News & Action Items
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Updates 4/14/25:
Please come to our meeting tonight and bring a friend! CALL TO ACTION! S. 534 is now on the Senate calendar and could hit the Senate floor as soon as tomorrow! Please call your state senator today to let him/her know that you oppose the removal of State Treasurer Curtis Loftis! ARTICLE FROM PALMETTO STATE WATCH VIDEO FROM FITS NEWS |
What is so bad about having to prove your identity before using the internet? What is a social credit score and how bad is surveillance? Watch this video.
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Updates 2/23/25
Thanks to everyone who reached out to their legislators about last weeks CTA! Gearing up for some major battles at the statehouse again this week! The House Regulations Committee carried over the bad election regulations D.5192, D.5193, D.5196, D.5502, D.5203, and D.5204 to be discussed at a later date. Thanks to all of you who contacted members of the committee about the concerns laid out in the SC Safe Elections Substack article. The house passed H3431, the social media restriction and regulation bill, with only about half of the Freedom Caucus members voting against it. The attack ads accusing them of protecting child predators began immediately. The bill is now headed to the SC Senate, where hopefully a courageous soul will stop the bill in its tracks. Good bills were not included in this Call to Action because of the urgency of stopping the "school choice", CON CON, and limitation to social media access bills. H3457 (Human Life Protection Act) will get a hearing in a house judiciary subcommittee on Tuesday, March 4th. The public is welcome to comment during the meeting. H3309 is awaiting a subcommittee hearing in the senate. Please become acquainted with this bill also. Details below. |
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Call to Action Alert - Thursday 2/20/25
Please text your representative if they are listed in on the House Regulations, Administrative Procedures, Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity Committee before 9 a.m. to stop these BAD ELECTION regulations! Explanation can be found here! D.5192, D.5193, D.5196, D.5502, D.5203, and D.5204 |
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Breakdown of Bills:
S 62: For a thorough explanation of the K-12 Education Lottery Scholarship (universal school control) bill click here. H 3431: Read the bill by clicking here. The World Economic Forum and United Nations agenda continue to implement a global agenda for digital control of all access to social and economic necessities by working with STATE legislatures. We should NEVER agree to a bill that forces proof of identity prior to use of the internet. This is a part of the stepwise process towards complete enslavement. Watch this video. H 3007, 3008 and 3558: Our state repealed all resolutions that had been made for a constitutional convention to balance the federal budget in 2004. It would be worthwhile to look up Title 1, Chapter 1, Section 1510 of the SC Code of Laws to see why. We made the mistake of passing resolutions for a convention last year. We need to renew the repeal of those resolutions also. Watch this video which explains the dangers of a Constitutional Convention (CON CON). H 3101 and 3622: Ban on Guardians ad Litem - These bills restrict the use of non-attorney guardians ad litem in child custody cases. They will grant near-monopoly status to law firms in the guardian ad litem industry, and will do away with lay guardians ad litem who actually tend to have a better track record and are not profit motivated. Click here for reference documents mentioned in the "On the Brink of a CON-CON" video.
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S 28: Was amended to address our concerns!
S 54: Medical Informed Consent Act - Go to the Health and Medical Freedom page for an explanation of this bill. As of right now:
- there are no laws prohibiting SC employers from mandating vaccines or other "health measures",
- pharmacists can deny any medication at any time and without any reason,
- the Dept. of Public Health can isolate and quarantine individuals or groups of people for as long as it wants, targeting anyone who refuses testing, physical exams, vaccines and treatments, whether they are exposed to or symptomatic with the disease or not,
- the director can issue an emergency order to restrain persons for up to 25 days without due process and proof of necessity, and
- it is a FELONY offense to violate quarantine and isolation orders implemented by the department, but for some reason, although you'll always have that record and never be able to carry a firearm again, the fine is no more than $1000 and imprisonment no more than 30 days!
S 244: Tort Reform. Please watch this video for an explanation of this important bill for small business owners.
Other Concerning Bills
H 3309: SC Energy Security Act (Summary provided by former SC Rep. Jonathan Hill)
This bill has been passed by the house and is on its way to the senate. It needs major amendments in subcommittee before it will be acceptable.
The bill is a warmed-over version of H.5118 of 2024. Ultimately, that bill died when the House
and Senate could not agree on what the bill should say. Now the House version of the bill has
been re-filed and fast-tracked for 2025. Nothing major has changed: it’s still a terrible bill.
This bill redefines the mission of the Public Service Commission (PSC) to include actively
planning for the state's energy needs rather than merely regulating the public utilities, to create
more economic development incentives and build economic development further into the state's
regulatory fabric.
In addition, this bill authorizes another public/private partnership between Santee Cooper and
Dominion Energy for power plant construction. It directs and "encourages" all three major
utilities in the state to begin the process of building new power generation plants of various
types, and to consider once again building nuclear facilities. The bill promises that they may
immediately begin charging ratepayers for nuclear construction costs even before construction
has even been approved by the Public Service Commission, and even if the projects are
abandoned before completion. This bill further authorizes utilities (including Santee Cooper) to
apply for any available grants to fund nuclear site research.
