*** I will once again share the Floor Actions each week of the SC House of Representatives. This summary is prepared by staff. Should you have any questions about my votes on these bills, or would like additional information, please contact my office at (803) 734-2969. **
S. 136 – veto override
The House voted unanimously this week to override the Governor’s veto of S. 136 [R. 86] regarding the expungement of one unlawful gun possession conviction for any-one convicted of this offense prior to the enactment of the South Carolina Constitu-tional Carry/Second Amendment Act of 2024. This legislation now becomes law; the Governor’s veto having been overridden by both the House and the Senate.
H. 3431 – Limiting Minors’ Ability to be Social Media Account Holders
The House also wholly amended Senate amendments to H. 3431 Limiting Minors’ Ability to be Social Media Account Holders and returned this completely amended legislation to the Senate for further deliberations. These House amendments include ex-panding the extent of parental controls and oversight over their minors’ use of these ac-counts, removing requirements for English literacy determinations of account holders, and, most importantly, updating the definitions and the language in previous versions for determining what constitutes age-appropriate designs by these social media compa-nies. Among other things, these updated age-appropriate design definitions and no-menclature include more current terms of art for these operations and limiting these companies’ use of minors’ personal information for specific purposes. Once these pur-poses are finished, this information will have to be deleted.
H. 4902 – Name, Image, and Likeness
H. 4902 was given 2nd reading and ordered to third reading on January 15th. H. 4902 relates to an exemption of an intercollegiate athlete’s Name, Image, and Likeness com-pensation contract documentation maintained by public institutions of higher learning from public disclosure under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.
H. 3115 – recommitted
H. 3115, a bill relating to fees charged for copies of birth certificates, so as to waive the fees for homeless persons was recommitted to the Committee on Ways and Means.