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 17 Week of May 4, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session Just days from Sine Die, the General Assembly was supposed to be cleaning up the budget, the roads bill, and hemp. Instead, week 17 turned the back half of session into a fight over whether South Carolina is going to redraw its congressional map. On top of that, S. 508 (monument and memorial protection), effectively an expansion of the Heritage Act, rec