Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 14-1-211.5, Relating To Training And Technical Assistance For Municipalities And Counties Regarding Crime Victim Funds, So As To Change A Reference From The Department Of Crime Victim Assistance Grants To The Department Of Crime Victim Compensation; By Amending Section 16-3-1200, Relating To Compensation Of Crime Victims And Conduct Of A Victim Or Intervenor Contributing To Infliction Of Injury, So As To Update A Reference To The Definition Of "intervenor"; By Amending Section 16-3-1420, Relating To Definitions For Purposes Of The Article On Crime Victim Services Training, Provider Certification, And Statistical Analysis, So As To Remove An Unnecessary Definition Of "witness"; By Amending Section 16-3-1430, Relating To Victim Assistance Services, So As To Remove References To Spouse Abuse And Reference Domestic Violence And Update The Statute To Reflect Victim Services, To Replace Representatives Of The State Office Of Victim Assistance With Representatives Appointed By The Chair Of The Victim Services Coordinating Council, And To Make Other Technical Changes; By Amending Section 16-3-1510, Relating To Definitions For Purposes Of Victim And Witness Services, So As To Revise The Definition Of "criminal Offense"; And By Amending Section 17-25-45, Relating To Life Sentences For Persons Convicted Of Certain Crimes And The List Of "most Serious Offense," So As To Delete An Obsolete Reference.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 16-15-260 So As To Create The Offense Of Unlawful Dissemination Of Sexually Explicit Materials.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 24-3-975 So As To Provide State, County, Or Municipal Jail, Or Detention Facilities Shall Not Intercept, Record, Monitor, Or Divulge Telephonic Communications Between Inmates And Other Persons Under Certain Circumstances.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "election Official Protection Act" By Adding Article 3 To Chapter 25, Title 7 So As To Establish Offenses For Certain Acts Or Conduct Against An Election Official, To Provide Certain Protections For The Personal Information Of Election Officials From Public Dissemination, To Prohibit Unauthorized Access To, Or Tampering With, Components Of Election-related Systems, And To Authorize The Attorney General Or An Election Official To Bring A Civil Action To Prevent Or Restrain Violations Of This Article, Among Other Things; And By Repealing Section 7-13-1920 Relating To Tampering With Voting Machines.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 56-5-4710, Relating To The Use Of Mounted Oscillating, Rotating, Or Flashing Red Lights By Wreckers, So As To Provide Wreckers Must Use Flashing Warning Lights At Emergency Scenes And When Rendering Assistance On The Roadside.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 59-1-460, Relating To Optional Excused School Attendance Policies For Religious Instruction, So As To Mandate That Districts Adopt Policies Authorizing Students Under Their Jurisdiction To Be Excused From School For Religious Instruction, To Allow For The Payment Of Related De Minimis Administrative Costs With Public Funds, And To Revise The Prohibition On Releasing Students From Core Subject Classes To Instead Only Prohibit Their Release From Core Academic Instruction In English, Math, And Science.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 16-1-60, Relating To The Definition Of A Violent Crime, So As To Remove Certain Offenses Involving Controlled Substances; And By Amending Section 24-13-100, Relating To The Definition Of A No Parole Offense, So As To Exclude Certain Offenses Involving Controlled Substances.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 59-63-100, Relating To Private School And Charter School Student Participation In Public School Interscholastic Activities So As To Provide Limited Situations In Which High School Students Who Attend A Private Or Charter School May Participate In High School League Sports Offered At Public High Schools, And To Define Necessary Terms.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "south Carolina Energy Security Act" By Amending Section 58-3-140, Relating To The Public Service Commission's Powers To Regulate Public Utilities, So As To Establish A Schedule For Certain Testimony And Discovery In Contested Proceedings, To Permit Electrical Utility Customers To Address The Commission As Public Witnesses, And To Establish Requirements For An Independent Third-party Consultant Hired By The Commission; By Amending Section 58-3-250, Relating To Service Of Orders And Decisions On Parties, So As To Make A Technical Change; By Amending Section 58-4-10, Relating To The Office Of Regulatory Staff And Its Representation Of Public Interest Before The Commission, So As To Establish Its Considerations For Public Interest; By Adding Section 58-4-150 So As To Require The Office Of Regulatory Staff To Prepare A Comprehensive State Energy Assessment And Action Plan And To Establish Requirements For This Plan; By Adding Section 58-33-195 So As To Encourage Dominion Energy, The Public Service Authority, Duke Energy Carolinas, And