South Carolina S 25: SC Promise Scholarship Act

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2025-2026 Bill 25 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 11, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 25

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 20-1-100, RELATING TO THE MINIMUM AGE FOR VALID MARRIAGE, SO AS TO 
PROVIDE THAT AN INDIVIDUAL YOUNGER THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE IS NOT CAPABLE OF 
ENTERING INTO A VALIED MARRIAGE; BY AMENDING SECTION 20-1-290, RELATING TO 
WILFUL FAILURE OF LICENSE-ISSUING OFFICER TO COMPLY WITH SECTIONS 20-1-250, 
20-1-260 AND 20-1-270 AS CAUSE FOR REMOVAL, SO AS TO REMOVE REFERENCES TO CODE 
SECTIONS REPEALED BY THIS BILL; BY REPEALING SECTION 20-1-250 RELATING TO 
APPLICANTS UNDER THE AGE OF CONSENT AND THE CONSENT OF RELATIVE OR GUARDIAN; 
AND BY REPEALING SECTION 20-1-260 RELATING TO PROOF OF AGE REQUIRED OF A MINOR 
APPLICANT.

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

SECTION 1. Section 
20-1-100 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

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20-1-100. Any person under the age of sixteen eighteen 
is not capable of entering into a valid marriage, and all marriages 
hereinafter entered into by such persons are void ab initio. A common-law 
marriage hereinafter entered into by a person under the age of sixteen eighteen is void ab initio.

SECTION 2. Section 20-1-290 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

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20-1-290. The wilful failure of any officer responsible for the issuance of 
marriage licenses to comply with the terms of Sections 20-1-250, 20-1-260 
and Section 20-1-270 shall be grounds or cause 
for removal from office.

SECTION 3. Sections 
20-1-250 and 20-1-260 of the S.C. Code are repealed.

SECTION 4. If 
any section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or 
word of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid, such 
holding shall not affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining 
portions of this act, the General Assembly hereby declaring that it would have 
passed this act, and each and every section, subsection, paragraph, 
subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, and word thereof, irrespective of the 
fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, paragraphs, 
subparagraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words hereof may be declared to 
be unconstitutional, invalid, or otherwise ineffective.

SECTION 5. The repeal or amendment by this act 
of any law, whether temporary or permanent or civil or criminal, does not 
affect pending actions, rights, duties, or liabilities founded thereon, or 
alter, discharge, release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability 
incurred under the repealed or amended law, unless the repealed or amended 
provision shall so expressly provide. After the effective date of this act, 
all laws repealed or amended by this act must be taken and treated as remaining 
in full force and effect for the purpose of sustaining any pending or vested 
right, civil action, special proceeding, criminal prosecution, or appeal 
existing as of the effective date of this act, and for the enforcement of 
rights, duties, penalties, forfeitures, and liabilities as they stood under the 
repealed or amended laws.

SECTION 6. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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