South Carolina House of Representatives
South Carolina House of Representatives | |
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South Carolina General Assembly | |
![]() Seal of the South Carolina House of Representatives | |
Type | |
Type | Lower House |
Term limits | None |
History | |
New session started | January 12, 2021 |
Leadership | |
Murrell Smith (R) since May 12, 2022 | |
Speaker pro tempore | Tommy Pope (R) since December 2, 2014 |
Majority Leader | Davey Hiott (R) since May 12, 2022 |
Minority Leader | J. Todd Rutherford (D) since January 8, 2013 |
Structure | |
Seats | 124 |
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Political groups | Majority
Minority
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Length of term | 2 years |
Authority | Article III, South Carolina Constitution |
Salary | $10,400/year + per diem |
Elections | |
Last election | November 8, 2022 (124 seats) |
Next election | November 5, 2024 (124 seats) |
Redistricting | Legislative Control |
Meeting place | |
House of Representatives Chamber South Carolina State House Columbia, South Carolina | |
Website | |
South Carolina House of Representatives | |
Rules | |
Rules of the South Carolina House of Representatives |
The South Carolina House of Representatives is the lower house of the South Carolina General Assembly. It consists of 124 representatives elected to two-year terms at the same time as U.S. congressional elections.
Unlike many legislatures, seating on the floor is not divided by party, but is arranged by county delegation – a legacy of the original apportionment of the chamber. Until 1964, each of South Carolina's counties was a legislative district, with the number of representatives determined by the county's population. It meets from the second week of January into May.
History
In Colonial times, there was a Commons House of Assembly.[1]
Qualifications and terms
Representatives are considered part-time citizen legislators who serve two-year terms. Representatives are elected at-large by their district, and there are no term limits.[2] Representatives must be 21 years of age before they are eligible to become a representative.[3]
Composition
Affiliation | Party (Shading indicates majority caucus) | Total | ||
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Republican | Democratic | Vacant | ||
Beginning of 2023-25 Session[a] | 88 | 36 | 124 | 0 |
Expected voting share | 71% | 29% |
Leadership
South Carolina House of Representatives officers | ||
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Position | Name | Party |
Speaker | Murrell Smith | Republican |
Majority Leader | Davey Hiott | Republican |
Minority Leader | Todd Rutherford | Democratic |
Current members
- *Member was originally elected in a special election
Standing Committees
Committee | Chair | [5] | |
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Subcommittee | |||
Agriculture, Natural Resources & Environmental Affairs | Bill Hixon (R-83) | ||
Agriculture | Bill Chumley (R-35) | ||
