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2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 30 - Departments Of State Government › Section 1-30-130. Department of Veterans' Affairs.

There is hereby created, within the executive branch of the state government, the Department of Veterans' Affairs, headed by a secretary appointed by the Governor pursuant to Section 25-11-20. The employees, funds, authorized appropriations, property, assets, liabilities, and all contractual rights and obligations associated with the Division of Veterans' Affairs of the Department of Administration established by Section 25-11-10, et seq. prior to July 1, 2019, are hereby transferred to and incorporated in and shall be administered as part of the Department of Veterans' Affairs.
HISTORY: 2019 Act No. 26 (H.3438), Section 2, eff July 1, 2019.
Editor's Note
2019 Act No. 26, Section 4, provides as follows:
"SECTION 4. (A) All classified or unclassified personnel employed by these offices on the effective date of this act, either by contract or by employment at will, shall become employees of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, with the same compensation, classification, and grade level, as applicable. The Department of Administration shall cause all necessary actions to be taken to accomplish this transfer in accordance with state laws and regulations.
"(B) Regulations promulgated by the Division of Veterans' Affairs as it formerly existed under the Department of Administration are continued and are considered to be promulgated by the newly created Department of Veterans' Affairs.
"(C) The Code Commissioner is directed to change or correct all references to Division of Veterans' Affairs within the Department of Administration in the 1976 Code, to reflect the transfer of it to the Department of Veterans' Affairs. References to the Division of Veterans' Affairs in the 1976 Code or other provisions of law are considered to be and must be construed to mean appropriate reference to the Department of Veterans' Affairs. This authority shall not be construed to remove any authority from the Department of Administration for approval of statewide policies, procedures, regulations, rates and fees, or specific actions requiring Department of Administration approval."
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 30 - Departments Of State Government › Section 1-30-135. Department of Public Health.

Section effective July 1, 2024.
There is hereby created, within the executive branch of the state government, the Department of Public Health, headed by a director appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate. The divisions, offices, and programs of the Department of Health and Environmental Control performing functions related to regulation and protection of the public health prior to the effective date of this act, including all of the allied, advisory, affiliated, or related entities as well as the employees, funds, property, and all contractual rights and obligations associated with these divisions, offices, programs, and other related entities, except for those subdivisions specifically included under another department, are hereby transferred to and incorporated in and shall be administered as part of the Department of Public Health.
HISTORY: 2023 Act No. 60 (S.399), Section 7.A, eff July 1, 2024.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 30 - Departments Of State Government › Section 1-30-140. Department of Environmental Services.

Section effective July 1, 2024.
There is hereby created, within the executive branch of the state government, the Department of Environmental Services, headed by a director appointed by the Governor pursuant to Section 48-6-10. The divisions, offices, and programs of the Department of Health and Environmental Control performing functions related to regulation and protection of the environment prior to the effective date of this act, including all of the allied, advisory, affiliated, or related entities as well as the employees, funds, property, and all contractual rights and obligations associated with these divisions, offices, programs, and other related entities, except for those subdivisions specifically included under another department, are hereby transferred to and incorporated in and shall be administered as part of the Department of Environmental Services.
HISTORY: 2023 Act No. 60 (S.399), Section 7.B, eff July 1, 2024.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 31 - State Commission For Minority Affairs › Section 1-31-10. Commission for Minority Affairs created; composition; majority to be African-American; term of office; filling vacancies.

There is created a State Commission for Minority Affairs consisting of nine members and the Governor ex officio. The Governor must appoint one person from each of the congressional districts of the State and two persons from the State at large upon the advice and consent of the Senate. The Governor shall designate the chairman. The members serve for a term of four years and until their successors are appointed and qualify. A vacancy must be filled in the same manner as original appointment for the remainder of the unexpired term. A majority of the members of the commission must be African American.
HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 110; 2003 Act No. 85, Section 3; 2012 Act No. 279, Section 3, eff June 26, 2012.
Editor's Note
2012 Act No. 279, Section 33, provides as follows:
"Due to the congressional redistricting, any person elected or appointed to serve, or serving, as a member of any board, commission, or committee to represent a congressional district, whose residency is transferred to another district by a change in the composition of the district, may serve, or continue to serve, the term of office for which he was elected or appointed; however, the appointing or electing authority shall appoint or elect an additional member on that board, commission, or committee from the district which loses a resident member as a result of the transfer to serve until the term of the transferred member expires. When a vacancy occurs in the district to which a member has been transferred, the vacancy must not be filled until the full term of the transferred member expires. Further, the inability to hold an election or to make an appointment due to judicial review of the congressional districts does not constitute a vacancy."
Effect of Amendment
The 2012 amendment deleted "six" before "congressional districts" and substituted "two persons from the State" for "three persons from the State".
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 31 - State Commission For Minority Affairs › Section 1-31-20. Commission to meet at least quarterly; purpose.

