Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 59-26-110, Relating To Mandatory Teacher Training In Youth Suicide Awareness And Prevention As A Condition To Renewing Their Credentials, So As To Require Such Training For Individuals Employed In A Kindergarten Through Twelfth Grade School Or Institution Of Highter Education.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-7-2570, Relating To Grounds For Termination Of Parental Rights To A Child, So As To Clarify The Grounds Of Wilful Failure To Visit The Child And Wilful Failure To Support The Child In The Case Of An Incarcerated Parent.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 40-47-937 So As To Provide Physician Assistants Who Meet Certain Postgraduate Clinical Experience And Practice Experience May Practice Pursuant Only To An Attestation Statement, And To Provide For The Functions, Locations, And Collaboration Requirements Allowed Under These Practice Arrangements; By Adding Section 40-47-939 So As To Provide That Certain Physician Assistants Licensed In Other Jurisdictions May Provide Emergency Care In This State Under Certain Circumstances, And To Limit Their Liability For Providing Such Care; By Amending Section 40-47-10, Relating To The State Board Of Medical Examiners, So As To Revise The Composition Of The Board To Include Two Physician Assistants, To Provide For Their Manner Of Appointment And The Filling Of Vacancies, And To Limit Their Terms Of Service; By Amending Section 40-47-20, Relating To Definitions Concerning The Medical Practice Act, So As To Revise Various Definitions; By Amending Section 40-47-113, Relating To Requirements Concerning Physician-patient Relationships And The Prescribing Of Drugs, So As To Make Conforming Changes; By Amending Section 40-47-195, Relating To Supervising Physicians And Scope Of Practice Guidelines, So As To Remove Certain Limitations Imposed On Supervising Physicians; By Amending Section 40-47-196, Relating To The Delegation Of Tasks To Certified Medical Assistants, So As To Make Technical Changes; By Amending Section 40-47-910, Relating To Definitions In The South Carolina Physician Assistants Practice Act, So As To Revise Necessary Definitions; By Amending Section 40-47-915, Relating To The Application Of The South Carolina Physician Assistants Practice Act, So As To Revise Requirements Concerning Physician Assistants Students; By Amending Section 40-47-935, Relating To Acts And Duties Authorized To Be Performed By Physician Assistants, So As To Clarify And Expand The Authorized Acts And Duties; By Amending Section 40-47-965, Relating To Requirements For Writing Prescriptions For Drugs, Controlled Substances, And Medical Devices By Physician Assistants, So As To Revise The Requirements; By Amending Section 40-47-1000, Relating To The Unlawful Holding Of Oneself Out As A Physician Assistant, So As To Provide For The Lawful And Unlawful Use Of Certain Abbreviations Indicative Of Licensure As A Physician Assistant; By Amending Section 40-47-1005, Relating To Misconduct Mandating Revocation Or Denial Of A Physician Assistant License, So As To Specifically Authorize The Board To Discipline Physician Assistants For Misconduct, To Revise The Bases For Misconduct, And To Provide Remedies Available To The Board Upon Finding Misconduct; By Amending Section 40-47-1020, Relating To Third-party Reimbursement To Physician Assistants, So As To Make Such Payments Mandatory In Certain Circumstances, And To Provide Insurance Companies And Third-party Payers May Not Impose More Restrictive Or Contradictory Practice, Education, Or Collaboration Requirements; By Amending Section 44-80-120, Relating To The Authority Of Physician Assistants To Create, Execute, And Sign Post Forms, So As To Remove Obsolete Scope Of Practice And Supervising Physician Requirements; By Amending Section 44-99-10, Relating To Definitions Concerning Emergency Anaphylaxis Treatments, So As To Remove Obsolete Language; By Amending Section 59-63-75, Relating To Concussion Protocol For Student Athletes, So As To Include Physician Assistants Among Persons Authorized To Remove Student Athletes Suspected Of Having Sustained A Concussion From Competition, And To Remove Obsolete Language; And By Amending Section 59-63-95, Relating To The Prescription Of Lifesaving Medications To Be Maintained And Used By Public Schools, So As To Make Conforming Changes.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 44-7-3445 So As To Require Hospital Attending Physicians To Consult With Any Specialist Physician Treating A Patient Upon The Request Of The Patient Or The Patient's Family Or Other Authorized Healthcare Decision Maker.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 7-11-5 So As To Require Primary Elections For County, State, And Federal Offices, Except For President And Vice President, To Be Conducted As Nonpartisan Open Primary Elections In Which The Two Candidates Receiving The Highest Number Of Votes Advance To The General Election; By Amending Section 7-11-10, Relating To Methods Of Nominating Candidates, So As To Replace References To Political Party Primaries And Conventions With The Conducting Of A Nonpartisan Open Primary; By Amending Section 7-11-15, Relating To Qualifications To Run As A Candidate In General Elections, So As To Allow All Persons Seeking Nomination Via Nonpartisan Open Primary To File A Statement Of Intention Of Candidacy Accompanied By Either A Filing Fee Or A Nominating Petition, And To Provide That Write-in Candidacies Are Permitted For Any Office On The Nonpartisan Open Primary Ballot, But Not On The General Election Ballot; By Amending Section 7-13-40, Relating To The Conduct Of Party Primaries, So As To Replace References To Political Party Primaries With Nonpartisan Open Primary, To Provide That All Candidates For An Office To Be Voted On In The Nonpartisan Open Primary Are Listed On A Single Ballot Regardless Of Political Party Affiliation, If Any, And To Allow A Candidate To Choose To Have A Party With Which He Affiliates Designated By His Name On The Ballot; By Amending Section 7-13-330, Relating To Form Of General Election Ballots, So As To Make Conforming Changes And Remove Instructions Regarding Straight Ticket Voting; By Amending Section 7-13-350, Relating To Certification Of Candidates, So As To Clarify That The Top Two Vote Earners For An Office From The Nonpartisan Open Primary Are To Be Certified For Inclusion On The General Election Ballot; By Amending Section 7-13-351, Relating To Nominees By Petition, So As To Clarify The Deadlines For Submitting Nominating Petitions With Regards To The Nonpartisan Open Primary As Opposed To The General Election; By Amending Section 7-13-360, Relating To Place On Ballot For Write-in Names, So As To Require Such Places On Nonpartisan Open Primary Ballots, But Not On General Election Ballots; By Amending Section 7-13-610, Relating To Primary Ballot Specifications, So As To Make Conforming Changes; By Amending Section 7-13-611, Relating To Arrangement Of Official County And State Primary Ballots, So As To Make Conforming Changes; By Repealing Section 7-11-30 Relating To Convention Nomination Of Candidates, Section 7-11-210 Relating To Party Pledge Filing Requirements, And Section 7-13-50 Relating To Second And Other Primaries.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Sections 8-11-150 And 8-11-155, Both Relating To Paid Parental Leave, So As To Increase The Number Of Weeks Of Paid Parental Leave In The Event Of The Birth Or Adoption Of A Child For Eligible State Employees.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 59-149-15, Relating To Requirements For Additional Life Scholarship Stipends, And Section 59-104-25, Relating To Requirements For Additional Palmetto Fellows Scholarship Stipends, Both So As To Provide That Certain Coursework In Economics And Business Statistics Must Count Towards Certain Required Freshman Year Coursework In Mathematics And Science, And To Clarify These Provisions Apply Beginning With Accounting Majors Who Completed Such Coursework As Freshmen In The 2024-2025 School Year. - Ratified Title

