Jeffrey Zell
F
33%
Freedom Score
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Session Voting Records
Reports
2025-2026 Regular Session
South Carolina: Senate
Score: 33
Small-business Deregulation
Would strengthen legislative oversight of state regulations and reduce unnecessary burdens on small businesses.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes
Vote Cast: Yes
Con-Con Rules
Sets deceptive rules for selecting and overseeing South Carolina's delegates to a potential Article V convention.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: No
Vote Cast: Yes
Public-land Protection
Establishes a statewide goal of increasing protected land from about 3.4 million acres to seven million acres by 2050.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: No
Vote Cast: Yes
Municipal Sales Taxes
Allows certain municipalities to ask voters to approve a local sales tax of up to one percent.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: No
Vote Cast: Yes
Annual cost per household: -$46.00
Biological Sex
Requires public schools and colleges to designate multi-person restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters for use only by members of one sex.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes
Vote Cast: Yes
Tax Credits for Redevelopment
Expands and clarifies the state tax credit for redeveloping abandoned buildings.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: No
Vote Cast: Yes
Dismissal of Gun-possession Charges
Dismisses and expunges pre-2024 unlawful-handgun-possession charges or one prior conviction, shields such cases from civil suits, and requires applications within five years.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes
Vote Cast: Yes
Con-Con: Term Limits
Applies to Congress for an Article V constitutional convention limited to proposing an amendment that would impose term limits on members of the U.S. House and Senate.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: No
Vote Cast: Yes
Pharmacist-prescribed Birth Control
Expands access to hormonal birth control by allowing pharmacists to dispense "self-administered hormonal contraceptives" without a patient-specific doctor's prescription.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: No
Vote Cast: Yes
Millage Rates: Property-tax Increase
Allows municipalities without an existing operating millage to impose one, capped at one-third of the previous year's general fund or proposed budget.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: No
Vote Cast: Yes
Central Bank Digital Currency Ban
Prohibits state and local governments from accepting or requiring payment in a central bank digital currency (CBDC) or participating in CBDC testing.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: Yes
Vote Cast: Yes
"Free" School Meals
Forces South Carolina school districts to track student poverty, expand taxpayer-funded school meals, assist with applications, ban "lunch shaming," and consider joining the federal Community Eligibility Provision.
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Pro-Freedom Vote: No
Vote Cast: Yes
Gressette Building, Room 610 1101 Pendleton St
Columbia, SC 29201
Columbia, SC 29201
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