Bill Number
Budget
Sierra Club Position
Support
Sponsor
Rep. M. Smith, Sen. Peeler
Legislative Session
Status Info
The South Carolina Sierra Club has a long history of supporting funding for environmental protections in the state budget and did so again during this 2023 legislative session.
The SC Sierra Club supported several items in the budget that were passed into law last year and continued to be sustained at current levels or were increased in the 2023 budget request, as well as several line items that may come up which could mimic aspects of other important pieces of legislation which we support.
The following are the highlights from the 2023-2024 budget as passed by the legislature.
- $27,094,515 to the Conservation Bank in recurring funding
- 25,000,000 for one-time conservation grant project funds via the Conservation Bank
- $20,000,000 in one-time funds to DNR for habitat protection and land conservation acquisitions
- $3,000,000 for in one-time funds to DNR for state water planning
- $200,000,000 in one-time funds for the Office of Resilience for the disaster relief and resilience reserve fund
- $11,750,000 in one-time funds to PRT for state park development, upgrades, and maintenance
- $36,000,000 for dam safety under DHEC
- $2,000,000 under the DHEC Pollutants Remediation Fund for PFAS remediation
South Carolina Sierra Club
This is a SC Sierra Club priority.