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-5-340, Relating To Rights Of Minors Sixteen Years Or Older To Consent To Health Services Essential To Their Life Or Health, So As To Provide Parents Have The Fundamental Right To Direct The Upbringing, Education, And Care Of Their Minor Children, To Provide These Rights Extend To Healthcare Decisions Concerning The Minors And Access To Their Medical Records, And To Provide The State May Not Substantially Burden These Rights Except In Certain Circumstances; By Amending Section 63-5-350, Relating To Health Services That May Be Rendered To Minors Without Parental Consent, So As To Provide That Healthcare Providers Must Obtain Parental Consent Before Procuring, Providing, Or Rendering Healthcare For A Minor Except In Certain Circumstances, To Prohibit The Encouragement Or Coercion Of Minors To Withhold Information From A Parent About The Health Of The Child, To Provide Parents May Assert Provisions Of This Act As Claims Or Defenses In Certain Judicial Or Administrative Proceedings Subject To A Statute Of Limitations, To Provide Remedies, To Provide The Attorney General May Bring Actions To Enforce Provisions Of This Act, And To Define Necessary Terms, Among Other Things; And By Repealing Section 63-5-370 Relating To Consent Not Subject To Disaffirmance.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "universal Head Start And Early Head Start Act"; By Adding Section 59-152-170 So As To Establish The Goal Of Offering Evidence-based Head Start And Early Head Start Programs Universally To Eligible Families, To Provide Related Implementation And Other Requirements For The Office Of First Steps To School Readiness, To Define Necessary Terms, And To Provide Privacy Measures And Related Measures.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting The "social Work Interstate Compact Act" By Adding Article 3 To Chapter 63, Title 40 So As To Provide The Purpose, Functions, Operations, And Definitions Concerning The Compact; And To Designate The Existing Provisions Of Chapter 63, Title 40 As Article 1, Entitled "general Provisions."

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 20-3-130, Relating To Alimony, So As To Define "earning Potential."

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-3-590, Relating To Conduct Of Certain Family Court Hearings, So As To Require A Jury Trial In Limited Circumstances.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Chapter 31 To Title 37 So As To Provide Definitions; Provide That Large Social Media Platform Providers Shall Create, Maintain, And Make Available To Any Third-party Safety Software Provider A Set Of Third-party Accessible Real Time Application Programming Interfaces; Provide For Registration; Provide For Guidance For Third-party Safety Software Providers; Provide For Guidance For Large Social Media Platforms; Provide For Certain Exemptions From Liability; Provide For The Disclosure Of Data; And Provide For Enforcement.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Adding Section 16-3-80 So As To Create The Offense Of Drug-induced Homicide, To Provide A Penalty For A Violation, And To Prohibit An Affirmative Defense; And By Amending Section 16-1-10, Relating To The Categorization Of Felonies And Misdemeanors, So As To Add Drug-induced Homicide.

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Enacting "the Kingston Act" By Adding Article 6 To Chapter 23, Title 16 So As To Title The Article "access To Firearms By Children," Define Necessary Terms, And To Create The Offenses Of Unsecured Firearm And Unsupervised Child Firearm Use And Provide Graduated Penalties For Violations.