Environmental Affairs | Mike Burns (R-17) | ||
Wildlife | Cal Forrest (R-39) | ||
Education and Public Works | Shannon Erickson (R-124) | ||
K-12 | Jeff Bradley (R-123) | ||
Higher Education | Tim McGinnis (R-56) | ||
Early Childhood | Stewart Jones (R-14) | ||
Public Safety | Paula Rawl Calhoon (R-87) | ||
Transportation | Adam Morgan (R-20) | ||
Motor Vehicles | Doug Gilliam (R-14) | ||
Ethics | Jay Jordan (R-63) | ||
Interstate Cooperation | Mark N. Willis (R-16) | ||
Invitations and Memorial Resolutions | Dennis Moss (R-29) | ||
Judiciary | Weston J. Newton (R-45) | ||
Constitutional Laws | Jay Jordan (R-63) | ||
Criminal Laws | Jeff Johnson (R-58) | ||
General Laws | Jason Elliott (R-22) | ||
Family, Business, and Probate Law | Beth Bernstein (D-78) | ||
Special Laws | John R. McCravy III (R-13) | ||
Labor, Commerce and Industry | Bill Sandifer III (R-2) | ||
Banking And Consumer Affairs | Joseph H. Jefferson (D-63) | ||
Real Estate | Anne Thayer (R-9) | ||
Public Utilities | Jay West (R-7) | ||
Insurance | Kevin Hardee (R-105) | ||
Administration and Regulations | Carl Anderson (D-103) | ||
Legislative Oversight | Jeff Johnson (R-58) | ||
Economic Development, Transportation, and Natural Resources | Travis Moore (R-33) | ||
Education and Cultural Affairs | Tim McGinnis (R-56) | ||
Healthcare and Regulatory | Joseph H. Jefferson (D-102) | ||
Law Enforcement, Criminal and Civil Justice | Chris Wooten (R-69) | ||
Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs | Sylleste Davis (R-100) | ||
Medical and Health Affairs | Marvin Smith (R-99) | ||
Military and Veterans Affairs | Bobby Cox (R-21) | ||
Municipal and Public Affairs | Joe Bustos (R-112) | ||
Operations and Management | Patrick Haddon (R-19) | ||
Regulations and Administration Procedures | Jeff Bradley (R-123) | ||
Business, Commerce, and Administration | Terry Alexander (D-59) | ||
Education and Public Works | Max Hyde (R-32) | ||
Environment and Natural Resources | Mike Burns (R-17) | ||
Health and Healthcare Industries | Carl Anderson (R-103) | ||
Rules | Anne Thayer (R-9) | ||
Ways and Means | Bruce W. Bannister (R-24) | ||
Constitutional Budget | Chris Murphy (R-98) | ||
High Education Budget | Nathan Ballentine (R-71) | ||
Public Education Budget | Bill Whitmire (R-1) | ||
Business, Commerce, and Administration Budget | Bill Herbkersman (R-118) | ||
Economic Development Budget | Leon Stavrinakis (D-119) | ||
Criminal Justice Budget | Phillip Lowe (R-60) | ||
Transportation and Regulatory Budget | Heather Ammons Crawford (R-68) | ||
Proviso Budget | Dennis Moss (R-29) | ||
Economic Development Legislative | Micah Caskey (R-89) | ||
General Government Legislative | Gilda Cobb-Hunter (D-95) | ||
License, Fee and Other Taxes Legislative | Todd Rutherford (D-74) | ||
Property Tax Legislative | Lee Hewitt (R-108) | ||
Sales & Use Tax and Income Tax Legislative | Brandon Michael Newton (R-45) | ||
Revenue Policy Legislative | Bruce W. Bannister (R-24) |
Party composition over time
Year | Democratic Party | Republican Party | Independent / Other | Majority |
