On December 11, 2025, the Senate Medical Affairs Subcommittee is holding a hearing, and on the agenda is S.110.
Warning: this bill is less than a page long. It might take you ten minutes to read it if you read slowly.
Naturally, one may assume that a short bill is nothing to concern oneself with. But before making any judgment, you should check out the articles about sleeper bills. These articles explain why these small, innocent-looking bills are ones you should watch closely.
Meg Johnson, author of Sleepers: Bills that Change Our Culture, put it best:
“Too often, without much, if any, scrutiny or debate, hundreds of (mostly) short laws are enacted that, by design, are slowly rotting the fabric of our society and security. These bills may be observed quietly moving through the legislative process, their unthreatening demeanor and ‘sleepy’ movement hardly disturbed as they become law. And, truly, those involved in their passage are ‘asleep at the wheel’ as these cleverly designed ‘sleepers’ pass into the body of law in every state and increase the police power of government.”
Back to the Bill Itself
The intent of S.110 is to ban weather modification, like cloud seeding, aerosol injection, atmospheric spraying, and geoengineering (code word for chemtrails). A lot of other states have filed similar bills for the same intent.
The House has filed its own versions: H.3915, H.4010, and H.3083.
All versions propose to insert a new prohibition into Section 48-1-110. Here is the language the bill uses to create its main prohibition:
S.110 and H.3083
“(2) The intentional injection, release, dispersion, or other emission, by any means, of chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, apparatus, or other air contaminants within the borders of this State with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight is prohibited.”
H.3915 and H.4010
“(2)(A) It is unlawful for a person to intentionally inject, release, or disperse, by any means, chemicals, chemical compounds, substances, or apparatus and energy frequencies manipulation within the borders of the State in the atmosphere with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of storms and the dimming of the sunlight.”
(Note: H.4010 specifically adds a ban on damaging “tree farms,” likely to gain support from the forestry industry.)
Ambiguous and Dangerous Words
At first glance, these words seem straightforward. But hold up. We need to proceed with caution when it comes to ambiguous words that allow the government or courts to insert their own interpretation. “Intentional,” “purpose,” and especially “express purpose” fall directly into that danger zone.
How will the state prove intent? Is it based on written statements, mental state, computer models, or assumptions?
Can the state infer intent? If a farmer uses a hail cannon to save his crop, is he a criminal?
Is there no minimum threshold?
What happens when a child does a science fair experiment? If a middle school student launches a weather balloon or does a "cloud in a bottle" experiment to demonstrate weather formation, are they not intentionally releasing a substance with the express purpose of affecting weather on a micro scale? Under the strict text of this bill, that child is technically a criminal.
The state probably won’t arrest the child, but it could. That means the bureaucrat gets to decide who follows the law and who goes to jail.
Undercutting the Purpose
The House versions (H.3915 and H.4010) actually undercut their stated purpose. Both bills contain this exemption:
“The provisions of this item do not apply to any person whose cloud seeding is a result of a publicly approved contract.”
So can the government create a monopoly on weather modification, and what does “publicly approved” mean exactly? How can the state create a permitting process for a crime it claims it wants to abolish?
H.3915 goes even further: “Notwithstanding any provision of state or federal law to the contrary…”
And there it is. The supremacy declaration. A state cannot legislate away federal sovereign immunity. Good luck suing the federal government and securing a win.
Growing Government
S.110, H.3083, H.3915, and H.4010 all amend SC Code 48-1-110 by adding more law and giving the state explicit authority to:
regulate
approve
criminalize
permit
monitor
exempt
All of which will cost more money.
More monitoring = more staff = more money = more bureaucracy.
And Now the Elephant in the Room
The United States Government has exclusive sovereignty over the airspace of the United States.
Addressing the problem of watching our skies filled with lines of spray is indeed a real health concern. But these bills won't stop that issue.
The Florida Failure
How are similar laws working out?
Since Florida's Senate Bill 56 took effect in July 2025, there is no evidence that air quality has improved or that the level of atmospheric contaminants has dropped. But then again, Florida Department of Environmental Protection records showed the state had zero active weather modification projects before the ban went into effect.
The Florida DEP stated: “It has never received any applications for weather modification licenses... and has never issued any such licenses... since the original statute was enacted in 1957.”
So the Florida law is left with the impossibility of subtracting from zero. The result? More government and more spending for absolutely no change in the sky.
The Bottom Line
To enforce S.110 or any of the similar bills, the math does not change. The state would have to do more than show that something was released into the air. They would have to prove the purpose behind the release. Motive is almost impossible to prove.
It becomes clear that these bills will function as political trophies while adding more power to the government. Good grief.
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