South Carolina

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Chapter 32 To Title 58 So As To Allow Eligible Customers To Purchase All Or Part Of Their Electricity Demand From Third-party Electric Suppliers; To Establish Related Terms, Conditions, And Requirements For Eligible Customers, Third-party Electric Suppliers, And Incumbent Electric Suppliers For Electric Services, Including Transmission Services; To Establish Certain Cost Requirements; And To Establish The Public Service Commission Standards Of Review, Including The Requirement To Approve A Tariff Containing A Pro Forma Contract.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "utility Billing Accountability And Consumer Protection Act Of 2026" By Adding Chapter 44 To Title 58 So As To Prohibit A Utility From Changing Billing Or Payment Practices Without Approval From The Public Service Commission; To Establish A Process For The Public Service Commission; To Permit Temporary Approval Processes In The Event Of An Emergency; To Require Utilities To Submit Quarterly Reports To The Public Service Commission And Office Of Regulatory Staff; To Require The Public Service Commission, In Coordination With The Office Of Regulatory Staff, To Engage An Auditor To Examine Prescribed Billing Issues; To Require A Utility To Provide Written Notice To Customers For Billing Or Payment Changes; To Establish Conditions And Prohibitions In Certain Rental Circumstances; To Require Electric, Gas, And Water Utilities To Implement Consumer Protections For Rural Energy-burdened Households, To Require The Public Service Commission To Publish A Rural Energy Burden Report, And To Consider Metrics In All Rate Proceedings; To Permit The Public Service Commission To Impose Administrative Fines For Violations, For A Customer To File A Complaint With The Commission, And To Require The Public Service Commission To Promulgate Related Regulations.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 59-101-440 So As To Create The School Mapping Data Program Within The State Law Enforcement Division For The Purpose Of Facilitating Efficient Emergency Responses In Public Institutions Of Higher Learning By Public Safety Agencies, To Define Necessary Terms, To Provide Requirements For The Program And Its Implementation By The Division, And To Provide Related Requirements Of Institutions Of Higher Learning And Law Enforcement Agencies; And By Adding Section 59-101-700 So As To Require Public Institutions Of Higher Learning To Establish And Maintain Certain Reporting Systems For Annual Employee Business Association Disclosures, Among Other Things. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Chapter 61 To Title 48 So As To Establish The "south Carolina Protected Lands And Conservation Coordination Act"; To Recognize Conservation Of Natural Resources As An Important State Interest; And To Establish A Statewide Protected Land Benchmark. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 27-40-350 So As To Provide That Residential Tenants Who Are Victims Of Certain Domestic Violence Offenses May Terminate A Rental Agreement And To Provide For Necessary Requirements; And By Amending Section 27-40-210, Relating To Definitions, So As To Define Terms. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 59-10-10, Relating To Physical Education And Physical Activity Requirements In Public Schools, So As To Expand Such Requirements To Include Students In Four-year-old Kindergarten Through Eighth Grade And To Establish Requirements For Physical Education, Physical Activity, And Recess; By Amending Section 59-10-30, Relating To Physical Education Activity Directors And Volunteers, So As To Include Noncertified Staff And Make Conforming Changes; By Amending Section 59-29-80, Relating To Required Subjects And Physical Education Coursework, So As To Exempt Certain Middle School Students Who Are Attempting High School Credits; And To Redesignate Article 1, Chapter 10, Title 59 As "physical Education And Activity." - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-19-2020, Relating To Confidentiality Of Juvenile Records, So As To Clarify When Notice About The Disposition Of A Case Against A Child Charged With Certain Offenses Must Be Provided To A School Principal, And To Clarify When Juvenile Fingerprint Records And Photographs Are Taken, How These Records Are Maintained, And The Circumstances Under Which These Records May Be Transmitted To Another Agency Or Person; And By Amending Section 63-19-2030, Relating To Juvenile Law Enforcement Records, So As To Clarify When Incident Reports About A Child Charged With Certain Offenses Must Be Provided To A School Principal. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 16-15-395, Relating To First Degree Sexual Exploitation Of A Minor, So As To Increase The Minimum Penalty To Five Years' Imprisonment And Provide An Additional Penalty For Registered Sex Offenders Who Violate The Statute; By Amending Section 16-15-405, Relating To Second Degree Sexual Exploitation Of A Minor, So As To Increase The Minimum Penalty To Three Years' Imprisonment And Provide An Additional Penalty For Registered Sex Offenders Who Violate The Statute; And By Amending Section 16-15-410, Relating To Third Degree Sexual Exploitation Of A Minor, So As To Establish Penalties Based On The Number Of Images Possessed, Including A Penalty Of Up To Ten Years If There Are One To Twenty-five Images, One To Ten Years If There Are Twenty-six To Two Hundred Fifty Images, And A Penalty Of Two To Ten Years If There Are More Than Two Hundred Fifty Images; And To Provide A Minimum Penalty Of Five Years For A Registered Sex Offender Who Violates The Statute - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 42-15-90, Relating To Fees Of Attorneys And Physicians And Hospital Charges Approved By The Commission, So As To Require The Commission To Establish Medical Fee Schedules And Related Systems. