South Carolina S 690: Debt setoff

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2025-2026 Bill 690 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 10, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 690

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 12-56-20, RELATING TO THE DEBT SETOFF COLLECTION ACT, SO AS TO INCLUDE 
CERTAIN COSTS COLLECTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION, PAROLE AND PARDON 
SERVICES IN THE DEFINITION OF "DELINQUENT DEBT".

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

SECTION 1. Section 12-56-20(4) of the S.C. Code is amended to 
read:

 (4) "Delinquent debt" means a sum due 
and owing a claimant agency, including collection costs, court costs, fines, 
penalties, and interest which have accrued through contract, subrogation, tort, 
operation of law, or other legal theory regardless of whether there is an 
outstanding judgment for that sum which is legally collectible and for which a 
collection effort has been or is being made. It does not include sums owed to 
county hospitals when the hospital and the debtor have entered into a written 
payment agreement and the debtor is current in meeting the obligations of the 
agreement. "Delinquent debt" also includes any fine, penalty, cost, fee, 
assessment, surcharge, service charge, restitution, or other amount imposed by 
a court, or as a direct consequence of a final 
court order which is received by or payable to the clerk of the appropriate 
court or treasurer of the entity where the court is located, or when ordered by a court or the Parole Board to be collected 
by the Department of Probation, Parole and Pardon Services.

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

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