Legislation

This bill would give educators, administrators, and school staff increased and vague authority to discipline students in classrooms. Specifically, educators would be authorized to use “reasonable physical force” to protect themselves or others from harm and to permanently remove students from classrooms.

This bill would give educators, administrators, and school staff increased and vague authority to discipline students in classrooms.

This bill would make it illegal to receive an abortion in South Carolina unless the pregnant person’s life is in danger, drastically limiting the scope of reproductive healthcare.

Schools would be required to display the Ten Commandments, starting with “I AM the Lord thy God,” in a prominent place in every classroom. This is a crystal-clear example of establishment of religion.

Senate Bill 162 would only allow changes to the gender on a birth certificate within 12 months of a person’s birth. It would also define “gender” in state law to reflect sex assigned at birth, applying a political definition instead of a scientifically accurate one.

This bill would expand the definition of “wrongful death” to include abortion. This bill states that a wrongful death lawsuit could be brought by the mother, father, or both mother and father of an embryo or fetus.

This bill would create the Healthy Mother and Healthy Newborn Ombudsman Office within the Department of Health and Human Services (DHSS). The office would be led by an ombudsman appointed by the Director of DHHS. Like several anti-abortion bills introduced this session, S. 717 would insert the phrase “preborn human” into state law.

This bill would require law enforcement officers to activate audio and video recording while detaining people, regardless of whether the person is under arrest or not. The officer would also be required to inform the detained person that they are being detained, the reason they are being detained, and when they are free to leave. If the officer does not provide the detained person with the previously stated information, any statements the officer obtains would be inadmissible in court.