South Carolina S 269: General Assembly term limits

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2025-2026 Bill 269 Text of Previous Version (May. 05, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 269

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Committee Report

May 1, 2025

S. 269

Introduced 
by Senators Turner, Elliott and Zell 

S. Printed 5/1/25--H. [SEC 
5/5/2025 9:20 AM]

Read the first time April 9, 2025

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The committee on House Education and 
Public Works

To whom was referred a Bill (S. 269) to amend 
the South Carolina Code of Laws by adding Section 59-19-275 so as to provide 
that public school districts with more than fifteen thousand students may use, 
etc., respectfully

Report:

That they have duly and carefully considered 
the same, and recommend that the same do pass:

SHANNON ERICKSON for Committee.

statement of estimated fiscal impact

Explanation of Fiscal Impact

State Expenditure

This bill specifies that a public school 
district with more than 15,000 students may use security personnel who are 
armed or have been delegated arrest authority on the school premises if the 
district obtains a proprietary security business license from SLED. School 
districts remain obligated to use school resource officers as otherwise 
provided by law. This bill also requires SLED to implement certain training 
requirements for security personnel on school premises and specifies that 
school district security officers must be recertified every two years. The bill 
further specifies that school districts are not exempt from certain private 
security and investigative agency license requirements specified in Title 40, 
Chapter 18.

S.C. Department of Education. This 
bill will have no expenditure impact on SCDE. The department indicates that it 
can manage the provisions of the bill with existing appropriations.

State Agency Schools. This bill will 
have no expenditure impact on state agency schools. The Governor's School for 
Agriculture at John de la Howe, the Governor's School for the Arts and 
Humanities, the Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, the School for 
the Deaf and the Blind, and the Wil Lou Gray Opportunity School indicate that 
they can manage the provisions of the bill with existing appropriations. 

State Law Enforcement Division. SLED 
indicates that the bill will increase the agency's expenses by $132,320 in FY 
2025-26. Of this amount, $124,320 is for 2.0 additional FTEs to manage the 
increase in applications for proprietary security business licenses from 
qualifying school districts, and $2,000 is for training and travel costs. The 
remaining $6,000 is for one-time equipment costs for the new FTEs. Expenses 
will decrease to $126,320 each year thereafter for the FTEs and training and 
travel costs. SLED reports that the agency will request a General Fund 
appropriation increase to fund the expenses.

State Revenue

This bill specifies that a public school 
district with more than 15,000 students may use certain security personnel on 
the school premises if the district obtains a propriety security business 
license from SLED. The bill also requires school district security officers to 
be recertified by SLED every two years. 

This bill may increase Other Funds revenue 
of SLED by an undetermined amount due to the potential increase in propriety 
security business license fees and security officer registration certificate 
fees collected by the agency. Based on information from SLED, the cost of a 
propriety security business license fee is $350. The total amount will depend 
upon the number of districts that obtain a proprietary security business 
license and the number of security officers requiring recertification each 
year.

Local Expenditure

This bill specifies that a public school 
district with more than 15,000 students may use security personnel who are 
armed or have been delegated arrest authority on the school premises if the 
district obtains a proprietary security business license from SLED. For 
reference, sixteen regular school districts and two charter school districts 
have more than 15,000 students in FY 2024-25. 

The overall expenditure impact of this bill 
on the local school districts will vary. SCDE surveyed the seventy-two regular 
school districts and three charter school districts and received responses from 
twenty-two districts. Twenty of the responding districts indicate that the bill 
will have no expenditure impact. The remaining two districts indicate that if 
they choose to use security personnel who are armed or have been delegated 
arrest authority on the school premises, this will increase expenses by an amount 
ranging from $2,735 to $20,000 for obtaining a propriety security business 
license, hiring security officers, SLED training and recertification, and 
equipment costs.

Frank A. Rainwater, Executive