2003-2004 Bill 3984: Legislative Caucus - South Carolina Legislature Online

1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 115th Session, 2003-2004 3 4 H. 3984 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 General Bill 9 Sponsors: Reps. R. Brown, Hosey, McLeod, Whipper, Bailey, Battle, Breeland, G. Brown, Clark, 10 Hagood, J. Hines, Littlejohn, Miller, Pinson, M.A. Pitts, Rhoad, Rivers, Sandifer, Snow, Taylor, Vaughn, 11 Whitmire and Wilkins 12 Document Path: l:\council\bills\swb\5338djc03.doc 13 14 Introduced in the House on April 9, 2003 15 Currently residing in the House Committee on Judiciary 16 17 Summary: Legislative caucus 18 19 20 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 21 22 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 23 4/9/2003 House Introduced and read first time HJ-74 24 4/9/2003 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-74 25 26 27 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 28 29 4/9/2003 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A BILL 10 11 TO AMEND SECTIONS 2-17-10 AND 8-13-1300, BOTH AS 12 AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, 13 RELATING, RESPECTIVELY, TO DEFINITIONS 14 CONCERNING LOBBYISTS AND LOBBYING AND 15 CAMPAIGN PRACTICES, BOTH SO AS TO REVISE THE 16 DEFINITION OF “LEGISLATIVE CAUCUS” TO INCLUDE A 17 CAUCUS BASED ON PREVIOUS OR CURRENT 18 HONORABLE SERVICE AS A MEMBER OF THE ARMED 19 FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES OR OF A RESERVE 20 COMPONENT OF THE ARMED FORCES OF THE UNITED 21 STATES, THE NATIONAL GUARD OF SOUTH CAROLINA 22 OR ANOTHER STATE, OR THE STATE GUARD OF SOUTH 23 CAROLINA OR ITS EQUIVALENT IN ANOTHER STATE, OR 24 LENGTH OF SERVICE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. 25 26 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South 27 Carolina: 28 29 SECTION 1. Section 2-17-10(11) of the 1976 Code, as amended 30 by Act 248 of 1991, is further amended to read: 31 32 “(11) ‘Legislative caucus’ means: 33 (a) a committee of either house of the General Assembly 34 controlled by the caucus of a political party or a caucus based upon 35 racial, or ethnic affinity, or gender;, or on previous or current 36 honorable military service as a member of the Armed Forces of the 37 United States or of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of 38 the United States, the National Guard of South Carolina or another 39 state, or the State Guard of South Carolina or its equivalent in 40 another state, or length of service in the General Assembly; 41 (b) a party or group of either house of the General Assembly 42 based upon racial or ethnic affinity, or gender, previous or current

1 [3984] 1 1 honorable service as a member of the Armed Forces of the United 2 States or of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of the 3 United States, the National Guard of South Carolina or another 4 state, or the State Guard of South Carolina or its equivalent in 5 another state, or length of service in the General Assembly. 6 However, each house may establish only one committee for each 7 racial-, ethnic-, or gender- or service-based affinity.” 8 9 SECTION 2. Section 8-13-1300(21) of the 1976 Code, as last 10 amended by Act 248 of 1991, is further amended to read: 11 12 “(21) ‘Legislative caucus committee’ means: 13 (a) a committee of either house of the General Assembly 14 controlled by the caucus of a political party or a caucus based upon 15 racial, or ethnic affinity, or gender; ,or on previous or current 16 honorable military service as a member of the Armed Forces of the 17 United States or of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of 18 the United States, the National Guard of South Carolina or another 19 state, or the State Guard of South Carolina or its equivalent in 20 another state, or length of service in the General Assembly; 21 (b) a party or group of either house of the General Assembly 22 based upon racial or ethnic affinity, or gender, previous or current 23 honorable military service as a member of the Armed Forces of the 24 United States or of a reserve component of the Armed Forces of 25 the United States, the National Guard of South Carolina or another 26 state, or the State Guard of South Carolina or its equivalent in 27 another state, or length of service in the General Assembly. 28 However, each house may establish only one committee for each 29 racial-, ethnic-, or gender- or service-based affinity.” 30 31 SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the 32 Governor. 33 ----XX---- 34

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