The commission must meet quarterly and at other times as the chairman determines necessary to study the causes and effects of the socio-economic deprivation of minorities in the State and to implement programs necessary to address inequities confronting minorities in the State.
HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 110; 2001 Act No. 26, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 31 - State Commission For Minority Affairs › Section 1-31-30. Hiring of executive director and other personnel; appropriations.

The commission is authorized to hire an executive director and other personnel necessary to carry out its duties and functions under this chapter. The General Assembly shall provide for the funds in the annual appropriations act.
HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 110.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 31 - State Commission For Minority Affairs › Section 1-31-40. Powers and duties of Commission.

(A) The commission shall:
(1) provide the minority community consisting of African Americans, Native American Indians, Hispanics/Latinos, Asians, and others with a single point of contact for statistical and technical assistance in the areas of research and planning for a greater economic future;
(2) work with minority officials on the state, county, and local levels of government in disseminating statistical data and its impact on their constituencies;
(3) provide for publication of a statewide statistical abstract on minority affairs;
(4) provide statistical analyses for members of the General Assembly on the state of minority communities as the State experiences economic growth and changes;
(5) provide the minority community with assistance and information on Voting Rights Act submissions in the State, as well as other related areas of concern to the minority community;
(6) determine, approve, and acknowledge by certification state recognition for Native American Indian entities; however, notwithstanding their state certification, the tribes have no power or authority to take any action which would establish, advance, or promote any form of gambling in this State;
(7) establish advisory committees representative of minority groups, as the commission considers appropriate to advise the commission;
(8) act as liaison with the business community to provide programs and opportunities to fulfill its duties under this chapter;
(9) seek federal and other funding on behalf of the State of South Carolina for the express purpose of implementing various programs and services for African Americans, Native American Indians, Hispanics/Latinos, Asians, and other minority groups;
(10) promulgate regulations as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this article including, but not limited to, regulations regarding State Recognition of Native American Indian entities in the State of South Carolina;
(11) establish and maintain a twenty-four hour toll free telephone number and electronic website in accordance with Section 8-30-10; and
(12) perform other duties necessary to implement programs.
(B) The commission may delegate these powers and duties as necessary.
(C) Nothing in this chapter recognizes, creates, extends, or forms the basis of any right or claim of interest in land or real estate in this State for any Native American tribe which is recognized by the State.
HISTORY: 1993 Act No. 164, Part II, Section 110; 2003 Act No. 85, Section 4; 2008 Act No. 280, Section 2, eff June 4, 2008.
Effect of Amendment
The 2008 amendment added subparagraph (A)(11) relating to a toll free telephone number and electronic website, and redesignated subparagraph (A)(11) as (A)(12).
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 31 - State Commission For Minority Affairs › Section 1-31-60. Native American Indian Groups; existing recognition; repeal of regulations regarding recognition.

(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, upon and after the effective date of this statute:
(1) any Native American Indian Group that on the effective date of this section has been recognized by the Commission for Minority Affairs through its regulatory process remains and continues to be:
(a) recognized as a Native American Indian Group; and
(b) eligible to exercise the privileges and obligations authorized by that designation;
(2) the Commission for Minority Affairs must:
(a) eliminate the eligibility for any additional Native American Indian Groups to receive official recognized status in the State; and
(b) cease to recognize any additional entities as Native American Indian Groups; and
(3) any regulations providing for recognition as a Native American Indian Group are repealed.
(B) The Commission for Minority Affairs must revise any regulations to:
(a) eliminate any recognition procedure as a Native American Indian Group; and
(b) provide for the privileges and obligations a Native American Indian Group that continues to be recognized is authorized to exercise.
HISTORY: 2018 Act No. 163 (H.3177), Section 1, eff May 3, 2018.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 32 - South Carolina Religious Freedom Act › Section 1-32-20. Definitions.

