Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 17-15-36 So As To Provide Procedures For Court Ordered Third-party Monitoring As An Additional Condition For Bond And To Provide Definitions.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws So As To Enact The "dietitian Licensure Compact Act"; By Adding Article 1 To Chapter 21, Title 40, So As To Provide The Purposes, Functions, Operations, And Definitions For The Compact; By Amending Section 40-20-20, Relating To Definitions In The Dietetics Licensure Act, So As To Revise A Definition; And By Amending Section 40-20-60, Relating To Applications For Licensure Under The Dietetics Licensure Act, So As To Require Certain Criminal Background Checks Of Applicants.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-7-1990, Relating To Confidentiality And Release Of Records And Information, So As To Authorize Disclosure Of Case Records To County And State Guardian Ad Litem Staff And The State Child Advocate's Divisions; By Amending Section 63-11-550, Relating To Confidentiality Of Records And Information, So As To Provide That The Appointed Guardian Ad Litem Can Share Case Records To County And State Guardian Ad Litem Staff And The State Child Advocate's Divisions; By Amending Section 63-11-700, Relating To The Division For Review Of The Foster Care Of Children, So As To Update Statutes Related To The State Child Advocate's Division; By Amending Section 63-11-1340, Relating To The Director And Other Staff, So As To Make Conforming Changes; And By Amending Section 63-11-1360, Relating To The Annual Report, So As To Make Conforming Changes.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 17-13-150, Relating To The Requirement That A Person Served A Search Warrant Must Be Furnished A Copy Of The Warrant And The Supporting Affidavit, So As To Remove The Affidavit Requirement And Provide For Delivery Of A Copy Of The Inventory If Demanded By The Person Upon Whom The Search Warrant Is Served.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 40-2-30, Relating To Requirements For Use Of Professional Designations For Certified Public Accountants And Public Accounts, So As To Apply These Requirements To Usages In Electronic Files And Metadata; By Amending Section 40-2-35, Relating To Requirements For Licensure By The Board Of Accountancy, So As To Revise The Educational And Experience Requirements, To Revise Requirements Concerning The Uniform Certified Public Accountant Exam Requirements; By Amending Section 40-2-40, Relating To Entities Required To Register With The Board To Practice As Certified Public Accounting Firms, So As To Require Such Registration Of Firms That Perform Compilation Services, And To Provide Ownership Of Such Firms May Be Held Through A Revocable Grantor Trust; By Amending Section 40-2-70, Relating To Powers And Duties Of The Board, So As To Add Review And Provide Input On Proposed Legislative Changes Related To The Practice Of Accounting As A Power Of The Board; By Amending Section 40-2-80, Relating To Investigations Of Complaints Or Other Information Suggesting Violations, So As To Provide Inspector-investigators Must Have Been Licensed As Certified Public Accountants For At Least The Previous Five Years; By Amending Section 40-2-240, Relating To Requirements For Persons Licensed In Other Jurisdictions To Obtain Licensure By The Board, So As To Provide Reciprocity Licensure Requirements; By Amending Section 40-2-245, Relating To Requirements For Persons Licensed In Other Jurisdictions To Practice In This State Without Licensure By The Board, So As To Revise The Requirements; And By Repealing Section 40-2-20(18) Relating To Definitions Concerning The Board Of Accountancy, Section 40-2-35(h) Relating To Requirements For Licensure By The Board Of Accountancy, And Section 40-2-35(i) Relating To Requirements For Licensure By The Board Of Accountancy. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws So As To Enact The "emergency Order Balance Of Powers Act"; By Amending Section 1-3-420, Relating To Proclamations By The Governor, So As To Provide The Conditions In Which A Proclamation Shall Terminate; And By Amending Section 25-1-440, Relating To Declarations Of A State Of Emergency, So As To Provide The Conditions In Which A Declared State Of Emergency Shall Terminate.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 58-27-1105, Relating To Definitions, So As To Define "qualified Independent Third Party" And To Allow An Electrical Utility To Include Storm Recovery Costs For Hurricane Helene In Its Cost Of Capital From The Date Of The Storm Through The Issuance Of Storm Recovery Bonds; And By Amending Section 58-27-1110, Relating To The Petition For Financing Order And Requirements, So As To Allow An Electrical Utility To Defer The Review And Approval Of A Financing Order, And Provide For The Participation Of A Qualified Independent Third Party Retained By The Public Service Commission. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws So As To Enact The "south Carolina Waterways Protection Act"; By Adding Section 50-9-975 So As To Establish The South Carolina Waterways Protection Fund And The Purposes For Which Revenues In The Fund May Be Expended; And By Adding Section 12-37-3215 So As To Require That A Tax Notice For Watercraft Must Include A Waterways Protection Fee Of Three Dollars.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 16-13-135, Relating To The Offense Of Retail Theft And Associated Penalties, So As To Revise The Previous Offense Of Retail Theft To Create The Offenses Of Organized Retail Crime And Organized Retail Crime Of An Aggravated Nature, To Provide A Graduated Penalty Structure, And To Revise Necessary Definitions.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 16-3-605 So As To Create The Offense Of Assault And Battery With Bodily Fluids, Provide For Testing Of Communicable And Bloodborne Diseases, Provide Penalties, And Provide Exceptions.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws So As To Enact The "helping Alleviate Lawful Obstruction (halo) Act"; By Adding Section 16-3-1092 So As To Create The Offense Of Impeding, Interfering, Threatening, Or Harassing A First Responder Engaged In The Lawful Performance Of His Duties, And To Provide A Penalty.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 59-150-70, Relating To Temporary Regulations, Initial Availability Of Tickets, And Alternate Use For Nonwinning Tickets, So As To Prohibit Lottery Sales By Checks, Credit Cards, Charge Cards, Or Other Form Of Deferred Payment; And By Amending Section 59-150-210, Relating To Sales Restrictions, So As To Require That All Lottery Sales Must Be Made In Person At Licensed Lottery Retailers Or Locations Approved By The Lottery Commission And Further Prohibiting The Use Of Lottery Courier Services.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Sections 1-23-115, 1-23-120, And 1-23-125, All Relating To The Requirements And Procedures For Regulations, All So As To Provide For The Tolling Of The Period Of Legislative Review From The Second Friday In May Through The Second Monday The Following January, And To Provide For A One-hundred-ten-day Legislative Review Period. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 50-21-870, Relating To Personal Watercraft And Boating Safety, So As To Require Any Person Under The Age Of Thirteen To Wear A Personal Flotation Device On Any Size Vessel Unless The Person Is In The Cabin Or Below Deck Of The Vessel.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 15-3-710 So As To Provide The Basis For Liability For A Person Or Establishment Who Unlawfully Furnishes Alcohol To An Individual Who Injures A Third Party Based Upon What The Furnisher Knew Or Should Have Known Under The Circumstances; To Specify When The Right Of Action Is Not Available, And To Provide The Evidentiary Standard For Visible Intoxication.