S 1321 General Bill, By Senate Judiciary
    A Bill to amend Section 2-1-180, as amended, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to the adjournment of the General Assembly, so as to provide that the General Assembly must adjourn on the first Thursday in June and shall remain adjourned subject to the joint call of the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate under certain circumstances; to amend Section 11-9-20, as amended, relating to persons charged with the disbursement of state funds appropriated by the General Assembly, so as to provide that transfers of appropriations may not exceed a specified percentage of an agency's total gross appropriation as set forth in the General Appropriation Act; to amend Section 11-9-890, relating to delineation of fiscal year revenue estimates by quarters, so as to provide that if at the end of the first quarter of a fiscal year, the quarterly projections are three percent or more below the amounts projected for that quarter by the Board of Economic Advisors, the Budget and Control Board must immediately notify the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate in writing of this determination; and to add Section 2-1-187, so as to provide that if a court of competent jurisdiction invalidates a redistricting plan for either the Senate or the House of Representatives or the State's Congressional Districts while the General Assembly is not in session, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President Pro Tempore of the Senate must jointly call the General Assembly back into regular session for certain purposes.
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04/03/96

Senate

Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar without reference SJ-4