S.C. Code Ann. § 56-1-745
2012 Act No. 264, Section 9, provides as follows:
"(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of Act 13 of 2011, the suspension by the Department of Motor Vehicles of a person's driver's license who is convicted of a controlled substance violation, pursuant to former Section 56-1-745, for which the person was charged before April 12, 2011, and whose conviction or guilty plea or nolo contendere plea was entered on or after April 12, 2011, is reversed, and the person's driving privilege must be reinstated on this act's effective date.
"(B) The department shall not pay or reimburse a person for a reinstatement fee or other costs or fees incurred by the person as a result of the person's driver's license suspension if the suspension was due to being charged with a controlled substance violation before April 12, 2011, the person was convicted on or after April 12, 2011, the suspension ended, and the person paid the reinstatement fee or incurred other costs or fees before this act's effective date."
2012 Act No. 318, Section 1, provides as follows:
"(A) Notwithstanding the provisions of Act 13 of 2011, the suspension by the Department of Motor Vehicles of the driver's license of a person convicted of a controlled substance violation, pursuant to former Section 56-1-745 of the 1976 Code, for which the person was charged before April 12, 2011, and whose conviction or guilty plea or nolo contendere was entered on or after April 12, 2011, is reversed and the person's driving privilege must be reinstated on this act's effective date.
"(B) The department must not pay or reimburse a person for a reinstatement fee or other costs or fees incurred by the person as a result of the suspension of the person's driver's license if the person's driver's license suspension was due to being charged with a controlled substance violation before April 12, 2011, and convicted on or after April 12, 2011, and the suspension ended and the person paid the reinstatement fee or incurred other costs or fees before this act's effective date."
Former Section 56-1-745 was entitled "Conviction of controlled substance violations; suspension of driver's license; special restricted driver's license and fees; insurance penalty under Merit Rating Plan; definitions" and was derived from 1990 Act No. 602, Section 3; 1990 Act No. 604, Section 13; 1992 Act No. 421, Section 1; 1993 Act No. 181, Section 1331; 1994 Act No. 357, Sections 2, 3; 2001 Act No. 79, Section 2.F; 2002 Act No. 348, Section 13; 2002 Act No. 354, Section 6; 2010 Act No. 273, Section 43, eff June 2, 2010.