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H3464 - Critical race theory instruction prohibition
Steven Wayne Long, John R. Mccravy, James Mikell Burns
Last updated over 1 year ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 59-29-12 So As To Provide Public School Districts, Public Schools, And Public Institutions Of Higher Learning May Not Direct Or Otherwise Compel Students To Personally Affirm, Adopt, Or Adhere To The Tenets Of "critical Race Theory" Or Provide Related Instruction, And To Define Necessary Terminology.
STATUS
Introduced
H3532 - Bond Reform
Murrell Smith, Thomas E. Pope, John R. Mccravy
Last updated about 1 year ago
33 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 17-15-270 So As To Create An Additional Offense Punishable By Up To Five Years If A Person Commits A Subsequent Violent Crime While Subject To A Bond Order Or Pretrial Release Order For A Previous Violent Crime; By Amending Section 17-15-15, Relating To Cash Deposits In Lieu Of Bond, So As To Provide That If The Court Finds That A Defendant May Be Released On Bond Who Has Been Charged With A Violent Offense Or Any Felony Offense Involving A Firearm While Out On Bond Or Other Pretrial Release, The Bond Must Be Set At The Full United States Cash Currency Bond Rather Than Ten Percent; By Amending Section 17-15-30, Relating To Matters To Be Considered In Determining Conditions Of Release, So As To Include Whether A Person Is Currently Out On Bond For Another Offense; By Adding Section 17-15-35 So As To Define Necessary Terms, And To Provide Procedures For Court-ordered Electronic Monitoring In Lieu Of Setting Bond Or As An Additional Condition Of Bond; By Adding Section 17-15-37 So As To Authorize The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division To Promulgate Regulations Regarding Electronic Monitoring And To Provide Parameters For Which An Electronic Monitoring Agency Must Operate Within; By Amending Section 17-15-55, Relating To Reconsideration Of Bond By The Circuit Court Set By A Summary Court, So As To Provide A Defendant Must Be Advised Of His Right To A Speedy Trial And To Provide Procedures Related To Speedy Trials, To Provide For The Revocation Of Previous Bond If A Person Commits A Violent Offense Or A Felony Offense Involving A Firearm Which Was Committed While The Person Was Already Out On Bond For A Previous Violent Offense Or Felony Offense Involving A Firearm, To Require A Full Bond Under Certain Repeat Offender Circumstances, And To Provide Conforming Procedures; By Amending Section 22-5-510, Relating To Bail And Bond Hearings And Conditions Of Release, So As To Include Whether A Person Is Currently Out On Bond For Another Offense; By Amending Section 24-13-40, Relating To The Computation Of Time Served By Prisoners, So As To Prohibit Credit For Time Served Prior To Trial And Sentencing When The Prisoner Committed A Subsequent Crime While Out On Bond Or Had Bond Revoked On Any Charge Prior To Trial Or Plea; By Amending Section 24-13-425, Relating To The Offense Of Tampering With An Electronic Monitoring Device, So As To Delete An Unnecessary Definition And Exempt Certain Authorized Employees Or Agents From The Purview Of The Statute; By Adding Section 17-15-500 So As To Establish The South Carolina Pretrial Reform Commission, Provide For Its Membership And Duties, And Terminate The Commission On A Date Certain; By Amending Section 38-53-10, Relating To Defintions For Purposes Of The Chapter On Bail Bondsmen And Runners, So As To Revise The Definition Of "surety Bondsman" And Define The Term "electronic Monitoring"; By Amending Section 38-53-50, Relating To Surety Relieved On Bond, So As To Make A Technical Change Regarding Nonpayment Of Premium Fees Alone Not Being Sufficient To Warrant Immediate Incarceration Of The