2007-2008 Bill 3858: Special Elections to Fill Vacancies - South Carolina Legislature Online

1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 117th Session, 2007-2008 3 4 H. 3858 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 General Bill 9 Sponsors: Reps. Ceips and Clemmons 10 Document Path: l:\council\bills\dka\3260dw07.doc 11 12 Introduced in the House on April 11, 2007 13 Introduced in the Senate on May 22, 2007 14 Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary 15 16 Summary: Special elections to fill vacancies 17 18 19 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 20 21 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 22 4/11/2007 House Introduced and read first time HJ-13 23 4/11/2007 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-13 24 5/9/2007 House Committee report: Favorable Judiciary HJ-9 25 5/16/2007 House Read second time HJ-31 26 5/17/2007 House Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-13 27 5/22/2007 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-16 28 5/22/2007 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-16 29 5/25/2007 Senate Referred to Subcommittee: Martin (ch), Malloy, Campsen, Williams 30 31 32 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 33 34 4/11/2007 35 5/9/2007 36 1 Indicates Matter Stricken 2 Indicates New Matter 3 4 COMMITTEE REPORT 5 May 9, 2007 6 7 H. 3858 8 9 Introduced by Reps. Ceips and Clemmons 10 11 S. Printed 5/9/07--H. 12 Read the first time April 11, 2007. 13 14 15 THE COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY 16 To whom was referred a Bill (H. 3858) to amend Section 17 7-13-190, as amended, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, 18 relating to conducting special elections to fill vacancies in office, 19 so as to specify, etc., respectfully 20 REPORT: 21 That they have duly and carefully considered the same and 22 recommend that the same do pass: 23 24 JAMES H. HARRISON for Committee. 25

1 [3858-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A BILL 10 11 TO AMEND SECTION 7-13-190, AS AMENDED, CODE OF 12 LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO 13 CONDUCTING SPECIAL ELECTIONS TO FILL VACANCIES 14 IN OFFICE, SO AS TO SPECIFY THAT IF THERE IS A 15 VACANCY REQUIRING A PRIMARY ELECTION TO FILL 16 THE VACANCY, THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 17 APPLY. 18 19 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South 20 Carolina: 21 22 SECTION 1. Section 7-13-190(D) of the 1976 Code, as last 23 amended by Act 380 of 1988, is further amended to read: 24 25 “(D) Provided, however, if a vacancy occurs in more than one 26 office in the same county requiring separate primaries or special 27 elections to be held within a period of twenty-eight days under the 28 provisions of this section, the election commission or other 29 authority responsible for the conduct of the elections shall conduct 30 all of the elections on the same date. The primaries or special 31 elections must be held on the latest date required for an election 32 during the twenty-eight-day period.” 33 34 SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the 35 Governor. 36 ----XX---- 37

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