South Carolina H 3881: Shayla Bowers-Royalty USA Teen 2025

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2025-2026 Bill 3881 Text of Previous Version (Feb. 04, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3881

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A house RESOLUTION

To recognize and honor Shayla Bowers for her 
EXCEPTIONAL DISCIPLINE, ASPIRATIONS, AND TALENT THAT HAVE ENABLED HER TO 
REPRESENT THE PALMETTO STATE WITH DIGNITY AND POISE and to congratulate her for 
winning the title of Royalty USA Junior Teen 2025.

Whereas, the members of 
the South Carolina House of Representatives are pleased to learn that Shayla 
Bowers captured the title of Royalty USA Junior Teen 2025 at Twitchell 
Auditorium in Spartanburg on Sunday, November 17, 2024; and

Whereas, currently a seventh 
grade student at Pleasant Hill Middle School, Shayla is the daughter of Dr. 
Ebony Bowers and Mr. Jamey Bowers. Her win is historic because she is the first 
young lady to hold the national title of Junior Teen in the Royalty USA pageant 
system; and

Whereas, the mission of the Royalty 
USA National Scholarship Pageant is to enhance the lives of girls and young 
women by providing a family-oriented environment that creates lifelong 
friendships and encourages young girls and women to achieve their goals and to RISE, 
an acronym for the Royalty USA national motto: Reach, Inspire, Serve, and 
Empower; and

Whereas, the Royalty USA motto 
expresses the values that the organization celebrates, encouraging girls and 
women to embrace who they are and to reach for their goals and dreams, inspire 
others, serve and lead with compassion, and empower girls and women to be their 
personal best while promoting their own personal platforms and initiatives. Believing 
that true beauty comes from within, Royalty USA promotes good character, 
community service, and personal achievement; and

Whereas, Shayla's personal 
community service initiative is Shayla's Sanctuary, which incorporates three 
different yet related initiatives to promote loving and caring for people and 
animals. In the first initiative, she serves as the spokesperson of 4 Paws for 
Ability Junior Teen, promoting and raising funds for the organization that 
provides task-trained service dogs to differently abled military veterans and 
children; and

Whereas, the second initiative of 
Shayla's Sanctuary is sewing lap blankets and pillows for military veterans at 
Dorn Veterans Administration Hospital as an American Legion Auxiliary Junior member. 
She likes to send cards of encouragement to cancer patients and military 
veterans, as well. She also sews and provides blankets for Pets, Inc., a local 
rescue, rehabilitation, and rehoming animal shelter; and

Whereas, the third initiative 
of Shayla's Sanctuary is to feed and look after a total of fifty stray cats in 
her community with the help of her older sister Selena and their mother. Her 
community service work earned her a Golden President's Volunteer Service Award 
for performing over two hundred hours of community service; and

Whereas, with humble grace, Shayla 
is nationally representing her family, as well as the great State of South 
Carolina; Lexington County; the Town of Lexington; the Hill community; her 
family's church, St. Stephens Lutheran Church; and Lexington School District 
One. After graduating from Lexington High School, Shayla would like to attend 
Clemson University or Auburn University and to earn a degree in veterinary medicine; 
and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives is grateful for the active and meaningful 
service that Shayla Bowers has devoted to her community, and the members look 
forward to following her continued achievements in the days ahead. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, recognize 
and honor Shayla Bowers for her exceptional discipline, aspirations, and talent 
that have enabled her to represent the Palmetto State with dignity and poise 
and congratulate her for winning the title of Royalty USA Junior Teen 2025.

Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution 
be presented to Shayla Bowers.

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