The 2024 regular session of the South Carolina General Assembly is ending. It will perhaps be better remembered for the things that didn’t pass. South Carolina remains one of just two states along with Wyoming to not have a hate crimes bill. A proposal allowing medical marijuana again made it through the Senate only to die in the House.
From left to right, South Carolina Sen. Margie Bright Matthews, D-Walterboro; Sen. Darrell Jackson, D-Hopkins, Senate Chaplin James St. John; and Sen, Nikki Setzler, D-West Columbia, honor St. John at the end of the 2024 session on Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, left, talks to Rep. Carl Anderson, D-Georgetown, right, on the last day of the regular 2024 session on Thursday, May 9, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina Rep.
Any bills that don’t get through both chambers die Thursday and must be reintroduced in January with the next session. All 170 General Assembly members are up for election, so bills could face a much different legislative environment in 2025.For the second session in a row, the usually more conservative South Carolina House passed a bill allowing enhanced penalties for crimes that prosecutors could prove were fueled by race, gender or sexual orientation.
Supporters of the bill think it would pass the Senate if it got a vote. But a few of the chamber’s most conservative senators have kept the bill bottled up on the Senate calendar. They have said little publicly, but suggest many crimes are caused by hatred, and that it is dangerous to try to divine someone’s thoughts.. In 2022, they brought in major companies to push for the law so South Carolina wasn’t an outlier with Wyoming.
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