South Carolina S 164: State Agency Rule Making

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2025-2026 Bill 164 Text of Previous Version (Apr. 14, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 164

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Amended

April 10, 2025

S. 164

Introduced 
by Senator Campsen 

S. Printed 4/10/25--H. [SEC 
4/14/2025 8:50 AM]

Read the first time February 6, 2025

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 1-23-120, RELATING TO THE REQUIREMENTS AND PROCEDURES FOR REGULATIONS, 
SO AS TO TOLL THE PERIOD OF LEGISLATIVE REVIEW FROM THE SECOND FRIDAY IN MAY 
THROUGH THE SECOND MONDAY IN JANUARY; AND TO ADD A PROVISION REVISING THE 
PERIOD OF LEGISLATIVE REVIEW FOR REGULATIONS FILED ON JANUARY 14, 2025, TO ONE 
HUNDRED THIRTEEN DAYS.

 Amend Title To Conform

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

SECTION 1. Section 1-23-115(A) of the S.C. Code is amended to 
read:

 (A) Upon written request by two members 
of the General Assembly, made before submission of a promulgated regulation to 
the General Assembly for legislative review, a regulation that has a 
substantial economic impact must have an assessment report prepared pursuant to 
this section and in accordance with the procedures contained in this article. 
In addition to any other method as may be provided by the General Assembly, the 
legislative committee to which the promulgated regulation has been referred, by 
majority vote, may send a written notification to the promulgating agency 
informing the agency that the committee cannot approve the promulgated 
regulation unless an assessment report is prepared and provided to the 
committee. The written notification tolls the running of the one hundred-twenty-dayone-hundred-ten-day 
legislative review period, and the period does not begin to run again until an 
assessment report prepared in accordance with this article is submitted to the 
committee. Upon receipt of the assessment report, additional days must be 
added to the days remaining in the one hundred-twenty-dayone-hundred-ten-day review period, if less than twenty 
days, to equal twenty days. A copy of the assessment report must be provided 
to each member of the committee.

SECTION 2. Section 1-23-120(C) and (D) of the S.C. Code is amended 
to read:

 (C) Upon receipt of the regulation, the 
President and Speaker shall refer the regulation for review to the standing 
committees of the Senate and House which are most concerned with the function 
of the promulgating agency. A copy of the regulation or a synopsis of the 
regulation must be given to each member of the committee, and Legislative 
Council shall notify all members of the General Assembly when regulations are 
submitted for review either through electronic means or by addition of this 
information to the website maintained by the Legislative Services Agency, or 
both. The committees to which regulations are referred have one hundred ten twenty days from the date 
regulations are submitted to the General Assembly to consider and take action 
on these regulations. However, if a regulation is referred to a committee and 
no action occurs in that committee on the regulation within sixty calendar days 
of receipt of the regulation, the regulation must be placed on the agenda of 
the full committee beginning with the next scheduled full committee meeting.

 (D) 
If a joint resolution to approve a regulation is not enacted within one hundred ten twenty days after the 
regulation is submitted to the General Assembly or if a joint resolution to 
disapprove a regulation has not been introduced by a standing committee to 
which the regulation was referred for review, the regulation is effective upon 
publication in the State Register. Upon introduction of the first joint 
resolution disapproving a regulation by a standing committee to which the 
regulation was referred for review, the one-hundred-twenty-dayone-hundred-ten-day legislative review period for 
automatic approval is tolled. A regulation may not be filed under the emergency 
provisions of Section 1-23-130 if a joint resolution to disapprove the 
regulation has been introduced by a standing committee to which the regulation 
was referred. Upon a negative vote by either the Senate or House of 
Representatives on the resolution disapproving the regulation and the 
notification in writing of the negative vote to the Speaker of the House of 
Representatives and the President of the Senate by the Clerk of the house in 
which the negative vote occurred, the remainder of the period begins to run. If 
the remainder of the period is less than ninety days, additional days must be 
added to the remainder to equal ninety days. The introduction of a joint 
resolution by the committee of either house does not prevent the introduction 
of a