republic-os/legislation/us/states/sc/2025-2026/h-3163.md

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Bill	Occupational diseases	AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 42-11-30, RELATING TO COMPENSABLE OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES FOR FIREFIGHTERS, SO AS TO INCLUDE STROKES AND TO REVISE PRESUMPTION ENTITLEMENT CRITERIA. - RATIFIED TITLE	us/states/sc	South Carolina General Assembly	2025-2026	H 3163	South Carolina H 3163 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Bauer Guffey Hartnett Kilmartin Lawson M.M. Smith McCravy Montgomery Pope Sanders Spann-Wilder Taylor Teeple W. Newton	6	27	2	2024-12-05	2026-05-26	openstates	ocd-bill/46391542-c8a4-4b98-975f-6e859a6d5542	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3163&session=126&summary=B	ed785b4d7d235f09273ba206ea295a6d6932a1370686116f2218a81031080c28	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sc

South Carolina H 3163 (2025-2026) — Occupational diseases

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 42-11-30, RELATING TO COMPENSABLE OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES FOR FIREFIGHTERS, SO AS TO INCLUDE STROKES AND TO REVISE PRESUMPTION ENTITLEMENT CRITERIA. - RATIFIED TITLE

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. 04/09/2025 (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/2025 (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/10/2025-A (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/29/2026 (committee substitute) — source
6. 12/05/2024 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage of Bill — 103–0 (pass) · lower
• 2nd Reading — 41–3 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bauer — primary (person)
• Guffey — primary (person)
• Hartnett — primary (person)
• Kilmartin — primary (person)
• Lawson — primary (person)
• M.M. Smith — primary (person)
• McCravy — primary (person)
• Montgomery — primary (person)
• Pope — primary (person)
• Sanders — primary (person)
• Spann-Wilder — primary (person)
• Taylor — primary (person)
• Teeple — primary (person)
• W. Newton — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-05 Prefiled filing
• 2024-12-05 Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry referral-committee
• 2025-01-14 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-01-14 Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry referral-committee
• 2025-01-15 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Hartnett, Teeple
• 2025-02-05 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Kilmartin
• 2025-03-27 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Montgomery
• 2025-04-01 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Sanders
• 2025-04-08 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Bauer
• 2025-04-09 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Guffey, Taylor
• 2025-04-09 Committee report: Favorable with amendment Labor, Commerce and Industry committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: W.Newton
• 2025-04-10 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2025-04-10 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-04-10 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-04-10 Roll call Yeas-103 Nays-0
• 2025-04-22 Read third time and sent to Senate passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-23 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-04-23 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-04-29 Committee report: Favorable Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-05-05 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-05-05 Roll call Ayes-41 Nays-3
• 2026-05-06 Read third time and enrolled passage, reading-3
• 2026-05-14 Ratified R 171
• 2026-05-15 Signed By Governor executive-signature
• 2026-05-26 Effective date 05/15/26
• 2026-05-26 Act No. 132

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/46391542-c8a4-4b98-975f-6e859a6d5542. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).