South Carolina House Bill 4059

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 21)
Status: Introduced on February 19 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-19 - Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works
Pending: House Education and Public Works Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [HTML]

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "freedom To Read Protections And Respect For School Library Media Specialist Autonomy Act"; By Adding Section 59-31-55 So As To Define Necessary Terms, To Affirm Certain Rights Concerning Student Access To Diverse And Developmentally Appropriate Reading Material, To Provide The Right For School Library Media Specialists To Autonomously Make Certain Decisions About Curating And Maintaining Materials In Their School Library/media Center Collections, To Provide Requirements For Formal Challenges To Such Materials, And To Provide Related Rights Of Public School Library Media Specialists And Other Public School Professionals When Performing Related Professional Duties In Good Faith.

Freedom to Read Protections and Respect for School Librarian Autonomy

Rep. Heather Bauer [D]	Rep. Lonnie Hosey [D]	Rep. Kambrell Garvin [D]	Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter [D]
Rep. Beth Bernstein [D]	Rep. Leonidas Stavrinakis [D]	Rep. Chandra Dillard [D]	Rep. Elizabeth Wetmore [D]
Rep. John King [D]	Rep. Tiffany Spann-Wilder [D]	Rep. Wendell Jones [D]	Rep. Michael Rivers [D]
Rep. Wendell Gilliard [D]	Rep. Carl Anderson [D]	Rep. Roger Kirby [D]	Rep. Jason Luck [D]
Rep. Seth Rose [D]	Rep. Todd Rutherford [D]	Rep. Terry Alexander [D]	Rep. Hamilton Grant [D]
Rep. Robert Reese [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-19	House	Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works
2025-02-19	House	Introduced and read first time

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
59	31	55	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=4059&session=126&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/4059_20250219.htm