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H3598Introduced in the House

Reporting information to SLED, firearms background checks

IntroducedHouse Judiciary

Introduced by Leonidas Stavrinakis, District 119

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Official description

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 14-17-325, Relating To Requiring Clerks Of Court To Report The Disposition Of Each Case In General Sessions Court, So As To Require That Clerks Of Court Report The Disposition Of Cases To The State Law Enforcement Division Within Forty-eight Hours Of The Issuance Of Certain Orders; By Amending Section 22-1-200, Relating To Requiring Magistrates To Report The Disposition Of Each Case To State Law Enforcement, So As To Require That Magistrates Report The Disposition Of Cases To The State Law Enforcement Division Within Forty-eight Hours Of The Issuance Of Certain Orders; By Amending Section 14-25-250, Relating To Requiring Municipal Judges To Report The Disposition Of Each Criminal Case, So As To Require That Municipal Judges Report The Disposition Of Cases To The State Law Enforcement Division Within Forty-eight Hours Of The Issuance Of Certain Orders; By Adding Section 23-1-260 So As To Require Each Law Enforcement Agency To Report To The State Law Enforcement Division Within Twenty-four Hours Of The Filings Of Certain Incident Reports; And By Adding Article 9 To Chapter 23, Title 16 So As To Define Necessary Terms, To Require That No Gun Transfer Preceded By A Criminal Background Check May Proceed, Unless The Criminal Background Check Has Concluded That The Sale May Proceed, Or Until At Least Five Days Have Passed From The Initiation Of The Background Check And The National Instant Criminal Background Check System Has Not Reported That The Sale Would Violate State Or Federal Law, And To Provide For Criminal Penalties For Violations Of This Article.

Where it stands

Scrivener's error corrected

February 5, 2025

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Bill history

  1. Prefiled

  2. Referred to Committee on Judiciary

  3. Introduced and read first time

  4. Referred to Committee on Judiciary

  5. Scrivener's error corrected

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