Duke Energy Progress To Evaluate Certain Electrical Generation Facilities And Provide For Considerations Related To These Facilities; By Adding Section 58-31-205 So As To Permit The Public Service Authority To Jointly Own One Or More Natural Gas-fired Generation Facilities And Related Transmission Facilities With Dominion Energy South Carolina In Colleton County, And To Provide Requirements For Joint Ownership; By Adding Section 6-29-1220 So As To Establish Requirements For Solar Energy System Plans If A County Does Not Have Related Rural Zoning Or Ordinances For The Development And Operation Of Solar Energy Systems Requiring More Than Thirteen Acres Of Land; By Amending Article 9 Of Chapter 7, Title 13, Relating To The Governor's Nuclear Advisory Council, So As To Establish The Council In The Sc Nexus For Advanced Resilient Energy At The Department Of Commerce, To Provide For Its Duties And Membership, And To Provide For The Council's Director; By Adding Article 24 To Chapter 27, Title 58 So As To Allow Electric Utilities To Request The Public Service Commission Adjust Their Rates Annually, Adjust Utility Rates, Establish The Baseline Rate Order And Requirements For Adjustments In Rates, To Provide Protections For Customers, And To Authorize Additional Positions For The Office Of Regulatory Staff; By Adding Section 58-33-196 So As To Encourage Consideration Of Deployment Of Fusion Energy And Advanced Nuclear Facilities And To Provide Related Requirements; By Adding Section 58-37-70 So As To Permit The Evaluation Of Small Modular Nuclear Facilities In This State And To Establish Requirements; By Adding Article 3 To Chapter 37, Title 58 So As To Provide For State Agency Review Of Energy Infrastructure Project Applications, To Establish Requirements, To Provide A Sunset Provision, And To Designate All Sections Currently In Chapter 37 As Article 1, Entitled "planning For Energy Supply"; By Amending Section 58-40-10, Relating To The Definition Of "customer-generator," So As To Establish Characteristics For A "customer-generator"; By Amending Section 58-41-30, Relating To Voluntary Renewable Energy Programs, So As To Provide Additional Requirements And Considerations For These Programs; By Amending Section 58-41-10, Relating To Definitions, So As To Add The Definition Of "energy Storage Facilities"; By Amending Section 58-41-20, Relating To The Review Of And Approval Proceedings For Electrical Utilities' Avoided Cost Methodologies, Standard Offers, Form Contracts, And Commitment To Sell Forms, So As To Reiterate The Section; By Adding Chapter 42 To Title 58 So As To Establish Competitive Procurement Program Standards For Renewable Energy And Energy Storage, And To Require The Public Service Commission To Open A Docket To Establish A Competitive Procurement Program For Energy Storage Facilities; By Amending Section 58-33-20, Relating To Definitions, So As To Add The Definition "like Facility" And Amend The Definition Of "major Utility Facility," So As To Reiterate The Definition; By Amending Article 3 Of Chapter 33, Title 58, Relating To Certification Of Major Utility Facilities, So As To Provide For A Like Facility, To Establish Requirements And Considerations For Proposed Facilities, To Provide What Actions May Be Taken Without Permission From The Commission, And To Make Technical Changes; By Amending Section 58-37-40, Relating To Integrated Resource Plans, So As To Add Consideration Of A Utility's Transmission Report, To Establish Procedural Requirements And Evaluation By The Commission, And Require Parties To Bear Their Own Costs; By Amending Section 58-3-260, Relating To Communications Between The Commission And Parties, So As To Modify Requirements For Allowable Ex Parte Communications And Briefings, And To Permit Commission Tours Of Utility Plants Or Other Facilities Under Certain Circumstances; By Amending Section 58-3-270, Relating To Ex Parte Communication Complaint Proceedings At The Administrative Law Court, So As To Permit An Order Tolling Any Deadlines On A Proceeding Subject To A Complaint If True To The Extent The Proceeding Was Prejudiced So That The Commission Could Not Consider The Matter Impartially; By Amending Section 58-33-310, Relating To An Appeal From A Final Order Or Decision Of The Commission Issued Pursuant To Chapter 33, Title 58, So As To Establish A Timeline For A Petition For Rehearing Or Reconsideration, And To Require A Final Order Be Immediately Appealable To The South Carolina Supreme Court; By Amending Section 58-33-320, Relating To Judicial Jurisdiction, So As To Reiterate The Section; By Adding Section 58-4-160 So As To Require The Office Of Regulatory Staff To Conduct A Study To Evaluate Various Third-party Administrator Models For Energy Efficiency And Demand-side Management Programs; By Amending Section 58-37-10, Relating To Definitions, So As To Add A Reference To "demand-side Management Program" And Provide Definitions For "cost-effective" And "demand-side Management Pilot Program"; By Amending Section 58-37-20, Relating To Commission Procedures Encouraging Energy Efficiency Programs, So As To Expand Commission Considerations For Cost-effective, Demand-side