South Carolina Legislation

The Sierra Club Legislative Tracker provides up-to-date information on current bills and proposed rules and regulations under consideration by the South Carolina General Assembly. During the current 2009/10 legislative session this material is updated at least weekly. These pages also provide useful links to legislation, committee lists, legislator emails and the very useful and user friendly statehouse homepage.

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Name		Bill	Issue	Status	Our Position
DHEC Reform		S.384	Other	Referred to the Senate Medical Affairs Committee on 2/3/09	support
	action needed on S.384: Contact members of the Senate Medical Affairs Committee ASAP. Find out more.
Moratorium on Solid Waste Landfills		S. 324	Solid Waste	Assigned to Senate Medical Affairs Committee	support
	action needed on S. 324: The Committee may meet on this bill by mid February. Contacts should be made by that first hearing on this issue. Find out more.
Water Withdrawal Permitting		S.275	Water Quality	January 2009 - Assigned to Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	support
	action needed on S.275: This bill will be debated early in the session. Contacts with the Senate are needed now. Find out more.
Encourage Nuclear Energy and Nuclear Reprocessing Along With Clean and Renewable Energy Sources		S.232	Energy	Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	oppose
	action needed on S.232: Contact members of the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee Find out more.
Offshore Drilling		S.44	Energy	Referred to the Senate Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	oppose
	action needed on S.44: Find out more.
Defines offshore drilling and directs the distribution of lease revenues		H.3194	Energy	Referred to the House Labor, Commerce and Energy Committee	uncertain
	action needed on H.3194: Find out more.
Tax Credits for Renewable Energy Investment		S.10	Energy	Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee	support
	action needed on S.10: Find out more.
Freshwater Turtle Export Control		3121	Wildlife	Has passed the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee and is headed to the House floor on February 21	support
	action needed on 3121: Headed to the House floor on Feb. 21. Find out more.
Operation Empowered		S.8	Energy	Assigned to the Senate Judiciary Committee	oppose
	action needed on S.8: This bill was assigned to a subcommittee on 2/3/09. Contacts need to be made to members of the subcommittee ASAP. Find out more.
Encourage Development and Use of Nuclear Energy		S.220	Energy	Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	oppose
	action needed on S.220: Contact members of the Senate Agriculture Committee Find out more.
Conservation Bank Easement Amendments		H.3008	Land Preservation	Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	oppose
	action needed on H.3008: Tuesday, January 27th Find out more.
Water Resources Planning Act		H.3132	Water Quality	Referred to Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee	no position
	action needed on H.3132: Find out more.

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