This bill allows businesses that are big enough to qualify and which are selected by the SC
Department of Commerce to pick their own power company regardless of where they locate.
Finally, this bill creates a legislatively controlled "Energy Policy Research and Development
Institute" within the University of South Carolina to do energy research for state lawmakers. This
"institute" is designed to collaborate with "SC Nexus," a clean energy/tech/economic
development initiative which began last session under the Biden administration, and which
came with grant funding.
Fiscal Impact: $23,494,500 (H.5118 was $2,587,418)
Objections:
● Grows government—this bill creates a new "Energy Policy Research and Development
Institute" as an energy research arm of the legislature housed within the University of
South Carolina.
● Contradicts separation of powers—this bill contains language forcing the
legislatively-controlled Public Service Commission to act even more like a judicial body,
blurring the lines between all three branches—executive, legislative, and judicial.
Worse, the bill prohibits the PSC from using experts to dig up their own evidence, and
instead limits the PSC’s decisions to rely strictly on the evidence submitted by the utility
companies on the record. If key information is left out, the PSC cannot consider it in any
ruling. This rigs the system in favor of the utility companies and against the ratepayers,
and protects the legislators who are ultimately responsible for rate hikes from blame.
● Constitutes legal plunder—this bill contains a huge economic development incentive to
enormous businesses that may be recruited to relocate to or expand in South Carolina.
Companies are already able to develop economic incentive rate packages with the
various utilities, including the government-owned Santee Cooper, but if this bill passed,
they could literally pick their own utility, effectively creating a free market just for that one
company, while all other companies in South Carolina are forced to pay for electricity
under whatever monopoly power district they happen to be located in.
● Infringes on rights or liberties—South Carolina operates under an energy monopoly
where customers cannot choose their service provider or fire them if the service or
product is too expensive or unsatisfactory. This bill doubles down with even more central
planning, instead of recognizing the basic right of customers to freely associate and do
business with the providers they choose.
● Non-government alternatives exist—this bill contains all sorts of directives and
encouragements for privately owned utilities, and creates a 10-year energy plan for the
entire state. It should be the job of the utilities driven by the market. The state-driven
energy monopoly has stifled innovation and distorted or silenced market signals,
resulting in the highest electric utility rates in the southeast.
● Increases debt—this bill authorizes Santee Cooper (a state-owned utility) to incur
massive amounts of new debt for the construction of new energy facilities. It authorizes
Santee Cooper to enter a new public/private partnership for said construction with
Dominion Energy. South Carolina did this once before, leading to the failed the V.C.
Summer nuclear construction project. Ironically, that project was between Santee
Cooper and SCANA, which was subsequently purchased by Dominion. Lawmakers tied
the hands of regulators and locked ratepayers into the deal regardless of whether the
power plants were ever finished, thus removing any incentive TO finish. The construction
projects failed abysmally, SCANA went bankrupt and had to sell to Dominion, several
people went to jail, and the ratepayers are still to this day on the hook for billions of
dollars of debt for a project that will never be completed. While the state reeled in the
aftermath, lawmakers discovered that not even they could provide relief from these debts
due to the Base Load Review Act, and the only thing they could do was repeal the act.
This bill will essentially re-enact it!
This bill has been passed by the house and is on its way to the senate. It needs major amendments in subcommittee before it will be acceptable.
The bill is a warmed-over version of H.5118 of 2024. Ultimately, that bill died when the House
and Senate could not agree on what the bill should say. Now the House version of the bill has
been re-filed and fast-tracked for 2025. Nothing major has changed: it’s still a terrible bill.
This bill redefines the mission of the Public Service Commission (PSC) to include actively
planning for the state's energy needs rather than merely regulating the public utilities, to create
more economic development incentives and build economic development further into the state's
regulatory fabric.
In addition, this bill authorizes another public/private partnership between Santee Cooper and
Dominion Energy for power plant construction. It directs and "encourages" all three major
utilities in the state to begin the process of building new power generation plants of various
types, and to consider once again building nuclear facilities. The bill promises that they may
immediately begin charging ratepayers for nuclear construction costs even before construction
has even been approved by the Public Service Commission, and even if the projects are
abandoned before completion. This bill further authorizes utilities (including Santee Cooper) to
apply for any available grants to fund nuclear site research.
This bill allows businesses that are big enough to qualify and which are selected by the SC
Department of Commerce to pick their own power company regardless of where they locate.
Finally, this bill creates a legislatively controlled "Energy Policy Research and Development
Institute" within the University of South Carolina to do energy research for state lawmakers. This
"institute" is designed to collaborate with "SC Nexus," a clean energy/tech/economic
development initiative which began last session under the Biden administration, and which
came with grant funding.
