SC Senate

On this episode of the South Carolina Lede for June 30, 2026: we give you an update on what happened in the statehouse last week when both the Senate and House came back for a day to take up conference committee reports.

South Carolina's Republican-dominated Senate voted 33-8 on Monday to kick the Republican treasurer out of office over a $1.8 billion accounting error.

Former South Carolina Sen. Kay Patterson, who rose from cleaning offices at the segregated Statehouse to serving as a state legislator for over 30 years died Friday. He was 93.

On the eve of his protest hearing, Democrat Gerald Malloy withdrew his protest in the race for Senate District 29. Republican J.D. Chaplin will serve as the district's senator for the upcoming term.

Democrat Gerald Malloy, who looks to retain his Senate seat in District 29, claims irregularities in Lee County's recount following an election loss to Republican J.D. Chaplin

J.D. Chaplin will assume the seat held by state Sen. Gerald Malloy in the next state legislature. Chaplin's victory in a tight race flips a long-held Democratic seat.

Now that Democratic state Sen. Mike Fanning has conceded the District 17 race to Republican Everett Stubbs, only the race for District 29 remains slated for recount.

With margins of less than 1 percent separating two Democratic incumbents from their Republican challengers, the races in SC-17 and SC-29 will go to recount.

The South Carolina Senate has started debating a budget that accelerates a planned income tax cut instead of the House plan to use $500 million to give homeowners a one-time property tax rebate.

Bill aimed at securing South Carolina’s energy future haunted by 2017 V. C. Summer nuclear fiasco.