South Carolina H 4129: Pennie Peralta, retirement

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2025-2026 Bill 4129 Text of Previous Version (May. 08, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4129

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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Amended

May 7, 2025

H. 4129

Introduced by Reps. Brewer, Guffey, M. M. Smith, 
Hartnett, Teeple, B. L. Cox, Sessions, Mitchell, Stavrinakis, Pedalino, 
Brittain, Hayes, Guest, Luck, Atkinson, Bamberg and Robbins 

S. Printed 5/7/25--H. [SEC 
5/8/2025 1:08 PM]

Read the first time March 5, 2025

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION 
16-19-5 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON WHO PAYS A FEE TO PLAY A GAME IN WHICH 
SKILL PREDOMINATES OVER CHANCE AND RECEIVES A PRIZE PROPORTIONATE TO HOW 
SKILLFULLY HE PLAYED IS NOT GAMBLING.

 Amend Title To Conform

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

SECTION 1. Chapter 19, Title 16 of the S.C. Code is amended by 
adding:

 Section 16-19-5. (A) For the purposes of this chapter, a person 
who pays a fee to participate in a game, activity, or event in which skill 
predominates over chance including, but not limited to, a Professional Golf 
Association (PGA) Tournament; a National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing 
(NASCAR) event; a billfishing or bass fishing tournament; an Association of 
Tennis Professional Tour event or Women's Tennis Association Tour event; a turkey 
shoot; or any non-card-based predominant skill game, 
activity, or event, and receives a thing of value proportionate to how 
skillfully he plays in the game, activity, or event is not gambling.

 (B) 
Nothing in this section should be misinterpreted as permitting any physical or 
electronic card-based game when skill predominates the outcome of the game, 
activity, or event and is determined primarily by 
the participant's mental or physical abilities, strategy, or learned capacity. 
If the game, activity, or event involves a material element of chance by which 
the outcome is determined through randomness, defeating the participants skill, 
such as "turn of a card" or "roll of the dice" this is gambling and therefore 
illegal.

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

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