In this chapter:
(1) "Demonstrates" means meets the burdens of going forward with the evidence and of persuasion.
(2) "Exercise of religion" means the exercise of religion under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution or Article I, Section 2 of the State Constitution.
(3) "Person" includes, but is not limited to, an individual, corporation, firm, partnership, association, or organization.
(4) "State" means the State of South Carolina and any political subdivision of the State and includes a branch, department, agency, board, commission, instrumentality, entity, or officer, employee, official of the State or a political subdivision of the State, or any other person acting under color of law.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 38, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 32 - South Carolina Religious Freedom Act › Section 1-32-30. Purposes of chapter.

The purposes of this chapter are to:
(1) restore the compelling interest test as set forth in Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 U.S. 205 (1972), and Sherbert v. Verner, 374 U.S. 398 (1963), and to guarantee that a test of compelling state interest will be imposed on all state and local laws and ordinances in all cases in which the free exercise of religion is substantially burdened; and
(2) provide a claim or defense to persons whose exercise of religion is substantially burdened by the State.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 38, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 32 - South Carolina Religious Freedom Act › Section 1-32-40. Restriction on state's ability to burden exercise of religion.

The State may not substantially burden a person's exercise of religion, even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability, unless the State demonstrates that application of the burden to the person is:
(1) in furtherance of a compelling state interest; and
(2) the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling state interest.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 38, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 32 - South Carolina Religious Freedom Act › Section 1-32-50. Burden on exercise of religion a claim or defense; attorney's fees.

If a person's exercise of religion has been burdened in violation of this chapter, the person may assert the violation as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding. If the person prevails in such a proceeding, the court shall award attorney's fees and costs.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 38, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 32 - South Carolina Religious Freedom Act › Section 1-32-60. Applicability; construction.

(A) This chapter applies to all state and local laws and ordinances and the implementation of those laws and ordinances, whether statutory or otherwise, and whether adopted before or after the effective date of this act.
(B) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to authorize the State to burden any religious belief.
(C) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to affect, interpret, or in any way address:
(1) that portion of the First Amendment of the United States Constitution prohibiting laws respecting the establishment of religion;
(2) that portion of Article I, Section 2 of the State Constitution prohibiting laws respecting the establishment of religion.
(D) Granting state funding, benefits, or exemptions, to the extent permissible under the constitutional provisions enumerated in subsection (C)(1) and (2), does not constitute a violation of this chapter.
As used in this subsection, "granting", with respect to state funding, benefits, or exemptions, does not include the denial of government funding, benefits, or exemptions.
HISTORY: 1999 Act No. 38, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 33 - Protection Of The Exercise Of Religion During A State Of Emergency › Section 1-33-10. Definitions.

For purposes of this chapter:
(1) "Discriminatory action" means any action undertaken by the State to:
(a) alter in any way the tax treatment of a religious organization, or cause any tax, fine, civil or criminal penalty, payment, damages award, or injunction to be assessed against a religious organization;
(b) deny, delay, revoke, or otherwise make unavailable an exemption from taxation for a religious organization; or
(c) withhold, reduce, exclude, terminate, materially alter the terms or conditions of, or otherwise make unavailable or deny any grant, contract, scholarship, license, accreditation, certification, entitlement, or other benefit under any government program.
(2) "Exercise of religion" means the exercise of religion as protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution, Article I, Section 2 of the State Constitution, and Title 1, Chapter 32, of the South Carolina Code of Laws.
(3) "Religious organization" includes, but is not limited to, houses of worship, religious ministries, organizations, social agencies, groups, corporations, educational institutions and other entities whose principal purpose is the study, practice, or advancement of religion and their officers, owners, clergy, religious leaders, and ministers.
(4) "Religious services" means a meeting, gathering, or assembly of two or more persons organized by a religious organization for the purpose of worship, teaching, training, providing educational services, conducting religious rituals, or other activities that are deemed necessary by the religious organization for the exercise of religion.
(5) "State" means the State of South Carolina and any political subdivision of the State and includes a branch, department, agency, board, commission, instrumentality, entity, or officer, employee, official of the State or a political subdivision of the State, or any other person acting under color of law or suing under or attempting to enforce a state law, rule, or regulation.
(6) "State of emergency" means any declaration or proclamation issued under the authority of state law that an emergency has occurred including, but not limited to:
(a) a proclamation of emergency issued by the Governor pursuant to Section 1-3-420;
(b) a declaration of emergency issued by the Governor pursuant to Section 25-1-440;
(c) a declaration of emergency issued by a county governing body pursuant to Section 4-9-130; and
(d) a declaration of emergency issued by a municipal governing body pursuant to Section 5-7-250.
HISTORY: 2022 Act No. 141 (H.3105), Section 1, eff April 25, 2022.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 33 - Protection Of The Exercise Of Religion During A State Of Emergency › Section 1-33-20. Religious services deemed an essential service; operation of religious services during state of emergency.

