South Carolina H 4267: POLA: funeral and embalmers

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2025-2026 Bill 4267 Text of Previous Version (May. 06, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4267

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Recalled

May 6, 2025

H. 4267

Introduced by Reps. Landing, Hager, Teeple, 
Hartnett, Vaughan, Wickensimer and Bustos 

S. Printed 5/6/25--S.

Read the first time April 30, 2025

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY ADDING 
SECTION 53-3-320 SO AS TO DESIGNATE THE TWENTY-FIRST DAY OF november AS 
"MAYFLOWER COMPACT DAY."

Whereas, the 
Mayflower Compact was the first written document providing for self-government 
in what would later become the United States of America. It laid the 
foundations for the Declaration of Independence, which stated that governments 
derive their powers "from the consent of the governed," and the US Constitution; 
and

Whereas, the 
Mayflower Compact was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was 
written by the men aboard the Mayflower, consisting of separatists, merchant 
adventurers, and tradesmen; and

Whereas, due to 
storms, the Mayflower crew and passengers found themselves far from the Colony 
of Virginia, where they had permission to start a new colony; and

Whereas, since 
they were not in Virginia, the laws and governance of Virginia no longer 
applied to their new colony. Therefore, the passengers decided they needed to 
work together to define how they would govern themselves; and

Whereas, of one 
hundred one Mayflower passengers, forty-one signed the Compact while anchored 
in Provincetown Harbor, Massachusetts. Many of the others were too sick to join 
the discussion and signing of the Compact; and

Whereas, the 
Mayflower Compact of 1620 laid the foundation of liberty based on law and 
order. The Mayflower passengers drew up a form of government that has been 
designated as the first real constitution of modern times. It was democratic, 
an acknowledgment of liberty under law and order and the giving to each person 
the right to participate in the government, and each of its signees promised to 
be obedient to laws enacted under its authority; and

Whereas, the 
Mayflower Compact reads as follows:

"IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We, whose names 
are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by 
the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the 
Faith, &c. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the 
Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the 
first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; Do by these Presents, solemnly 
and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, covenant and combine ourselves 
together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, 
and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, 
constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, 
Constitutions, and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet 
and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all 
due Submission and Obedience. IN WITNESS whereof we have hereunto subscribed 
our names at Cape-Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign 
Lord King James, of England, France, and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of 
Scotland the fifty-fourth, Anno Domini; 1620." Now, therefore,

Be it enacted by the 
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION 
1. Chapter 3, Title 53 of the S.C. Code is amended 
by adding:

 Section 
53-3-320. The twenty-first day of November of each year is designated as 
"Mayflower Compact Day" in South Carolina.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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