republic-os/legislation/us/states/sc/2025-2026/h-3529.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	Family Court Judges, additional	AN ACT TO 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 ONE THE NUMBER OF FAMILY COURT JUDGES IN THE NINTH, ELEVENTH, AND FOURTEENTH CIRCUITS. - RATIFIED TITLE	us/states/sc	South Carolina General Assembly	2025-2026	H 3529	South Carolina H 3529 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Ballentine Bannister C. Mitchell Calhoon Caskey Robbins Spann-Wilder W. Newton Weeks Wooten	5	23	2	2024-12-05	2025-05-07	openstates	ocd-bill/681a8dec-ca14-464a-8ba1-03e046e36653	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3529&session=126&summary=B	257ba50458b6e15616877593a684a6f8697c2c7e95eb02a359ba45e1901f163f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sc

South Carolina H 3529 (2025-2026) — Family Court Judges, additional

AN ACT TO 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 ONE THE NUMBER OF FAMILY COURT JUDGES IN THE NINTH, ELEVENTH, AND FOURTEENTH CIRCUITS. - RATIFIED TITLE

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. 02/06/2025 (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/12/2025 (committee substitute) — source
4. 03/13/2025 (committee substitute) — source
5. 12/05/2024 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage of Bill — 106–0 (pass) · lower
• 2nd Reading — 44–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ballentine — primary (person)
• Bannister — primary (person)
• C. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Calhoon — primary (person)
• Caskey — primary (person)
• Robbins — primary (person)
• Spann-Wilder — primary (person)
• W. Newton — primary (person)
• Weeks — primary (person)
• Wooten — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2024-12-05 Prefiled filing
• 2024-12-05 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-01-14 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-05 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Calhoon, Ballentine
• 2025-02-06 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Robbins, C.Mitchell
• 2025-02-06 Committee report: Favorable Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-12 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Weeks
• 2025-02-12 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-12 Roll call Yeas-106 Nays-0
• 2025-02-13 Read third time and sent to Senate passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-13 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-02-27 Referred to Subcommittee: Elliott (ch), Cash, Tedder, Devine, Fernandez, Kennedy, Walker
• 2025-03-12 Committee report: Favorable Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-13 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2025-03-18 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-03-18 Roll call Ayes-44 Nays-0
• 2025-03-19 Read third time and enrolled passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-24 Ratified R 18
• 2025-04-28 Signed By Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-07 Effective date 04/28/25
• 2025-05-07 Act No. 7

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/681a8dec-ca14-464a-8ba1-03e046e36653. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).