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2025-2026 Bill 5573 Text of Previous Version (May. 13, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5573

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Amt. No. 1 (LC-5573.DG0002H.docx)

May 13, 2026

H. 5573

Introduced 
by Reps. Long, Chumley, Edgerton, Magnuson, Lawson and Moss

L. Printed 5/13/26--H.

Read the first time April 23, 2026

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A bill

TO AMEND ACT 813 OF 1946, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE 
CREATION OF THE SPARTANBURG MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM COMMISSION SO AS TO CHANGE THE 
COMPOSITION OF THE COMMISSION.

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

SECTION 1. The 
Spartanburg Auditorium Memorial Commission shall not have the authority to 
approve of, without first seeking the approval from the Spartanburg County 
Legislative Delegation, any art exhibit, production, show, or other form of 
entertainment that is found to contain scenes the average person, applying 
contemporary state community standards would find that the production, taken as 
a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, whether the production depicts or 
describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct, and whether the 
production, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or 
scientific value.

SECTION 2. SECTION 
2(A) and (B) of Act 813 of 1946, as last amended by Act 186 of 1995, is further 
amended to read:

SECTION 2. (A) The 
Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Commission is composed of thirteen fourteen 
members with two three of whom serving ex officio as provided in 
item (3). The commission must be appointed as follows:

(1) Five must be 
appointed by a special joint committee. The special joint committee shall 
consist of two members of the Spartanburg City Council, two members of the 
Spartanburg City Council, and two members of the Auditorium Commission as 
determined by the respective bodies. The special joint committee shall appoint 
representatives from the legal profession, the engineering/mechanical 
profession, the accounting/financial profession, the hospitality industry, and 
the communications/marketing community the Spartanburg County 
Legislative Delegation. Qualifications for the five commissioners 
appointed by the Spartanburg County Legislative Delegation may include 
experience in the legal, business, accounting and finance, or art, recreation, 
and tourism industries. The Spartanburg County Legislative Delegation shall 
make new appointments to the commission upon expiration of the terms of 
commissioners appointed by the special joint committee.

(2) Two must be 
appointed by the Spartanburg City Council and four members to the appointed by 
the Spartanburg County Council.

(3) The Mayor of the 
City of Spartanburg and the Chairman of the Spartanburg County Council or their 
designated member of their respective council and the Spartanburg County 
Legislative Delegation Chairman, or his designee, shall serve as nonvoting 
ex officio members of the Auditorium Commission with voting rights.

(B) All terms of the 
appointed members are for four years except that initial appointments may be 
for less than four years in order to ensure a staggering and rotation of the 
terms of Auditorium Commission members. No commissioner may serve more than 
two consecutive full four-year terms. A commissioner is eligible for 
reappointment after having served two full four-year terms, but may not be 
reappointed for at least one year following the end of the second consecutive 
term. Current members of the Auditorium Commission must be appointed to an 
initial four-year term.

SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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