republic-os/legislation/us/states/sc/2025-2026/h-4720.md

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Bill	Pretrial Intervention Program eligibility	AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTIONS 17-22-50 AND 17-22-60, BOTH RELATING TO PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY, BOTH SO AS TO PROVIDE A PERSON MAY PARTICIPATE IN A PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM IF TWENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE DATE OF SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM BY THE PERSON, RATHER THAN LIMITING ELIGIBILITY OF PARTICIPATION TO ONLY ONCE. - RATIFIED TITLE	us/states/sc	South Carolina General Assembly	2025-2026	H 4720	South Carolina H 4720 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	C. Mitchell McCravy Reese Rivers Rose Yow	6	22	1	2025-12-16	2026-06-05	openstates	ocd-bill/91acfa67-5212-4bdb-b545-0db7dec16838	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=4720&session=126&summary=B	2c9166080d640767a788c2864d1384687b3c77c2b7ec0d83687fb7835ea8e20e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sc

South Carolina H 4720 (2025-2026) — Pretrial Intervention Program eligibility

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTIONS 17-22-50 AND 17-22-60, BOTH RELATING TO PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM ELIGIBILITY, BOTH SO AS TO PROVIDE A PERSON MAY PARTICIPATE IN A PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM IF TWENTY YEARS HAVE PASSED SINCE THE DATE OF SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION OF A PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM BY THE PERSON, RATHER THAN LIMITING ELIGIBILITY OF PARTICIPATION TO ONLY ONCE. - RATIFIED TITLE

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. 01/29/2026 (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/30/2026 (committee substitute) — source
4. 02/03/2026 (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/09/2026 (committee substitute) — source
6. 12/17/2025 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2nd Reading — 43–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• C. Mitchell — primary (person)
• McCravy — primary (person)
• Reese — primary (person)
• Rivers — primary (person)
• Rose — primary (person)
• Yow — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-12-16 Prefiled filing
• 2025-12-16 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-01-13 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2026-01-13 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-01-28 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: C.Mitchell, Yow
• 2026-01-29 Committee report: Favorable Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-01-30 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2026-02-03 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Reese, Rivers
• 2026-02-03 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-02-03 Roll call Yeas-xxx Nays-xxx
• 2026-02-03 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2026-02-04 Read third time and sent to Senate passage, reading-3
• 2026-02-04 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2026-02-04 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2026-04-09 Committee report: Favorable Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2026-04-29 Read second time reading-2
• 2026-04-29 Roll call Ayes-43 Nays-0
• 2026-04-30 Read third time and enrolled passage, reading-3
• 2026-05-14 Ratified R 199
• 2026-05-19 Signed By Governor executive-signature
• 2026-06-05 Effective date 05/19/26
• 2026-06-03 Act No. 216

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/91acfa67-5212-4bdb-b545-0db7dec16838. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).