina Supreme Court. The Senate spent most of the week debating a Judicial...

After weeks of the judicial elections being held up in the Senate, legislators reached a resolution by placing a judicial reform bill ( S. 1046) in the special order status. Senators began debating...

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 Senate Finance Committee met for the first time in 2024 and took up several bills of interest to counties. When not in committee meetings, members of the Senate spent time on the floor debating H...

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...

Tuesday marked the beginning of the second year of the 125 th session of the South Carolina General Assembly. Any bills that were introduced last year but did not become law do not need to be filed...

This is the second week of the 2023 Legislative Session of the General Assembly. The Senate spent the week debating an education scholarship bill that would allow public funds to be used for students...

The General Assembly began the 2023 Legislative Session this week. Because this is the first year of a two-year session, a plethora of bills were prefiled and introduced this week on both side of the...

The House of Representatives was on furlough last week and did not meet in regular session. The Senate met Wednesday and Thursday to debate the budget so this update will focus solely on that. SCAC...