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City lobbyists brief Greenville City Council on major state bills, budget and session timing
Summary
Lobbyists for Greenville City updated council on South Carolina’s 2025 legislative session, emphasizing tort reform, changes to the crossover deadline, permit-review deadlines, annexation notifications and several housing and regulation bills the city is monitoring.
The Greenville City Council received a legislative briefing from lobbyists Ted Riley and Tara Boone of Riley Pope & Laney on state activity affecting municipalities, including tort reform, changes to bill deadlines and several housing- and permitting-related measures.
Riley said the ongoing session is “the first year of a 2 year session, which is everything that doesn't happen past this year retains its place on the calendar,” and warned members that both chambers have removed their traditional crossover deadline.
The update outlined priority items the lobbyists and city are monitoring and where the city is taking or expects to take action. The most prominent topics were Senate Bill 244 on tort reform, permit-application deadlines (H.3215), several bills on affordable housing, a pending annexation notice requirement, and a recently filed bill that…
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