{"id":"SC-042","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"South Carolina","state":"SC","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Supreme Court of South Carolina (original jurisdiction)","authority":"S.C. Const. art. III, § 17 (one-subject rule); Provisos 1.103 and 1.108, Act 94 of 2021","instrument":"Richland County School District Two v. Lucas, Op. No. 28063, 862 S.E.2d 920 (S.C. 2021)","title":"Provisos 1.108 and 1.103 held constitutional; proviso bars funded mask mandates but not mandates funded solely from federal or local funds","dateIssued":"2021-09-30","effective":"2021-09-30 (heard Aug. 31, 2021)","end":"n/a","startDate":"2021-09-30","endDate":"2021-09-30","quarters":["2021Q3"],"types":["MASK","SCH"],"addressees":["Richland County School District Two","President of the Senate and Speaker of the House","all school districts"],"clause":"We hold the provisos are constitutional, and we reject the remaining challenges to the validity of the provisos.... [Proviso 1.108] prohibits the use of funds appropriated or authorized by the 2021-2022 Appropriations Act to announce or enforce a mask mandate.... [W]e do not reject the possibility that funds not appropriated or authorized by that act may be used to announce or enforce a mask mandate.","enforcement":"Declaratory judgment","functions":["IN instruction","WF workforce"],"notes":"Footnote 2 records that Richland County \u0027indicated it would not enforce its ordinance as of Sept. 2, 2021\u0027 and that \u0027both the City and the County have since enacted new ordinances that require masks in K-12 schools\u0027: Columbia Ordinance 2021-078 (Sept. 8, 2021) and the County\u0027s Delta ordinance (Sept. 15, 2021) (SC-061).","sourceUrl":"https://www.sccourts.org/media/opinions/HTMLFiles/SC/28063.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":166628,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"SC","url":"/library/SC-042","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/SC-042","citation":"Supreme Court of South Carolina (original jurisdiction), Richland County School District Two v. Lucas, Op. No. 28063, 862 S.E.2d 920 (S.C. 2021) (Sept. 30, 2021) (Ex. SC-042)","stateName":"South Carolina","related":["SC-038","SC-061","SC-045","SC-060","SC-041","SC-040"]}