Friday Reports

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...

In the final week of the General Assembly’s session, both chambers scrambled to clear their calendars to get desired bills across the finish line. The sine die resolution ( S.1192) allows the House...

With the General Assembly set to adjourn sine die next Thursday, both chambers held what will likely be the last set of subcommittee and committee meetings of the 2024 session. The Senate also debated...

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...

The Senate spent most of the week in chamber working its way through the calendar in preparation of the full Senate debate on the budget bill ( H. 5100) and Capital Reserve Fund ( H. 5101) next week...

The Senate Finance Committee adopted its version of the budget bill ( H. 5100) and Capital Reserve Fund ( H. 5101) this week. Although several other committees also met, the Senate was in perfunctory...

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...

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...