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Bill	Educational Scholarship Trust Fund	AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING CHAPTER 8 TO TITLE 59 SO AS TO THE ESTABLISH THE "EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND PROGRAM", TO DEFINE NECESSARY TERMS, TO PROVIDE REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS SEEKING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM, TO PROVIDE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND OVERSIGHT OF THE PROGRAM, TO ESTABLISH AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF AN EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND CONSISTING OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO PROVIDE THESE SCHOLARSHIPS, TO PROVIDE LIMITATIONS ON THE NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS THAT MAY BE AWARDED, TO PROVIDE MEASURES FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS, TO ESTABLISH A REVIEW PANEL AND PROVIDE FOR ITS COMPOSITION AND PURPOSES, AND TO CLARIFY STUDENT TRANSFER REQUIREMENTS, AMONG OTHER THINGS. - RATIFIED TITLE	us/states/sc	South Carolina General Assembly	2023-2024	S 39	South Carolina S 39 (2023-2024)	bill		enacted	Grooms	12	36	37	2022-11-30	2023-05-05	openstates	ocd-bill/80292f0a-2b7c-4a59-9378-3a4275f20ae4	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=39&session=125&summary=B	9bab0a55fb7f9cf431edf3530e29d2e276bb8baf9c8bfebb2e892cc3010ee198	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sc

South Carolina S 39 (2023-2024) — Educational Scholarship Trust Fund

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING CHAPTER 8 TO TITLE 59 SO AS TO THE ESTABLISH THE "EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND PROGRAM", TO DEFINE NECESSARY TERMS, TO PROVIDE REQUIREMENTS FOR STUDENTS AND SCHOOLS SEEKING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PROGRAM, TO PROVIDE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE ADMINISTRATION AND OVERSIGHT OF THE PROGRAM, TO ESTABLISH AND PROVIDE FOR THE ADMINISTRATION OF AN EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP TRUST FUND CONSISTING OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED TO PROVIDE THESE SCHOLARSHIPS, TO PROVIDE LIMITATIONS ON THE NUMBER OF SCHOLARSHIPS THAT MAY BE AWARDED, TO PROVIDE MEASURES FOR EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS, TO ESTABLISH A REVIEW PANEL AND PROVIDE FOR ITS COMPOSITION AND PURPOSES, AND TO CLARIFY STUDENT TRANSFER REQUIREMENTS, AMONG OTHER THINGS. - RATIFIED TITLE

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. 1/18/2023 (committee substitute) — source
3. 1/25/2023 (committee substitute) — source
4. 1/26/2023 (committee substitute) — source
5. 1/26/2023-A (committee substitute) — source
6. 1/31/2023 (committee substitute) — source
7. 1/31/2023-A (committee substitute) — source
8. 11/30/2022 (committee substitute) — source
9. 2/1/2023 (committee substitute) — source
10. 2/1/2023-A (committee substitute) — source
11. 4/12/2023 (committee substitute) — source
12. 4/6/2023 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Table Amendment 16 — 80–31 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 9 — 78–27 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 5 — 73–29 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 18 — 80–26 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 12 — 79–31 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 3 — 79–27 (pass) · lower
• Passage of Bill — 74–36 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 22 — 77–30 (pass) · lower
• to lay on the table the motion to carry over S. 39 — 14–29 (fail) · upper
• Table Amendment 2 — 76–26 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 6 — 74–29 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 13 — 78–28 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 17 — 78–27 (pass) · lower
• to adopt — 18–25 (fail) · upper
• Table Amendment 7 — 82–29 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 25 — 79–32 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 24 — 81–31 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 21 — 79–25 (pass) · lower
• Passage of Bill — 79–35 (pass) · lower
• to lay on the table — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• to adopt — 28–15 (pass) · upper
• to adopt — 16–27 (fail) · upper
• Table Amendment 14 — 78–25 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 26 — 77–30 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 15 — 77–32 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 4 — 75–27 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 19 — 76–30 (pass) · lower
• to adopt — 21–20 (pass) · upper
• Table Amendment 20 — 79–29 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 8 — 80–28 (pass) · lower
• to lay on the table — 29–12 (pass) · upper
• to lay on the table — 29–13 (pass) · upper
• 2nd Reading — 28–15 (pass) · upper
• to lay on the table — 24–14 (pass) · upper
• to adopt — 24–18 (pass) · upper
• to adopt — 28–14 (pass) · upper
• to carry over — 39–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Grooms — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-11-30 Prefiled filing
• 2022-11-30 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2023-01-10 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2023-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education referral-committee
• 2023-01-12 Committee report: Favorable with amendment Education committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-01-13 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2023-01-17 Debate interrupted
• 2023-01-18 Committee Amendment Adopted amendment-passage
• 2023-01-18 Amended amendment-passage
• 2023-01-18 Debate interrupted
• 2023-01-19 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2023-01-19 Debate interrupted
• 2023-01-24 Debate interrupted
• 2023-01-25 Amended amendment-passage
• 2023-01-25 Debate interrupted
• 2023-01-26 Amended amendment-passage
• 2023-01-26 Debate interrupted
• 2023-01-27 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2023-01-31 Amended amendment-passage
• 2023-01-31 Read second time reading-2
• 2023-01-31 Roll call Ayes-28 Nays-15
• 2023-02-01 Read third time and sent to House passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-01 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2023-02-02 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-02 Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works referral-committee
• 2023-04-06 Committee report: Favorable Education and Public Works committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-12 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2023-04-18 Requests for debate-Rep(s). Hiott, Forrest, Carter, B Newton, Harris, Magnuson, Guest, Brittain, Pace, Beach, Taylor, Cobb-Hunter, King, McDaniel, Rivers, Anderson, Robbins, Bauer, Garvin, Whitmire, Brewer, Dilliard, May, Cromer, Ballentine, Wetmore, Weeks, J Moore
• 2023-04-26 Read second time reading-2
• 2023-04-26 Roll call Yeas-79 Nays-35
• 2023-04-27 Read third time and enrolled passage, reading-3
• 2023-04-27 Roll call Yeas-74 Nays-36
• 2023-05-02 Ratified R 16
• 2023-05-04 Signed By Governor executive-signature
• 2023-05-05 Effective date 06/03/23
• 2023-05-05 Act No. 8

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80292f0a-2b7c-4a59-9378-3a4275f20ae4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).