South Carolina H 3857: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE AND EXPRESS DEEP APPRECIATION TO THE INDEPENDENT COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH CAROLINA DURING "INDEPENDENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY WEEK," APRIL 3 - 7, 2017, AND "INDEPENDENT COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY DAY," APRIL 5, 2017, FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTIONS IN EDUCATING FUTURE LEADERS FOR OUR STATE AND NATION.

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2025-2026 Bill 3857 Text of Previous Version (Jan. 30, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3857

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS 
BY AMENDING SECTION 61-2-170, RELATING TO DRIVE-THROUGH OR CURBSIDE SERVICE OF 
ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, SO AS TO PROVIDE CERTAIN EXCEPTIONS; BY ADDING SECTION 
61-4-45 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT MAY ISSUE CERTAIN LICENSES OR 
PERMITS ALLOWING A RETAILER TO OFFER CERTAIN CURBSIDE DELIVERY OR PICK UP; BY 
ADDING SECTION 61-4-280 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A RETAIL DEALER MAY HIRE A 
DELIVERY SERVICE TO DELIVER CERTAIN BEER AND WINE AND TO PROVIDE FOR 
REQUIREMENTS; BY ADDING SECTION 61-6-1570 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT 
MAY ISSUE CERTAIN LICENSES OR PERMITS ALLOWING A RETAILER TO OFFER CERTAIN 
CURBSIDE DELIVERY OR PICK UP; AND BY ADDING SECTION 61-6-1580 SO AS TO PROVIDE 
THAT A RETAIL DEALER MAY HIRE A DELIVERY SERVICE TO DELIVER CERTAIN ALCOHOLIC 
LIQUORS AND TO PROVIDE FOR REQUIREMENTS.

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

SECTION 1. The General Assembly finds and declares that:

 (A) 
The State has a substantial interest in regulating beverages containing 
alcohol, including alcoholic liquor, beer, ale, porter, wine, and other similar 
malt or fermented beverages as defined and licensed for retail sale pursuant to 
Sections 61-4-10 and 61-6-20, collectively referenced as "beverages containing 
alcohol" in these legislative findings, of the S.C. Code; the activities of 
manufacturers, importers, wholesalers, and retailers; the safe delivery of 
beverages containing alcohol to the state's consumers; and the influences that 
affect the consumption levels of beverages containing alcohol by the people of 
the State.

 (B) 
The State has a substantial interest in exercising its police powers to promote 
the public health, safety, and welfare of the State by regulating the business 
of retail sales and delivery of beverages containing alcohol in the manner and 
to the extent allowed by law to promote and preserve public health and safety 
through legitimate, nonprotectionistic measures, which include regulating and 
controlling transactions in this State involving beverages containing alcohol 
and the means and manner in which licensed retailers and third parties may 
deliver beverages containing alcohol to the state's qualifying consumers.

 (C) 
Selling and delivering beverages containing alcohol from retailers outside the 
State directly to residents of this State poses a serious threat to the state's 
efforts to prevent underage drinking, to state revenue collections, and to the 
public health and safety of the state's residents.

 (D) 
By this act, the General Assembly intends to promote the public health, safety, 
and welfare of residents of this State with laws intended to strictly regulate 
beverages containing alcohol by preserving and promoting a robust, stable 
system of distribution of beverages containing alcohol to the public, that does 
not provide for economic protectionism. Excessive use of beverages containing 
alcohol has wide ranging deleterious health effects, including death. The 
General Assembly acknowledges that, according to the United States Centers for 
Disease Control, during the period from 2011-2015 an average of 1,679 of this 
state's residents suffered alcohol attributed deaths due to excessive alcohol 
use and the rate of binge drinking in this State is ranked among the highest in 
the nation. The General Assembly acknowledges that, according to the National 
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, this State had two hundred eighty-five 
alcohol impaired driving fatalities in 2019, which accounted for twenty-eight 
percent of the total traffic fatalities in the State. Attributed deaths due to 
alcohol impaired driving in this State is ranked among the highest in the 
nation.

 (E) 
This act has been enacted pursuant to the authority granted to the State by the 
Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the powers 
reserved to the states under the Tenth Amendment to the United States 
Constitution, and the inherent powers of the State under the Constitution of 
the State of South Carolina, 1895, and the statutes promulgated thereunder. It 
is the intent of the General Assembly that this act does all of the following:

 (1) 
further regulate and control transactions in this State as to beverages 
containing alcohol under the control and supervision of the Department of 
Revenue;

 (2) 
strictly regulate transactions involving beverages containing alcohol by 
fostering moderation and responsibility in the use and consumption of beverages 
containing alcohol;

 (3) 
promote and assure the public's interest in fair and efficient distribution and 
quality c