South Carolina H 4820: Turkey season

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2025-2026 Bill 4820 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 17, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4820

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 42-9-10, RELATING TO AMOUNT OF COMPENSATION FOR TOTAL DISABILITY UNDER 
WORKERS' COMPENSATION LAW, SO AS TO INCREASE THE MINIMUM WEEKLY AMOUNT TO ONE 
HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS, and TO ESTABLISH A MECHANISM FOR PERIODIC 
INFLATION-BASED INCREASES.

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

SECTION 1. Section 42-9-10 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
42-9-10. (A) When the incapacity for 
work resulting from an injury is total, the employer shall pay, or cause to be 
paid, as provided in this chapter, to the injured employee during the total 
disability a weekly compensation equal to sixty-six and two-thirds percent of 
his average weekly wages, but not less than seventy-fiveone hundred fifty dollars a week, 
beginning July 1, 2027, so long as this amount does not exceed his 
average weekly salary; if this amount does exceed his average weekly salary, 
the injured employee may not be paid, each week, less than his average weekly 
salary. The injured employee may not be paid more each week than the average 
weekly wage in this State for the preceding fiscal year. In no case may the 
period covered by the compensation exceed five hundred weeks except as provided 
in subsection (C).

 (B) 
The loss of both hands, arms, shoulders, feet, legs, hips, or vision in both 
eyes, or any two thereof, constitutes total and permanent disability to be 
compensated according to the provisions of this section.

 (C) 
Notwithstanding the five-hundred-week limitation prescribed in this section or 
elsewhere in this title, any person determined to be totally and permanently 
disabled who as a result of a compensable injury is a paraplegic, a 
quadriplegic, or who has suffered physical brain damage is not subject to the 
five-hundred-week limitation and shall receive the benefits for life.

 (D) 
Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 42-9-301, no total lump sum payment 
may be ordered by the commission in any case under this section where the 
injured person is entitled to lifetime benefits.

 (E)(1) 
Before October 1, 2027, and every October first annually thereafter, the 
commission shall increase the minimum compensation rate for the succeeding 
calendar year by the same percentage as the annual increase to the state 
maximum average weekly wage as defined in Section 42-1-50. The Department of 
Employment and Workforce shall provide the commission, no later than August 
first annually, the data required for calculation of the percentage change.

 (2) The commission shall publish a 
notice of the adjusted minimum weekly compensation amount no later than January 
first of each year and publish the notice on its internet website.

 (3) The commission may by regulation 
adopt such rules as it considers necessary to implement the inflation 
adjustment provisions of this subsection.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 2027, 
and applies to injuries occurring on or after that date.

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