Fiscal Impact: $23,494,500 (H.5118 was $2,587,418)
Objections:
● Grows government—this bill creates a new "Energy Policy Research and Development
Institute" as an energy research arm of the legislature housed within the University of
South Carolina.
● Contradicts separation of powers—this bill contains language forcing the
legislatively-controlled Public Service Commission to act even more like a judicial body,
blurring the lines between all three branches—executive, legislative, and judicial.
Worse, the bill prohibits the PSC from using experts to dig up their own evidence, and
instead limits the PSC’s decisions to rely strictly on the evidence submitted by the utility
companies on the record. If key information is left out, the PSC cannot consider it in any
ruling. This rigs the system in favor of the utility companies and against the ratepayers,
and protects the legislators who are ultimately responsible for rate hikes from blame.
● Constitutes legal plunder—this bill contains a huge economic development incentive to
enormous businesses that may be recruited to relocate to or expand in South Carolina.
Companies are already able to develop economic incentive rate packages with the
various utilities, including the government-owned Santee Cooper, but if this bill passed,
they could literally pick their own utility, effectively creating a free market just for that one
company, while all other companies in South Carolina are forced to pay for electricity
under whatever monopoly power district they happen to be located in.
● Infringes on rights or liberties—South Carolina operates under an energy monopoly
where customers cannot choose their service provider or fire them if the service or
product is too expensive or unsatisfactory. This bill doubles down with even more central
planning, instead of recognizing the basic right of customers to freely associate and do
business with the providers they choose.
● Non-government alternatives exist—this bill contains all sorts of directives and
encouragements for privately owned utilities, and creates a 10-year energy plan for the
entire state. It should be the job of the utilities driven by the market. The state-driven
energy monopoly has stifled innovation and distorted or silenced market signals,
resulting in the highest electric utility rates in the southeast.
● Increases debt—this bill authorizes Santee Cooper (a state-owned utility) to incur
massive amounts of new debt for the construction of new energy facilities. It authorizes
Santee Cooper to enter a new public/private partnership for said construction with
Dominion Energy. South Carolina did this once before, leading to the failed the V.C.
Summer nuclear construction project. Ironically, that project was between Santee
Cooper and SCANA, which was subsequently purchased by Dominion. Lawmakers tied
the hands of regulators and locked ratepayers into the deal regardless of whether the
power plants were ever finished, thus removing any incentive TO finish. The construction
projects failed abysmally, SCANA went bankrupt and had to sell to Dominion, several
people went to jail, and the ratepayers are still to this day on the hook for billions of
dollars of debt for a project that will never be completed. While the state reeled in the
aftermath, lawmakers discovered that not even they could provide relief from these debts
due to the Base Load Review Act, and the only thing they could do was repeal the act.
This bill will essentially re-enact it!
September 19, 2024 Action Items (Watch this video for more details!)
- Download and print the document "Shekels with Shackles" to read and to present and discuss with your pastor and Christian private school and homeschool parents and educators.
- Schedule a coffee or lunch meeting with your state representative and senator. Bring them a copy of their Freedom Index scorecard and discuss bills that you believe should be filed or defeated in the upcoming session. Examples:
- ensures medical freedom and guts Title 44 emergency powers
- rescinds the Convention of States Resolution (Robert Brown video);
- increases Election Transparency (Elections Update);
- rejects federal "relief" funds and international "treaties" with globalist organizations;
- frees education, healthcare, etc systems from national associations and accrediting associations that currently control them; and
- reverses gun control measures snuck into the "Constitutional Carry" bill from last session (see February 2nd update below);
- proposes a constitutional amendment ballot referendum to allow direct state funding of private schools (stand against ESA vouchers);
- consolidates health agency decision making power into the hands of one unelected Secretary of Health and Policy (health czar);
- grows government regulation and involvement in private enterprise; and
- promotes wasteful spending and increases hidden taxes through fees, fines, and licensing.
- Attend upcoming meetings. See the Calendar of Events.
Videos from SC Senate Medical Affairs Pandemic Preparedness Hearing
September 12, 2023
Dr. Edward Simmer is determined to continue pushing the vaccines, masks, and anything else the CDC and WHO recommend. Ignoring the evidence and entreaties presented at the meeting, he continues to endanger South Carolinians on behalf of the CDC and the WHO. If you want him replaced, call, write, and email Gov. McMaster's office and let him know that the governor's speeches condemning medical tyranny mean nothing if someone like Dr Simmer is given the power to control our government officials' response to "public health emergencies."
Starting at 22:27 he clearly evades the question about his support of childhood COVID-19 vaccination. The very next week he stressed to healthcare providers the importance of focusing COVID-19 vaccination efforts on young children, pregnant women and the elderly. This presentation was sponsored by Prisma Health.
Click Here for Original Senate Medical Affairs Meetings on COVID-19 Response 9/15/21 and 9/22/21
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