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2025-2026 Bill 5573: Spartanburg County Memorial Auditorium Commission - South Carolina Legislature Online
South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5573
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Long, Chumley, Edgerton, Magnuson, Lawson and Moss
Document Path: LC-0260PH26.docx
Introduced in the House on April 23, 2026
Introduced in the Senate on May 5, 2026
Last Amended on May 13, 2026
Currently residing in the House
Summary: Spartanburg County Memorial Auditorium Commission
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date
Body
Action Description with journal page number
4/23/2026
House
Introduced and read first time (
House Journal-page 12
)
4/23/2026
House
Referred to
Spartanburg Delegation
(
House Journal-page 12
)
4/29/2026
House
Committee report: Favorable
Spartanburg Delegation
(
House Journal-page 3
)
4/30/2026
House
Read second time (
House Journal-page 15
)
4/30/2026
House
Roll call Yeas-104 Nays-0 (
House Journal-page 16
)
4/30/2026
House
Unanimous consent for third reading on next
legislative day (
House Journal-page 17
)
5/1/2026
House
Read third time and sent to Senate (
House Journal-page 1
)
5/5/2026
Senate
Introduced, read first time, placed on local &
uncontested calendar (
Senate Journal-page 10
)
5/6/2026
Senate
Amended (
Senate Journal-page 72
)
5/6/2026
Senate
Read second time (
Senate Journal-page 72
)
5/7/2026
Senate
Read third time and returned to House with amendments (
Senate Journal-page 14
)
5/12/2026
House
Debate adjourned (
House Journal-page 113
)
5/13/2026
House
Senate amendment amended (
House Journal-page 92
)
5/13/2026
House
Returned to Senate with amendments (
House Journal-page 92
)
5/13/2026
House
Roll call Yeas-109 Nays-1 (
House Journal-page 93
)
5/13/2026
Senate
Committed to delegation from Spartanburg (
Senate Journal-page 42
)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
04/23/2026
04/29/2026
05/05/2026
05/06/2026
05/13/2026
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AMENDED - NOT PRINTED BILL FOR THE HOUSE
Amt. No. 1 (LC-5573.DG0002H.docx)
May 13, 2026
H. 5573
Introduced
by Reps. Long, Chumley, Edgerton, Magnuson, Lawson and Moss
L. Printed 5/13/26--H.
Read the first time April 23, 2026
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A bill
TO AMEND ACT 813 OF 1946, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE
CREATION OF THE SPARTANBURG MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM COMMISSION SO AS TO CHANGE THE
COMPOSITION OF THE COMMISSION.
Amend Title To Conform
B
e it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
S
ECTION 1. The
Spartanburg Auditorium Memorial Commission shall not have the authority to
approve of, without first seeking the approval from the Spartanburg County
Legislative Delegation, any art exhibit, production, show, or other form of
entertainment that is found to contain scenes the average person, applying
contemporary state community standards would find that the production, taken as
a whole, appeals to the prurient interest, whether the production depicts or
describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct, and whether the
production, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or
scientific value.
S
ECTION 2. SECTION
2(A) and (B) of Act 813 of 1946, as last amended by Act 186 of 1995, is further
amended to read:
S
ECTION 2. (A) The
Spartanburg Memorial Auditorium Commission is composed of
thirteen
fourteen
members with
two
three
of whom serving ex officio as provided in
item (3). The commission must be appointed as follows:
(
1) Five must be
appointed by
a special joint committee. The special joint committee shall
consist of two members of the Spartanburg City Council, two members of the
Spartanburg City Council, and two members of the Auditorium Commission as
determined by the respective bodies. The special joint committee shall appoint
representatives from the legal profession, the engineering/mechanical
profession, the accounting/financial profession, the hospitality industry, and
the communications/marketing community
the Spartanburg County
Legislative Delegation
.
Qualifications for the five commissioners
appointed by the Spartanburg County Legislative Delegation may include
experience in the legal, business, accounting and finance, or art, recreation,
and tourism industries. The Spartanburg County Legislative Delegation shall
make new appointments to the commission upon expiration of the terms of
commissioners appointed by the special joint committee.
(
2) Two must be
appointed by the Spartanburg City Council and four members to the appointed by
the Spartanburg County Council.
(
3) The Mayor of the
City of Spartanburg and the Chairman of the Spartanburg County Council or their
designated member of their respective council
and the Spartanburg County
Legislative Delegation Chairman, or his designee,
shall serve as
nonvoting
ex officio members of the Auditorium Commission
with voting rights
.
(
B) All terms of the
appointed members are for four years except that initial appointments may be
for less than four years in order to ensure a staggering and rotation of the
terms of Auditorium Commission members.
No commissioner may serve more than
two consecutive full four-year terms. A commissioner is eligible for
reappointment after having served two full four-year terms, but may not be
reappointed for at least one year following the end of the second consecutive
term.
Current members of the Auditorium Commission must be appointed to an
initial four-year term.
S
ECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval
by the Governor.
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