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 sch

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

ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | WEEK 18 Week of May 11, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session Both chambers gaveled out at five on Thursday, May 14, Speaker Murrell Smith in the House and Senate President Thomas Alexander in the Senate, and by every tradition that should have been that. Except it wasn't. By Thursday evening Governor McMaster had signed an executive order calling all 170 members back to Columbia, and Friday morning the Hou

ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | WEEK 9 Week of March 9, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session Let's start with the number that should stop you cold. Fourteen. That is how many bills have been filed this session -- this single legislative session -- seeking to require party registration to vote in a South Carolina partisan primary. Fourteen. Five of them dropped in a single week. Five. In one week. To be fair, some of those fourteen bills have t

ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | WEEK 8 Week of March 2, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session If you wanted one image to capture the range of Week 8 at the South Carolina State House, it might be this: the same building that opened its rotunda to thousands of mourners paying respects to the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Monday closed out Thursday with the House voting to name a highway after Charlie Kirk. That is not a political statement. It is just

Week of February 16, 2026 Let's be honest. If you blinked this week, you missed a lot. Week 6 of the 2026 legislative session was one of those weeks where you had to be in three rooms at once. The Senate was debating generational tax policy on the floor, the House was cranking through a $15.4 billion budget in committee, and in the background, a steady drumbeat of social policy bills kept marching through subcommittees. Welcome to February at the State House! Here's what you

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Greetings from Alpha Strategies! Here’s a recap of the past week’s activity—or lack thereof—at the South Carolina State House:...

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