SC Lawmakers Take Further Steps to Protect Confederate Monuments
Adding penalties and context controls to the Heritage Act
South Carolina lawmakers want to strengthen the state’s Heritage Act, which establishes protections for Confederate and other monuments by prohibiting local officials from adding plaques that put controversial statues in modern context.
The legislation proposed March 26 also requires the state treasurer to withhold funds from any local government which violates the law. It additionally expands the Statehouse’s power to control private monuments on public grounds.
The private monument aspect of the bill could have covered the John C. Calhoun monument that previously stood in Charleston’s Marion Square, which the City Council removed in 2020.
Supporters could not immediately say if the bill, should it be passed, could be enforced retroactively.
Calling the old version of the act “ineffective” as it stands today, supporters introduced legislation in both the House and Senate they say is a stronger, more specific law to ensure “heritage” and “memory” in the state are not erased. While encompassing the state, the legislation has a particular eye toward Charleston as multiple groups have moved to…
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