H. 5088 – Would add road resurfacing to the definition of public facilities for the purposes of developmental impact fees and would increase the time a governmental entity has to use the fees.
H. 5090 – Would enact “Riley’s Act” relating to the mistreatment and abuse of animals.
H. 5091 – Would authorize a county or municipality to allow Class 3 animal control officers to carry firearms.
H. 5092 – Would require a person convicted of homicide while driving under the influence to pay child support to the decedent’s surviving children until they are 22.
H. 5093 - Would exclude money paid by state and local governments for the emergency services IP network from the definition of gross proceeds of sales.
H. 5094 – Would redefine several terms relating to insurance law involving individual deferred annuities.
H. 5097 – Would exempt certain roadside farmers’ markets from being considered commercial operations for the purposes of local zoning and regulatory items.
H. 5109 - Would require the certification of mold assessment and remediation providers and create the South Carolina Mold Assessment and Remediation Board.
H. 5110 - Would require any Greenbelt project receiving public incentives to acquire land to make the land available to the public within three years of acquisition.
H. 5111 – Would prohibit counties and municipalities from mandating connection to municipal water systems absent a documented public health threat through fines, fees, assessments, and penalties. The bill also would prohibit a county or municipality from denying building permits, certificates of occupancy, zoning approvals, subdivision approvals, or other land-use or development approvals solely because a property owner elects to use a private water well. Political subdivisions that knowingly violate these provisions would be subject to a civil penalty not to exceed $1,000 per day for each day the violation continues.
H. 5112 - Would exclude the transfer of property made between related descendants of an heirs’ property from being considered an assessable transfer of interest.
H. 5113 – Would prohibit local governments from preventing the continued lawful but nonconforming use of property when a pre-existing manufactured or mobile home is replaced with a new one. The county may prevent such use under certain limited circumstances.
H. 5114 – Would enact the “Human Personhood at Conception Act.”
H. 5115 – Would allow certain gold and silver coins to be considered legal tender and would authorize the comptroller general to establish electronic systems, contract with vendors, and adopt rules to implement the provisions.
H. 5116 – Would make it unlawful to discharge fireworks near facilities housing equine.
H. 5117 – Would establish certain prerequisites prior to the transfer of juvenile justice cases from family court to general sessions court, including requiring a full investigation and hearing and the court’s consideration of several established factors.
H. 5118 – Would require comprehensive assessments as part of juvenile evaluations and would provide that a child may not be committed to DJJ for more than 180 days for a probation violation or contempt of court. Finally, DJJ must determine the release and revocation of release of juveniles found delinquent and committed for an indeterminate period for misdemeanors and certain nonviolent felonies.
H. 5119 – Would, among other things, remove the authority of the Board of Juvenile Parole to waive the quarterly review of juveniles committed to DJJ as the result of adjudication for a violent felony.
H. 5120 – Would require DJJ to fingerprint and photograph juveniles admitted to any secure facility operated by the agency and send these to the State Law Enforcement Division. The bill also would require the fingerprints be kept separate from adults’ fingerprint records.
H. 5121 – Would establish community juvenile crime prevention programs under which public or private nonprofit entities would be allowed to provide services and activities to prevent juvenile crime and delinquency.
H. 5122 – Would exempt from sales tax certain items sold to or used by internet access service providers and communications service providers.
S. 877 – Would create a lien with priority over all other liens in favor of the state upon any profits of crime payable to or accruing to a convicted person or another person on their behalf.
S. 878 – Would allow an eligible electric customer to purchase their electricity from a third-party electric supplier under certain circumstances.
S. 879 – Would specify that the terms of masters-in-equity begin July 1.
S. 889 – Would provide that assault and battery of a high-and-aggravated nature occurs when a person injures a corrections officer in the discharge of or because of their official duties.
S. 890 – Would grant a taxpayer who is a majority owner of a small business a property tax bill credit of $10,000 once per tax year. Small business is defined as a commercial retail service, industry entity, or nonprofit corporation, including affiliates, that:
- Is registered, incorporated, and headquartered in South Carolina;
- Is owned by a resident or residents of South Carolina who pay state income taxes;
- is independently owned and operated; and
- employs fewer than 100 full-time employees or has gross annual sales or program services revenues of less than $3 million.
S. 891 – Would expand the definition of “financial agreement” to include government payments that are made directly or through an intermediary for all or a portion of an asset subject to constitutional debt limit. The bill would also provide that any member of a local governing body who knows or should have known that a proposed action violates Section 14 of New Article X of the South Carolina Constitution or the provisions of this Section and votes in favor of such an action is guilty of misconduct in office. It extends the definitions and penalties to school districts.
S. 892 – Would permit the court to award attorney’s fees and costs incurred by an applicant and/or property owner whose application was approved by a planning commission, board of zoning appeals, board of architectural review, or a similar body whose approval was then appealed if the court dismisses the appeal or if the decision is not reversed on appeal.
S. 893 – Would amend the State Underground Petroleum Environmental Response Bank Act of 1988 to, among other things, update definitions and adjust allowable costs for site rehabilitation.
S. 894 – Would extend the filing deadline for a death certificate to the next business day when the five-day filing period ends on a weekend or holiday.
S. 895 – Would include within the definition of “hospital” all hospitals that convert to Rural Emergency Hospitals for purposes of the State Health Facility Licensure Act.
S. 896 – Would enact the “Chatbot Protection Act” to provide restrictions on certain chatbot activities and provide for civil remedies.
S. 897 – Would remove religious and other exemptions for the measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine.