South Carolina H 3151: Public school employees, background checks

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2025-2026 Bill 3151 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3151

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 56-5-5015, RELATING TO SUNSCREEN DEVICES, SO AS TO REVISE THE PERMITTED 
LEVEL OF LIGHT TRANSMISSION FOR SUNSCREENING DEVICES INSTALLED ON THE 
WINDSHIELDs, SIDE WINDOWS, AND REAR WINDOWs OF MOTOR VEHICLEs.

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

SECTION 1. Section 56-5-5015 (C) and (D) of the S.C. Code is 
amended to read:

 (C) A single sunscreening device may 
be installed on the side wings or side windows, or both, located at the 
immediate right and left of the driver and the side windows behind the driver. 
The sunscreening device must be nonreflective and the combined light 
transmission of the sunscreening device with the factory or manufacturer 
installed sunscreening material must not be less than twenty-seven 
twenty percent.

 (D)(1) A sunscreening device to be 
applied to the rear-most window must be nonreflective and have a light 
transmission of not less than twenty percent. If a sunscreening device is used 
on the rear-most window, one right and one left outside rearview mirror is 
required.

 (2) 
Beginning January 1, 19932026, 
a single sunscreening device to be applied to the rear-most window must be 
nonreflective and the combined light transmission of the sunscreening device 
with the factory or manufacturer installed sunscreening material must not be 
less than twenty-seven twenty percent. 
If a sunscreening device is used on the rear-most window, one right and one 
left outside rearview mirror is required.

 (3) 
A motor vehicle with a sunscreening device which complied with the requirements 
of item (1) at the time of installation is not considered to be in violation of 
this section on January 1, 19932026, so long as the original sunscreen device is in 
place.

SECTION 2. The repeal or amendment by this act 
of any law, whether temporary or permanent or civil or criminal, does not affect 
pending actions, rights, duties, or liabilities founded thereon, or alter, 
discharge, release or extinguish any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred 
under the repealed or amended law, unless the repealed or amended provision 
shall so expressly provide. After the effective date of this act, all laws 
repealed or amended by this act must be taken and treated as remaining in full 
force and effect for the purpose of sustaining any pending or vested right, 
civil action, special proceeding, criminal prosecution, or appeal existing as 
of the effective date of this act, and for the enforcement of rights, duties, 
penalties, forfeitures, and liabilities as they stood under the repealed or 
amended laws.

SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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