South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session Status: Passed House Bipartisan · 3 R · 2 D cosponsors

H 5810 — UNESCO Middle Passage Marker

Last action — Introduced and adopted

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    Introduced
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    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed House
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has passed the House. Introduced August 25, 2026. It now moves to the second chamber.

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  • Passed House

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 124 sponsors

    124 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Bipartisan support

    Sponsored across 2 parties (3 R · 2 D) — cross-party backing.

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In plain language

This resolution honors Georgetown, SC, as a UNESCO site related to enslaved peoples' heritage.

The resolution recognizes Georgetown, South Carolina, as an official site under UNESCO's project focused on the history of enslaved peoples. It aims to highlight the cultural and historical significance of this location.

Summary

A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA, AS A DESIGNATED SITE OF THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION ROUTES OF ENSLAVED PEOPLES: RESISTANCE, LIBERTY, AND HERITAGE PROJECT.

Bill Text

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The amendment adds text recognizing and honoring the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, as a designated site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Routes of Enslaved Peoples: Resistance, Liberty, and Heritage Project. This change highlights Georgetown's historical significance related to the transatlantic slave trade and acknowledges the impact of African peoples on American culture and agriculture.

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2025-2026 Bill 5810 Text of Previous Version (Aug.
25, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online South Carolina General Assembly126th Session, 2025-2026Bill 5810Indicates Matter StrickenIndicates New Matter(Text matches printed bills.
Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)                 A house RESOLUTION   To recognize and honor the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, as a designated site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Routes of Enslaved Peoples:
Resistance, Liberty, and Heritage Project.
  Whereas, the year 2026 marks the five-hundred-year anniversary of the first African arrivals to Winyah Bay in the Village of Georgetown, with Spanish explorer Lucas Vazquez de Allyon;
and   Whereas, for more than five hundred years, approximately twelve million Africans were forcibly carried across the Atlantic Ocean in the largest forced migration in human history;
and   Whereas, during the ocean voyages known as the Middle Passage, an estimated two million perished-lost to violence, disease, and despair;
their names were largely unrecorded;
and   Whereas, those who survived brought with them the languages, technologies, cultures, and agricultural knowledge of Africa's Rice Coast and surrounding regions, wisdom that would shape the Americas;
and   Whereas, among the transatlantic documented vessels arriving to the port of Georgetown are Warwick in 1737, with eight captives, Endeavor in 1738, with thirty captives, Susanna in 1767, with thirteen captives, Peggy in 1770, with one hundred forty-four captives, and Betsy in 1784, with nineteen captives;
and   Whereas, a Steering Committee of Georgetown, community members headed by Ron Daise, Beatrice Rodrigues, Marilyn L.
Hemingway, Effson Bryant, and Mary Rice Crenshaw, was established in August 2025 to develop and install an exemplary Port Marker in Georgetown under the guidance of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project;
and   Whereas, a Middle Passage Marker will be erected on sacred ground in Georgetown on October 24, 2026, honoring those who endured, remembering those who did not, and memorializing the cultural legacy of the Gullah Geechee people.
Now, therefore,   Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:
  That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, recognize and honor the city of Georgetown, South Carolina, as a designated site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization Routes of Enslaved Peoples:
Resistance, Liberty, and Heritage Project.
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Not signed on (46)

