Bill Text: SC S0021 | 2013-2014 | 120th General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Personal hygiene subject in schools
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-08 - Referred to Committee on Education [S0021 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2013-S0021-Introduced.html
A 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.