Defendant; By Amending Section 38-53-70, Relating To The Issuance Of Bench Warrants For Failure To Appear, So As To Revise The Statute To Apply More Broadly When A Defendant Violates The Conditions Of Bond And Revise Time Frames Provided For The Notice Of The Bench Warrant; By Adding Section 38-53-84 So As To Require Notification To The Appropriate Solicitor If A Defendant Violates An Order For Electronic Monitoring, To Provide For Relief From The Bond If The Defendant Fails To Pay For The Monitoring, And To Provide For Possible Revocation Of A Bondsman's License For Failure To Comply With Reporting Requirements; By Amending Section 38-53-170, Relating To Unlawful Acts By Bondsmen And Runners, So As To Provide Additional Payment Procedures And Expense Reimbursement Procedures; By Amending Section 38-53-310, Relating To Written Bail Bond Reports That Must Be Filed Each Month With The Clerk Of Court, So As To Include Current Data Retained As An Express Condition Of Bond, And To Allow For The Use Of A Data Management Software System In Lieu Of The Written Report; And By Adding Section 38-53-55 So As To Require A Person Engaged In Electronic Monitoring Of A Defendant Charged With A Violent Offense To Report To The Court And Law Enforcement Officials If The Defendant Has Contact With The Alleged Victim. - Ratified Title
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Passed
H3096 - Monuments and memorials
Bill Taylor, John R. Mccravy, James Mikell Burns
Last updated over 1 year ago
21 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 10-1-165, Relating To The Protection Of Certain Monuments And Memorials, So As To Expand The Type Of Monuments That May Not Be Relocated, Removed, Or Disturbed, To Withhold All Disbursements From The Local Government Fund For Any County Or Municipality That Violates This Section, And To Provide That Any Member Of A Local Governing Body Who Votes In Favor Of Any Action That Violates This Provision Is Guilty Of Misconduct In Office.
STATUS
Introduced
H3553 - Adoption
Murrell Smith, Shannon S. Erickson, Heather Ammons Crawford
Last updated about 1 year ago
28 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-9-750, Relating To Final Adoption Hearings, So As To Eliminate The Mandatory Ninety-day Waiting Period To Finalize An Adoption; By Amending Sections 63-7-1710, 63-7-2530, 63-9-710, And 63-7-1660, All Relating To Child Permanency Proceedings, So As To Make Certain Changes To Expedite Permanency For Children In The Custody Of The Department Of Social Services; By Amending Section 63-7-40, Relating To Infant Safe Havens, So As To Allow The Permanency Planning Hearing And Termination Of Parental Rights Hearing To Occur In The Same Proceeding, With Exceptions; By Amending Section 63-9-30, Relating To Terms Defined In The South Carolina Adoption Act, So As To Change The Definition Of "special Needs Child"; And By Amending Section 63-7-1700, Relating To Permanency Planning, So As To Make Certain Changes To Promote Timely Permanence For Children In The Custody Of The Department Of Social Services; And For Other Purposes. - Ratified Title
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Passed
H3100 - Landlord Tenant Act
James Mikell Burns, John R. Mccravy, Jordan S. Pace
Last updated over 1 year ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 27-40-20, Relating To The Purposes And Rules Of Construction For The Residential Landlord And Tenant Act, So As To Exempt Certain Tenancies From The Act; And By Amending Section 45-2-60, Relating To The Ejectment Of A Person From A Lodging Establishment, So As To Authorize An Innkeeper To Request Assistance From Law Enforcement To Eject A Person And To Provide That A Person Ejected From A Campground Has Ten Days To Make A Claim For Property Left At The Time Of Ejectment.