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1865 | 0 | 0 | 124 | 124 |
1868 | 14 | 110 | 0 | 96 |
1870 | 0 | 100 | 24(a) | 76 |
1872 | 22 | 102 | 0 | 80 |
1874 | 0 | 91 | 33(b) | 58 |
1876 | 64 | 60 | 0 | 4 |
1878 | 121 | 3 | 0 | 118 |
1880 | 120 | 4 | 0 | 116 |
1882 | 118 | 6 | 0 | 112 |
1884 | 119 | 5 | 0 | 114 |
1886 | 120 | 4 | 0 | 116 |
1888 | 121 | 3 | 0 | 118 |
1890 | 115 | 9 | 0 | 106 |
1892 | 120 | 4 | 0 | 116 |
1894 | 104 | 3 | 17(c) | 87 |
1896– 1900 | 123 | 1 | 0 | 122 |
1902– 1960 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 124 |
1961 | 123 | 1[6][7] | 0 | 122 |
1962 | 124 | 0 | 0 | 124 |
1964 | 123 | 1 | 0 | 122 |
1966 | 107 | 17 | 0 | 90 |
1968 | 119 | 5 | 0 | 114 |
1970 | 113 | 11 | 0 | 102 |
1972 | 103 | 21 | 0 | 82 |
1974 | 108 | 16 | 0 | 92 |
1976 | 112 | 12 | 0 | 100 |
1978 | 108 | 16 | 0 | 92 |
1980 | 108 | 16 | 0 | 92 |
1982 | 105 | 19 | 0 | 86 |
1984 | 96 | 28 | 0 | 68 |
1986 | 92 | 32 | 0 | 60 |
1988 | 88 | 36 | 0 | 52 |
1990 | 80 | 44 | 0 | 36 |
1992 | 74 | 50 | 0 | 24 |
1994 | 54 | 70 | 0 | 16 |
1996 | 53 | 71 | 0 | 18 |
1998 | 57 | 67 | 0 | 10 |
2000 | 53 | 71 | 0 | 18 |
2002 | 51 | 73 | 0 | 22 |
2004 | 50 | 74 | 0 | 24 |
2006 | 51 | 73 | 0 | 22 |
2008 | 51 | 73 | 0 | 22 |
2010 | 48 | 76 | 0 | 28 |
2012 | 46 | 78 | 0 | 32 |
2014 | 46 | 78 | 0 | 32 |
2016 | 44 | 80 | 0 | 36 |
2018 | 44 | 80 | 0 | 36 |
2020[8] | 43 | 81 | 0 | 38 |
2022[b] | 36 | 88 | 0 | 52 |
(a) 21 were members of the Union Reform Party of South Carolina and the other 3 were Independents from Anderson. Two of the Union Reform members from Chesterfield were later replaced by Republicans from a resolution passed in the House.
(b) All 33 were members of the Conservative Party of South Carolina.
(c) All 17 were Independent Democrats.
See also
Notes
References
- ^ "General Assembly".
- ^ "South Carolina Legislature Online - House of Representatives". www.scstatehouse.gov. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ "Candidate Qualifications - SCVotes". www.scvotes.org. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ "South Carolina Legislature Online". SC Statehouse.gon. South Carolina Government. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- ^ "Standing Committees of the South Carolina House of Representatives". Retrieved February 2, 2023.
- ^ Republican Charles Evans Boineau Jr., who was elected in an August 1961 special election
- ^ "University Libraries - University Libraries - University of South Carolina". library.sc.edu. Retrieved 20 June 2018.
- ^ "South Carolina Election Results". New York Times. 4 November 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2020.
Additional sources
- Reynolds, John S. (1969). Reconstruction in South Carolina. Negro University Press. ISBN 0-8371-1638-4.
- Kalk, Bruce H. (2001). The origins of the southern strategy: two-party competition in South Carolina, 1950–1972. Lexington Books. ISBN 0-7391-0242-7.
External links
- South Carolina House of Representatives
- 2007 seating chart
