Bill Text: SC H3357 | 2019-2020 | 123rd General Assembly | Enrolled
Bill Title: Vehicle registration, private passenger-carrying vehicle
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 5-2)
Status: (Passed) 2020-03-26 - Act No. 125 [H3357 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2019-H3357-Enrolled.html
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT ADOPTED -- NOT PRINTED
February 5, 2020
H. 3357
Introduced by Reps. Wooten, Collins, Brawley, Huggins, Taylor, Hixon and Gilliard
S. Printed 5/7/19--S.
Read the first time March 20, 2019.
A BILL
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 56-3-115 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES MAY ADD A NOTATION TO A PRIVATE PASSENGER-CARRYING MOTOR VEHICLE REGISTRATION TO INDICATE THE VEHICLE OWNER MAY BE DEAF OR HARD OF HEARING.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 3, Title 56 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 56-3-115. The Department of Motor Vehicles may add a notation to a private passenger-carrying motor vehicle registration to indicate that the driver may be deaf or hard of hearing. The application for this special motor vehicle registration notation must include an original certificate from a licensed physician, as defined in Section 40-47-5, or licensed audiologist, as defined in Section 40-67-220, that certifies that the applicant has a permanent, uncorrectable hearing loss of forty decibels or more in one or both ears. The 'deaf or hard of hearing' notation would only appear when a law enforcement check is run on the vehicle's license plate through the department's online interface with law enforcement to alert the officer that the driver may be deaf or hard of hearing."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect one year after approval by the Governor.
/s/Sen. Paul G. Campbell Jr. /s/Rep. Steven Wayne Long
/s/Sen. Kevin L. Johnson /s/Rep. Christopher Sloan "Chris" Wooten
/s/Sen. David Wesley "Wes" Climer /s/Rep. Wendy C. Brawley
On Part of the Senate. On Part of the House.
