South Carolina 2025-2026 Regular Session Status: In Committee

H 5287 — "I Bike SC" license plates

Last action — Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works

Track this bill free

No card. One bill, free forever — alerts when it moves.

  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. 2
    In Committee
  3. 3
    Passed House
  4. 4
    Passed Senate
  5. 5
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced February 26, 2026. It must pass committee before a floor vote.

Next likely step: a committee vote, then a floor vote in the House.

Prognosis

Stalled 14% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

Low

How often bills like it became law.

  • In Committee

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 1 sponsor

    1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.

Prognosis reads this bill's own signals — stage, sponsorship breadth, committee status, recorded votes and cross-state momentum. Odds come from a model trained on which bills have become law.

Summary

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.

Bill Text

What changed in the latest version

74 added · 9 removed

Plain-language change summary

The recent amendment to Bill H 5287 updates the special license plate program in South Carolina, replacing the "Share the Road" plates with new "I Bike SC" plates. This change is aimed at promoting cycling and supporting local cycling organizations like the Palmetto Cycling Coalition. By transitioning to the "I Bike SC" plates, the state hopes to raise awareness and encouragement for biking as a safe and sustainable mode of transportation.

→
Previous
Latest
PK Xc\x5w9 L customXml/item3.xmlµXín£FýߧùGó'¬Æ©×-†IÂ.†mWÕ 0$V°‰ÞU+õAڗë“ô‚͇±³uµRlĽçœ{fÀwf2ýùã:EïÙ6_e›—Âþ±M”Å«ÍÝ˟\sêʺ‰išmØˋMvñóì‡iú!)ü‚4¦E ²É_î‹âñj8Ì£{¶¦ù‹ì‘m “dÛ5-àv{7|¤Ñ½cC‘ç•áú@îÕ¸ú~0›Žî/°Mòv‰góUšN‡Ç±éµia[[àُiñSùIV)ÛÐ5ûñîá36©i̔q"Ë<•¹‰<â9ITN#‰ã©ªò!¥cÉtÀ©és߸Á$¨Kήiš3ȞfJ4þ]¿Õì,ËÒæîàOsSÌMË æÁ­æyÄ5_cͲjÊùdË1=M''à}´‡z¥é¯ñØCîˆã1Ê1Gwl˜Ä'¦cŸã?ìªéÎba‚±‹—Ž{ÎEq̶¯!në_¢÷ G|ßu˧C¶»ëè‚ líL…}üéj×OOk7Ûe™6qÃ×±q꧓ëRšûþòL•&u„Çî HœAï]ìÒÅåãºIuñ.®LÂãZjöùâÒ开磹oÏÛ\Í0Hð»^)"ò¢Âñ"'*„篪?Ž—ốè€~pëøÞޏ¡ÜQii}LKþ ï”b—1ìښupbû‹9vgBÃz Ñ*xØ«Æ tjµÑ÷t…§”ßbÍ­FÒÁV±ââ_}ì‘ú:“Ç‚2¡#•£ñ(â$I”¹0 Gœ2‹2Iª†VŸÜˆŽkޘ0âê'1‹™çù„q!e!'Éaĕ-—›„y¬„ ‹Dµí‘kQo ­ÆqëëLŒG¼ƒ5Q”èç1è%ꄋDžÐXaɨí“kÑý¥Z#þEuü®at2=ð~ŽKt|<ûû4GèùÄAUÓDä#ÏñÉ-Ò5×±`˜HwŒœkdi¿yhþv4í¤¹ÄÔ-Œ$ e ‚ed ¯]¢JÉÊ%r±¥‘Ji/U¶æRqáÇEoðm)ã!Óó| úe™ú÷¯¿½[ÍÅËu4ãß¿þAÞë¦f!ËÔ±ía´qì]‚a¤ye £j»PÐß»Šp”c*Ò`ÈK×yc¯ÁKŸ6L4‡E®,Ÿ?²hEӞƋÞ,ï'´d˜—jÚï³]§¹´ñÙlPÖ…oª-Fێ 6?û°Š»Ò5 ¥¸Ù?ýrɶof·6ì–:Œ~¾ezX/×NoöǟEìÃ|ß4WƒPšÈ²DC.Q•1üǧF<¼ê¡À‰ÑQDÙà²&Ù°ólÝXïCän²íàJh"äÓ㸷@>¸GÀ<ËÖtûPÊ"+úȖ$D9Q•1sèŪؕ´{p•”Ͳ1Û@îHÈ 7âJzE²Ù‡äíÂ#{ÏÒÊ~‡Þ–÷´A—ÓsšwzZ¾©“ñD„ºtË>cÂe)ì×PôŸ/¿îhþ|GóÊÑhÂ'|œDãïåH¾#½r¤DН™Â7GÆó•£I‹cI–¿Õ‘ø”#áùŽp$Q£Žßˑø|GbåH–™"”Ëôÿrôîr@VEÊ\–BۋIÑr©¸§[†Š{†ÜŒÆe¯NWÛä=–¸ü'”°ò»îàÉn#8÷¡p}ŠR8L¢œ&¬ø„à$‰X¼‹hY=n³»-]çƒCY/Óòª&–2°Ð6ŽÜ+¶«èÕãhÌö±8pV9 Sý§Øf)ôŽöÛ§R0jFS³`ë²½¼kšbozÃ<ØìցHt,H#5Š«GvܥՄ‡F<‘95¡”“biÄÑI$r*M"i¢òc9ŒOºôþD½–$y¿Ð²Å~ˎ·4)`Fƒ(¥°âvígLËa¾m^à}£yQÿÜÝ:5‹Zgóç¯ :Àz¿z`úQï%êòàšî»Aµ„å<¢Ût­6E–ßÿ’GÕò\-ý/î²÷D‡Ð׀åNÖpôÐàx÷ÞüûÝvm⯫Q§Ãã‚ÌþPK Xc\Ùî!å Y customXml/itemProps3.xml±NÃ0†wžÂÊâɵJÚTI*“©+‰Õ8—Ô"¶#Û$Ä»ã¨b ã'}ÿwW?õ„ÞÁyeM…Ó Ì´½2c…ŸŸ:²ÇÈaz1Y6뛲÷‡^áƒup  QĘ8óUra>Pêå´ð;ƒ‰ËÁ:-BŒn¤v”„ÖÊEƒ 4c,§r‰,ý¢§E¶ŠÈS[%_|Çx“uiº»‚ls^¾ç;’Í}ËÚmš²ï¤^}.…0ø¿qå-NýGlòMŒp1ÒÄz#>^osF~sBë’^õÑëÔ?PK Xc\\îŠ#½ ' customXml/_rels/item3.xml.relsÏ1K1†áÞ_Ò¤r³z "›½F„ëDV° ÙÙÝ`f&dædïßVXØ~ÅóñNjù‚&™)¸»®w(ñœi î}z¹}tF4ÒwqÇñfxƒ53ɖ«˜I°›j}ò^ҥ㠴cY¸aT鸭¾ÆôWð÷}ÿàÛoÎW¦9ÍÁ¶Ó|°fºTøÍ˒
2025-2026 Bill 5287 Text of Previous Version (Feb.
26, 2026) - South Carolina Legislature Online South Carolina General Assembly126th Session, 2025-2026Bill 5287Indicates Matter StrickenIndicates New Matter(Text matches printed bills.
Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)                 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.
  Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
  SECTION 1.  Article 44, Chapter 3, Title 56 of the S.C.
Code is amended to read:
  Article 44   Share the RoadI Bike SC License Plates       Section 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 plateplates is the regular motor vehicle registration fee contained in Article 5, Chapter 3 of this title and a special motor vehicle license fee of thirtyfifty-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 bicyclepedestrian, 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.
  SECTION 2.  This act takes effect six months after approval of the license plate's design.
----XX---- This web page was last updated on February 26, 2026 at 11:22 AM
⬇ Download PDF
View plain text versions (2)
  • 02/26/2026 View text Current html
  • Introduced Filed vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document

