SC Poultry Festival, 40th anniversary

2025-2026 Bill 5595: SC Poultry Festival, 40th anniversary - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5595
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House Resolution
Sponsors: Reps. Forrest, 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, 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, McGinnis, 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-0278PH-RM26.docx
Introduced in the House on April 28, 2026
Currently residing in the House
Summary: SC Poultry Festival, 40th anniversary
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

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4/28/2026

House

Introduced and adopted (
House Journal-page 11
)

5/6/2026

Scrivener's error corrected

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04/28/2026
05/06/2026

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RESOLUTION

TO CELEBRATE THE FORTIETH SOUTH CAROLINA POULTRY
FESTIVAL, TO BE HELD MAY 6 - MAY 9, 2026, IN BATESBURG-LEESVILLE AND TO HONOR
THOSE PLANNING AND PARTICIPATING IN THE FESTIVAL.

W
hereas, the members of
the South Carolina House of Representatives are pleased to learn that the South
Carolina Poultry Festival will celebrate its fortieth anniversary at this
year's festival in Batesburg-Leesville from May 6 - 9, 2026; and ­­

W
hereas, employing
thousands of citizens, South Carolina's billion-dollar poultry industry
annually produces, processes, and markets vast amounts of eggs, broilers, and
turkeys; and

W
hereas, Lexington,
Saluda, and Aiken counties serve as home to some of the state's top broiler
producers, including such household names as Amick Farms, Columbia Farms, and
Gentry Poultry Company; and

W
hereas, in 1986,
Batesburg-Leesville restaurant owner Sara Shealy hatched the idea of a poultry
festival based in Lexington County to showcase the state's largest
agribusiness, and the Leesville Merchants Association created a festival from
her proposal; and

W
hereas, one year
later, the Ridge Poultry Festival was held, hosting approximately twenty
thousand visitors. The event, which became the South Carolina Poultry Festival
in 1989, is now the state's official poultry festival. In recent years, its
attendance has exceeded one hundred thousand people; and

W
hereas, today, the
festival features multiple stages offering continuous entertainment, some
thirty food vendors, a carnival, a parade with over one hundred units, and more
than seventy commercial vendors and one hundred twenty crafters; and

W
hereas, the event
presents the best of Southern hospitality, with proceeds regularly supporting
various local charities, organizations, and community causes while hosting the
festival's own "#1 World's Best Chicken Cooking Contest"; and

W
hereas, guests
anticipate an impressive antique car and collector show, a five-kilometer road
race, a volleyball tournament, and evening street dances; and

W
hereas, this year, as
a salute to America's two hundred fifty years of independence, as well as to
the signing of the nation's Declaration of Independence, which inaugurated those
two hundred fifty years, a spectacular display of the American spirit will
conclude the festival on Saturday evening in one of the largest pyromusical
shows available; and

W
hereas, the South
Carolina House of Representatives commends the planners and participants of the
fortieth annual South Carolina Poultry Festival, and the members appreciate the
beneficial impact of the poultry industry on the economy of the Palmetto State.
Now, therefore,

B
e it resolved by the
House of Representatives
:

T
hat the members of the
South Carolina
House of Representatives
,
by this resolution, celebrate the fortieth South Carolina Poultry Festival, to
be held May 6 - 9, 2026, in Batesburg-Leesville and honor those planning and
participating in the festival.

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