South Carolina House Bill 3868

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6)
Status: Introduced on January 30 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-19 - Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Bauer
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Article 2 To Chapter 31, Title 23 So As To Require National Instant Criminal Background Checks Before Any Sale, Exchange, Or Transfer Of Firearms In This State And To Provide Procedures For The Background Checks; To Require National Instant Criminal Background Checks At Gun Shows And To Provide Procedures For The Background Checks; And To Exempt Records Kept From Disclosure As Public Records Under The Freedom Of Information Act And To Provide A Penalty For Violations Of The Article.

Firearms Criminal Background Checks

Rep. JA Moore [D]	Rep. Hamilton Grant [D]	Rep. Kambrell Garvin [D]	Rep. Tiffany Spann-Wilder [D]
Rep. Michael Rivers [D]	Rep. Heather Bauer [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-19	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Bauer
2025-02-05	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Rivers
2025-01-30	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2025-01-30	House	Introduced and read first time

S0300 (Similar To) 2025-01-30 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3868&session=126&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3868_20250130.htm