South Carolina S 660: Ninety Six Academic Team Champs

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2025-2026 Bill 660 Text of Previous Version (May. 06, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 660

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 44-7-320, RELATING TO DENIAL, REVOCATION, OR SUSPENSION OF MEDICAL 
FACILITY LICENSE, SO AS TO MAKE IT A VIOLATION TO NOT USE DIALYSATE OR DIALYSIS 
PRODUCTS THAT HAVE NOT BEEN MADE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON A PATIENT 
WHO IS UNDER THE AGE OF TWENTY-ONE YEARS.

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

SECTION 1. Section 44-7-320 of the S.C. Code is amended to read:

 Section 
44-7-320. (A)(1) The department may 
deny, suspend, or revoke licenses or assess a monetary penalty, or both, 
against a person or facility for:

 (a) 
violating a provision of this article or departmental regulations;

 (b) 
engaging in conduct or practices detrimental to the health or safety of 
patients, residents, clients, or employees of a facility or service. This 
provision does not refer to health practices authorized by law;

 (c) 
refusing to admit and treat alcoholic and substance abusers, the mentally ill, 
or persons with intellectual disability, whose admission or treatment has been 
prescribed by a physician who is a member of the facility's medical staff, or 
discriminating against alcoholics, the mentally ill, or persons with 
intellectual disability solely because of the alcoholism, mental illness, or 
intellectual disability; or

 (d) 
failing to allow a team advocacy inspection of a community residential care 
facility by the South Carolina Protection and Advocacy System for the 
Handicapped, Inc., as allowed by law.; or

 (e) using dialysate or dialysis 
products that have not been made in the United States of America on a patient 
who is under the age of twenty-one years, except for in a situation that in the 
practitioner's good faith medical judgment creates an immediate threat of 
serious risk to the life or physical health of the patient.

 (2) 
Consideration to deny, suspend, or revoke licenses or assess monetary 
penalties, or both, is not limited to information relating to the current 
licensing period but includes consideration of all pertinent information 
regarding the facility and the applicant.

 (3) 
If in the department's judgment conditions or practices exist in a facility 
that pose an immediate threat to the health, safety, and welfare of the 
residents, then the department immediately may 
suspend the facility's license and shall contact the appropriate agencies for 
placement of the residents. Within five calendar days of the suspension a 
preliminary hearing must be held to determine if the immediate threatening 
conditions or practices continue to exist. If they do not, then the license must be immediately reinstated. Whether 
the license is reinstated or suspension remains due to the immediate 
threatening conditions or practices, the department may proceed with the 
process for permanent revocation pursuant to this section.

 (B) 
Should the department determine to assess a penalty, deny, suspend, or revoke a 
license, it shall send to the appropriate person or facility, by certified 
mail, a notice setting forth the particular reasons for the determination. The 
determination becomes final thirty days after the mailing of the notice, unless 
the person or facility, within such thirty-day period, requests in writing a 
contested case hearing before the board, or its designee, pursuant to the 
Administrative Procedures Act. On the basis of the contested case hearing, the 
determination involved must be affirmed, modified, or set aside. Judicial 
review may be sought in accordance with the Administrative Procedures Act.

 (C)(1) The penalty imposed by the department for violation of 
this article or its regulations must be not less than one hundred nor more than 
five thousand dollars for each violation of any of the provisions of this 
article. Each day's violation is considered a subsequent offense.

 (2) The department shall impose a 
penalty of five hundred dollars per occurrence for a violation of Section 
44-7-320(A)(1)(e).

 (D) 
Failure to pay a penalty within thirty days is grounds for suspension, 
revocation, or denial of a renewal of a license. A license must not be issued, 
reissued, or renewed until all penalties finally assessed against a person or 
facility have been paid.

 (E) 
All penalties collected pursuant to this article must be deposited in the state 
treasury and credited to the general fund of the state.

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

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