ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | SPECIAL SESSION Week ending June 26, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session The General Assembly spent its overtime week in Columbia cleaning up unfinished business, and the cleanup cut both ways. Lawmakers overrode three of Governor Henry McMaster's vetoes, cleared a group of long-pending bills for enrollment, and watched two of the year's highest-profile fights collapse: DUI reform and hemp regulation. And the budget still is...

ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | SECOND REGULAR SESSION RECAP January 13 to May 26, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session The 2026 session will be remembered for two things that rarely share a sentence. It produced some of the most far-reaching structural policy in years, and it could not figure out how to stop. Lawmakers restructured the income tax, abolished the SCDOT Commission, expanded the Heritage Act, and rewrote the rules for charter schools and social...

ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | WEEK 19 Week of May 18, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session Last week ended with the Governor’s special session order, a failed sine die resolution, Senate Majority Leader Shane Massey’s floor speech, and H. 5683 teed up for serious floor action. This week was that floor action. The House moved the bill from renewed floor debate to third reading in three legislative days. The Senate worked the bill across three days:...