Management And Energy Efficiency Programs, Require Each Investor-owned Electrical Utility To Submit An Annual Report To The Commission Regarding Its Demand-side Management Programs, And To Require The Commission To Review These Portfolios On At Least A Triennial Basis; By Amending Section 58-37-30, Relating To Reports On Demand-side Activities, So As To Make Technical And Conforming Changes; By Adding Section 58-37-35 So As To Permit Programs And Customer Incentives To Encourage Or Promote Demand-side Management Programs For Customer-sited Distributed Energy Resources, And To Provide Considerations For These Programs; By Amending Section 58-37-50, Relating To Agreements For Energy Efficiency And Conservation Measures, So As To Establish Certain Terms And Rate Recovery For Agreements For Financing And Installing Energy Efficiency And Conservation Measures, And For Application To A Residence Occupied Before The Measures Are Taken; By Amending Section 58-3-70, Relating To Compensation Of Public Service Commission Members, So As To Establish Salaries In Amounts Equal To Ninety Percent Of Supreme Court Associate Justices; By Adding Section 58-41-50 So As To Provide Requirements And Consideration For Co-located Resources Between An Electrical Utility And Its Customer Under Certain Circumstances; To Encourage Development Of A Diverse Mix Of Long-lead, Clean Generation Resources, And To Permit The Public Service Commission To Find Certain Actions In The Public Interest To Permit An Electrical Utility To Capture Available Incentives For Ratepayers; To Permit Deferral Of Certain Reasonable And Prudent Costs For Consideration By The Public Service Commission; By Amending Section 58-40-10, Relating To Definitions, So As To Amend The Definition Of "renewable Energy Resource"; By Adding Chapter 43 To Title 58, So As To Establish Considerations For Electricity Rate And Conditions For Certain Economic Development Projects; By Adding Section 58-37-135 So As To Transfer A Pending Appeal Regarding Energy Infrastructure Permits To The South Carolina Supreme Court; By Amending Section 58-3-530, Relating To The Public Utilities Review Committee's Duties, So As To Require An Annual Review Of The Division Of Consumer Advocacy Related To Its Representation Of Consumers In Utility Matters; By Adding Section 58-3-65 So As To Establish The Public Service Commission's Chief Clerk's Salary Be Based On Recommendations By The Agency Head Salary Commission; By Adding Section 58-33-200 So As To Require The Office Of Regulatory Staff To Retain An Independent Construction Analyst For Any Construction Project Budget Of At Least Five Hundred Million Dollars; To Require A Report By The Office Of Regulatory Staff Regarding The Implementation Of Article 24, Chapter 27, Title 58; To Require Dominion Energy To Evaluate Converting The Wateree Generation Station To Biomass-fired Generation, And To Provide A Report To The General Assembly And The Public Service Commission; And By Amending Section 58-4-50, Relating To Office Of Regulatory Staff Duties, So As To Include Consideration Of Public Service Commission Requirements For Settlement Negotiations. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 12-37-250, Relating To The Homestead Property Tax Exemption Allowed For Persons Who Are Over The Age Of Sixty-five Years, Disabled, Or Legally Blind, So As To Increase The Exemption Amount From The First Fifty Thousand Dollars To The First One Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars Of The Fair Market Value Of The Homestead; And By Repealing Section 12-37-245 Relating To An Obsolete Reference To The Homestead Exemption.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 20-3-630, Relating To Marital And Nonmarital Property, So As To Require Family Court Approval Of Postnuptial Agreements.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 41-1-140 So As To Provide That Any Covenant Not To Compete That A Nonprofit Corporation With An Annual Gross Revenue Exceeding One Billion Dollars Has With Current And Former Employees Is Null, Void, And Unenforceable, And To Provide That No Such Covenant May Be Entered Into With Future Employees.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 27-1-80 So As To Provide That Certain Companies Owned, In Whole Or In Part, By Any United States-declared Foreign Adversary May Not Own, Lease, Possess, Or Exercise Any Control Over Any Real Estate In This State And To Provide That Fraudulent Transactions Are Void.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-3-40, Relating To Family Court Judges Elected From Each Judicial Circuit, So As To Increase By Two The Number Of Family Court Judges In The Eleventh Circuit.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 27-40-120, Relating To The Residential Landlord Tenant Act Exclusions, So As To Exempt Certain Tenancies From The Act; By Adding Section 45-2-65 So As To Provide For Certain Rights For Owners To Demand A Tenant's Removal; By Adding Article 1 To Chapter 37, Title 27 So As To Provide For The Ejectment Of Persons Other Than Tenants; And By Adding Sections 16-11-785, 16-11-790, And 16-11-795 So As To Provide For Certain Penalties.