- Project Vote Smart – State House of South Carolina links to each Representative
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- Speaker of the House
- Jay Lucas (R)
- Speaker pro tempore
- Tommy Pope (R)
- Majority Leader
- Gary Simrill (R)
- Minority Leader
- Todd Rutherford (D)
- ▌Bill Whitmire (R)
- ▌Bill Sandifer III (R)
- ▌Jerry Carter (R)
- ▌Davey Hiott (R)
- ▌Neal Collins (R)
- ▌April Cromer (R)
- ▌Jay West (R)
- ▌Don Chapman (R)
- ▌Anne Thayer (R)
- ▌Thomas Beach (R)
- ▌Craig A. Gagnon (R)
- ▌Daniel Gibson (R)
- ▌John R. McCravy III (R)
- ▌Stewart Jones (R)
- ▌JA Moore (D)
- ▌Mark N. Willis (R)
- ▌Mike Burns (R)
- ▌Alan Morgan (R)
- ▌Patrick Haddon (R)
- ▌Adam Morgan (R)
- ▌Bobby Cox (R)
- ▌Jason Elliott (R)
- ▌Chandra Dillard (D)
- ▌Bruce W. Bannister (R)
- ▌Wendell K. Jones (D)
- ▌Raye Felder (R)
- ▌David Vaughan (R)
- ▌Ashley Trantham (R)
- ▌Dennis Moss (R)
- ▌Brian Lawson (R)
- ▌Rosalyn Henderson-Myers (D)
- ▌Max Hyde Jr. (R)
- ▌Travis Moore (R)
- ▌Roger Nutt (R)
- ▌Bill Chumley (R)
- ▌Rob Harris (R)
- ▌Steven Wayne Long (R)
- ▌Josiah Magnuson (R)
- ▌Cal Forrest (R)
- ▌Joseph S. White (R)
- ▌Annie McDaniel (D)
- ▌Doug Gilliam (R)
- ▌Randy Ligon (R)
- ▌Mike Neese (R)
- ▌Brandon Michael Newton (R)
- ▌Heath Sessions (R)
- ▌Tommy Pope (R)
- ▌Brandon Guffey (R)
- ▌John Richard C. King (D)
- ▌Will Wheeler (D)
- ▌J. David Weeks (D)
- ▌Ben Connell (R)
- ▌Richie Yow (R)
- ▌Pat Henegan (D)
- ▌Jackie E. Hayes (D)
- ▌Tim McGinnis (R)
- ▌Lucas Atkinson (D)
- ▌Jeff Johnson (R)
- ▌Terry Alexander (D)
- ▌Phillip Lowe (R)
- ▌Carla Schuessler (R)
- ▌Robert Q. Williams (D)
- ▌Jay Jordan (R)
- ▌Fawn Pedalino (R)
- ▌Cody Mitchell (R)
- ▌David O'Neal (R)
- ▌G. Murrell Smith Jr. (R)
- ▌Heather Ammons Crawford (R)
- ▌Chris Wooten (R)
- ▌Jermaine Johnson (D)
- ▌Nathan Ballentine (R)
- ▌Seth Rose (D)
- ▌Chris R. Hart (D)
- ▌Todd Rutherford (D)
- ▌Heather Bauer (D)
- ▌Leon Howard (D)
- ▌Kambrell Garvin (D)
- ▌Beth Bernstein (D)
- ▌Ivory Torrey Thigpen (D)
- ▌Katherine D. Landing (R)
- ▌Bart T. Blackwell (R)
- ▌Bill Clyburn (D)
- ▌Bill Hixon (R)
- ▌Melissa Lackey Oremus (R)
- ▌Jay Kilmartin (R)
- ▌Bill Taylor (R)
- ▌Paula Rawl Calhoon (R)
- ▌RJ May (R)
- ▌Micah Caskey (R)
- ▌Justin Bamberg (D)
- ▌Lonnie Hosey (D)
- ▌Brandon Cox (R)
- ▌Russell Ott (D)
- ▌Gil Gatch (R)
- ▌Gilda Cobb-Hunter (D)
- ▌Ryan McCabe (R)
- ▌Robby Robbins (R)
- ▌Chris Murphy (R)
- ▌Mark Smith (R)
- ▌Sylleste Davis (R)
- ▌Roger K. Kirby (D)
- ▌Joseph H. Jefferson (D)
- ▌Carl Anderson (D)
- ▌William Bailey (R)
- ▌Kevin Hardee (R)
- ▌Val Guest (R)
- ▌Case Brittain (R)
- ▌Lee Hewitt (R)
- ▌Tiffany Spann-Wilder (D)
- ▌Tom Hartnett (R)
- ▌Wendell Gilliard (D)
- ▌Joe Bustos (R)
- ▌Marvin R. Pendarvis (D)
- ▌Gary Brewer (R)
- ▌Spencer Wetmore (D)
- ▌Matt Leber (R)
- ▌Jordan Pace (R)
- ▌Bill Herbkersman (R)
- ▌Leon Stavrinakis (D)
- ▌Weston J. Newton (R)
- ▌Michael F. Rivers Sr. (D)
- ▌Bill Hager (R)
- ▌Jeff Bradley (R)
- ▌Shannon Erickson (R)
- ▌Republican (88)
- ▌Democratic (36)
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