Copper Dome Chronicle: June 2025 Meetings and Activities

Jun 6

Welcome to this week’s edition of the Copper Dome Chronicle, sponsored by Advocatus. We strive for substantive writing with brevity, inspired by the book Smart Brevity.

This post will preview the month of June 2025. Any meetings or relevant activities by the General Assembly will be chronicled on this page, which will be updated as needed.

The 2025 regular session of the 126th South Carolina General Assembly adjourned sine die on Thursday, May 8. Thanks for reading and sharing; we welcome your feedback and commentary!

Resources

House Meeting Schedule

Senate Meeting Schedule

2025 Acts

FY26 Budget Review

The budget conference committee report, H.4025 (FY26 General Appropriations Act), was adopted by both chambers on Wednesday, May 28. Governor McMaster issued 11 budget vetoes on June 3 and the new state fiscal year begins July 1. The General Assembly will not return for a special session to consider them, but they will be on the respective chamber calendars in January 2026.

The final total budget figures are:

$39.1B total funds (decrease of $1.1B from FY25)
$13.2B State recurring and nonrecurring funds (general funds, including Capital Reserve Fund of $369.7M) (increase of $800M from FY25)
$13.4B Other recurring and nonrecurring funds (other state funds such as lottery revenues) (decrease of $800M from FY25)
$12.4B Federal funds (formula and grant funds) (decrease of $1.2B from FY25)

2025 Regular Session Statistics

With the conclusion of the budget process, the 2025 regular session has truly concluded its work. Below are some fun statistics about this session.

94 Acts (but 97 ratifications)
80 statewide bills and 14 local bills
49 House bills and 45 Senate bills
3 ratified bills were vetoed and are pending veto override consideration

Legislators with the most enacted legislation

The 5 Act Club

Senate Finance Chair Harvey Peeler
Senate Education Chair Greg Hembree

The 4 Act Club

Senate Fish, Game and Forestry Chair Chip Campsen
House Judiciary Chair Weston Newton
House 3M Chair Sylleste Davis
House Ag Chair Bill Hixon
Representative Cody Mitchell
Overall 43 legislators saw their legislation as a prime sponsor become law in 2025, including first-term Senators Russell Ott and Jeff Zell.

Committees with the most enacted legislation

Senate Judiciary - 25 Acts
House Judiciary - 17 Acts
House LCI and House EPW - 13 Acts
Senate Education - 12 Acts
39 Acts were not referred to a committee in one or both chambers

Committee Schedule

If a livestream link is not provided with a committee meeting that means livestream is not available. Additional meetings may be added during the week and while 24 hours notice is generally given, it is not always possible to provide such notice.

Joint Meetings

None.

Senate Meetings

None.

House Meetings