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 9-1-10, Relating To Definitions Applicable To The South Carolina Retirement System, So As To Provide Earnable Compensation Does Not Include Certain Amounts Paid To Managers And Clerks Of Elections; And By Amending Section 12-6-1120, Relating To The Computation Of South Carolina Gross Income, So As To Exclude Certain Amounts Paid To Managers And Clerks Of Elections. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 4-10-470, Relating To Counties In Which The Education Capital Improvements Sales And Use Tax May Be Imposed, So As To Provide Additional Authorizations. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws So As To Enact The "pregnancy Resource Act" By Adding Section 12-6-3383 So As To Provide For A Tax Credit For Voluntary Cash Contributions Made To Certain Pregnancy Resource Organizations And To Provide Guidelines For The Credit. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 56-3-780, Relating To The Issuance Of Permanent License Plates And Fees For Vehicles Of The State, Political Subdivisions, Or Civil Air Patrol, So As To Create Permanent License Plates For Tribal Governments; By Amending Section 56-3-1230, Relating To Specifications For And The Issuance Of License Plates, So As To Provide That The South Carolina Revolutionary War Sestercentennial Commission Shall Submit To The Department Of Motor Vehicles Certain Information To Be Used To Create The License Plate To Commemorate The Two Hundred Fiftieth Anniversary Of The American Revolution; By Amending Section 56-3-4410, Relating To The Issuance Of Share The Road License Plates, So As To Provide For The Issuance Of "i Bike Sc" License Plates; By Adding Section 56-3-16510 So As To Provide For The Issuance Of "quail Forever" Specialty License Plates; And By Adding Section 56-3-16610 So As To Provide For The Issuance Of Blackout Special License Plates. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 1-1-687 So As To Designate "carolina When I Die" By Patrick Davis As An Official State Song. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 59-29-250 So As To Provide Requirements For Public School Grading Systems, To Condition Eligibility For Credit Recovery And Content Recovery On Completion Of Required Assignments, To Limit The Use Of Certain Assessments, To Provide Enforcement Mechanisms, To Direct The State Board Of Education To Establish A Task Force To Evaluate And Recommend Revisions To The Uniform Grading Policy, And To Require The State Board Of Education And Local School Districts To Adopt The Recommended Revisions, Among Other Things. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 59-26-20, Relating To Certain Duties Of The State Board Of Education And The Commission On Higher Education Relating To Public Educator Training, So As To Eliminate The Governor's Teaching Scholarship Loan Program; By Amending Section 59-26-35, Relating To The South Carolina Educator Preparation Report Card, So As To Revise Duties Of The State Department Of Education And The Commission On Higher Education; By Amending Section 59-53-40, Relating To College Parallel Courses And Associate Degree Programs, So As To Remove Related Budgetary Review Requirements Of The Commission; By Amending Section 59-104-40, Relating To The Conversion From The Quarter Calendar System To The Semester Calendar System By The Technical Education System, So As To Remove Obsolete Provisions; By Amending 59-143-10, Relating To The Allocation Of Certain Funds From The Children's Education Endowment, So As To Remove Specific Times For Releasing The Funds; By Amending Section 59-143-30, Relating To The Allocation Formula For Certain Funds Made Available For Higher Education Scholarship Grants To Students Attending Independent Colleges, So As To Revise The Formula; By Amending Section 59-150-355, Relating To Education Lottery Appropriations And Uses, So As To Remove Obsolete Provisions, Among Other Things; By Amending Section 8-17-380, Relating To The Grievance And Performance Appraisal Procedure For Academic Employees, So As To Remove References To The Commission; By Repealing Chapter 51 Of Title 11 Relating To The South Carolina Research University Infrastructure Act; By Repealing Section 39-9-230 Relating To Implementation Of The Metric System By The Commissioner Of Agriculture With Assistance By An Advisory Committee; By Repealing Section 59-54-20 Relating To The State Occupational Training Advisory Committee; By Repealing Section 59-101-340 Relating To Allocation Of Funds Appropriated For A Certain Investment Initiative; By Repealing Section 59-101-360 Relating To Certain Revenue From Tax On Catalog Sales Creditable To Mail Order Sales Tax Fund; By Repealing Section 59-103-50 Relating