South Carolina S 779: Rotary Club of Orangeburg

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2025-2026 Bill 779 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 28, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 779

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Introduced

January 28, 2026

S. 779

Introduced 
by Senators Massey, Hutto, Zell, Devine and Adams 

S. Printed 1/28/26--H.

Read the first time January 28, 2026

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A joint Resolution

TO PROVIDE THAT EACH MEMBER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL 
RECEIVE A MONTHLY LEGISLATIVE EXPENSE ALLOWANCE OF ONE THOUSAND DOLLARS; TO 
PROVIDE FOR THE ALLOCATION OF LEGISLATIVE EXPENSE ALLOWANCE PAYMENTS BETWEEN 
MEMBERS WHOSE SEATS WERE VACATED DURING FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026 AND THE MEMBERS 
ELECTED TO FILL THE VACANCY; AND TO PROVIDE THAT MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY WHOSE SEATS WERE VACATED DUE TO THE MEMBER BEING CONVICTED OF OR 
PLEADING GUILT OR NOLO CONTENDERE TO A FELONY ARE NOT ENTITLED TO A LEGISLATIVE 
EXPENSE ALLOWANCE PAYMENT PURSUANT TO THIS ACt.

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

SECTION 1. All members of the 126th South Carolina General Assembly 
shall receive a legislative expense allowance of one thousand dollars per 
month. The provisions of this section are retroactive to July 1, 2025.

SECTION 2. If a member of the General Assembly vacates or vacated his seat 
during Fiscal Year 2025-2026, then the member is entitled to receive a 
legislative expense allowance pursuant to Section 1 for only the months that 
the member served. A member elected in a special election to fill a vacancy is 
entitled to receive a legislative expense allowance for only those months 
during Fiscal Year 2025-2026 after he took the oath of office, including a pro-rated 
amount for the month in which he took the oath of office. A member who was 
convicted of, plead guilty, or plead nolo contendere to a felony during the 
fiscal year and prior to the effective date of this act is not entitled to 
receive a legislative expense allowance.

SECTION 3. 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 4. This 
joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor and is repealed on 
July 1, 2026.

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