Handicapped license plates

2025-2026 Bill 4676: Handicapped license plates - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 4676
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Landing, C. Mitchell, Pope and Spann-Wilder
Companion/Similar bill(s): 3769
Document Path: LC-0396CM26.docx
Introduced in the House on January 13, 2026
Currently residing in the House Committee on
Education and Public Works
Summary: Handicapped license plates
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

12/16/2025

House

Prefiled

12/16/2025

House

Referred to Committee on
Education and Public Works

1/13/2026

House

Introduced and read first time (
House Journal-page 54
)

1/13/2026

House

Referred to Committee on
Education and Public Works
(
House Journal-page 54
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
12/17/2025

A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING
SECTION
56-3-1910
, RELATING TO LICENSE PLATES FOR HANDICAPPED PERSONS, SO AS TO
PROVIDE THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES MAY ISSUE HANDICAPPED LICENSE PLATES
TO AUTISTIC PERSONS.

B
e it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

S
ECTION 1.
S
ection
56-3-1910
(A) of the S.C. Code is amended to
read:

(
A) As used in this article,
"handicapped" means a person who has one or more of the following conditions:

(
1)
an inability to ordinarily walk one hundred feet nonstop without aggravating an
existing medical condition, including the increase of pain;

(
2)
an inability to ordinarily walk without the use of, or assistance from a brace,
cane, crutch, another person, prosthetic device, wheelchair, or other assistive
device;

(
3)
a restriction by lung disease to the extent that the person's forced expiratory
volume for one second when measured by spirometry is less than one liter, or
the arterial oxygen tension is less than sixty mm/hg on room air at rest;

(
4)
requires use of portable oxygen;

(
5)
a cardiac condition to the extent that the person's functional limitations are
classified in severity as Class III or Class IV according to standards
established by the American Heart Association. If the person's status improves
to a higher level, for example as a result of bypass surgery or
transplantation, he no longer meets this criteria;

(
6)
a substantial limitation in the ability to walk due to an arthritic,
neurological, or orthopedic condition, for example, coordination problems and
muscle spasticity due to conditions that include Parkinson's disease, cerebral
palsy, or multiple sclerosis;
or

(
7)
blindness
; or

(
8) autism
.

S
ECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval
by the Governor.

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