South Carolina Higher Education Day

2025-2026 Bill 5351: South Carolina Higher Education Day - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5351
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Concurrent Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. McGinnis, Alexander, Anderson, Atkinson, Bailey, Ballentine, Bamberg, Bannister, Bauer, Beach, Bernstein, Bowers, Bradley, Brewer, Brittain, Burns, Bustos, Calhoon, Caskey, Chapman, Chumley, Clyburn, Cobb-Hunter, Collins, Cox, Crawford, Cromer, Davis, Dillard, Duncan, Edgerton, Erickson, Ford, Forrest, Frank, Gagnon, Garvin, Gatch, Gibson, Gilliam, Gilliard, Gilreath, Govan, Grant, Guest, Guffey, Haddon, Hager, Hardee, Harris, Hart, Hartnett, Hartz, Hayes, Henderson-Myers, Herbkersman, Hewitt, Hiott, Hixon, Holman, Hosey, Howard, Huff, J.E. Johnson, J.L. Johnson, Jones, Jordan, Kilmartin, King, Kirby, Landing, Lastinger, Lawson, Ligon, Long, Lowe, Luck, Magnuson, Martin, McCabe, McCravy, McDaniel, C. Mitchell, D. Mitchell, Montgomery, J. Moore, T. Moore, Morgan, Moss, Neese, B. Newton, W. Newton, Oremus, Pace, Pedalino, Pope, Rankin, Reese, Rivers, Robbins, Rose, Rutherford, Sanders, Schuessler, Scott, Sessions, G.M. Smith, M.M. Smith, Spann-Wilder, Stavrinakis, Taylor, Teeple, Terribile, Vaughan, Waters, Weeks, Wetmore, White, Whitmire, Wickensimer, Williams, Willis, Wooten and Yow
Document Path: LC-0680WAB-AR26.docx
Introduced in the House on March 11, 2026
Introduced in the Senate on March 11, 2026
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on
Education
Summary: South Carolina Higher Education Day
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

3/11/2026

House

Introduced, adopted, sent to Senate (
House Journal-page 18
)

3/11/2026

Senate

Introduced (
Senate Journal-page 6
)

3/11/2026

Senate

Referred to Committee on
Education
(
Senate Journal-page 6
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
03/11/2026

A concurrent RESOLUTION

TO RECOGNIZE APRIL 16, 2026, AS "SOUTH CAROLINA
HIGHER EDUCATION DAY."

W
hereas, the South Carolina
Commission on Higher Education has provided strategic and collaborative
leadership to public colleges and universities for fifty-nine years; and

W
hereas, South Carolina
Independent Colleges and Universities has represented independent, private
institutions of higher education for seventy-three years; and

W
hereas, the South Carolina
Technical College System has overseen public technical institutions of higher
education for sixty-five years; and

W
hereas, seventy-four
institutions of higher learning across South Carolina serve more than two
hundred and fifty-two thousand students, of whom seventy-four percent are South
Carolina residents; and

W
hereas, an accessible and
affordable higher education for every South Carolinian is essential to ensuring
that our State has the trained and skilled workforce to compete for jobs and
investments in the future; and

W
hereas, higher levels of
education provide many benefits not only to students, but their families, and
the communities in which they live and work; and

W
hereas, public and independent
colleges and universities in the Palmetto State share a common commitment to
promoting critical thinking and creativity by preparing their students to be
engaged citizens; and

W
hereas, graduates of
colleges and universities serve in positions of leadership throughout South
Carolina, helping to secure the brightest future for our State. Now, therefore,

B
e it resolved by the House
of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

T
hat the members of the
South Carolina General Assembly, by this resolution, recognize April 16, 2026,
as "South Carolina Higher Education Day."

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