South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session Status: In Committee

S 258 — Magistrate Eligibility Examination

Last action — Referred to Committee on Judiciary

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed Senate
  4. 4
    Passed House
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill is in committee in the Senate. Introduced January 23, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.

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

Prognosis

Stalled 14% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

Low

How often bills like it became law.

  • In Committee

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Summary

A BILL TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 22-2-5, RELATING TO THE ELIGIBILITY EXAMINATION FOR MAGISTRATES, SO AS TO EXTEND THE TIME PERIOD FOR THE VALIDITY OF THE EXAMINATION SCORES FROM SIX MONTHS BEFORE AND SIX MONTHS AFTER THE TIME THE APPOINTMENT IS TO BE MADE TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS BEFORE AND EIGHTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE TIME THE APPOINTMENT IS TO BE MADE.

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

27 added · 12 removed

27 line(s) added, 12 removed.

→
Previous
Latest
PK (s8ZÞǬí í customXml/item2.xml½WÝn£8¾ß§°r1½) ?!?ݔY’8-3 dÁ™j4BLŠ†„h§£ÕHû ûŠû${ šÎjnVj œó}Ÿíãc{üöy£'–fQ²»¹®ÄÄv~D»ÍÍŚ̅áÊrºhœìØÍÅ.¹x«ý2Ž¿zJ_\²œ4§DvÙMç!Ï÷×Ýnæ?°-Í®’=ہ'LÒ-Íá3Ýt÷ÔÿB7¬+‹b¿»=Ò»5¡úîhã™5]/±I\r¿ÂÚ$Šãq÷Ô6žlêK¬½‰ó_‹_ÅlG·ì;á7î֐±1Óz#QQ(UOî÷„^À†e£@¤  ´'Š’7îpL܉±X¸÷Nwbï±¾XhsglÜ=ïl8†£OÉðÁÚB½Ó§ïñ+أŸ@¬©e:Ä kbXæ9þ+H^mj-—!ÛxeÙç¢h#NÙæìæôGô䄿¶ÁE4’>¶XGžáÑÏ´p°Ÿ m}þú°ò^že˜Ä¶fë)ž½Œ‡óñ”¥n¿Ç³õêL+µëí[8ƒ>8xìÊÆEâžC×.oã2H˜®•nžOˆžOðæG·ïÏ_Ř÷¶BDeU%AVˆ(^—‚¨ÂÿZ‚×|÷0¤:Áœ@ÃàÜ ÅeLðÛ Šn’Ø6õÅ1s½œ`[“jîkˆFÁÁNÙIîs¬ÊÚà^oá5å{¬Ûe8li« 6þ}R=5_¤,¤„ê˜2POíûBÐóû£!ë÷UÚ´Û&×¢®e·ô¸\šê‰¡ªT)Ñ0<©'ò ‡½ÑÀ‡z݈¶È•¨³‚bcÙÕSë d9ð™(ô™ ¢â †¢¤½Q_òÕPfJ8¨EÛäJôð(«ø'¥áçšÁyZàø=üêãkÄBeÕDä#ÇZ“;4Õmk½DSk†‘5GýMî@üEžuÉò?ý]üÔKdã…N '(ZxCíäáúKÎܲÑR¿…%fC²:—Ð(ҝ‚…?’*b,1ZaÛ°f%¡°}ÐƬPƒˆÊ8Q(º6vÐܶ–È1>¢¥e’;ˆ#T9+L¶›fŠ}µ²`)[2Ê`&¢„îq·w°˜gTÛ®Ÿ‘¾jMÒa>š9šÞéå¬e°¹çŒWŽZï÷ˆƒ5‡€Ú´À·åƒs…§›œ}^º4˜¤Cö{¾y«9&‡8FÛß0IâhŸþì8ÌÏá µ^³Îu§/ITõI`CEz½áH Õ¼Q ªl Ë#dËŠdÂÑHp6cnv0qÎÇ­ÇÒεT[È·ýø>€¬s q†I’|ÙÒôKÕPæYžÊ¦êG=Y)Š F6nåçHí\‡ÅÖހíÀ÷ ø2TA-&ûZ#œGï$€{bq8Ç=6ìèžÐ 0«tt7~’ÜAObªç+AÕhC=Ó¼Íö1õÙ±Î÷ϗå1³Y ¬ùC8Ž6d D†Ø3ÝF†@Gp¬E[º‰²<|Ö9ҝDÏJ.{ÎÙ.@…DmÚ³4J‚’V؞h…f–ß¼tæ')ËP˜&[”EÏh›ìò‡yÈÁaœ·Ò0giÓLñB÷û$ÚåE×P”¡<*Ä°â•E›‡œ±ÝÕ¶ëg¤¡ÿ33¹ãX×J`$Š@”Q/f@yšÄY=)§ÄËL £±‘³m‘#Ÿëœn%€—¹»Ç­+¹ý€É óF´óý²½È†¡¨øt¤ ÐR8ö÷Ž|YÒÐ",¸àÅ";ÜxÒÀeaè•ä+Nn¯¸ …aƒë“ëÇô1c/Ýÿ5.²Ó,¯ÿÎoœuMâÊÔzò¬Ú²Né“ÌÇMzò:GR%³¶ÝòH UÙK# ɇø·Ì?”î«MòTs9d›å®V°1êpxŠü<)ÿf$féÕN¨ãîé-UûPK (s8ZÙî!å Y customXml/itemProps2.xml±NÃ0†wžÂÊâɵJÚTI*“©+‰Õ8—Ô"¶#Û$Ä»ã¨b ã'}ÿwW?õ„ÞÁyeM…Ó Ì´½2c…ŸŸ:²ÇÈaz1Y6뛲÷‡^áƒup  QĘ8óUra>Pêå´ð;ƒ‰ËÁ:-BŒn¤v”„ÖÊEƒ 4c,§r‰,ý¢§E¶ŠÈS[%_|Çx“uiº»‚ls^¾ç;’Í}ËÚmš²ï¤^}.…0ø¿qå-NýGlòMŒp1ÒÄz#>^osF~sBë’^õÑëÔ?PK (s8Zm|½X½ ' customXml/_rels/item2.xml.relsÏ±jÃ0à½O!´hŠåx(¡XöÙBq!«Ï¶ˆ¥ºKhÞ¾"S2Þÿ÷smÿVqƒL£QÛªV¢ÃÑÇÙ¨Ÿá°Ù)AlãhWŒ`ÔHõÝGû «å’¡Å'‰d䜾´&·@°Ta‚X.æ`¹ŒyÖɺ‹A7uý©óCvO¦8ŽFæãØH1ܼcã4y{t× ‘_Thw%Æpë)ciƒÍ3°‘ž!
2025-2026 Bill 258 Text of Previous Version (Jan.
23, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online South Carolina General Assembly126th Session, 2025-2026Bill 258Indicates 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 22-2-5, RELATING TO THE ELIGIBILITY EXAMINATION FOR MAGISTRATES, SO AS TO EXTEND THE TIME PERIOD FOR THE VALIDITY OF THE EXAMINATION SCORES FROM SIX MONTHS BEFORE AND SIX MONTHS AFTER THE TIME THE APPOINTMENT IS TO BE MADE TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS BEFORE AND EIGHTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE TIME THE APPOINTMENT IS TO BE MADE.
  Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
  SECTION 1.  Section 22-2-5(A) of the S.C.
Code is amended to read:
      (A) The South Carolina Court Administration, in cooperation with the technical college system, shall select and administer an eligibility examination to test basic skills of persons seeking an initial appointment as magistrate on or after July 1, 2001.
In determining the persons to be recommended to the Governor for initial appointments as magistrates on or after July 1, 2001, a senatorial delegation must use the results of these eligibility examinations to assist in its selection of nominees.
No person is eligible to be appointed as a magistrate unless he receives a passing score on the eligibility examination.
The results of these eligibility examinations are valid for six eighteen months before and six eighteen months after the time the appointment is to be made.
  SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
----XX---- This web page was last updated on January 23, 2025 at 11:23 AM
⬇ Download PDF
View plain text versions (2)
  • 01/23/2025 View text Current html
  • Introduced Filed vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Action History

