ALPHA STRATEGIES | LEGISLATIVE SESSION UPDATE | WEEK 10 Week of March 16, 2026 | South Carolina General Assembly, 126th Session There is a simple version of Week 10: the House was on furlough, the Senate passed a hemp bill, and candidate filing opened. It is also incomplete. The House stayed home. The Senate did not. A marathon debate over hemp-derived THC products ended with a failed vote late Wednesday, reconsideration Thursday morning, and final passage Thursday afternoon.

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