For planar H2CS, (C2ν), the CS stretch potential curves were obtained for the four to six lowest singlet states of each symmetry species by using multireference CI methods. Included were the (n, 4s), (n, 4p), (n, 3d), (π, 4s), and (π, 4p) Rydberg as well as the (n, π*), (π, π*), (σ, π*), (n, σ*), (n0, π*2), and (nπ, π*2) valence states. Vertical and adiabatic excitation energies, equilibrium CS distances, vibrational frequencies for the CS stretching mode, dipole moments, oscillator strengths, and Franck–Condon factors were evaluated and found to be in good agreement with known experimental data. The role of the 1(π, π*) state that diabatically crosses all 1A1 states, including the n2 ground-state configuration, causing many interactions with other states, has been given special attention. The following reassignments and predictions are of interest. (i) A switch of Ẽ and [Formula: see text], with 1A1(n, 4py) corresponding to the Ẽ bands and 1B2(n, 4pz) corresponding to the [Formula: see text] bands is suggested, based on the energetic ordering. (ii) Because of strong Franck–Condon factors, hot bands are suggested to play an important role in the analysis of the CS stretch progression of [Formula: see text]. (iii) The [Formula: see text] system, only studied in low resolution, is predicted to have high intensity and be perturbed due to the crossing of (π, π*) with (n, 4py) in the vertical region. The CS stretch bands should be observable. (iv) Observed combination modes in the [Formula: see text] system may be due to vibronic mixing of (π, π*) with (σ, π*).