(A) During a state of emergency, religious services are deemed an essential service and are considered necessary and vital to the health and welfare of the public.
(B) The State may not limit the ability of a religious organization to continue operating and to engage in religious services during a state of emergency to a greater extent than it limits operations or services of other organizations or businesses that provide essential services.
(C) The State may require a religious organization to comply with neutral health, safety, or occupancy requirements during a state of emergency that:
(1) are applicable to all organizations or businesses providing essential services; and
(2) do not impose a substantial burden on religious services, unless the State demonstrates that the burden is necessary to further a compelling state interest and is the least restrictive means of furthering that interest.
(D) The State may not take any discriminatory action against a religious organization on the basis that the organization is religious, operates or seeks to operate during a state of emergency, and engages in the exercise of religion.
HISTORY: 2022 Act No. 141 (H.3105), Section 1, eff April 25, 2022.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 33 - Protection Of The Exercise Of Religion During A State Of Emergency › Section 1-33-30. Violation of chapter; attorney's fees and costs.

A religious organization may assert a violation of this chapter as a claim or defense in a judicial proceeding. If the religious organization prevails in such a proceeding, the court must award attorney's fees and costs and may award other appropriate relief including, but not limited to, injunctive relief, declaratory relief, and compensatory damages for pecuniary and nonpecuniary losses.
HISTORY: 2022 Act No. 141 (H.3105), Section 1, eff April 25, 2022.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 33 - Protection Of The Exercise Of Religion During A State Of Emergency › Section 1-33-40. Application and construction.

(A) This chapter applies to all state and local laws and ordinances and the implementation of those laws and ordinances, whether statutory or otherwise, and whether adopted before or after the effective date of this act.
(B) Nothing in this chapter may be construed to authorize the State to burden any religious belief.
HISTORY: 2022 Act No. 141 (H.3105), Section 1, eff April 25, 2022.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 34 - National Building Codes › Section 1-34-10. Purpose.

