Doxxing

2025-2026 Bill 4673: Doxing - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 4673
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Kilmartin, McCravy, Pope, Chumley and Edgerton
Document Path: LC-0390CM26.docx
Introduced in the House on January 13, 2026
Currently residing in the House Committee on
Judiciary
Summary: Doxxing
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

12/16/2025

House

Prefiled

12/16/2025

House

Referred to Committee on
Judiciary

1/13/2026

House

Introduced and read first time (
House Journal-page 53
)

1/13/2026

House

Referred to Committee on
Judiciary
(
House Journal-page 53
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
12/17/2025

A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING SECTION
16-3-1093
SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT IT IS UNLAWFUL TO DISSEMINATE PERSONALLY
IDENTIFYING INFORMATION ABOUT CERTAIN INDIVIDUALS WITH THE INTENT TO
INTIMIDATE, ABUSE, THREATEN, HARASS, OR FRIGHTEN THE INDIVIDUALS, AND TO
PROVIDE PENALTIES.

B
e it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

S
ECTION 1.
A
rticle 11, Chapter 3, Title 16 of the S.C. Code is
amended by adding:

S
ection
16-3-1093
.
(
A) For the purposes of
this section:

(
1)
"Dissemination" means electronically publishing, posting, or otherwise
disclosing information to a public internet site or public forum;

(
2)
"Household member" means a person who regularly resides in a household or who
within the six months preceding the conduct of an offense contained in this
section regularly resided in the household;

(
3)
"Immediate family member" means a parent, grandparent, spouse, child,
stepchild, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, sibling,
brother-in-law, sister-in-law, or grandchild; and

(
4)
"Personally identifying information" means information that identifies or
reasonably can be used to identify an individual including, but not limited to:

(
a)
Social Security number or other government-issued identifier;

(
b)
date of birth;

(
c)
home or physical address;

(
d)
email address or telephone number;

(
e)
financial account number, or credit or debit card number;

(
f)
biometric, health, or medical data, or insurance information; or

(
g)
school or employment locations.

(
B) A
person is guilty of disseminating personally identifying information about an
individual when, with the intent to intimidate, abuse, threaten, harass, or
frighten an individual who resides in this State, he:

(
1)
intentionally disseminates the personally identifying information of the
individual or an individual's immediate family member or household member; and

(
2)
the dissemination would cause a reasonable individual to be in fear of physical
injury to himself, or to an immediate family member or a member of his
household.

(
C) This
section shall apply to electronic communications originating within or accessible
within the State.

(
D) A
person who disseminates personally identifying information:

(
1)
that results in no physical injury to the victim is guilty of a misdemeanor
and, upon conviction, must be imprisoned not more than one year;

(
2)
that results in physical injury to the victim or to a victim's immediate family
member or household member, is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be
imprisoned for not more than five years;

(
3)
that results in great bodily injury to the victim or to the victim's immediate
family member or household member is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction,
must be imprisoned not more than fifteen years; or

(
4)
that results in the death of the victim or of the victim's immediate family
member or household member is guilty of a felony and, upon conviction, must be
imprisoned not more than twenty-five years.

(
E)
Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose liability on a broadband
internet access service provider, a telecommunications service provider, an
interconnected VoIP provider, or a mobile service provider as defined in 47
U.S.C. Section 153, a commercial mobile service provider as defined in 47
U.S.C. Section 332(d), or a cable operator as defined in 47 U.S.C. Section 522,
when acting in its capacity as a provider of those services.

S
ECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval
by the Governor.

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