republic-os/legislation/us/states/sc/2025-2026/h-4160.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	Judicial seats, circuit court	AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 14-5-610, RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF THE STATE INTO SIXTEEN JUDICIAL CIRCUITS, THE NUMBER OF JUDGES TO BE ELECTED FROM EACH CIRCUIT, AND THE ELECTION OF AT-LARGE JUDGES WITHOUT REGARD TO COUNTY OR CIRCUIT OF RESIDENCE, SO AS TO CONVERT NINE AT-LARGE CIRCUIT COURT SEATS TO RESIDENT SEATS IN THE THIRD, THIRTEENTH, TWELFTH, FIFTH, NINTH, ELEVENTH, AND SEVENTH CIRCUITS. - RATIFIED TITLE	us/states/sc	South Carolina General Assembly	2025-2026	H 4160	South Carolina H 4160 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Bannister C. Mitchell Caskey G.M. Smith Jordan Pope W. Newton Yow	5	20	2	2025-03-06	2025-05-19	openstates	ocd-bill/d2d171fc-baf3-43ae-baa9-f0751ddd2d0e	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=4160&session=126&summary=B	1a71c17bfd4b95de56b2adacfa7c0207cdea67a2a6d832a0d46a3813bfb143c5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sc

South Carolina H 4160 (2025-2026) — Judicial seats, circuit court

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 14-5-610, RELATING TO THE DIVISION OF THE STATE INTO SIXTEEN JUDICIAL CIRCUITS, THE NUMBER OF JUDGES TO BE ELECTED FROM EACH CIRCUIT, AND THE ELECTION OF AT-LARGE JUDGES WITHOUT REGARD TO COUNTY OR CIRCUIT OF RESIDENCE, SO AS TO CONVERT NINE AT-LARGE CIRCUIT COURT SEATS TO RESIDENT SEATS IN THE THIRD, THIRTEENTH, TWELFTH, FIFTH, NINTH, ELEVENTH, AND SEVENTH CIRCUITS. - RATIFIED TITLE

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. 03/06/2025 (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/02/2025 (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/08/2025 (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/29/2025 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 45–0 (pass) · upper
• Passage of Bill — 106–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bannister — primary (person)
• C. Mitchell — primary (person)
• Caskey — primary (person)
• G.M. Smith — primary (person)
• Jordan — primary (person)
• Pope — primary (person)
• W. Newton — primary (person)
• Yow — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-03-06 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-03-06 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Pope
• 2025-04-02 Committee report: Favorable with amendment Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-08 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: C.Mitchell, Yow
• 2025-04-08 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-04-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-04-08 Roll call Yeas-106 Nays-0
• 2025-04-09 Read third time and sent to Senate passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-09 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-09 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-04-29 Committee report: Favorable Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-05-01 Roll call Ayes-24 Nays-14
• 2025-05-06 Read third time and enrolled passage, reading-3
• 2025-05-06 Roll call Ayes-45 Nays-0
• 2025-05-08 Ratified R 76
• 2025-05-12 Signed By Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-19 Effective date 05/12/25
• 2025-05-19 Act No. 50

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2d171fc-baf3-43ae-baa9-f0751ddd2d0e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).