South Carolina H 3727: Code Volume Replacement

Bill Text

South Carolina General Assembly

126th Session, 2025-2026



H. 3727



STATUS INFORMATION



General Bill

Sponsors: Rep. W. Newton

Document Path: LC-0096AHB25.docx



Introduced in the House on January 15, 2025

Introduced in the Senate on January 22, 2025

Last Amended on February 5, 2025


Currently residing in the House



Summary: Code Volume Replacement





HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS



	Date	Body	Action Description with journal page number	

	1/15/2025	House	Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar without reference (House Journal‑page 48)

	1/16/2025	House	Read second time (House Journal‑page 713)

	1/16/2025	House	Roll call Yeas-101  Nays-0 (House Journal‑page 713)

	1/16/2025	House	Unanimous consent for third reading on next legislative day (House Journal‑page 714)

	1/17/2025	House	Read third time and sent to Senate
 

	1/22/2025	Senate	Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal‑page 1)

	1/22/2025	Senate	Referred to Committee on Judiciary (Senate Journal‑page 1)

	1/28/2025	Senate	Recalled from Committee on Judiciary (Senate Journal‑page 6)

	2/5/2025	Senate	Amended (Senate Journal‑page 53)

	2/5/2025	Senate	Read second time (Senate Journal‑page 53)

	2/5/2025	Senate	Roll call Ayes-43  Nays-0 (Senate Journal‑page 53)

	2/5/2025		Scrivener's error corrected
 

	2/6/2025	Senate	Read third time and returned to House with amendments (Senate Journal‑page 8)

	2/12/2025	House	Debate adjourned until Thur., 2-13-125 (House Journal‑page 47)

	2/13/2025	House	Non-concurrence in Senate amendment (House Journal‑page 63)

	2/13/2025	House	Roll call Yeas-0  Nays-101 (House Journal‑page 63)



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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL



01/15/2025

01/15/2025-A

01/28/2025

02/05/2025









Indicates Matter Stricken

Indicates New Matter



Amended

February 5, 2025



H. 3727



Introduced by Rep. W. Newton 



S. Printed 2/5/25--S.	

Read the first time January 22, 2025



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A bill



TO ADOPT REVISED CODE VOLUME 9 OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS, TO THE EXTENT OF ITS CONTENTS, AS THE ONLY GENERAL PERMANENT STATUTORY LAW OF THE STATE AS OF JANUARY 1, 2025.

	Amend Title To Conform



Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:



SECTION 1.	Section 2-13-90 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:



	Section 2-13-90.	If at any time the supplement of any volume of the Code of Laws shall, in the judgment of the Council and the Code Commissioner, become too bulky for convenient use, the Council and the Code Commissioner shall contract to be prepared and published under theirhis supervision and direction, and submit to the General Assembly for its consideration, a revised volume setting forth the contents of the original volume revised and codified to include the effect of such cumulative pocket supplement; and the General Assembly, having considered and approved such revised volume shall, by bill passed under the formalities prescribed by the Constitution of South Carolina for the passage of laws, declare such that the revised volume to be is substituted for the original volume as a part of the then existing Code of Laws, and, to the extent of its contents, is the only general permanent statutory law of the State.  All replacement volumes shall include an annotation to any general permanent statutory law which is impliedly repealed and must be included as it had been previously printed in the Cumulative Supplement it replaced.



SECTION 2.	This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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