H 3512 General Bill, By  House Education and Public Works
 A Bill to amend Sections 56-1-40, 56-1-50, 56-1-180, 56-1-440, 56-1-720,
 56-1-1030, 56-1-1090, 56-1-1100, 56-5-750, 56-5-1520, as amended, 56-5-2940,
 56-5-4100, 56-5-4450, 56-5-5015, 56-5-6410, 56-5-6420, 56-5-6430, 56-9-340,
 56-10-240, 56-10-250, 56-10-260, 56-10-270, and 56-67-420, Code of Laws of
 South Carolina, 1976, relating to the regulation of the operation of motor
 vehicles, so as to increase the age of persons who may obtain restricted
 drivers' licenses from between fifteen and sixteen years old to between
 sixteen and seventeen years old and to allow them to operate without
 accompaniment of adult licensees when going to or from their places of
 business, to allow renewal of beginners' licenses to persons who have special
 restricted licenses and regular licenses for persons below the age of
 qualification of the licenses, to provide a procedure for the revocation or
 suspension of the drivers' licenses of habitual offenders, to allow the
 Department of Highways and Public Transportation to determine when a person is
 an habitual offender and to require the Department to notify the solicitor or
 Attorney General of that fact if criminal charges are involved, to provide for
 the assessment of five points against a person convicted of driving at a rate
 in excess of seventy miles an hour, to increase penalties for exceeding the
 speed limits for violation of drivers' licensing statutes and for D.U.I.
 convictions, to provide that five dollars of a fine for speeding must be paid
 to the Department to be used to employ additional patrolmen, to prohibit the
 suspension of a fine for first offense D.U.I. and the suspension of a monetary
 fine below that of the next preceding minimum monetary fine, to regulate the
 manner in which trucks and other vehicles may be loaded and to require them to
 assure that the load does not escape from the vehicle, to require the use of
 illuminating devices on vehicles operating when inclement weather or
 environmental factors severely reduce visibility and to provide penalties, to
 adopt Safety Standard No. 205 (glazing materials) of the National Highway
 Traffic Safety Administration and to apply its provisions to individuals, to
 provide that in mitigating circumstances a motor vehicle operator may refuse
 to stop when signaled by a law enforcement officer, but a person unlawfully
 refusing to stop for a law enforcement officer shall have his driver's license
 suspended for thirty days, to provide that in assuming responsibility for
 transporting school children school districts must give priority to children
 based on age, to require children four through six years of age traveling in
 the front seat of a motor vehicle to be secured by a seat belt and to require
 any child one year old and under six years old traveling in the back seat of a
 vehicle to be secured in a child restraint system or with a seat belt, to
 exempt drivers from liability if all restraint devices are occupied by
 children under the age of six years and if a child is physically impaired, to
 increase penalties for failing to return licenses and registration for loss of
 proof of financial responsibility, giving false information about insurance
 coverage, operating an uninsured vehicle, or to transfer a vehicle which has
 suspended registration and license plates and to provide that in such cases
 only convictions which occurred within five years of the last conviction
 constitute prior convictions; to amend the 1976 Code by adding Sections
 56-5-2941 and 56-5-6445 so as to provide that the arresting officer in a
 D.U.I. case shall take the driver's license of the accused and issue a summons
 to provide a procedure for the operation of vehicles by the accused until
 disposition of the case and a procedure for forwarding the suspended license
 to the appropriate state and out-of-state agencies, and to provide that the
 child restraint device use statutes only apply to motor vehicles equipped with
 safety belts; and to repeal Sections 56-1-1040, 56-1-1050, 56-1-1060,
 56-1-1070, and 56-1-1080 relating to habitual offenders.
   01/13/88  House  Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar
                     without reference HJ-343
   01/20/88  House  Debate adjourned until Wednesday, January 27,
                     1988 HJ-443
   01/27/88  House  Special order, set for Wed. Jan. 27, 1988, at
                     2:30 p.m. (under H 3610) HJ-655
   01/27/88  House  Debate interrupted HJ-705
   01/28/88  House  Amended HJ-790
   01/28/88  House  Debate interrupted HJ-830
   02/02/88  House  Amended HJ-877
   02/02/88  House  Read second time HJ-888
   02/04/88  House  Amended HJ-933
   02/04/88  House  Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-936
   02/09/88  Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-12
   02/09/88  Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation SJ-13
   05/11/88  Senate Tabled in committee