State Park Admissions

2025-2026 Bill 754: State Park Admissions - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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S. 754
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Zell and Reichenbach
Document Path: SR-0389KM25.docx
Introduced in the Senate on January 13, 2026
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on
Fish, Game and Forestry
Summary: State Park Admissions
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

12/10/2025

Senate

Prefiled

12/10/2025

Senate

Referred to Committee on
Fish, Game and Forestry

1/13/2026

Senate

Introduced and read first time (
Senate Journal-page 43
)

1/13/2026

Senate

Referred to Committee on
Fish, Game and Forestry
(
Senate Journal-page 43
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
12/10/2025

A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING
SECTION
51-3-60
, RELATING TO USE OF FACILITIES FREE OF CHARGE BY DISABLED
VETERANS, SO AS TO ALLOW ANY SOUTH CAROLINA RESIDENT WHO IS A VETERAN TO ENTER
ANY STATE PARK FREE OF CHARGE.

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

S
ECTION 1.
S
ection
51-3-60
of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

S
ection
51-3-60
.
(
A)
Any South Carolina resident who is over sixty-five
years of age or disabled or legally blind as defined in Section
43-25-20

of the 1976 Code
may use any facility of a state park
except campsites, overnight lodging and recreation buildings without charge.
Such residents may also use campsite facilities at one-half of the prescribed
fee. A person exercising this privilege on the basis of age shall present his
m
M
edicare card or other card
approved by the South Carolina Commission on Aging to the employee of the State
Department of Parks, Recreation, and Tourism who is in charge of the particular
state park, and a person who is disabled or legally blind shall present to such
person in charge of the park a certificate to that effect from a licensed
doctor of medicine or an official of an agency authorized by law to make
determinations of disability or blindness. The authorization for use of the
facilities as provided by this section shall not be effective if it conflicts
with any federal law, rule or regulation.

(
B)
The term "disabled"
as used herein shall mean the inability to perform substantial gainful
employment by reason of a medically-determinable impairment, either physical or
mental, which has lasted or is expected to last for a continuous period of
twelve months or more.

(
C)
Any South Carolina
resident who is a veteran
and who has been classified by
the Veterans Administration as permanently and totally disabled
may also
enter any state park without charge upon presentation to the person in charge
of the park of an identification card from the county veterans affairs officer
stating
the person's status as a veteran.
the veteran's permanent and total disability. A statement of
age or disability may not be made for any person whose age and disability
records are not maintained in the veterans affairs office at which the request
is made.

S
ECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval
by the Governor.

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