The Tort Reform Bill H.3744 Passed the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday and has been placed on the Senate calendar. Senator Maggie Glover (D-Florence) objected to the bill, which puts it on the Senate Contested Calendar, making its chances of passing poor. The Committee passed the tort bill with a medical malpractice cap set at $300,000 - with exceptions including brain injury, death, loss of limb, loss of organ, HIV contraction, and disfigurement of over 20 percent of the body. To pass, the bill must receive two more readings in the Senate and go back to the House for concurrence. If the two chambers concur on the amended bill, it would go to the Governor for his signature. This is the closest that tort reform has ever come to passing in South Carolina.