South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session Status: In Committee 1 R cosponsors

H 5331 — Gasoline User Fee

Last action — Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Beach, D.Mitchell, Chumley

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    Passed Senate
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    To Executive
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    Enacted

This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced March 05, 2026. It must pass committee before a floor vote.

Next likely step: a committee vote, then a floor vote in the House.

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Stalled 26% · moderate confidence

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  • 16 sponsors

    16 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 R).

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Summary

A BILL TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 12-28-2740, RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF GASOLINE USER FEES AMONG COUNTIES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS SO AS TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF THE GASOLINE USER FEE AND TO DELETE A PROVISION REQUIRING A PERCENTAGE OF "C" FUNDS BE EXPENDED ON THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

70 added · 2 removed

Plain-language change summary

The latest version of Bill H 5331 increases the gasoline user fee from 2.66 cents to 5.99 cents per gallon. Additionally, it removes a previous requirement that a certain percentage of funds be spent on the state highway system. These changes aim to boost funding for local counties, which could help improve road infrastructure and public services in those areas. By allowing counties more flexibility in how they use these funds, the bill supports local needs better.

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2025-2026 Bill 5331 Text of Previous Version (Mar.
05, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online South Carolina General Assembly126th Session, 2025-2026Bill 5331Indicates Matter StrickenIndicates New Matter(Text matches printed bills.
Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)                 A bill   TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 12-28-2740, RELATING TO the DISTRIBUTION OF GASOLINE USER FEEs AMONG COUNTIES and REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS SO AS TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF THE GASOLINE USER FEE AND TO DELETE A PROVISION REQUIRING A PERCENTAGE OF "C" FUNDS BE EXPENDED ON THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
  Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
  SECTION 1.  Section 12-28-2740 (A), (C), and (S) of the S.C.
Code is amended to read:
      (A) The proceeds from two and sixty-sixfive and ninety-nine one-hundredths cents a gallon of the user fee on gasoline only as levied and provided for in this chapter must be deposited with the State Treasurer and expended for purposes set forth in this section.
The monies must be apportioned among the counties of the State in the following manner:
       (1) one-third distributed in the ratio which the land area of the county bears to the total land area of the State;
       (2) one-third distributed in the ratio which the population of the county bears to the total population of the State as shown by the latest official decennial census;
       (3) one-third distributed in the ratio which the mileage of all rural roads in the county bears to the total rural road mileage in the State as shown by the latest official records of the Department of Transportation.
The Department of Revenue shall collect the information required pursuant to Section 12-28-1390 regarding the number of gallons sold in each county for use in making allocations of donor funds as provided in subsection (H).
The Department of Revenue shall submit the percentage of the total represented by each county to the Department of Transportation and to each county transportation committee annually by May first of the following calendar year.
Upon request of a county transportation committee, the Department of Transportation shall continue to administer the funds allocated to the county.
    All interest earnings on the County Transportation Fund in the State Treasury must be added to the distribution to counties under this section in proportion to each county's portion of the entire County Transportation Fund.
Except for those funds being used in connection with highway projects administered by the Department of Transportation on behalf of counties administering their own "C" funds, these distributions of earnings and the calculation required to determine the appropriate amount shall not include those counties administering their own "C" funds.
      (C) At least twenty-five percent of a county's apportionment of "C" funds, based on a biennial averaging of expenditures, must be expended on the state highway system for construction, improvements, and maintenance.
The Department of Transportation shall administer all funds expended on the state highway system unless the department has given explicit authority to a county or municipal government or other agent acting on behalf of the county transportation committee to design, engineer, construct, and inspect projects using their own personnel.
The county transportation committee, at its discretion, may expend up to seventy-five percent of "C" construction funds for activities including other local paving or improving county roads, for street and traffic signs, and for other road and bridge projects.Reserved.
      (S) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (A), on July 1, 2018, and each July first thereafter until after July 1, 2021, the amount of proceeds of the user fee on gasoline only as levied for in this chapter that must be deposited with the State Treasurer and expended for the purposes of this section must be increased by .3325 cents a gallon, until such time as the total amount equals three and ninety-nine one-hundredths cents a gallon.
Any increase in proceeds resulting from the provisions of this subsection must be used exclusively for repairs, maintenance, and improvements to the state highway system.
  SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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Action History

  1. Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Beach, D.Mitchell, Chumley

  2. Referred to Committee on Ways and Means

  3. Introduced and read first time

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16 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 154 not signed on

Sponsors (16)

Co-sponsors (0)

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Not signed on (154)

154 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Frequently asked questions

What does H 5331 do?
A BILL TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 12-28-2740, RELATING TO THE DISTRIBUTION OF GASOLINE USER FEES AMONG COUNTIES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPENDITURE OF FUNDS SO AS TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF THE GASOLINE USER FEE AND TO DELETE A PROVISION REQUIRING A PERCENTAGE OF "C" FUNDS BE EXPENDED ON THE STATE HIGHWAY SYSTEM.
Who sponsors H 5331?
H 5331 is sponsored by Representative Joseph S. "Joe" White, Stephen D. Frank (Republican), Representative Thomas Lee Gilreath, Representative Josiah Magnuson, Representative William C. "Chris" Huff, Representative Jordan S. Pace, Representative John Gregory "Jay" Kilmartin, Representative Jackie R. Terribile, Representative James Mikell "Mike" Burns, Representative Donald Ryan McCabe, Jr., Representative T. Alan Morgan, Jr., Representative Thomas Beach, Representative William M. "Bill" Chumley, Representative John T. Lastinger, Jr., Representative Greg Ford, and Representative Dianne Mitchell.
What is the current status of H 5331?
This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced March 05, 2026. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
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