Action History

  1. Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works

  2. Introduced and read first time

Sponsors

Sponsorship breakdown

Export CSV (upgrade) →

1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 169 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

Co-sponsors (0)

None.

Not signed on (169)

169 members have not signed on to this bill.

Show all 169 →

"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.

Whip count is in markup. Polling the chamber and every recorded vote this session. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Calling the roll · Tallying · Engrossing

Subjects

transportation
Cross-referencing the record. Reading this bill against every other bill in the corpus by meaning, not keywords. Only the first open is slow. It’s instant for you after this. Matching · Ranking · Engrossing

Frequently asked questions

What does H 5287 do?
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.
Who sponsors H 5287?
H 5287 is sponsored by Representative Beth E. Bernstein.
What is the current status of H 5287?
This bill is in committee in the House. Introduced February 26, 2026. It must pass committee before a floor vote.
Where can I track H 5287?
Track H 5287 free on One Click Politics — get push/email alerts when it moves.

Make your voice heard on H 5287

Find the representatives who decide this bill and tell them where you stand — for yourself, or mobilize your whole list in one click with One Click Politics advocacy software.

Find my representatives → Run a campaign

Stay ahead of H 5287

Last checked for changes 2 months ago · updated continuously

One Click Politics tracks every bill in Congress and all 50 states.

Track this bill →