republic-os/legislation/us/states/sc/2025-2026/s-74.md

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Bill	Electronic Records	AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION 17-13-142 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO ISSUE ORDERS AND WARRANTS FOR CERTAIN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO ISSUE A SUBPOENA FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CERTAIN STORED SUBSCRIBER OR CUSTOMER INFORMATION RELEVANT AND MATERIAL TO AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION BY THE INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN TASK FORCE. - RATIFIED TITLE	us/states/sc	South Carolina General Assembly	2025-2026	S 74	South Carolina S 74 (2025-2026)	bill		enacted	Climer Elliott Garrett Graham Hembree Kennedy Kimbrell Leber Ott Zell	9	29	5	2024-12-11	2025-05-27	openstates	ocd-bill/fb33b8b0-4be6-40e4-acc3-f618586708a5	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=74&session=126&summary=B	9eac3de23d07865dd4c8ce4620a2208c38ec1b3aa1ad69ac0662da6ed08ffb8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sc

South Carolina S 74 (2025-2026) — Electronic Records

AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION 17-13-142 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO ISSUE ORDERS AND WARRANTS FOR CERTAIN ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE ATTORNEY GENERAL TO ISSUE A SUBPOENA FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CERTAIN STORED SUBSCRIBER OR CUSTOMER INFORMATION RELEVANT AND MATERIAL TO AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION BY THE INTERNET CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN TASK FORCE. - RATIFIED TITLE

Version chain

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

1. Filed (filed) — source
2. 01/27/2025 (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/27/2025-A (committee substitute) — source
4. 02/05/2025 (committee substitute) — source
5. 03/20/2025 (committee substitute) — source
6. 04/23/2025 (committee substitute) — source
7. 04/24/2025 (committee substitute) — source
8. 05/06/2025 (committee substitute) — source
9. 12/11/2024 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• 2nd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Concur in Senate Amendments — 108–0 (pass) · lower
• Table Amendment 4 — 36–63 (fail) · lower
• Passage of Bill — 105–0 (pass) · lower
• to adopt amendment — 45–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Climer — primary (person)
• Elliott — primary (person)
• Garrett — primary (person)
• Graham — primary (person)
• Hembree — primary (person)
• Kennedy — primary (person)
• Kimbrell — primary (person)
• Leber — primary (person)
• Ott — primary (person)
• Zell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-12-11 Prefiled filing
• 2024-12-11 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 Committee report: Favorable Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-02-11 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-02-11 Roll call Ayes-40 Nays-0
• 2025-02-12 Read third time and sent to House passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-13 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-13 Referred to Committee on Judiciary referral-committee
• 2025-03-20 Committee report: Favorable with amendment Judiciary committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-03-26 Requests for debate-Rep(s). B Newton, Jordan, Ligon, BL Cox, Martin, Gibson, Lawson, Guffey, Holman, Guest, Mitchell
• 2025-03-27 Debate adjourned
• 2025-04-09 Debate adjourned until Thur., 4-10-25
• 2025-04-10 Debate adjourned
• 2025-04-23 Amended amendment-passage
• 2025-04-23 Read second time reading-2
• 2025-04-23 Roll call Yeas-105 Nays-0
• 2025-04-24 Read third time and returned to Senate with amendments passage, reading-3
• 2025-04-24 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2025-05-06 House amendment amended amendment-amendment
• 2025-05-06 Returned to House with amendments
• 2025-05-06 Roll call Ayes-45 Nays-0
• 2025-05-08 Concurred in Senate amendment and enrolled
• 2025-05-08 Roll call Yeas-108 Nays-0
• 2025-05-20 Ratified R 84
• 2025-05-22 Signed By Governor executive-signature
• 2025-05-27 Effective date 05/22/25
• 2025-05-27 Act No. 59

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fb33b8b0-4be6-40e4-acc3-f618586708a5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).