Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4767 Ratification Number:604 Act Number:512 Primary Sponsor:Neilson Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Parents have access to minor's records Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19940525 Computer Document Number:CYY/15726AC.94 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19940831 Introduced Date:19940217 Date of Last Amendment:19940505 Last History Body:------ Last History Date:19940831 Last History Type:Act No. 512 Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Neilson Rogers Whipper Hallman Gonzales Sturkie Quinn Littlejohn Govan McKay Hines McCraw Fulmer Cobb-Hunter J. Bailey G. Bailey Walker J. Harris Beatty Phillips Vaughn Davenport Rudnick Richardson Canty D. Wilder Stille Spearman Thomas Breeland Scott Moody-Lawrence Inabinett Riser Waites Koon Harrison Corning Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN Leg Involved
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4767 ------ 19940831 Act No. 512
4767 ------ 19940831 Signed by Governor
4767 ------ 19940602 Ratified R 604
4767 Senate 19940525 Read third time, enrolled for
ratification
4767 Senate 19940524 Read second time
4767 Senate 19940518 Committee Report: Favorable 11
4767 Senate 19940511 Introduced, read first time, 11
referred to Committee
4767 House 19940510 Read third time, sent to
Senate
4767 House 19940505 Amended, read second time
4767 House 19940420 Committee Report: Favorable 25
with amendment
4767 House 19940217 Introduced, read first time, 25
referred to Committee
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(A512, R604, H4767)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 20-7-100, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO RIGHTS AND DUTIES OF PARENTS IN REGARD TO THEIR MINOR CHILDREN, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT PARENTS HAVE EQUAL ACCESS TO EDUCATIONAL AND MEDICAL RECORDS OF THEIR MINOR CHILDREN; TO DELETE PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE DETERMINATION OF GUARDIANSHIP AND THE COMMON-LAW OBLIGATION TO SUPPORT CHILDREN; AND TO DELETE PROVISIONS THAT PROHIBIT A MOTHER'S LIABILITY FOR SUPPORTING HER CHILDREN FROM BEING INCREASED UNDER THIS SECTION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Parental equality of rights, responsibilities, and duties; equal access to records
SECTION 1. Section 20-7-100 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 20-7-100. The mother and father are the joint natural guardians of their minor children and are equally charged with the welfare and education of their minor children and the care and management of the estates of their minor children; and the mother and father have equal power, rights, and duties, and neither parent has any right paramount to the right of the other concerning the custody of the minor or the control of the services or the earnings of the minor or any other matter affecting the minor. Each parent, whether the custodial or noncustodial parent of the child, has equal access and the same right to obtain all educational records and medical records of their minor children. Neither parent shall forcibly take a child from the guardianship of the parent legally entitled to custody of the child."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 31st day of August, 1994.