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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.11 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:20010110 Primary Sponsor:Wilson All Sponsors:Wilson, Grooms, Mescher, Elliott, Reese, Branton Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\swb\5078djc01.doc Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Education Committee 04 SED Subject:Teachers, oral recitation of excerpt from "Declaration of Independence" before first period; School Districts History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 20010110 Introduced, read first time, 04 SED referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 59-1-457 SO AS TO REQUIRE TEACHERS IN EACH PUBLIC SCHOOL IN THIS STATE TO CONDUCT, BEFORE THE OPENING OF THE FIRST PERIOD CLASS OF EACH SCHOOL DAY, AN ORAL RECITATION OF A CERTAIN EXCERPT FROM THE "DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE".
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 59-1-457. Teachers in each public school in this State shall conduct, before the opening of the first period class of each school day, an oral recitation of the following excerpt from the 'Declaration of Independence':
'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed'."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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