To The Advisory Council Of Private College Presidents; By Repealing Section 59-103-120 Relating To The Accreditation And Chartering Of Chiropractic Colleges; By Repealing Section 59-103-162 Relating To The South Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership; By Repealing Section 59-104-210 Relating To The Competitive Grants Program; By Repealing Section 59-104-230 Relating To The Endowed Professorships Program; By Repealing Section 59-104-410 Relating To The Research Investment Fund; By Repealing Section 59-104-420 Relating To Criteria For Research Investment Fund Uses; By Repealing Section 59-104-430 Relating To Comprehensive Reports For The Research Investment Fund To Be Made At The End Of The Fiscal Year; By Repealing Section 59-104-440 Relating To The Allocation Of Funds From The Research Investment Fund; By Repealing Section 59-105-60 Relating To The Model Sexual Assault Policy Created By The Campus Sexual Assault Information Act; By Repealing Section 59-111-75 Relating To The College Loan Program For National Guard Members; By Repealing Section 59-121-15 Relating To The Authority Of The Board Of Trustees Of The Citadel To Change The Name Of The Institution; By Repealing Section 59-127-75 Relating To The Felton-laboratory School At South Carolina State University; And By Repealing Section 59-150-380 Relating To The Education Lottery Teaching Scholarship Grants. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 12-6-510, Relating To Income Tax Rates For Individuals, Estates, And Trusts, So As To Reduce The Top Marginal Income Tax Rate To 5.21 Percent, To Create Another Income Tax Bracket To Which A 1.99 Percent Rate Applies, And To Set Forth Standards For Additional Reductions; By Amending Section 12-6-50, Relating To Internal Revenue Code Sections Specifically Not Adopted By The State, So As To Not Adopt The Federal Standard Deduction And Itemized Deduction; By Amending Section 12-6-1140, Relating To Income Tax Deductions, So As To Allow For A South Carolina Income Adjusted Deduction (sciad); By Amending Section 12-6-4910, Relating To Persons Required To File A Tax Return, So As To Make A Conforming Change To The Calculation; By Amending Section 12-6-1720, Relating To Adjustments To The Taxable Income Of Nonresident Individuals, So As To Make A Conforming Change; And By Amending Section 12-6-3632, Relating To The Earned Income Tax Credit, So As To Establish A Maximum Credit Amount. - Ratified Title

A Senate Resolution To Congratulate The South Carolina Aquarium Upon The Occasion Of Its Twenty-fifth Anniversary And To Recognize May 19, 2025, As "south Carolina Aquarium Day" In South Carolina.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "south Carolina Student Physical Privacy Act" By Adding Article 5 To Chapter 23, Title 59 So As To Provide Various Measures To Promote And Ensure Privacy Among Sexes Using Certain Facilities In Public Schools And Public Institutions Of Higher Learning, To Define Necessary Terms, And To Provide Penalties For Noncompliance, Among Other Things. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 12-43-220, Relating To Assessment Ratios, So As To Provide That Fee In Lieu Of Tax Agreements May Include Certain Commercial Aircraft. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 40-43-210, Relating To The Definition Of A "self-administered Hormonal Contraceptive" In The Pharmacy Practice Act, So As To Revise The Definition; By Amending Section 40-43-230, Relating To Pharmacists Permitted To Dispense Self-administered Hormonal Contraceptives In Certain Circumstances, So As To Provide Such Dispensations May Be Made Pursuant To Certain Written Joint Protocols; And By Amending Section 40-43-240, Relating To Written Joint Protocols By The Board Of Medical Examiners And The Board Of Pharmacy To Authorize Pharmacists To Dispense Self-administered Hormonal Contraceptives Without Patient-specific Written Orders, So As To Instead Provide The Dispensations May Be Made Under Standing Orders Or Without Standing Orders When Dispensed Or Administered Pursuant To Certain Written Joint Protocols. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 37-3-110 So As To Define Bridge Loans; And By Amending Section 37-3-402, Relating To Balloon Payments, So As To Provide That This Section Does Not Apply To Bridge Loans. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 38-27-610, Relating To Priority Of Distribution For Claims, So As To Add Funding Agreements. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "south Carolina Rental Kart Age Act" By Amending Section 41-18-30, Relating To Applicability And Exceptions For The South Carolina Amusement Rides Safety Code, So As To Revise Requirements For People Operating Rental Karts, To Provide Rental Karts Operated By People Under Eighteen Years Of Age Must Be Equipped With Occupant Restraint Systems And Rollover Restraint Systems, To Revise Mandatory Signage Requirements, And To Make Conforming Changes; And By Amending Section 41-18-40, Relating To Definitions For The South Carolina Amusement Park Rides Safety Code, So As To Make Conforming Changes. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 44-31-45 So As To Establish A Procedure For Tuberculosis Testing Of Applicants And New Employees At Nursing Homes And Community Residential Care Facilities. - Ratified Title