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Frequently asked questions

What does H 5810 do?
A HOUSE RESOLUTION TO RECOGNIZE AND HONOR THE CITY OF GEORGETOWN, SOUTH CAROLINA, AS A DESIGNATED SITE OF THE UNITED NATIONS EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATION ROUTES OF ENSLAVED PEOPLES: RESISTANCE, LIBERTY, AND HERITAGE PROJECT.
Who sponsors H 5810?
H 5810 is sponsored by Representative Richard L. "Richie" Yow, Representative Chris Wooten, Representative Mark N. Willis, Representative Robert Q. Williams, Representative Paul B. Wickensimer, Representative William R. "Bill" Whitmire, Representative Joseph S. "Joe" White, Representative Elizabeth "Spencer" Wetmore, Representative J. David Weeks, Representative Courtney S. Waters, Representative David Vaughan, Representative Jackie R. Terribile, Representative James E. Teeple, Representative Bill Taylor, Representative Leonidas E. "Leon" Stavrinakis, Tiffany R. Spann-Wilder (Democrat), Smith, Marvin, Smith, G. Murrell, Jr., Representative Heath Sessions, Scott, Carla M. Schuessler (Republican), Representative Richard Blake Sanders, Representative J. Todd Rutherford, Representative Seth Rose, Representative Robby Robbins, Representative Michael F. Rivers, Sr., Representative Robert T. Reese, Representative Luke S. Rankin, Representative Thomas E. "Tommy" Pope, Representative Fawn M. Pedalino, Representative Jordan S. Pace, Representative Melissa Lackey Oremus, Representative Wm. Weston J. Newton, Representative Brandon Newton, Representative Mike M. Neese, Representative Dennis C. Moss, Representative T. Alan Morgan, Jr., Representative Travis A. Moore, Representative JA Moore, Representative W. Scott Montgomery IV, D. Mitchell, Representative Cody T. Mitchell, Representative Timothy A. "Tim" McGinnis, Representative Annie E. McDaniel, Representative John R. McCravy III, Representative Donald Ryan McCabe, Jr., Representative David Martin, Representative Josiah Magnuson, Jason Luck (Democrat), Representative Phillip D. Lowe, Representative Steven Wayne Long, Representative Thomas R. "Randy" Ligon, Representative M. Brian Lawson, Lastinger, Representative Kathy Landing, Representative Roger K. Kirby, Representative John Richard C. King, Representative John Gregory "Jay" Kilmartin, Representative Wallace H. "Jay" Jordan, Jr., Representative Wendell K. Jones, Johnson, Jermaine L., Sr., Johnson, Jeffrey E., Representative William C. "Chris" Huff, Representative Leon Howard, Representative Lonnie Hosey, Representative Harriet A. Holman, Representative William M. "Bill" Hixon, Representative David R. Hiott, Representative William G. "Bill" Herbkersman, Henderson-Myers, Rosalyn D., Representative Jackie E. "Coach" Hayes, Representative Charles V. Hartz, Representative Thomas F. "Tom" Hartnett, Jr., Representative Christopher R. "Chris" Hart, Representative Robert J. "Rob" Harris, Representative Kevin Hardee, Representative William "Bill" Hager, Representative Patrick B. Haddon, Representative Brandon Guffey, Representative Thomas Duval "Val" Guest, Jr., Representative Hamilton R. Grant, Representative Jerry N. Govan, Jr., Representative Thomas Lee Gilreath, Representative Wendell G. Gilliard, Representative Leon D. "Doug" Gilliam, Representative Daniel Gibson, Representative Gil Gatch, Representative Kambrell H. Garvin, Representative Craig A. Gagnon, Stephen D. Frank (Republican), Representative Cally R. "Cal" Forrest, Jr., Ford, Representative Shannon S. Erickson, Representative Sarita L. Edgerton, Representative Adam L. Duncan, Representative Chandra E. Dillard, Representative Sylleste H. Davis, Representative April Cromer, Representative Heather Ammons Crawford, Representative Brandon L. Cox, Representative Neal A. Collins, Representative Gilda Cobb-Hunter, Representative William "Bill" Clyburn, Representative William M. "Bill" Chumley, Representative Donald G. "Don" Chapman, Representative Micajah P. "Micah" Caskey IV, Representative Paula Rawl Calhoon, Representative Joseph M. "Joe" Bustos, Representative James Mikell "Mike" Burns, T. Case Brittain, Jr. (Republican), Representative Gary S. Brewer, Jr., Representative Jeff Bradley, Representative Phillip Bowers, Representative Beth E. Bernstein, Representative Thomas Beach, Representative Heather Bauer, Representative Bruce W. Bannister, Representative Justin T. Bamberg, Representative Nathan Ballentine, Representative William H. Bailey, Representative Lucas Atkinson, Representative Terry Alexander, Representative Lee Hewitt, and Representative Carl L. Anderson.
What is the current status of H 5810?
This bill has passed the House. Introduced August 25, 2026. It now moves to the second chamber.
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