Category: Regulation

H.4466 would make it illegal, with limited exceptions, for a business to consider an applicant’s credit history or credit report when hiring. An applicant’s’ credit history could convey important information…

H.4430 would require that all movie theaters, sporting arenas, and concert venues install metal detectors. The principal effect of this policy will be to increase costs for the businesses that…

S.957 would prohibit employers from inquiring as to, considering, or requiring the disclosure of the criminal history of an applicant prior to the applicant being selected for an interview or…

S.861 would require pawnbrokers seeking a Certificate of Authority to conduct national criminal background checks for all owners, partners, members, officers, directors, and future employees. Current law requires only the…

H.4325 would require the Public Service Commission (PSC) to adopt regulations that enable and encourage utilities to negotiate with and enter into “provisional and conditional power purchase agreements” with offshore…

With the introduction of S.771, the General Assembly is once again resorting to excessive industry regulation in order to “protect the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents of…

H.3911 would add four years to the period before new license plates must be issued. Currently, new license plates must be provided every six years. This bill would lengthen that…

S.589 creates a music therapy license and a Music Therapy Board, which will serve under the Director of the Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. This bill is simply an…

H.3525 bears many similarities to H.3413 and S.409, two other bills introduced this session to create a regulatory framework for transportation network companies (TNCs), that is, companies that provide personal transportation arranged…

S.559 would require any person desiring to grow hemp in South Carolina apply for and receive a license from the Division of Regulatory and Public Service Programs at the College…

S.556 would amend the Senate rules by adding a new rule requiring that within 60 days of any proposed agency regulation being submitted to the appropriate Senate committee for review…

  More often than not, state regulation – especially licensing laws – has little to do with protecting the public and everything to do with insulating currently entrenched businesses from competition.…

H.3693 would require the Department of Health and Environmental Control (DHEC) to obtain the approval of the Public Utilities Review Committee (PURC) before submitting any plan to regulate South Carolina carbon…

H.3654 would mandate that motor fuel retailers charge the same price to customers who pay for fuel with a debit card as those who pay with cash. Retailers who violate this…

H.3508 is somewhat similar to H.3078 in that it would authorize nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and certified nurse midwives (referred to in the bill as APRNs) to perform certain…

Update: the bill was amended in committee to require a medical diagnosis of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Companion bills S.429 and H.3699 are similar to last session’s H.3147. The bills would add a special exception to…

S.428 would prohibit any individual from working as a manager or server on a premise licensed to sell alcoholic beverages unless that individual obtains a server permit from the Department…

H.3464 would stipulate that a license from the State Board of Barber Examiners is required to operate a barber school in South Carolina. Under current law barber colleges and their…

H.3450 would mandate that no beer, wine, or liquor wholesaler deliver any of these alcoholic beverages to an alcohol retailer until they have been “received unloaded, and stored or warehoused at…

H.3431 would prohibit any political subdivisions of the state (any form of local government) from requiring employers to provide any form of employee benefits. Employee benefits are defined as “anything of…

Companion bills H.3413 and S.409 are an attempt to allow ridesharing companies (Uber and other similar services) to operate legally without having to obtain class c certificates from the public service commission as is…

Companion bills H.3396 and S.16 would amend state law to stipulate that worker’s compensation laws in South Carolina do not apply to any employees for which there is jurisdiction under either the…

H.3375 would prohibit the issuance of an alcohol retail dealer’s license if issuing the license would increase a county’s license ratio past one license per 7,500 residents. The bill would also…

H.3360 would put in a place a moratorium on foreclosures of mortgages secured by residential real estate for a period of 180 days. In other words lending institutions will be…

H.3348 is yet another bill regulating pharmacies filed by pharmacist Kit Spires. The bill would require any pharmacy located outside of South Carolina that engages in the “manufacture, production, sale, distribution,…

H.3183 would apply registration requirements and the same regulations limiting the area a golf cart can be driven to ATVs.

Companion bills S.301 and H.3179 would amend the membership of the South Carolina Board of Accountancy and would implement new continuing education requirements for certain applicants for licensure as Certified Public Accountants.…

 H.3161 is a refiling of a bill from last session that shared the same bill number. Both bills establish a lengthy list of new regulations for “compounding pharmacies”, pharmacies that…

H.3159 is a reintroduction of last session’s H.3151. The bill would require the registration and regulation of pharmacy benefit managers (PBM), defined as an individuals who engage in “the administration…

H.3143 is a refiling of last session’s H.4542. The bill would require any surgery involving the ankle be performed in an accredited hospital or ambulatory surgical center. It would also…