Bad Bill Sheet—February 18, 2025

These bad bills just dug their way out of their graves like vampires 🧟‍♂️

Grab your pointy sticks and holy water, ‘cause you’re being invaded by last year’s bad bills, coming right up out of the ground where we put them.

Here’s the full Bad Bill Sheet, all 49 pages of it:

We’re constantly experimenting and looking for ways to make the Bad Bill Sheet easier to use. The more bad bills are in play each week, the harder it is to present this information in a way that is accessible.

So in this newsletter, I’ve listed all the bills out by category below. Please tell me if this is more useful to you, or if you like the old way better.

Note: bills in bold are about to pass the House or Senate.

Constitutional Threats 😤

• H.3558 Constitutional Convention Commission

• H.3007, H.3008 Petitions for a Constitutional Convention 🧟‍♂️

• S.2 Consolidating Behavioral Health Agencies

Incumbent Protection 🤥

• H.3556 Stopping Election Challenges 🧟‍♂️

• H.3557 Candidate Filing Fee Hike

• H.3305 Shield Act for Politicians 🧟‍♂️

These horrible and blatantly illegal State Election Commission regulations have suddenly re-surfaced from last session without warning:

• D.5192 Blocking election observers 🧟‍♂️

• D.5193 Restricting voter list access 🧟‍♂️

• D.5196 Delay filing of election official oaths of office 🧟‍♂️

• D.5202 Candidate withdrawal deadline 🧟‍♂️

• D.5203 “Deepfaking” election petitions 🧟‍♂️

• D.5204 Election machine decisions 🧟‍♂️

Education 😈

• H.3431 Grooming Kids for Censorship

• S.268 Social Media Lawfare

• S.79 Non-certified Teacher Pilot Program

• S.62 Private School Subsidies and Mandates 🧟‍♂️

Nanny State 👁️

• S.287 Regulating e-cigarettes and vape pens 🧟‍♂️

• H.3945 Permit to hunt feral hogs and coyotes with drones

Wasteful Spending 🤑

• S.213 Greenville Downtown Airport Bond

• S.256 Government Loans for “Green” Buildings 🧟‍♂️

• H.3279 Equine Promotion Act 🧟‍♂️

Capital Cronyism 🥸

• S.12 Santee Cooper Joint Power Plant

Silly Bills 🥸

• H.3814 Continue the Water Study Committee

• S.310 Resolution for a St. Jude Affiliate Program

• S.165 Conservation Education Act

• S.318 Fake “DOGE” Committee

• H.3021 Regulation Sunset and Review

• S.163 Banning Cryptocurrency Mining

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