The public policy of South Carolina is to maintain reasonable and consistent standards of construction in buildings and other structures in the State in order to protect the public health, safety, and welfare of its citizens. Accordingly, all agencies should enforce the same editions of nationally recognized codes and standards for the construction, manufacture, renovation, improvement, and maintenance of structures. To effect this policy, it is intended that all state regulatory agencies enforce the same editions of nationally recognized codes.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 83, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 34 - National Building Codes › Section 1-34-20. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
(1) "Agency" or "state agency" means each state board, commission, department, executive department, or office, other than the General Assembly or the courts, charged with the regulation of buildings or other structures by enforcing a nationally recognized code. An agency is charged with the regulation of buildings or other structures by enforcing a nationally recognized code if the code is referenced in the statutes or regulations administered by that agency.
(2) "Building code" means building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, gas, or fire codes which are part of the International Building Code series or Standard Building Code series, as published, promulgated, or made available by the Southern Building Code Congress International, Inc., the energy code as published by the Council of American Building Officials, and the National Electrical Code and Fire and Life Safety Code, as made available by the National Fire Protection Association, if the code is referenced by any other statute or regulation.
(3) "Latest edition" means latest complete edition officially published, adopted, or approved by the organization which issued the nationally recognized code.
(4) "Nationally recognized code" means all building codes or standards. Unless expressly adopted as stated in this chapter or otherwise required by law, a "nationally recognized code" does not include its appendices. For the purposes of this chapter, "nationally recognized code" does not include any provision of a building code or standard which concerns the qualification, removal, dismissal, duties, responsibilities of, or administrative procedures for all building officials, fire officials, deputy officials, chief inspectors, or other inspectors, assistants, or administrators.
(5) "Revision" means a change to a nationally recognized code if that change was officially published, adopted, or approved other than at the time a complete edition was officially published, adopted, or approved.
(6) "Standard" means building, energy, electrical, plumbing, mechanical, gas, or fire standards published by organizations including the American National Standards Institute, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the American Standard Testing Materials Institute, and the National Fire Protection Association if the standard is referenced by any other statute or regulation.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 83, Section 3.
Editor's Note
Under the provisions of Chapter 34, Title 1, an agency is required to adopt the latest edition of a nationally recognized code which it is charged by statute or regulation with enforcing by giving notice in the State Register.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 34 - National Building Codes › Section 1-34-30. Adoption of latest edition of nationally recognized codes; notice requirements; public comments; agencies requiring compliance with earliest edition of a code.

(A) An agency shall adopt the latest edition of all nationally recognized codes which it is charged by statute or regulation with enforcing. An agency may propose the adoption of the latest edition of a nationally recognized code by publishing a notice in the State Register. The notice shall contain:
(1) a reference to the agency's original adoption of the nationally recognized code;
(2) the complete name of the nationally recognized code and the edition being adopted;
(3) the name and address of the organization which issued the nationally recognized code; and
(4) an invitation to comment to the agency concerning particular sections of the proposed edition.
(B) If no comments are received within sixty days of publication provided pursuant to subsection (A), the agency may file a notice with the Legislative Council to be published in the State Register that the nationally recognized code is promulgated without amendment. Publication of the notice creates a rebuttable presumption that the edition to which it refers was promulgated under this section, is available for public inspection at the agency, and was promulgated without amendment.
(C) If negative comments are received concerning sections of the latest edition or if the agency proposes amendments to the latest edition, the notice provided for in subsection (A) shall serve as the notice of drafting required pursuant to Section 1-23-110 and all affected sections must be proposed as regulations pursuant to Section 1-23-120 and are subject to the Administrative Procedures Act. All other sections of the latest edition may be promulgated by notice pursuant to subsection (B).
(D) An agency that requires compliance with an earlier edition of a nationally recognized code shall accept full and complete compliance with the latest edition of that code unless it has promulgated amendments to the code pursuant to this section.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 83, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 34 - National Building Codes › Section 1-34-40. Compliance with latest edition of a nationally recognized code.

(A) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an agency shall accept full and complete compliance with the latest edition of a nationally recognized code as compliance with a provision of a statute or regulation which refers to a particular edition of that nationally recognized code unless the agency has published a notice under Section 1-34-30(C) stating that the edition has not been adopted.
(B) This section does not affect when, or the circumstances under which, a nationally recognized code is applicable.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 83, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 34 - National Building Codes › Section 1-34-50. Adoption of a nationally recognized code appendix.

If an agency is authorized or required by law to enforce the provisions contained in a nationally recognized code appendix, the agency may adopt the appendix, in accordance with Section 1-34-30, in conjunction with, or in addition to, the adoption of the nationally recognized code.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 83, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 1 - Administration of the Government › Chapter 34 - National Building Codes › Section 1-34-70. Enforcement of provision of nationally recognized code inconsistent with state statute.

Unless otherwise required by law, an agency may not enforce a provision of a nationally recognized code to the extent it is inconsistent with any state statute or regulation that does not rely on a nationally recognized code.
HISTORY: 2003 Act No. 83, Section 3.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-20. Election date of members of House.

