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SC H 4636

Schedule I for the whole plant, and repeal of South Carolina's Kratom Consumer Protection Act.

We oppose this

Kratom

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Yours will be better than ours because it is yours. Change a word, say where you live, and stop — ninety seconds is a long call.

I am a constituent and I am asking you to oppose H. 4636, which is still in House Judiciary. It is not the same bill as H. 4641 — this one schedules the entire plant, any part of it, and it repeals the South Carolina Kratom Consumer Protection Act completely. That act is what currently stops sales to under-21s, bans adulterated product and requires labeling. Deleting it does not make South Carolina safer, it makes the state blind to what is being sold. If the Kratom Consumer Protection Act needs strengthening, strengthen it. Please do not repeal it.
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What it does

Read from the introduced text of 17 December 2025. It has not been amended, and it is NOT the same bill as its companion H. 4641.

  • SECTION 2 adds subsection (G) to Section 44-53-190: kratom and any salt, sulfate, isomer, homologue, analogue or other preparation of kratom, and any preparation “synthetic or otherwise” that is substantially chemically equivalent or identical to kratom. It defines kratom as ANY PART of the plant Mitragyna speciosa.
  • That is broader than its companion. H. 4641 schedules the alkaloids; this schedules the plant, leaf included.
  • SECTION 3 repeals Article 20, Chapter 53, Title 44 outright — the entire South Carolina Kratom Consumer Protection Act, with its 21-and-over limit, its adulteration bans and its labeling rules.
  • SECTION 1 sets out legislative findings: that kratom acts on opioid receptors and is not FDA approved, that its use is associated with addiction, liver injury, seizures and deaths, and that it poses a significant threat to public health.
  • SECTION 4 delays the effective date to six months after the Governor's approval.
  • Introduced by Rep. Oremus with eleven others. It has sat in House Judiciary since January and has not moved since March, while its companion passed the House.

Read the text

Every version, newest first, linked to the legislature's own copy rather than a third-party mirror. The newest one is the text that matters; the older ones show what changed and when, which is often where the real story is.

What our model act does instead

We are not asking anyone to do nothing. Every objection below comes with the clause we would put in its place — the full text is here.

§5

Scope of Protection and Regulation

This bill removes a working consumer protection regime and replaces it with a schedule. South Carolina already has an act that restricts sales to over-21s, bans adulterated product and requires labeling. SECTION 3 deletes all of it. Section 5 of our model act is the opposite move: keep kratom alkaloid products inside a regulatory scheme where a licensed seller can be held to a standard, because a scheduled product has no licensed seller to hold.

§12

Testing Requirements

Repealing Article 20 removes the testing and labeling duties along with everything else, so the state ends up knowing less about what is being sold than it does today. Section 12 requires independent batch testing and a certificate of analysis — the first protection lost when a market moves to people registered with nobody.

§15

Youth Access Restrictions

The repeal takes the 21-and-over restriction with it. Section 15 keeps an age limit and places the duty on a licensed seller, which is the only party who can be required to check identification. After a repeal there is no such party.

§20

Penalties

Scheduling the plant makes possession the offense, so the consequence lands on the person using it. Section 20 places penalties on the business that violates a rule.

Who is behind it

Sponsors are not the enemy and treating them as one wastes the call. They put their name to this because somebody convinced them it would help; the job is to be the person who tells them what it will actually do. If one of them represents you, your call on this bill carries more weight than anyone else's — check whether they do.