"I Bike SC" license plates

2025-2026 Bill 5287: "I Bike SC" license plates - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026
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H. 5287
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Rep. Bernstein
Document Path: LC-0494CM26.docx
Introduced in the House on February 26, 2026
Currently residing in the House Committee on
Education and Public Works
Summary: "I Bike SC" license plates
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

Date

Body

Action Description with journal page number

2/26/2026

House

Introduced and read first time (
House Journal-page 15
)

2/26/2026

House

Referred to Committee on
Education and Public Works
(
House Journal-page 15
)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
02/26/2026

A bill

TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING
ARTICLE 44 of CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56, RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES
ISSUANCE OF "SHARE THE ROAD" SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES, SO AS TO DISCONTINUE THE
ISSUANCE OF THESE LICENSE PLATES AND PROVIDE FOR THE ISSUANCE OF "I BIKE" special
LICENSE PLATES.

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

S
ECTION 1.
A
rticle 44, Chapter 3, Title 56 of the S.C. Code is
amended to read:

A
rticle 44

S
hare
the Road
I Bike SC
License Plates

S
ection
56-3-4410
.
(
A) The Department of
Motor Vehicles may issue
"Share the Road"
"I Bike SC"
special motor vehicle license plates to
owners of private passenger motor vehicles as defined in Section
56-3-630
and
motorcycles registered in their names which may have imprinted on the plate an
emblem, a seal, or other symbol of the Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc. The
Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc. shall submit to the department for its
approval the emblem, seal, or other symbol it desires to be used for this
special license plate. The Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc. may request a
change in the emblem, seal, or other symbol not more than once every five
years. The special license plate must be issued or revalidated for a biennial
period which expires twenty-four months from the month it is issued. The fee
for
this
these
special
license
plate
plates
is
the regular motor vehicle registration fee contained in Article 5, Chapter 3 of
this title and a special motor vehicle license fee of
thirty
fifty-two
dollars.

(
B)
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from the fees collected pursuant to
this section, the Comptroller General shall place into the State Highway Fund
as established by Section
57-11-20
, to be distributed as provided in Section
11-43-167
, an amount equal to the expenses of the Department of Motor Vehicles
in producing and administering the special license plates. The remaining funds
collected from the special motor vehicle license fee must be distributed to the
Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc., or another nonprofit fund designated by the
Palmetto Cycling Coalition, Inc., for the promotion of

bicycling

pedestrian, bicycle, and other active
transportation
safety and education programs. Any remaining funds must
be administered by the Palmetto Cycling Coalition
,

Inc.
,

or another nonprofit
fund designated by the Palmetto Cycling Coalition Inc.
used only for
efforts to promote
bicycle
pedestrian,
bicycle, and other active transportation
safety and education programs,
and deposited in an appropriate nonprofit account designated by the Palmetto
Cycling Coalition, Inc.

(
C)
Before the department produces and distributes a plate authorized under this
section, it must receive:

(
1)
four hundred or more prepaid applications for the special license plate or a
deposit of four thousand dollars from the individual or organization seeking
issuance of the license plate. If a deposit of four thousand dollars is made by
an individual or organization pursuant to this section, the department must
refund the four thousand dollars once an equivalent amount of license plate
fees is collected for that organization's license plate. If the equivalent
amount is not collected within four years of the first issuance of the license
plate, then the department must retain the deposit; and

(
2)
a plan to market the sale of the special license plate that must be approved by
the department.

(
D)
If the department receives less than three hundred biennial applications and
renewals for a particular special license plate authorized under this section,
it shall not produce additional special license plates in that series. The
department shall continue to issue special license plates of that series until
the existing inventory is exhausted.

S
ECTION 2. This act takes effect six months
after approval of the license plate's design.

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