Representatives to the House of Representatives shall be elected from the several counties of the State at the general election to be held on Tuesday after the first Monday in November of every even-numbered year.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-2; 1952 Code Section 30-2; 1942 Code Section 2052; 1932 Code Section 2052; Civ. C. '22 Section 14; Civ. C. '12 Section 14; Civ. C. '02 Section 12; G. S. 11; R. S. 11; 1901 (23) 611; 1902 (23) 1197; 1908 (25) 1283; 1910 (26) 867; 1911 (27) 68; 1912 (27) 827; 1916 (29) 717; 1918 (30) 881; 1919 (31) 5; 1922 (32) 922; 1932 (37) 1111.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-30. Each House office shall be separate and distinct; candidate must qualify for one specific office.

Each House office in this State shall constitute a separate and distinct office to which a separate number shall be assigned within each election district for such an office. A candidate for such an office shall be required to qualify for a specific office and shall not be permitted to qualify for more than one such office in any one election.
The election ballots for House offices shall reflect the number assigned to each office and the names of the candidates.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-2.1; 1972 (57) 2384.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-35. Repealed.

HISTORY: Former Section, titled House of Representatives election districts. Part 1, had the following history: 2011 Act No. 72, Section 2, eff June 28, 2011. Repealed by 2021 Act No. 117, Pt IV, Section 5, eff December 10, 2021.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-40. Candidate must be resident of district; terms of office.

Any person otherwise qualified by law and the Constitution of this State may file as a candidate and can be elected only in the district in which he is a resident. A person may file for only one House office. Terms of office shall be for two years.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-2.2; 1974 (58) 2124.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-50. Clerk of House shall send names of persons elected or appointed during session to Secretary of State.

The clerk of the House of Representatives shall within ten days from the adjournment of the General Assembly sine die send the names of all persons elected or appointed by the General Assembly during the session to the Secretary of State, together with the action of the General Assembly with reference thereto, and the Secretary of State shall keep them for public inspection.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-3; 1952 Code Section 30-3; 1942 Code Section 2070; 1932 Code Section 2070; 1922 (32) 1290.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-80. Holding over by committee chairmen who are ex officio members of boards and commissions; vacancies.

Every chairman of a committee of the House of Representatives or of the Senate who is ex officio a member of any commission or board shall continue to be a member of such commission or board after each general election and until his successor shall be appointed chairman of such committee of the House or Senate and, if a vacancy occurs in any such chairmanship or the chairman is unable to serve by reason of temporary disability or other cause when the General Assembly is not in session, the Speaker of the House or the President of the Senate shall designate some member of such committee of the House or Senate, as the case may be, to serve as such member of the commission or board in the place of such chairman until the next meeting of the General Assembly or until the temporary disability is removed.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-5; 1952 Code Section 30-5; 1942 Code Section 2069; 1932 Code Section 2069; Civ. C. '22 Section 32; 1915 (29) 263.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-85. Legislative members of state boards and commissions shall serve until succeeded.

The term of legislative members of the state boards and commissions is coterminous with their term of office in the General Assembly except that they shall serve until their successors are elected or appointed and qualify. Nothing in this section prohibits the reappointment of legislative members to state boards or commissions.
HISTORY: 1976 Act No. 520, Section 1; 1987 Act No. 48, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-90. Committee members, rather than chairmen, may be elected by committees to serve ex officio on boards and commissions.

Wherever a statute provides for the chairman of a standing committee of the General Assembly to be a member of a board or commission, ex officio, the members of the standing committee may elect another member of the committee to serve in lieu of the chairman.
HISTORY: 1975 (59) 204.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-100. Members shall not be eligible for office created by General Assembly.

No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be elected by the General Assembly or appointed by any executive authority to any civil office under the dominion of this State which shall have been created during the time for which such Senator or Representative was elected to serve in the General Assembly.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-6; 1952 Code Section 30-6; 1942 Code Section 2070-2; 1937 (40) 136.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-110. Members of Richland delegation shall not serve in certain organizations.

No member of the legislative delegation of Richland County shall be eligible to appointment to membership on the board of Columbia township auditorium, the venereal clinic or on any such like organization or board of the county or of Columbia township receiving financial aid from the county or township. All vacancies from time to time occurring in the membership of any such board, which it is provided by law shall be filled by the county legislative delegation, shall be filled by a majority vote of the delegation.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-7; 1952 Code Section 30-7; 1942 Code Section 4730; 1932 (37) 1188.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-120. Members shall retain teaching certificates while serving in General Assembly.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or regulations of the Department of Education, members of the General Assembly while serving elected terms of office shall be exempted from any requirements of recertification and such members' teaching certificates shall remain valid during that period.
HISTORY: 1975 (59) 333.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-130. Distribution without charge of copies of legislative manual.

