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| Bill | Vaccine mandates | AN ACT TO DECLARE THAT THE PRACTICE OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON VACCINATION STATUS IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE IDEALS OF SOUTH CAROLINA; TO PROVIDE THAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BELIEVES THAT A FEDERAL VACCINE MANDATE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL; TO PROVIDE THAT THE STATE OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION MAY NOT ENACT A COVID-19 VACCINATION MANDATE; TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 8-15-80 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT NEITHER THE STATE NOR ANY OF ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS MAY TERMINATE OR SUSPEND A FIRST RESPONDER BASED ON HIS VACCINATION STATUS; TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS; TO PROVIDE THAT NOTHING IN THIS ACT SHALL PREVENT AN EMPLOYER FROM ENCOURAGING OR ADMINISTERING VACCINES; TO PROVIDE RESTRICTIONS FOR A PRIVATE EMPLOYER'S VACCINE MANDATE; TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN VACCINE EXEMPTIONS MUST BE HONORED; TO PROVIDE THAT NO PERSON MAY BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BASED ON VACCINATION STATUS; AND TO REENACT ACT 99 OF 2021 RELATING TO SOUTH CAROLINA COVID-19 LIABILITY SAFE HARBOR. - ratified title | us/states/sc | South Carolina General Assembly | 2021-2022 | H 3126 | South Carolina H 3126 (2021-2022) |
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South Carolina H 3126 (2021-2022) — Vaccine mandates
AN ACT TO DECLARE THAT THE PRACTICE OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON VACCINATION STATUS IS IN CONFLICT WITH THE IDEALS OF SOUTH CAROLINA; TO PROVIDE THAT THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BELIEVES THAT A FEDERAL VACCINE MANDATE IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL; TO PROVIDE THAT THE STATE OR ANY POLITICAL SUBDIVISION MAY NOT ENACT A COVID-19 VACCINATION MANDATE; TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 8-15-80 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT NEITHER THE STATE NOR ANY OF ITS POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS MAY TERMINATE OR SUSPEND A FIRST RESPONDER BASED ON HIS VACCINATION STATUS; TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS; TO PROVIDE THAT NOTHING IN THIS ACT SHALL PREVENT AN EMPLOYER FROM ENCOURAGING OR ADMINISTERING VACCINES; TO PROVIDE RESTRICTIONS FOR A PRIVATE EMPLOYER'S VACCINE MANDATE; TO PROVIDE THAT CERTAIN VACCINE EXEMPTIONS MUST BE HONORED; TO PROVIDE THAT NO PERSON MAY BE DISCRIMINATED AGAINST BASED ON VACCINATION STATUS; AND TO REENACT ACT 99 OF 2021 RELATING TO SOUTH CAROLINA COVID-19 LIABILITY SAFE HARBOR. - ratified title
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Filed (filed) — source
- 12/9/2020 (committee substitute) — source
- 12/9/2021 (committee substitute) — source
- 12/9/2021-A (committee substitute) — source
- 3/1/2022 (committee substitute) — source
- 3/17/2022 (committee substitute) — source
- 3/2/2022 (committee substitute) — source
- 4/5/2022 (committee substitute) — source
- 4/6/2022 (committee substitute) — source
- 4/6/2022-A (committee substitute) — source
- 4/7/2022 (committee substitute) — source
- 4/7/2022-A (committee substitute) — source
- 4/8/2022 (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- to lay on the table — 24–16 (pass) · upper
- Divide the Question — 35–66 (fail) · lower
- Table Amendment 5 — 68–29 (pass) · lower
- Table Amendment 6 — 71–26 (pass) · lower
- Table Amendment 1 — 35–65 (fail) · lower
- Table Amendment 4 — 68–30 (pass) · lower
- Recede — 20–80 (fail) · lower
- 3rd Reading — 29–12 (pass) · upper
- Table Amendment 3 — 62–39 (pass) · lower
- Concur in Senate Amendments — 76–34 (pass) · lower
