Assault and Battery, corrections officials

2025-2026 Bill 5074: Assault and Battery, corrections officials - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5074
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Brewer, Robbins and Gilliam
Companion/Similar bill(s): 889
Document Path: LC-0220AHB26.docx
Introduced in the House on January 29, 2026
Currently residing in the House
Summary: Assault and Battery, corrections officials
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

1/29/2026

House

Introduced and read first time (
House Journal-page 37
)

1/29/2026

House

Referred to Committee on
Judiciary
(
House Journal-page 37
)

2/3/2026

House

Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Gilliam

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
01/29/2026

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH
CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION
16-3-600
, RELATING TO ASSAULT AND BATTERY
OFFENSES, SO AS TO ADD THAT ASSAULT AND BATTERY OF A HIGH AND AGGRAVATED NATURE
OCCURS WHEN A PERSON INJURES A CORRECTIONS OFFICER IN THE DISCHARGE OF OR
BECAUSE OF THEIR OFFICIAL DUTIES.

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

S
ECTION 1.
S
ection
16-3-600
(B) of the S.C. Code is amended to
read:

(
B)
(
1) A person commits the offense of
assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature if the person unlawfully
injures another person, and:

(
a)
great bodily injury to another person results;
or

(
b)
the act is accomplished by means likely to produce death or great bodily injury
.
; or

(
c) the person injured is a corrections
officer, including a county or municipal corrections officer, in the discharge
of, or because of, the performance of the officer's official duties.

(
2)
A person who violates this subsection is guilty of a felony, and, upon
conviction, must be imprisoned for not more than twenty years.

(
3)
Assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature is a lesser-included
offense of attempted murder, as defined in Section
16-3-29
.

S
ECTION 2. The repeal or amendment by this act
of any law, whether temporary or permanent or civil or criminal, does not affect
pending actions, rights, duties, or liabilities founded thereon, or alter,
discharge, release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred
under the repealed or amended law, unless the repealed or amended provision
shall so expressly provide. After the effective date of this act, all
laws repealed or amended by this act must be taken and treated as remaining in
full force and effect for the purpose of sustaining any pending or vested
right, civil action, special proceeding, criminal prosecution, or appeal
existing as of the effective date of this act, and for the enforcement of
rights, duties, penalties, forfeitures, and liabilities as they stood under the
repealed or amended laws.

S
ECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval
by the Governor.

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