Jeannie Rose Potter Highway

2025-2026 Bill 5519: Jeannie Rose Potter Highway - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5519
STATUS INFORMATION
Concurrent Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. C. Mitchell, G.M. Smith and Yow
Document Path: LC-0552CM-GT26.docx
Introduced in the House on April 14, 2026
Introduced in the Senate on April 21, 2026
Adopted by the General Assembly on April 29, 2026
Summary: Jeannie Rose Potter Highway
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

4/14/2026

House

Introduced (
House Journal-page 15
)

4/14/2026

House

Referred to Committee on
Invitations and Memorial Resolutions
(
House Journal-page 15
)

4/15/2026

Scrivener's error corrected

4/15/2026

House

Committee report: Favorable
Invitations and Memorial Resolutions
(
House Journal-page 37
)

4/16/2026

House

Adopted, sent to Senate (
House Journal-page 26
)

4/21/2026

Senate

Introduced (
Senate Journal-page 6
)

4/21/2026

Senate

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

4/28/2026

Senate

Recalled from Committee on
Transportation
(
Senate Journal-page 6
)

4/29/2026

Senate

Adopted, returned to House with concurrence (
Senate Journal-page 118
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
04/14/2026
04/15/2026
04/15/2026-A
04/28/2026

Recalled

April 28, 2026

H. 5519

Introduced
by Reps. C. Mitchell, G. M. Smith and Yow

S. Printed 4/28/26--S.

Read the first time April 21, 2026

________

A concurrent RESOLUTION

To request the Department of Transportation
name the portion of Highway Church Road between Stephen Campbell Road and Larry
Jeffers Road in the Town of Elgin in Kershaw County "Jeannie Rose Potter Road"
and erect appropriate signs or markers at this location containing these words.

W
hereas, a
faithful government servant, Jeannie Rose Potter dedicated thirty-five years of
her working career to the State of South Carolina demonstrating compassion in
diligent service to so many elected officials, organizations, and communities;
and

W
hereas, Mrs.
Potter served fourteen years in the Kershaw County Sheriff's Department as
secretary to then Sheriff Hector DeBruhl; and

W
hereas, she
began her thirty-five year career with the State as executive secretary in the
South Carolina House Ways and Means Committee, serving under three successive
committee chairmen - William Boan, Henry Brown, and Robert Harrell Jr.; and

W
hereas, in
2005, she became the executive assistant to Speaker of the House of
Representatives Robert Harrell Jr. and served continuously in that position for
House Speakers Jay Lucas and G. Murrell Smith, until she retired in 2024; and

W
hereas, most
importantly, she was the loving and devoted wife to Kershaw County Deputy
Sheriff Ernest Christian Potter III, who was tragically killed in the line of
duty in 1974. High school sweethearts, the couple was married in July 1972.
Their only child, Ernest Christian "Little Chris" Potter IV was born six months
after his father was killed. Jeannie raised "Little Chris" as a single mother,
receiving support from family, friends, and the law enforcement community while
maintaining a life of service; and

W
hereas, her
community involvement knew no boundaries. Mrs. Potter served twenty years as a
volunteer girls basketball coach for the Kershaw County Recreation Department.
She also was a faithful volunteer for the Elgin Catfish Stomp parade for many
years led by then Elgin Mayor Don Watson Jr.; and

W
hereas, grateful
for her accomplishments and many years of service to the State of South
Carolina, it is only fitting and proper that Jeannie Rose Potter is remembered
with a portion of road in her beloved Town of Elgin named in her honor. 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, request the
Department of Transportation name the portion of Highway Church Road between
Stephen Campbell Road and Larry Jeffers Road in the Town of Elgin in Kershaw
County "Jeannie Rose Potter Road" and erect appropriate signs or markers at
this location containing these words.

B
e it further
resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Department of
Transportation.

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