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S. 1056
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Bennett
Document Path: l:\council\bills\agm\19327wab18.docx
Companion/Similar bill(s): 1057, 4966
Introduced in the Senate on February 27, 2018
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Education
Summary: Fire drills
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/27/2018 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 6) 2/27/2018 Senate Referred to Committee on Education (Senate Journal-page 6)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 59-63-910, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO MANDATORY MONTHLY FIRE DRILLS IN ALL PUBLIC SCHOOLS, SO AS TO INSTEAD REQUIRE MONTHLY SAFETY AND SECURITY DRILLS, OF WHICH AT LEAST SIX MUST BE FIRE DRILLS; AND TO REDESIGNATE ARTICLE 9, CHAPTER 63, TITLE 59 AS "SAFETY AND SECURITY DRILLS".
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 59-63-910 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 59-63-910. All teachers or superintendents in charge of the schools of the State which are supported in whole or in part by taxation shall conduct fire safety and security drills at least once each month. No fewer than six of these drills must be fire drills. Any teacher or superintendent failing to observe the provisions of this section shall must be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense. Such fine shall be deducted from his salary and turned over to the county treasurer for ordinary county purposes."
SECTION 2. Article 9, Chapter 63, Title 59 is redesignated "Safety and Security Drills".
SECTION 3. This act takes effect July 1, 2018
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