Senate amends DUI overhaul, adding new third‑degree offenses and victim‑impact requirement
The South Carolina Senate advanced its comprehensive DUI overhaul (S.52), adopting amendments that create third‑degree DUI/DUAC offenses with increased fines and jail terms and making victim‑impact panels mandatory; members debated ignition‑interlock timing and retroactivity for violent‑designation petitions.
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The South Carolina Senate spent the afternoon amending S.52, a large package of DUI reforms, adopting several key changes that expand criminal penalties and require rehabilitative programming. Senators voted to add a new third‑degree DUI and a corresponding DUAC (driving under unlawful alcohol concentration) offense for incidents involving bodily injury, raising maximum penalties and shifting certain cases to General Sessions Court.
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