The clerk of the House of Representatives may distribute, without charge, copies of each legislative manual as published to the following individuals, institutions and offices in South Carolina:
(a) Members, clerks and attaches of the General Assembly;
(b) Members of the South Carolina Congressional Delegation;
(c) Justices of the Supreme Court and circuit judges;
(d) Circuit and county court solicitors;
(e) Clerks of court;
(f) State departments, boards and commissions;
(g) Representatives of news media reporting sessions of the General Assembly;
(h) State-supported institutions of higher learning;
(i) Penal and charitable institutions;
(j) Federal departments;
(k) Public schools;
(l) Public libraries;
(m) schools; and
(n) In those counties with only one resident member of the House of Representatives, the same number of manuals shall be issued that was normally issued to such county when it had a resident Senator.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-9; 1964 (53) 1823; 1968 (55) 2855; 1969 (56) 444.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-140. Sale of legislative manual to public.

The clerk of the House of Representatives may offer for sale to the public at least five hundred copies of each legislative manual, as published, at such price as may be determined by the clerk; provided, that this price may not be less than the additional cost of printing each such manual.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-10; 1964 (53) 1823.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-150. Members shall not be required to appear in court while General Assembly is in session.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of law or rule of court, no member of the General Assembly shall be required to appear in court as an attorney, who is the attorney of record, witness or otherwise during any regular legislative day, on any day in which the General Assembly is in special session, or on any other day when any legislator is required to attend any official legislative committee meeting. During the same period no case in which a member of the General Assembly is listed as an attorney of record shall be stricken from the calendar because such member of the General Assembly failed to appear for trial at the time designated by the court.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the right to a continuance, where such continuance is based upon an attorney in such case being a member of the legislature, shall be a matter of right except in the following situations and under the following circumstances, and none other, to wit:
(1) where litigation involves emergency relief and irreparable damage;
(2) where such attorney has previously been granted continuances for the same case for a period greater than one hundred eighty days; or
(3) in a criminal case where the client is incarcerated unless the defendant shall give his written consent to the continuance.
This section shall not affect or deny any other rights which a legislator may have to be excused from court appearances or appearances before administrative bodies or commissions provided by other provisions of law.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-11; 1971 (57) 458; 1979 Act No. 178, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-160. Escheat of furniture to members.

No furniture owned by the State and utilized by the General Assembly shall escheat to any member of either body unless such member shall have served for not less than six years.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-12; 1971 (57) 937.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-170. General Assembly shall not give away State-owned property.

The General Assembly shall not by act or resolution give away any State-owned property but may provide that State-owned property may be sold at fair market value.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-13; 1974 (58) 2608.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-180. Adjournment of General Assembly; conditions for extended session.

The regular annual session of the General Assembly shall adjourn sine die each year not later than five o'clock p.m. on the second Thursday in May. The regular annual session of the General Assembly can be extended:
(a) if the House of Representatives fails to give a third reading to the annual general appropriations bill by March thirty-first, the date of sine die adjournment is extended by one statewide day for each statewide day after March thirty-first that the House of Representatives fails to give the bill third reading; or
(b) if a forecast reduction is submitted by the Board of Economic Advisors pursuant to Section 11-9-880 after April tenth for the next fiscal year, the adjournment date for the General Assembly may be extended up to two weeks with the agreement of the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate; or
(c) if a concurrent resolution is adopted by a two-thirds vote of both the Senate and House of Representatives not later than five o'clock p.m. on the second Thursday in May. During the time between five o'clock p.m. on the second Thursday in May and the extended sine die adjournment date, as set forth herein, no legislation or other business may be considered except the general appropriations bill and any matters approved for consideration by a concurrent resolution adopted by two-thirds vote in both houses.
HISTORY: 1979 Act No. 146, Section 2; 1983 Act No. 151, Part II, Section 38; 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 59; 2016 Act No. 199 (S.267), Section 1, eff June 3, 2016.
Validity
For the validity of (c) of this section, see Pinckney v. Peeler, 862 S.E.2d 906 (S.C. 2021).
Editor's Note
2016 Act No. 199, Section 3, provides as follows:
"SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon the approval by the Governor and first applies for the next annual regular session of the General Assembly."
2019 Act No. 1, Section 97, provides as follows:
"SECTION 97. The Code Commissioner is directed to change all references to 'President Pro Tempore', 'President Pro Tempore of the Senate', or 'President of the Senate Pro Tempore' not specifically addressed in this act to 'President of the Senate'."
Effect of Amendment
2016 Act No. 199, Section 1, rewrote the section, changing the date for the mandatory adjournment of the general assembly to the second Thursday in May from the first Thursday in June, and to provide that the adjournment date may be extended up to two weeks in the discretion of the speaker of the house and the president pro tempore of the senate if a forecast reduction is submitted by the board of economic advisors after April tenth.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-215. Orientation program for new legislators.

