Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3486 Primary Sponsor:Clyborne Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Juveniles, indeterminate period of commitment Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:DKA/4212AL.93 Introduced Date:19930211 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19930211 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Clyborne Type of Legislation:General Bill
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3486 House 19930211 Introduced, read first time, 25
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TO AMEND SECTION 20-7-1330, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DISPOSITIONAL POWERS OF FAMILY COURT, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE FAMILY COURT MAY COMMIT CERTAIN JUVENILES FOR AN INDETERMINATE PERIOD NOT TO EXCEED THEIR TWENTY-FIRST BIRTHDAYS, BUT MAY BE RELEASED AFTER COMMITMENT FOR A MINIMUM PERIOD.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 20-7-1330(c), as last amended by Act 615 of 1988, is further amended to read:
"(c) commit the child to the custody or to the guardianship of a public or private institution or agency authorized to care for children or to place them in family homes or under the guardianship of a suitable person. Commitment must be for an indeterminate period but in no event beyond the child's twenty-first birthday. However, if the juvenile has committed an offense, which would be a felony if committed by an adult, for a second or subsequent offense, the court, in conjunction with the above indeterminate sentence, may commit the juvenile to a public or private institution for a determinate period not to exceed two years and during the determinate period the juvenile must not be released;"
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.