South Carolina House Bill 4954

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 51-17)
Status: Introduced on January 25 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-03-20 - Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Thayer, Chapman
Pending: House Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Article 27 To Chapter 1, Title 1, So As To Provide For Definitions And To Require Each Entity Responsible For Critical Infrastructure To Install Equipment To Harden Its System And Assets Against An Electromagnetic Pulse Within One Year After The Effective Date Of This Act; To Require Electrical Utilities In This State To Offer A Program To Its Residential Customers Who Choose To Receive Electromagnetic Pulse Protection From The Utility And Provide For A Payment Plan Through The Customer's Monthly Bill; And To Provide For Penalties For Failure To Comply Within Required Deadlines; And To Establish That The General Assembly Must Provide For Funding In The 2024-2025 Appropriations Act To Assist Governmental Entities With Critical Infrastructure To Obtain Electromagnetic Pulse Protection.

Electromagnetic Pulse Protection

Rep. Kathy Landing [R]	Rep. Marvin Smith [R]	Rep. Doug Gilliam [R]	Rep. Tom Hartnett [R]
Rep. Joseph Bustos [R]	Rep. Bill Hager [R]	Rep. Patrick Haddon [R]	Rep. Cody Mitchell [R]
Rep. Gary Brewer [R]	Rep. Robby Robbins [R]	Rep. Timothy McGinnis [R]	Rep. Craig Gagnon [R]
Rep. John Mccravy [R]	Rep. Dennis Moss [R]	Rep. Thomas Brittain [R]	Rep. Heather Crawford [R]
Rep. Val Guest [R]	Rep. Roger Nutt [R]	Rep. David O'Neal [R]	Rep. Brandon Guffey [R]
Rep. Thomas Pope [R]	Rep. Raye Felder [R]	Rep. Jay Kilmartin [R]	Rep. James Burns [R]
Rep. Marvin Pendarvis [D]	Rep. Matthew Leber [R]	Rep. William Chumley [R]	Rep. Josiah Magnuson [R]
Rep. Stewart Jones [R]	Rep. Adam Morgan [R]	Rep. Bruce Bannister [R]	Rep. Jeffrey Johnson [R]
Rep. Rob Harris [R]	Rep. Joe White [R]	Rep. Mark Willis [R]	Rep. Kevin Hardee [R]
Rep. Robert Williams [D]	Rep. Kambrell Garvin [D]	Rep. JA Moore [D]	Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter [D]
Rep. Jordan Pace [R]	Rep. Leonidas Stavrinakis [D]	Rep. Bart Blackwell [R]	Rep. Donald McCabe [R]
Rep. Daniel Gibson [R]	Rep. Elizabeth Wetmore [D]	Rep. Chandra Dillard [D]	Rep. Michael Rivers [D]
Rep. Joseph Jefferson [D]	Rep. Fawn Pedalino [R]	Rep. Steven Long [R]	Rep. Melissa Oremus [R]
Rep. Ashley Trantham [R]	Rep. Jackie Hayes [D]	Rep. Wendell Jones [D]	Rep. Alan Morgan [R]
Rep. Bobby Cox [R]	Rep. David Weeks [D]	Rep. William Wheeler [D]	Rep. Heath Sessions [R]
Rep. April Cromer [R]	Rep. David Vaughan [R]	Rep. Jermaine Johnson [D]	Rep. Thomas Beach [R]
Rep. Roger Kirby [D]	Rep. Carl Anderson [D]	Rep. Anne Thayer [R]	Rep. Don Chapman [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-03-20	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Thayer, Chapman
2024-03-13	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Kirby, Anderson
2024-03-07	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Cromer, Vaughan, J.L.Johnson, Beach
2024-03-06	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: W.Jones, T.A.Morgan, B.J.Cox, Weeks, Wheeler, Sessions
2024-02-28	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Oremus, Trantham, Hayes
2024-02-15	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: McCabe, Gibson, Wetmore, Dillard, Rivers, Jefferson, Pedalino, Long
2024-02-15	House	Member(s) request name removed as sponsor: Hiott, Forrest, Hixon
2024-02-14	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Bannister, J.E.Johnson, Harris, White, Willis, Hardee, Williams, Garvin, J.Moore, Cobb-Hunter, Pace, Stavrinakis, Blackwell, Hixon, Hiott, Forrest
2024-02-13	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Pope, Felder, Kilmartin, Burns, Pendarvis, Leber, Chumley, Magnuson, S.Jones, A.M.Morgan
2024-02-06	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Haddon, Mitchell, Brewer, Robbins, McGinnis, Gagnon, McCravy, Moss, Brittain, Crawford, Guest, Nutt, O'Neal, Guffey
2024-01-30	House	Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Hager
2024-01-25	House	Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry
2024-01-25	House	Introduced and read first time

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=4954&session=125&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/prever/4954_20240125.htm
Supplement	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/fiscalimpactstatements/H4954%202024-01-25%20introduced.pdf