republic-os/legislation/us/states/sc/2017-2018/h-3289.md

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type	title	description	jurisdiction	legislature	session	identifier	citation	classification	subjects	status	primary_sponsors	version_count	action_count	vote_count	first_action	last_action	source	source_identifier	source_url	source_hash	vintage	source_snapshot	retrieved_at	confidence	tags
Bill	AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-1930, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DISTANCE THAT MUST BE MAINTAINED BETWEEN VEHICLES TRAVELING ALONG A HIGHWAY, SO AS TO REVISE THE TERM "DRIVER" TO "OPERATOR" IN REGARD TO THESE VEHICLES, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO THE OPERATOR OF ANY NONLEADING COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE SUBJECT TO FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY REGULATIONS AND TRAVELING IN A SERIES OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES USING COOPERATIVE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL OR ANY OTHER AUTOMATED DRIVING TECHNOLOGY. - ratified title	AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-1930, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DISTANCE THAT MUST BE MAINTAINED BETWEEN VEHICLES TRAVELING ALONG A HIGHWAY, SO AS TO REVISE THE TERM "DRIVER" TO "OPERATOR" IN REGARD TO THESE VEHICLES, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO THE OPERATOR OF ANY NONLEADING COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE SUBJECT TO FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY REGULATIONS AND TRAVELING IN A SERIES OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES USING COOPERATIVE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL OR ANY OTHER AUTOMATED DRIVING TECHNOLOGY. - ratified title	us/states/sc	South Carolina General Assembly	2017-2018	H 3289	South Carolina H 3289 (2017-2018)	bill		enacted	G.R. Smith Knight	8	26	3	2016-12-15	2017-05-31	openstates	ocd-bill/57c706e9-51d5-48e1-ab97-e7cf258844bc	http://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=3289&session=122&summary=B	49f8962d3a83623eaba8d108112df7e231ff96c788961a1a4442b11f1216dd47	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-sc

South Carolina H 3289 (2017-2018) — AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-1930, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DISTANCE THAT MUST BE MAINTAINED BETWEEN VEHICLES TRAVELING ALONG A HIGHWAY, SO AS TO REVISE THE TERM "DRIVER" TO "OPERATOR" IN REGARD TO THESE VEHICLES, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THIS SECTION DOES NOT APPLY TO THE OPERATOR OF ANY NONLEADING COMMERCIAL MOTOR VEHICLE SUBJECT TO FEDERAL MOTOR CARRIER SAFETY REGULATIONS AND TRAVELING IN A SERIES OF COMMERCIAL VEHICLES USING COOPERATIVE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL OR ANY OTHER AUTOMATED DRIVING TECHNOLOGY. - ratified title

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 1/26/2017 (committee substitute) — source
2. 1/30/2017 (committee substitute) — source
3. 1/30/2017-A (committee substitute) — source
4. 12/15/2016 (committee substitute) — source
5. 2/1/2017 (committee substitute) — source
6. 2/2/2017 (committee substitute) — source
7. 4/5/2017 (committee substitute) — source
8. 5/8/2017 (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Passage of Bill — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• Concur in Senate Amendments — 101–0 (pass) · lower
• 2nd Reading — 38–2 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• G.R. Smith — primary (person)
• Knight — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2016-12-15 Prefiled filing
• 2016-12-15 Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works referral-committee
• 2017-01-10 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2017-01-10 Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works referral-committee
• 2017-01-25 Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Knight
• 2017-01-26 Committee report: Favorable with amendment Education and Public Works committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-01-30 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2017-02-01 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-02-01 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-02-01 Roll call Yeas-96 Nays-0
• 2017-02-02 Read third time and sent to Senate passage, reading-3
• 2017-02-02 Scrivener's error corrected
• 2017-02-07 Introduced and read first time introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-07 Referred to Committee on Transportation referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Polled out of committee Transportation
• 2017-04-05 Committee report: Favorable Transportation committee-passage-favorable
• 2017-05-08 Amended amendment-passage
• 2017-05-08 Read second time reading-2
• 2017-05-08 Roll call Ayes-38 Nays-2
• 2017-05-09 Read third time and returned to House with amendments passage, reading-3
• 2017-05-10 Concurred in Senate amendment and enrolled
• 2017-05-10 Roll call Yeas-101 Nays-0
• 2017-05-15 Ratified R 101
• 2017-05-19 Signed By Governor executive-signature
• 2017-05-25 Effective date 5/19/17
• 2017-05-31 Act No. 66

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57c706e9-51d5-48e1-ab97-e7cf258844bc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official South Carolina legislature records).