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STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Ford
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Introduced in the Senate on January 8, 2013
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Education
Summary: Personal hygiene subject in schools
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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12/13/2012 Senate Prefiled
12/13/2012 Senate Referred to Committee on Education
1/8/2013 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 34)
1/8/2013 Senate Referred to Committee on Education
(Senate Journal-page 34)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 59-29-10 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO REQUIRED SUBJECTS FOR EACH SCHOOL DISTRICT, TO PROVIDE FOR INSTRUCTION ON PERSONAL HYGIENE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 59-29-10 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 59-29-10. The county board of education and the board of trustees for each school district shall see that in every school under their care there shall be taught, as far as practicable, orthography, reading, writing, arithmetic, geography, English grammar and instruction in phonics, the elements of agriculture, the history of the United States and of this State, the principles of the Constitutions of the United States and of this State, morals and good behavior, algebra, physiology and personal hygiene (especially as to the effects of alcoholic liquors and narcotics upon the human system, general neatness and cleanliness, skin care, and shampooing and grooming of hair), English literature, and such other branches as the state board may from time to time direct."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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