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Introduced
H3583 - Gavin's Law, Sextortion
Brandon Guffey, Brian Lawson, Jordan S. Pace
Last updated over 1 year ago
67 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting "gavin's Law" By Adding Section 16-15-430 So As To Create The Offenses Of "sexual Extortion" And "aggravated Sexual Extortion", To Define Necessary Terms, And To Provide Penalties For Violations. - Ratified Title
STATUS
Passed
H3485 - Families' Rights and Responsibilities Act
Roy Josiah Magnuson, Robert J. May, Adam M. Morgan
Last updated over 1 year ago
36 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "families' Rights And Responsibilities Act" By Adding Chapter 23 To Title 63 So As To Recognize That Parents Have The Ultimate Responsibility To Direct The Upbringing, Education, Health Care, And Mental Health Of Their Children; To Set Forth Certain Rights And Responsibilities; To Require Local School Boards Of Trustees To Take Certain Actions To Promote Parental Involvement; To Require Medical Providers To Obtain Parental Consent Before Providing Health Care Services To A Child Of The Parent, With Exceptions; To Create A Cause Of Action For Violation Of The Chapter; And For Other Purposes; And To Amend Section 59-28-160, Relating To Local School Boards Of Trustees, So As To Make Conforming Changes.
STATUS
Introduced
H3354 - Concealed weapons
Dennis Carroll Moss, John R. Mccravy, Brian Lawson
Last updated over 1 year ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 23-31-240, Relating To Persons Allowed To Carry Concealable Weapons Within The State, So As To Add Active Clerks Of Court To The List Of Persons.
STATUS
Introduced
H3774 - Abortion Ban with Exceptions
John R. Mccravy, Murrell Smith, Davey R. Hiott
Last updated over 1 year ago
53 Co-Sponsors
Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "human Life Protection Act"; By Adding Article 7 To Chapter 41, Title 44 So As To Ban Abortions In This State, To Provide For Exceptions To The Ban On Abortions, To Protect The Use Of Contraceptives And Alternative Reproductive Technologies, To Provide Penalties, To Provide A Civil Cause Of Action For Failure To Comply With The Requirements Of This Article, To Provide That A Woman Cannot Be Prosecuted For Having An Abortion, To Provide That Physicians Or Other Licensed Professionals Shall Lose Their License For Violations Of This Article, And To Provide That A Woman's Name May Remain Anonymous In Proceedings Initiated Pursuant To This Article; By Adding Section 44-41-90 So As To Provide That The State Health Insurance Program May Not Pay For Abortions, To Prohibit State Funds From Being Used For The Purchase Of Fetal Tissue Or Fetal Remains Obtained From An Abortion, And To Defund Planned Parenthood; By Adding Section 63-17-325 So As To Require A Biological Father To Pay Child Support Beginning At Conception; By Adding Section 38-71-146 So As To Require All Individual And Group Health Insurance And Hmo Policies To Cover Contraceptives; By Requiring The South Carolina Public Employee Benefit Authority To Cover Prescribed Contraceptives For Dependents; By Amending Section 44-41-710, Relating To Construction And Application Of This Article, So As To Remove Language Related To Implicit Repeal; By Amending Section 44-41-480, Relating To Construction Against Implicit Repeal Of Existing Law, So As To Remove Language Related To Implicit Repeal; By Repealing Section 44-41-20 Relating To Legal Abortions; By Amending Section 44-41-70, Relating To Promulgation Of Rules And Regulations For Certification Of Hospitals And Other Facilities, So As To Delete A Reference To Section 44-41-20; And By Providing An Unconditional Right To Intervene In Challenges To This Act By The President Of The Senate And The Speaker Of The House Of Representatives.
STATUS
Engrossed
H3643 - Mayor L. S. Green sympathy
David Vaughan, Terry Alexander, Carl L. Anderson
Last updated over 1 year ago
124 Co-Sponsors
Express The Profound Sorrow Of The Members Of The South Carolina House Of Representatives Upon The Passing Of L. S. Green, The Former Mayor Of The City Of Mauldin, And To Extend Their Deepest Sympathy To His Large And Loving Family And His Many Friends.
STATUS
Passed
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Representative from South Carolina district HD-013
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South Carolina House
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John R. McCravy is a member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, representing District 13. He assumed office in 2017. Representative McCravy's professional experience includes working as a pharmacist. Representative McCravy graduated with a B.S. in Pharmacy from the University of South Carolina in 1981. He went on to receive his Doctor of Pharmacy from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2000.read less
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