Senator MALLOY proposed the following amendment (516R003.SP.GM):

Amend the joint resolution, as and if amended, by adding an appropriately numbered new SECTION to read:

/SECTION __. (A) Upon the effective date of this joint resolution, the Department of Health and Environmental Control shall identify daycare workers as mission-critical workers and individuals who are eligible for vaccination under Phase 1a of the South Carolina COVID-19 Vaccination Plan.

(B) The Department of Health and Environmental Control shall implement a plan that will offer the opportunity to daycare workers to be fully vaccinated within thirty days of the effective date of this joint resolution.

(C) Notwithstanding subsection (B), the Department of Health and Environmental Control must ensure that all South Carolina residents who are eligible under Phase 1a of the South Carolina COVID-19 Vaccination Plan who have received a first vaccine dose as of the effective date of this joint resolution are offered the opportunity for full vaccination within the appropriate recommended time period. /