Friday Reports

Members of the House Ways and Means Committee met Tuesday and Wednesday to debate and pass their version of the 2025-26 state budget ( H. 4025 ). The House continued their work in chamber debating and...

The House spent time on the floor moving through their calendar in preparation for debate on the budget bill on the House floor in a couple weeks. The Senate continued work in subcommittees and...

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...

Gov. Henry McMaster gave his State of the State address Wednesday night, focusing on South Carolina’s achievements in attracting people and businesses over the past year. He also mentioned tax cuts...

The House and Senate met in perfunctory session this week, meaning there were no bills debated in either chamber. However, several subcommittees and committees met despite impacts from Winter Storm...

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...