Legislation

This bill would discriminate against transgender students in South Carolina public schools and universities by requiring them to use restrooms and changing facilities that do not match their gender.

This bill would allow parents to exempt their children from any classroom instruction in a public school if it conflicts with their “beliefs or practices regarding sex, morality, or religion.” It would also forbid classroom discussions of "gender roles or stereotypes, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation” unless a teacher gives parents five days' advance notice and receives affirmative consent from the parents.

This bill would require every law enforcement agency that operates a correctional facility to enter a written collaboration agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through its 287(g) program.

Under this bill, a driver’s license issued by another state to an undocumented immigrant would be invalid in South Carolina and the driver’s license holder would be given a citation when stopped by law enforcement.

This bill would criminalize the distribution, possession, and use of the drugs mifepristone and misoprostol, which are used for medication abortion, managing miscarriages, treating pregnancy complications, and a variety of other uses. Under this bill, the state would imprison people up to five years for possessing these essential medications without a prescription, or for using them to obtain an abortion.

This bill would require most standing House committees to be composed of members reflecting the partisan makeup of the full State House of Representatives. The only committees exempted from this rule would be the Legislative Ethics Committee and the Committee on Operations and Management.

This bill would block any clinic that provides abortions from providing family planning services with funding from the South Carolina Medicaid program.

This bill would allow a person to participate in a pretrial intervention (PTI) program more than once if it has been at least 20 years since they last completed a PTI program.

This bill would require public schools to record audio and video of all special education classroom instruction. These recordings would be available to the general public under the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act.