2011-2012 Bill 1456: Adjournment for General Assembly - South Carolina Legislature Online

1 South Carolina General Assembly 2 119th Session, 2011-2012 3 4 S. 1456 5 6 STATUS INFORMATION 7 8 General Bill 9 Sponsors: Senators Ryberg and Rose 10 Document Path: l:\s-res\wgr\007shor.rem.wgr.docx 11 12 Introduced in the Senate on April 18, 2012 13 Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary 14 15 Summary: Adjournment for General Assembly 16 17 18 HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 19 20 Date Body Action Description with journal page number 21 4/18/2012 Senate Introduced and read first time ( Senate Journalpage 6) 22 4/18/2012 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary ( Senate Journalpage 6) 23 24 25 VERSIONS OF THIS BILL 26 27 4/18/2012 28 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A BILL 10 11 TO AMEND SECTION 21180 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING 12 TO THE ANNUAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, 13 TO REQUIRE THE SESSION TO END ON THE SECOND 14 THURSDAY IN MARCH IN EVENNUMBERED YEARS AND 15 ON THE SECOND THURSDAY IN APRIL IN 16 ODDNUMBERED YEARS; AND TO AMEND SECTION 2760, 17 RELATING TO THE GENERAL APPROPRIATION ACT, TO 18 REQUIRE THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO PASS BIENNIAL 19 APPROPRIATIONS IN EACH ODD NUMBERED YEAR. 20 21 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South 22 Carolina: 23 24 SECTION 1. Section 21180 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: 25 26 “Section 21180. The regular annual session of the General 27 Assembly shall adjourn sine die each evennumbered year not later 28 than 5:00 p.m. on the first second Thursday in June March and in 29 each oddnumbered year not later than 5:00 p.m. on the second 30 Thursday in April. In any year that the House of Representatives 31 fails to give third reading to the annual biennial General 32 Appropriation Bill by March thirtyfirst February twentyeighth, the 33 date of sine die adjournment is extended by one statewide day for 34 each statewide day after March thirtyfirst February twentyeighth 35 that the House of Representatives fails to give the bill third 36 reading. The session may also be extended by concurrent 37 resolution adopted by a twothirds vote of both the Senate and 38 House of Representatives. During the time between 5:00 p.m. on 39 the first second Thursday in June April and the extended sine die 40 adjournment date in each oddnumbered year, as set forth herein, no 41 legislation or other business may be considered except the General

[1456] 2 1 Appropriation Bill and any matters approved for consideration by 2 a concurrent resolution adopted by twothirds vote in both houses.” 3 4 SECTION 2. Section 2760 of the 1976 Code is amended to read: 5 6 “Section 2760. The General Assembly in each oddnumbered 7 year shall annually provide for all expenditures in the general 8 appropriation act and the appropriations made for any department, 9 institution, board or commission shall be in a definite sum for each 10 purpose or activity with such itemization under the activity for the 11 next two fiscal years as may be deemed necessary by the General 12 Assembly.” 13 14 SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the 15 Governor. 16 XX 17

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