South Carolina H 5287: "I Bike SC" license plates

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2025-2026 Bill 5287 Text of Previous Version (Feb. 26, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5287

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A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
ARTICLE 44 of CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56, RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES 
ISSUANCE OF "SHARE THE ROAD" SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES, SO AS TO DISCONTINUE THE 
ISSUANCE OF THESE LICENSE PLATES AND PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF "I BIKE" special 
LICENSE PLATES.

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

SECTION 1. Article 44, Chapter 3, Title 56 of the S.C. Code is 
amended to read:

Article 44

Share 
the RoadI Bike SC License Plates

 Section 
56-3-4410. (A) The Department of 
Motor Vehicles may issue "Share the Road" "I Bike SC" special motor vehicle license plates to 
owners of private passenger motor vehicles as defined in Section 56-3-630 and 
motorcycles registered in their names which may have imprinted on the plate an 
emblem, a seal, or other symbol of the Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc. The 
Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc. shall submit to the department for its 
approval the emblem, seal, or other symbol it desires to be used for this 
special license plate. The Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc. may request a 
change in the emblem, seal, or other symbol not more than once every five 
years. The special license plate must be issued or revalidated for a biennial 
period which expires twenty-four months from the month it is issued. The fee 
for this these special 
license plateplates is 
the regular motor vehicle registration fee contained in Article 5, Chapter 3 of 
this title and a special motor vehicle license fee of thirtyfifty-two dollars.

 (B) 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from the fees collected pursuant to 
this section, the Comptroller General shall place into the State Highway Fund 
as established by Section 57-11-20, to be distributed as provided in Section 
11-43-167, an amount equal to the expenses of the Department of Motor Vehicles 
in producing and administering the special license plates. The remaining funds 
collected from the special motor vehicle license fee must be distributed to the 
Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc., or another nonprofit fund designated by the 
Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc., for the promotion of 
bicycling pedestrian, bicycle, and other active 
transportation safety and education programs. Any remaining funds must 
be administered by the Palmetto Cycling Coalition, 
Inc., or another nonprofit 
fund designated by the Palmetto Cycling Coalition Inc. used only for 
efforts to promote bicyclepedestrian, 
bicycle, and other active transportation safety and education programs, 
and deposited in an appropriate nonprofit account designated by the Palmetto 
Cycling Coalition, Inc.

 (C) 
Before the department produces and distributes a plate authorized under this 
section, it must receive:

 (1) 
four hundred or more prepaid applications for the special license plate or a 
deposit of four thousand dollars from the individual or organization seeking 
issuance of the license plate. If a deposit of four thousand dollars is made by 
an individual or organization pursuant to this section, the department must 
refund the four thousand dollars once an equivalent amount of license plate 
fees is collected for that organization's license plate. If the equivalent 
amount is not collected within four years of the first issuance of the license 
plate, then the department must retain the deposit; and

 (2) 
a plan to market the sale of the special license plate that must be approved by 
the department.

 (D) 
If the department receives less than three hundred biennial applications and 
renewals for a particular special license plate authorized under this section, 
it shall not produce additional special license plates in that series. The 
department shall continue to issue special license plates of that series until 
the existing inventory is exhausted.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect six months 
after approval of the license plate's design.

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