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Subcommittee approves series of provisos, raises emergency cap for Forestry Commission
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Summary
A legislative subcommittee approved multiple provisos and motions, including raising the Forestry Commission's emergency spending cap from $3,000,000 to $5,000,000, expanding disaster-recovery tax protections, a film postproduction rebate pilot, and administrative transfers tied to Act 41 of 2025.
A legislative subcommittee voted unanimously to approve a package of readoptions, amendments and new provisos at its meeting, including a raised emergency spending cap for the Forestry Commission and a pilot rebate for in‑state film postproduction.
Staff presenter Will summarized the first substantive amendment, saying, “This proviso allows the Forestry Commission to use up to $3,000,000 of general fund money during a declared emergency if the disaster trust fund is exhausted. This amendment would raise that cap from 3,000,000 to 5,000,000.” Members moved and approved the change by voice vote.
Will also reviewed proviso 92 d 0.1, which the committee approved. According to Will, the amendment preserves the pre‑disaster property tax basis for homes assisted by disaster recovery funds, updates the fiscal year while recovery continues, expands the proviso’s scope to programs funded by the disaster relief and resilience reserve fund, and adds a limitation that any increase to a mobile home’s real property tax value after reassessment “cannot exceed the value of the most recent property tax assessment for the demolished mobile home.”
The committee approved several new provisos that grant carry‑forward or program authority, including: - 44 c f c: carry‑forward authority to the Department of Agriculture for certified South Carolina school cafeteria funding; - 49RP: allow PRT to carry forward undisbursed regional promotion funds for use the following year; - 49ppcf: a South Carolina Film Commission pilot rebate for productions that hire an in‑state, brick‑and‑mortar postproduction house for editing, sound design and scoring.
Will said proviso 50nbif would use excess debt service funds to pay down an interagency loan from Palmetto Railways to the Department of Commerce; the subcommittee approved that provision. The panel also approved proviso 50nac, transferring administrative responsibility for the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council from the Department of Administration to the Department of Commerce, noting that Act 41 of 2025 moved the council’s administrative responsibilities.
Will described proviso 50rd as establishing guidelines for rural development funds tied to a nonrecurring request; eligibility would be limited to tier 3 and tier 4 counties and opportunity‑zone census tracts in tier 1 and tier 2 counties. The committee likewise approved proviso 92dICR to include the Office of Resilience in the Statewide Central Services Cost Allocation Plan.
The subcommittee voted to delete the provisos listed in Section 5 in a single action and then approved a motion by Representative Weeks granting staff authority to make technical, conforming changes to proviso language to reflect the subcommittee’s actions.
All motions described on the agenda were moved, seconded and approved by voice vote during the meeting; no recorded roll‑call tallies or named votes were provided in the transcript. The meeting concluded with the chair thanking members and adjourning.
What happens next: the approved provisos and technical conforming changes will be processed according to the subcommittee’s procedures; the transcript does not specify subsequent legislative steps or effective dates for the adopted provisos.