- Table Motion to Commit to Judiciary — 66–33 (pass) · lower
- Adopt Amendment 16 — 68–28 (pass) · lower
- Cloture — 68–34 (pass) · lower
- Table Amendment 11 — 71–26 (pass) · lower
- Passage of Bill — 60–25 (pass) · lower
- to adopt — 26–14 (pass) · upper
- Table Amendment 12 — 73–25 (pass) · lower
- Passage of Bill — 67–31 (pass) · lower
- Table Amendment 10 — 66–33 (pass) · lower
- Table Amendment 9 — 74–26 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- Allison — primary (person)
- B. Cox — primary (person)
- Ballentine — primary (person)
- Bennett — primary (person)
- Burns — primary (person)
- Bustos — primary (person)
- Chumley — primary (person)
- Davis — primary (person)
- Elliott — primary (person)
- Forrest — primary (person)
- Fry — primary (person)
- Haddon — primary (person)
- Hill — primary (person)
- Hixon — primary (person)
- Huggins — primary (person)
- Jones — primary (person)
- Kimmons — primary (person)
- Long — primary (person)
- M.M. Smith — primary (person)
- Magnuson — primary (person)
- McCabe — primary (person)
- McCravy — primary (person)
- Morgan — primary (person)
- Murphy — primary (person)
- Nutt — primary (person)
- Oremus — primary (person)
- Stringer — primary (person)
- T. Moore — primary (person)
- Taylor — primary (person)
- Thayer — primary (person)
- Trantham — primary (person)
- V.S. Moss — primary (person)
- Willis — primary (person)
- Wooten — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2020-12-09 Prefiled
filing - 2020-12-09 Referred to Committee on Ways and Means
referral-committee - 2021-01-12 Introduced and read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2021-01-12 Referred to Committee on Ways and Means
referral-committee - 2021-01-27 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Hill
- 2021-12-06 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: M.M.Smith, Huggins, Wooten, Ballentine, Bustos, B.Cox, Elliott, Trantham, Willis, Nutt, Morgan, McCravy, Thayer, Dillard, V.S.Moss, Stringer, T.Moore, Allison, Hixon, Bennett
- 2021-12-09 Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Dillard
- 2021-12-09 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Fry
- 2021-12-09 Committee report: Favorable with amendment Ways and Means
committee-passage-favorable - 2021-12-09 Special order, set for immediately upon adoption of H. 4493
- 2021-12-09 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Kimmons, Davis, Murphy
- 2021-12-09 Amended
amendment-passage - 2021-12-09 Read second time
reading-2 - 2021-12-09 Roll call Yeas-67 Nays-31
- 2021-12-10 Read third time and sent to Senate
passage, reading-3 - 2021-12-10 Roll call Yeas-60 Nays-25
- 2022-01-11 Introduced and read first time
introduction, reading-1 - 2022-01-11 Referred to Committee on Finance
referral-committee - 2022-03-01 Committee report: Favorable with amendment Finance
committee-passage-favorable - 2022-03-02 Scrivener's error corrected
- 2022-03-17 Scrivener's error corrected
- 2022-04-05 Special order, set for April 5, 2022
- 2022-04-05 Amended
amendment-passage - 2022-04-05 Read second time
reading-2 - 2022-04-06 Scrivener's error corrected
- 2022-04-06 Amended
amendment-passage - 2022-04-06 Committee Amendment Withdrawn
- 2022-04-06 Read third time and returned to House with amendments
passage, reading-3 - 2022-04-06 Roll call Ayes-29 Nays-12
- 2022-04-07 Scrivener's error corrected
- 2022-04-08 Scrivener's error corrected
- 2022-04-20 Concurred in Senate amendment and enrolled
- 2022-04-20 Roll call Yeas-76 Nays-34
- 2022-04-21 Ratified R 156
- 2022-04-25 Signed By Governor
executive-signature - 2022-05-02 Effective date 04/25/22
- 2022-05-02 Act No. 142
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1471c6e6-1c25-4762-8812-a7482952dd4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).