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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Failure to stop a motor vehicle"
+description: "AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 56-5-750, RELATING TO FAILURE TO STOP MOTOR VEHICLES WHEN SIGNALED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES, SO AS TO REVISE THE PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES, TO CREATE AN ADDITIONAL FELONY OFFENSE WHEN A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IS LED ON A HIGH-SPEED PURSUIT, AND TO PROVIDE PENALTIES. - RATIFIED TITLE"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/sc"
+legislature: "South Carolina General Assembly"
+session: "2025-2026"
+identifier: "H 3127"
+citation: "South Carolina H 3127 (2025-2026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: []
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Bradley", "Chapman", "Cromer", "Davis", "Duncan", "Erickson", "Gagnon", "Gilreath", "Hartz", "Hixon", "Lawson", "M.M. Smith", "Oremus", "Pedalino", "Pope", "Robbins", "Sanders", "Taylor", "Vaughan", "W. Newton", "Williams", "Wooten"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2024-12-05"
+last_action: "2025-05-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a7ab081-cb78-4635-99ae-f92732078c5f"
+source_url: "https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3127&session=126&summary=B"
+source_hash: "a66b93c3dc3d524b72e355d54d19e698098d2ba64e34dbaa89a651e3eec7faf2"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-sc"]
+---
+
+# South Carolina H 3127 (2025-2026) — Failure to stop a motor vehicle
+
+AN ACT TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING SECTION 56-5-750, RELATING TO FAILURE TO STOP MOTOR VEHICLES WHEN SIGNALED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT VEHICLES, SO AS TO REVISE THE PENALTIES FOR CERTAIN OFFENSES, TO CREATE AN ADDITIONAL FELONY OFFENSE WHEN A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER IS LED ON A HIGH-SPEED PURSUIT, AND TO PROVIDE PENALTIES. - RATIFIED TITLE
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Filed** (filed) — [source](https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/bills/3127.htm)
+2. **02/26/2025** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3127_20250226.htm)
+3. **04/09/2025** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3127_20250409.htm)
+4. **04/16/2025** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3127_20250416.htm)
+5. **04/30/2025** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3127_20250430.htm)
+6. **05/07/2025** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3127_20250507.htm)
+7. **12/05/2024** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess126_2025-2026/prever/3127_20241205.htm)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Table Amendment 4 — **79–25** (pass) · lower
+- Passage of Bill — **98–10** (pass) · lower
+- Table Amendment 3 — **84–27** (pass) · lower
+- Adopt Amendment 3a — **95–14** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading — **35–5** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Bradley — primary (person)
+- Chapman — primary (person)
+- Cromer — primary (person)
+- Davis — primary (person)
+- Duncan — primary (person)
+- Erickson — primary (person)
+- Gagnon — primary (person)
+- Gilreath — primary (person)
+- Hartz — primary (person)
+- Hixon — primary (person)
+- Lawson — primary (person)
+- M.M. Smith — primary (person)
+- Oremus — primary (person)
+- Pedalino — primary (person)
+- Pope — primary (person)
+- Robbins — primary (person)
+- Sanders — primary (person)
+- Taylor — primary (person)
+- Vaughan — primary (person)
+- W. Newton — primary (person)
+- Williams — primary (person)
+- Wooten — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2024-12-05** Prefiled `filing`
+- **2024-12-05** Referred to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-14** Introduced and read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-01-14** Referred to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-01-28** Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Sanders, Duncan
+- **2025-02-26** Committee report: Favorable with amendment Judiciary `committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-03-04** Debate adjourned until Tues., 3-25-25
+- **2025-03-04** Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Hixon, Taylor, Gagnon, Oremus, Hartz, Davis
+- **2025-03-25** Member(s) request name added as sponsor: M.M.Smith
+- **2025-03-25** Debate adjourned
+- **2025-03-26** Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Vaughan
+- **2025-03-26** Requests for debate-Rep(s). B Newton, Martin, BL Cox, Collins, Bowers, Jordan, Guest, Hager, Whitmire
+- **2025-03-26** Debate adjourned
+- **2025-03-27** Debate adjourned
+- **2025-04-01** Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Williams, Erickson, Bradley
+- **2025-04-02** Debate adjourned
+- **2025-04-03** Debate adjourned
+- **2025-04-09** Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Cromer, Gilreath
+- **2025-04-09** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-09** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-04-09** Roll call Yeas-98 Nays-10
+- **2025-04-10** Read third time and sent to Senate `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-15** Introduced and read first time `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2025-04-15** Referred to Committee on Judiciary `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-16** Recalled from Committee on Judiciary
+- **2025-04-29** Special order, set for April 29, 2025
+- **2025-04-30** Amended `amendment-passage`
+- **2025-04-30** Read second time `reading-2`
+- **2025-05-01** Read third time and returned to House with amendments `passage, reading-3`
+- **2025-05-01** Roll call Ayes-35 Nays-5
+- **2025-05-06** Debate adjourned until Wed., 5-7-25
+- **2025-05-07** Senate amendment amended `amendment-amendment`
+- **2025-05-07** Returned to Senate with amendments
+- **2025-05-07** Concurred in House amendment and enrolled
+- **2025-05-08** Ratified R 57
+- **2025-05-12** Signed By Governor `executive-signature`
+- **2025-05-19** Effective date 05/12/26
+- **2025-05-19** Act No. 38
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a7ab081-cb78-4635-99ae-f92732078c5f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).
+