South Carolina H 3005: Penalty enhancements for hate crimes

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2025-2026 Bill 3005 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3005

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A concurrent RESOLUTION

to EXPRESS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S 
UNWAVERING SUPPORT FOR THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE, AND TO URGE THE GOVERNOR AND 
ATTORNEY GENERAL OF SOUTH CAROLINA TO LITIGATE AGGRESSIVELY AGAINST ANY EFFORT 
TO REPEAL OR NULLIFY IT, INCLUDING THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NATIONAL POPULAR 
VOTE INTERSTATE COMPACT.

Whereas, the founding fathers, through deliberation and compromise, 
devised the Electoral College to answer the nation's need for an effective 
voting mechanism in the presidential selection process; and

Whereas, the Electoral College is part of the United States 
Constitution's system of checks and balances, designed to ensure that the 
interests of smaller states, including states like South Carolina, are not ignored; 
and

Whereas, the Electoral College, as provided for in the Constitution 
of the United States, provides a balance between rural and urban interests by 
ensuring that winning candidates have support from multiple regions of the 
country; and

Whereas, all states, including South Carolina, currently allocate 
their electoral votes based on the vote of citizens within their state, which 
is an appropriate exercise of state legislative authority pursuant to Section 
1, Article II of the United States Constitution; and

Whereas, the Founding Fathers explicitly rejected a national popular 
vote for president and instead created the Electoral College to ensure that the 
will of the majority is carried out while guaranteeing that the voices of this 
nation's minorities are heard; and

Whereas, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is an effort to 
nullify the Constitution's state by state process in order to create de facto 
direct election for president; and

Whereas, the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact would diminish 
the importance of individual states in presidential elections and create the 
potential for nationwide recounts and federal intervention in the states' 
election processes; and

Whereas, under the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact, a 
state's electoral votes could be given away to a candidate who is opposed by 
the majority of the state's citizens; and

Whereas, any attempt to modify the current Electoral College would 
jeopardize a secure system which has been effective for over two centuries in 
providing for a peaceful transition of presidential power. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of 
Representatives, the Senate concurring:

That the members of the South 
Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, express unwavering support for 
the Electoral College and urge the Governor and Attorney General of South 
Carolina to litigate aggressively against any effort to repeal or nullify it, 
including the implementation of the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact.

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