Rules Committee, South Carolina State Senate
The Rules Committee is a standing committee of the South Carolina State Senate.
Per Section 19 (d) of the Senate Rules, committees of the South Carolina State Senate are assigned through self-selection by Senate members. For committee selection, the Clerk of the Senate will make a list of all Senate members in the order of length of service and the members with the longest continuous service will select first. This process will continue until all members are assigned. Committees are assigned at the start of the new session following the election of Senate members.[1] The chairperson of each standing committee will be the senior member of the committee from the majority party. If a vacancy were to occur in the chairmanship of a standing committee, then the next most senior member from the majority party would take over.[2]
See rules: Rules of the Senate of South Carolina
Function
According to Rule 19 of the Senate Rules, the Rules Committee has jurisdiction over the Senate Rules and shares jurisdiction over the Joint Rules with the House Rules Committee.[3]
Membership
2023-2024 legislative session
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Senate Rules Committee, 2023-2024 |
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| Democratic members (5) | Republican members (11) | Third-party members(1) |
2021-2022 legislative session
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Senate Rules Committee, 2021-2022 |
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|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (5) | Republican members (11) | Third-party members(1) |
2019-2020 legislative session
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Senate Rules Committee, 2019-2020 |
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|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (6) | Republican members (10) | Third-party members(1) |
2017 legislative session
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2017 legislative session.
| Rules Members, 2017 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (10) | |||
| • Glenn Reese | • Shane Massey, Chair | |||
| • John Scott | • Hugh Leatherman | |||
| • Marlon Kimpson | • Greg Gregory | |||
| • Gerald Malloy | • Tom Corbin | |||
| • Karl Allen | • Lawrence Grooms | |||
| • Ronnie Sabb | • Greg Hembree | |||
| • Floyd Nicholson | • Ronnie Cromer | |||
| • Shane Martin | ||||
| • George Campsen | ||||
| • Tom Young | ||||
2015 legislative session
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.
| Rules Committee Members, 2015 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (10) | |||
| • Glenn G. Reese | • Ronnie W. Cromer, Chair | |||
| • Gerald Malloy | • A. Shane Massey | |||
| • Floyd Nicholson | • George E. "Chip" Campsen, III | |||
| • Karl B. Allen | • Ross Turner | |||
| • Creighton Coleman | • Paul Thurmond | |||
| • John L. Scott, Jr. | • Thomas D. "Tom" Corbin | |||
| • Joel Lourie | • Chauncey K. Gregory | |||
| • Shane R. Martin | ||||
| • Hugh K. Leatherman, Sr. | ||||
| • Larry A. Martin | ||||
2013-2014
| Rules Committee Members, 2013 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (10) | |||
| • Glenn G. Reese | • Ronnie W. Cromer, Chair | |||
| • Gerald Malloy | • A. Shane Massey | |||
| • Floyd Nicholson | • George E. "Chip" Campsen, III | |||
| • Karl B. Allen | • Ross Turner | |||
| • J. Thomas McElveen, III | • Paul Thurmond | |||
| • John L. Scott, Jr. | • Thomas D. "Tom" Corbin | |||
| • C. Bradley Hutto | • Chauncey K. Gregory | |||
| • Shane R. Martin | ||||
| • Hugh K. Leatherman, Sr. | ||||
| • Larry A. Martin | ||||
2011-2012
| Rules Committee Members, 2011 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (9) | |||
| • Dick Elliott | • John Knotts, Chair | |||
| • Brad Hutto | • Ronnie Cromer | |||
| • John Land | • Tom Davis | |||
| • Gerald Malloy | • Hugh Leatherman | |||
| • John Matthews | • Shane Martin | |||
| • Floyd Nicholson | • Shane Massey | |||
| • Glenn Reese | • Glenn McConnell | |||
| • Mike Rose | ||||
| • Phillip Shoopman | ||||
2009-2010
| Rules Committee Members, 2009 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (10) | |||
| • Glenn Reese | • Phillip Shoopman | |||
| • Floyd Nicholson | • Mike Rose | |||
| • John Matthews | • Glenn McConnell | |||
| • Gerald Malloy | • Shane Massey | |||
| • John Land | • Shane Martin | |||
| • Brad Hutto | • Larry Martin | |||
| • Dick Elliott | • Hugh Leatherman | |||
| • John Knotts | ||||
| • Tom Davis | ||||
| • Ronnie Cromer | ||||
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ South Carolina State Legislature, "Rules of the Senate of South Carolina," accessed February 22, 2021(Rule 19 (d))
- ↑ South Carolina State Legislature, "Rules of the Senate of South Carolina," accessed February 22, 2021(Rule 19 (e))
- ↑ South Carolina State Legislature, "Rules of the Senate of South Carolina (Rule 19)," accessed March 2, 2021
