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South Carolina’s public colleges must now comply with a state bathroom law requiring that they take reasonable steps to ensure restrooms and changing facilities offer privacy from members of the opposite sex. The South Carolina Commission on Higher Education recently finalized how it will enforce the Student Physical Privacy Act.
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FULL STORY: Colleges must now comply with SC bathroom law. Here’s how it will be enforced
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Here are key takeaways:
- Enforcement will rely on self-attestation, not inspections. Under a policy the commission’s board adopted Aug. 6, 2026, public colleges must annually confirm in writing that they comply with the law.
- “We’re not physically inspecting, we’re not investigating,” commission executive director Jeffrey Perez told the board, adding the agency worked with lawmakers to match their legislative intent.
- Schools that fail to attest to compliance, or don’t respond to a noncompliance allegation within 30 days, will have a quarter of their state funding withheld the following fiscal year.
- Colleges must provide at least one single-user restroom and changing area on campus for transgender students who prefer to use facilities that align with their gender identity. A state fiscal survey found no public four-year college expected compliance costs.
The summary points above were compiled with the help of AI tools and edited by journalists. The full story in the link at top was reported, written and edited entirely by journalists.
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