Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3397 Primary Sponsor:Rudnick Committee Number:30 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Legislative Discretionary Account Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Computer Document Number:3397 Introduced Date:Jan 31, 1991 Last History Body:House Last History Date:Jan 31, 1991 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Rudnick Waldrop McBride Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN
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3397 House Jan 31, 1991 Introduced, read first time, 30
referred to Committee
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TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 57-11-100 SO AS TO ESTABLISH THE LEGISLATIVE DISCRETIONARY ACCOUNT WITHIN THE STATE HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION FUND, TO PROVIDE FOR ITS FUNDING, AND TO PROVIDE THE MANNER AND AMOUNT IN WHICH ACCOUNT PROCEEDS MAY BE EXPENDED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 1, Chapter 11, Title 57 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 57-11-100. There is established within the State Highways and Public Transportation Fund a separate Legislative Discretionary Account to which must be credited four million, two hundred fifty thousand dollars annually by reducing proportionately those accounts to which gasoline and other motor fuels tax revenues are credited. Expenditures from this account must be made by the department on the warrant of individual members of the General Assembly and used as the members direct for those purposes for which revenues of the State Highways and Public Transportation Fund may be expended lawfully. No individual member of the General Assembly may authorize expenditures in excess of twenty-five thousand dollars annually."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect July 1, 1991.