Legislation

This bill would prohibit any state agency, school district, library, or other institution supported by public funds from hosting a drag story hour or any other drag show attended by people under age 18.

This bill would require social media, streaming, gaming, or chatroom companies to provide a parental control option to opt minors out of content that is “sexual in nature” and content that features transgender people. A company that violates this would be guilty of a misdemeanor.

This bill would define “riot” to include a violent protest and would allow a person whose property is destroyed or harmed to recover full damages against every person or “funding entity” engaged in a riot.

This bill would exempt baby formula, baby food, and baby clothes for infants and children under thirty-six months from sales tax.

This bill would allow a person to apply to have a civil eviction expunged. The judge must grant the expungement if the person has had no additional evictions for at least five years since the last eviction.

This bill states that if any entity hires or employs a person in the United States with an H-1B or Optional Practical Training (OPT) visa, it would not be able receive any state economic development incentives such as job or employee tax credits, general business tax credits, infrastructure tax credits, property rehabilitation and housing credits, or conservation credits.

This bill would require the Board of Trustees of the Greenville County School District to be elected in partisan elections beginning with the 2026 election.

Under this bill, the S.C. Department of Motor Vehicles would not be allowed to issue or renew the driver’s license of a person who cannot show proficiency in reading and understanding English.

This bill would create a mandatory minimum prison sentence of five years for a person convicted of attempted murder.