South Carolina S 778: Prohibit Medicaid Funding for Family Planning by Abortion Providers

Bill Text

2025-2026 Bill 778 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 13, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 778

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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Senate: Massey

Attorney: Moffitt

Drafting Assistant: Bishop

Date: January 08, 2026

DOC. ID.: /SENATE 
RESEARCH/KM/DRAFTS/SR-0469KM26/SR-0469KM26.DOCX

A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION 
44-6-75 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT LICENSED ABORTION CLINICS AND AFFILIATED 
PHYSICIANS OR MEDICAL PRACTICES ARE UNQUALIFIED TO PROVIDE FAMILY PLANNING 
UNDER THE STATE'S MEDICAID PROGRAM, TO PROHIBIT STATE AND LOCAL FUNDS FOR 
FAMILY PLANNING TO BE APPROPRIATED TO A LICENSED ABORTION CLINIC AND AFFILIATED 
PHYSICIANS AND MEDICAL PRACTICES, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC 
HEALTH MUST PROVIDE A LIST OF QUALIFIED FAMILY PLANNING SERVICE PROVIDERS.

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

SECTION 1. Article 1, Chapter 6, Title 44 of the S.C. Code is 
amended by adding:

 Section 
44-6-75. (A) Any facility licensed by 
the Department of Public Health to operate as an abortion provider pursuant to 
Section 44-41-75 and any affiliated physicians or professional medical 
practices who are operating concurrently with and in the same physical, 
geographic location or footprint as the licensed facility are unqualified to 
provide family planning services under the State's Medicaid program.

 (B) 
State and local funds for family planning, whether through a grant, a contract, 
state-administered federal funds, or any other form, may not be directly or 
indirectly provided to any facility licensed by the Department of Public Health 
to operate as abortion provider pursuant to Section 44-41-75 or to a physician 
or professional medical practice affiliated with a licensed abortion provider 
who is operating concurrently with and in the same physical, geographic 
location or footprint as the licensed facility.

 (C) The 
department of Public Health shall prepare, produce, and make publicly available 
in a user-friendly format a list of all qualified family planning service 
providers operating within a twenty-five-mile radius of any facility licensed 
to provide abortions pursuant to Section 44-41-75 that is excluded from the 
State's Medicaid provider network.

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

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