South Carolina House Bill 3655

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Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 14 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2026-02-18 - Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Wetmore, B.L.Cox, Holman
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [HTML]

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-19-820, Relating To Out-of-home Placements, So As To Eliminate The Exception For Children To Be Tried As Adults And To Decrease The Length Of Time That A Child May Be Held In A Juvenile Detention Facility; By Amending Section 63-19-1020, Relating To The Institution Of Juvenile Proceedings, So As To Require That The Child And His Family First Seek Counseling In Certain Circumstances; By Amending Section 63-19-1440, Relating To Commitment, So As To Distinguish Between Status And Criminal Offenses And To Change The Requirements For Court Orders; By Amending Section 63-19-1810, Relating To Determinations Of Release, So As To Make Conforming Changes; And By Amending Section 63-19-2050, Relating To Petitions For Expungement Of Official Records, So As To Make Conforming Changes And To Provide For The Automatic Expungement Of A Juvenile's Record For Status Offenses, With Exceptions.

Status Offenses

Rep. Paula Rawl Calhoon [R]	Rep. Beth Bernstein [D]	Rep. Tiffany Spann-Wilder [D]	Rep. Carla Schuessler [R]
Rep. Chandra Dillard [D]	Rep. Elizabeth Wetmore [D]	Rep. Brandon Cox [R]	Rep. Harriet Holman [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-02-18	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Wetmore, B.L.Cox, Holman
2025-04-24	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Dillard
2025-03-05	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Schuessler
2025-02-05		Scrivener's error corrected
2025-01-14	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2025-01-14	House	Introduced and read first time
2024-12-12	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2024-12-12	House	Prefiled

S0016 (Similar To) 2025-01-14 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
63	19	1020	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	19	1440	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	19	1810	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	19	2050	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	19	820	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3655&session=126&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3655_20241212.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3655_20250205.htm