LibGuides: South Carolina Legal Resources: Constitutions and Codes

SC Constitution

South Carolina Constitution
The current official print annotated South Carolina Constitution is available as part of the South Carolina Code Annotated. Copies of the South Carolina Code Annotated are available on the 1st floor of the USC Law Library and in most South Carolina public libraries.

Online access to the unofficial South Carolina Constitution is available on the Constitution page of the South Carolina Legislature's website at www.scstatehouse.gov.
The Constitution of South Carolina by James Lowell Underwood
Call Number: KFS2202 .U52 1994
ISBN: 0872494438
The South Carolina State Constitution: A Reference Guide by Cole Blease Graham, Jr.
Call Number: KFS2201 1895 .A6 G73 2007
Publication Date: 2007
The Constitutions of the State of South Carolina, 1776 – 1895
Call Number: KFS2201.A15 1776-1895

Full text of previous SC Constitutions

SC Code of Laws

Code of Laws of South Carolina 1976 Annotated
Print copies of the current South Carolina Code Annotated, with annual supplements, are available on the 1st floor of the Law Library.

Online access to the current un-annotated, unofficial South Carolina Code of Laws is available through the Code of Laws page of the South Carolina Legislature's website at www.scstatehouse.gov.

SC Session Laws (Acts)

Acts and Joint Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina
South Carolina laws are published in chronological order by session in the print South Carolina Acts & Joint Resolutions, located on the 1st floor of the Law Library.

The full text of South Carolina Acts from 1980 through the current session of the South Carolina General Assembly is available on the Ratifications and Acts page of the South Carolina Legislature's website.

Acts & Joint Resolutions - 1731 to 1986
South Carolina session laws from LLMC

SC Bills

Digest of House and Senate Bills and Resolutions
The Digest of the South Carolina House and Senate Bills and Resolutions is available on the 1st floor of the law Library.

The full text of South Carolina Bills and Resolutions is available from 1980 forward on the Legislation page of the South Carolina Legislature's website.
Pending Senate and House Bills and Resolutions
Online access to bills introduced and pending in the current legislative session of the SC General Assembly is available through the Home and Legislation pages of the South Carolina Legislature's website.

SC House and Senate Journals

Journal of the House of Representatives of South Carolina
Print copies of the Journals of the SC House of Representatives from 1843 forward are available on the 1st floor of the Law Library.

SC House Journals are available from 1986 to present on the Home page of the South Carolina Legislature's website.
Journal of the Senate of South Carolina
Print copies of the Journals of the SC Senate from 1846 forward are available on the 1st floor of the Law Library.

The Journals of the SC Senate are available from 1990 to present on the Home page of the South Carolina Legislature's website.

SC Legislature

South Carolina Legislature Home Page

South Carolina Constitutional Materials (Workman Papers)

This collection includes materials donated to the Law Library’s South Carolina Legal History Collection by William D. Workman, Jr., in December 1983. The portion of the Workman Papers digitized here features papers of the 1949-1950 Committee to Make a Study of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 and the 1966-1969 Committee to Make a Study of the South Carolina Constitution of 1895 (also known as the West Committee). The originals of these digitized papers and the portion of the collection that has not been digitized may be viewed by arrangement with the University of South Carolina Law Library.

A guide for this collection is available:

Guide to William D. Workman, Jr. Papers