Beginning with members of the General Assembly first elected in the 1992 General Election, the Operations and Management Committees of the House of Representatives and the Senate acting as a joint committee shall establish a program for newly elected members of the General Assembly to familiarize them with the operations of state agencies. The joint committee shall approve the content of the program and may designate an appropriate agency or institution to administer the program. This orientation program must supplement any orientation provided by the House of Representatives or the Senate about their internal operations.
The program must focus on the purpose, structure, funding, and operations of the various agencies, institutions, departments, divisions, and offices of state government. Agencies shall cooperate with the joint committee in making necessary presentations and arranging visitations to facilities. All programs must be scheduled on legislative days. All members of the General Assembly may participate in the orientation program.
HISTORY: 1991 Act No. 49, Section 1.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-220. Legislative appropriations; exemption from approval requirements.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regulation, or any limitation or provision contained in the annual general appropriations act, each house of the General Assembly is exempt from any provision which requires the approval of the State Fiscal Accountability Authority, Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Office, or Executive Budget Office or any other executive branch agency for the expenditure, management, or transfer of any legislative branch appropriations.
HISTORY: 2002 Act No. 356, Section 1, Part VI.N.
Code Commissioner's Note
At the direction of the Code Commissioner, references in this section to the offices of the former State Budget and Control Board, Office of the Governor, or other agencies, were changed to reflect the transfer of them to the Department of Administration or other entities, pursuant to the directive of the South Carolina Restructuring Act, 2014 Act No. 121, Section 5(D)(1), effective July 1, 2015.
2023 South Carolina Code of Laws › Title 2 - General Assembly › Chapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 2-1-230. Electronic transmission of agency reports to General Assembly.

(A) With the exception of the Governor's Executive Budget and related documents and telephone directories, an agency, a department, or an entity of state government required by law to report to the General Assembly shall prepare its report and transmit its report electronically to the Legislative Services Agency (LSA) and to the State Library as provided in Section 60-2-30. LSA shall notify the members of the General Assembly that the report is available. An agency, a department, or an entity of state government may not provide the General Assembly with hard copies of a publication whether or not the publication, report, or other document is required by law to be furnished to the General Assembly, and a publication only may be provided to a member of the General Assembly if the member requests the publication.
(B) The agency, department, or entity of state government shall transmit these publications to the Legislative Services Agency (LSA) by electronic medium in a format and form pursuant to technical standards as may be established by LSA. LSA shall make information transmitted available through its network.
(C) A report governed by the requirements of this section may be published in hard copy form for distribution to the General Assembly if authorized by the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate.
HISTORY: 2005 Act No. 119, Section 1, eff June 3, 2005; 2013 Act No. 31, Section 4, eff May 21, 2013; 2019 Act No. 1 (S.2), Section 10, eff January 31, 2019.
Effect of Amendment
The 2013 amendment, in subsection (A), substituted "Legislative Services Agency (LSA)" for "Office of Legislative Printing, Information and Technology Systems (LPITS)"; and in subsection (B), substituted "Legislative Services Agency (LSA)" for "Printing, Information and Technology Systems (LPITS)", and twice substituted "LSA" for "LPITS".
2019 Act No. 1, Section 10, in (C), substituted "President of the Senate" for "President Pro Tempore of the Senate".