2025 SC Legislative Scorecard

H3944 allows electric battery-powered motor vehicles to exceed normal weight limits by up to 2,000 pounds, without surpassing a total of 82,000 pounds.

The South Carolina State House of Representatives passed H3944 on April 22, 2025 by a vote of 87 to 23. We have assigned pluses to the nays because government should not grant special exemptions based on the type of vehicle one drives. Such favoritism violates the fundamental principle of equal protection under the law. Moreover, this bill advances the leftist, globalist climate agenda by incentivizing electric vehicles in line with the United Nations’ Agenda 2030 climate goals.

H4134 would extend the state’s High Growth Small Business Job Creation Act—also known as the Angel Investor Tax Credit Act—for another ten years, through 2035. It renames the law to the "High Growth Small Business Job Creation Act of 2013 – Angel Investor Tax Credit Act," and keeps in place its provisions.

The South Carolina State House of Representatives passed H4134 on April 22, 2025 by a vote of 90 to 19. We have assigned pluses to the nays because government should not pick winners and losers. This violates the Declaration of Independence’s principle that all men are created equal and the 14th Amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. Rather than engaging in corporate welfare, government should remove burdensome regulations and allow businesses to succeed or fail through the free market.

H3930 prohibits government entities from knowingly keeping registries or records of privately owned firearms or their owners (outside of criminal investigations). It also bans payment card networks and other financial processors from using or encouraging merchant category codes (MCCs) that identify firearm or ammunition retailers in order to track those transactions.

The South Carolina State House of Representatives passed H3930 on April 9, 2025 by a vote of 85 to 10. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because this bill blocks unconstitutional efforts to track lawful firearm purchases through credit-card data. The ISO’s adoption of a merchant category code for gun and ammunition retailers—backed by globalist entities and embraced by federal agencies—paves the way for mass surveillance and a de facto national gun registry. Such tracking violates the First, Second, and Fourth Amendments; chills lawful purchases; and opens the door to illegal searches and eventual confiscation.

H3927 would ban state and local public institutions—including state agencies, public schools, colleges, and universities—from promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. It defines DEI broadly to include offices, units, policies, trainings or programs that give preferences or special treatment based on race, gender, color, ethnicity, national origin, or sexual orientation, except where required by federal or state law. Entities subject to the law would have to certify compliance, file reports of complaints, and could be subject to actions by the attorney general.

The South Carolina State House of Representatives passed H3927 on April 2, 2025 by a vote of 82 to 32. We have assigned pluses to the ayes because DEI programs advance racial and ideological favoritism, undermining the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. Equity-based policies promote Marxist ideas of group privilege rather than individual liberty, fostering division instead of unity. Although this bill unfortunately allows for exceptions (which legislators should eliminate), it takes an important step toward restoring equal treatment, protecting freedom of conscience, and pushing back against the Left’s collectivist agenda.

H3558 establishes a process for selecting, qualifying, and overseeing the state’s delegates to a potential Article V constitutional convention. It provides for seven commissioners and one alternate chosen by the Legislature, sets eligibility requirements (e.g., citizenship, residency, voter status, age, no recent felony or lobbying history), and requires an oath of office. The bill creates a legislative advisory committee to monitor the delegates’ actions, directs that they cannot support amendments infringing on core liberties, and grants them pay and expense allowances similar to legislators.

The South Carolina State House of Representatives passed H3558 on March 5, 2025 by a vote of 76 to 29. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill gives a false sense of security that an Article V convention can be controlled, even though delegates from other states would not be bound by South Carolina’s rules and could propose sweeping changes—including a new constitution, as happened in 1787. Convention of States simulations in 2016 and 2023 produced amendments massively expanding federal power, spending, and control—the very abuses advocates claim they want to stop. A convention today would be a “Trojan horse” for globalists and leftists seeking to dismantle constitutional limits on government. Rather than risking a runaway convention that could permanently alter or destroy constitution, legislators must honor their oath, nullify unconstitutional federal actions, and use Article VI to enforce the Constitution.