Track state bills that may affect local life.

This bill would require local planning, zoning, permitting, and licensing entities to approve or deny certain permit, variance, license, and certificate applications within a defined review period. If an entity does not act within the required time, the application could be treated as approved by default.

This bill would require counties to report certain residential development plans near municipal borders and would revise parts of the South Carolina Development Impact Fee Act, including how capital improvements and impact fee-related planning may be handled.

This bill would amend the Development Impact Fee Act to include road resurfacing in the definition of system improvements and would extend the required time period for spending impact fees.

This bill would address local government authority to enact and enforce ordinances regulating short-term rentals, including licensing, permits, fees, inspections, taxes, operations, and penalties.

This enacted law authorizes certain municipalities, subject to voter approval and statutory requirements, to impose up to a one percent sales tax for property tax relief and specified municipal projects.

This bill would authorize a municipality to annex certain areas by ordinance when the area is completely surrounded by municipal boundaries, with procedures and exceptions.

This bill would create a state framework for data center development, including a Data Center Development Office, siting permits, operational standards, infrastructure and environmental assessments, utility rate review, decommissioning, and interaction with local land-use planning.

This joint resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to exempt business personal property from ad valorem taxation in South Carolina.

This bill would allow school board, municipal council, and county council members to place items on public meeting agendas if the request complies with Freedom of Information Act notice requirements.

S.227 would expressly authorize South Carolina counties and municipalities to adopt "concurrency programs," allowing local governments to require that critical infrastructure and public services keep pace with growth before development approvals are granted. The legislation would apply to infrastructure such as roads, water and sewer systems, stormwater facilities, fire and EMS services, law enforcement capacity, and other public facilities identified in local plans.