South Carolina H 5305: Federal Law Enforcement Officers

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2025-2026 Bill 5305 Text of Previous Version (Mar. 04, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 5305

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A house RESOLUTION

TO ENCOURAGE COUNTIES, MUNICIPALITIES, AND OTHER 
POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE STATE, INCLUDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS, TO ESTABLISH 
THE USE OF ORGANICS-FIRST INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND STANDARDS 
THAT WOULD PRIORITIZE THE USE OF PREVENTION-BASED, LEAST TOXIC, ORGANIC 
PRACTICES AND PROHIBIT THE USE OF SYNTHETIC PESTICIDES FOR PUBLIC LAND 
MANAGEMENT, INCLUDING HABITAT RESTORATION AND ROADSIDE MANAGEMENT.

Whereas, South 
Carolina's public lands, parks, roadside corridors, and waterways are shared 
community assets. Routine synthetic pesticide and herbicide applications create 
avoidable exposure pathways for residents, workers, and wildlife, and increase 
stormwater and watershed risks. The use of organic practices can help create 
and maintain healthy landscapes and ecosystems while reducing chemical 
dependence; and

Whereas, South Carolina 
counties, municipalities, and political subdivisions, including school 
districts, have an opportunity to be good stewards of the natural resources 
with which the Palmetto State has been blessed by implementing land management 
practices that prioritize the use of organics-first integrated pest management 
that is a prevention-based, least toxic, organic approach to managing pests and 
invasive plants in order to sustain healthier ecosystems and natural habitats across 
our communities' public spaces, benefitting public health, flora, and fauna; 
and

Whereas, Coastal South 
Carolina research suggests a year-round population of monarch butterflies that relies 
on wetlands and Sea Island habitats and the state honey bee population already 
faces challenges due to environmental, parasitic, and chemical stressors, both 
realities which underscore the importance of pesticide-reduction and habitat 
protection on public lands, and local demand is rising for safer parks, 
playgrounds, athletic fields, and right-of-way management practices that 
protect pollinators and waterways; and

Whereas, other 
jurisdictions have demonstrated the ability to implement and promote workable 
pesticide safeguard practices, including Montgomery County, Maryland, which has 
restricted the use of certain pesticides on lawns, playgrounds, mulched 
recreational facilities, and childcare facilities; King County, Washington, 
which has adopted an integrated pest management policy to include guidance 
directing county agencies to reduce pesticide impacts on public lands and 
rights-of-way; and the state of Connecticut has enacted restrictions on certain 
pesticides to reduce avoidable exposure pathways to pollinators, including 
protections related to pollinator-attractive trees and plants; and

Whereas, by 
implementing organics-first integrated pest management practices, local and 
county public entities can promote models of land stewardship that encourage 
the protection of waterways, wetlands, and stormwater infrastructure by ending 
routine synthetic pesticide use that drives runoff and drift, and by 
modernizing roadside and public lands management with lower-risk proven 
alternatives, such as organic applications, native habitat, and targeted 
controls. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives:

That the members of the 
South Carolina House of Representatives, 
by this resolution, encourage counties, municipalities, and other political 
subdivisions of the State, including school districts, to establish the use of 
organics-first integrated pest management practices and standards that would prioritize 
the use of prevention-based, least toxic, organic practices and prohibit the 
use of synthetic pesticides for public land management, including habitat 
restoration and roadside management.

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