  1. Referred to Committee on Judiciary

  2. Introduced and read first time

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

Export CSV (upgrade) →

1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 169 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (169)

169 members have not signed on to this bill.

Show all 169 →

"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

Whip count is in markup. Polling the chamber and every recorded vote this session. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Calling the roll · Tallying · Engrossing

Subjects

public-safety elections
Cross-referencing the record. Reading this bill against every other bill in the corpus by meaning, not keywords. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Matching · Ranking · Engrossing

Frequently asked questions

What does S 258 do?
A BILL TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 22-2-5, RELATING TO THE ELIGIBILITY EXAMINATION FOR MAGISTRATES, SO AS TO EXTEND THE TIME PERIOD FOR THE VALIDITY OF THE EXAMINATION SCORES FROM SIX MONTHS BEFORE AND SIX MONTHS AFTER THE TIME THE APPOINTMENT IS TO BE MADE TO EIGHTEEN MONTHS BEFORE AND EIGHTEEN MONTHS AFTER THE TIME THE APPOINTMENT IS TO BE MADE.
Who sponsors S 258?
S 258 is sponsored by Senator George E. "Chip" Campsen III.
What is the current status of S 258?
This bill is in committee in the Senate. Introduced January 23, 2025. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
Where can I track S 258?
Track S 258 free on One Click Politics — get push/email alerts when it moves.

Make your voice heard on S 258

Find the representatives who decide this bill and tell them where you stand — for yourself, or mobilize your whole list in one click with One Click Politics advocacy software.

Find my representatives → Run a campaign

Stay ahead of S 258

Last checked for changes about 2 months ago · updated continuously

One Click Politics tracks every bill in Congress and all 50 states.

Track this bill →