Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:395 Primary Sponsor:Giese Committee Number:11 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Pretrial intervention program Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:DKA/4137AL.93 Introduced Date:19930209 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19930209 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Giese Type of Legislation:General Bill
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395 Senate 19930209 Introduced, read first time, 11
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TO AMEND SECTION 56-1-746, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE SUSPENSION OF THE DRIVER'S LICENSE OF PERSONS CONVICTED OF CERTAIN DRIVER'S LICENSE AND ALCOHOL-RELATED OFFENSES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE LICENSE OF A PERSON ACCEPTED INTO A PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM ON BEING CHARGED WITH ONE OF THESE OFFENSES MAY BE SUSPENDED AS IF THE PERSON WAS CONVICTED AND TO REQUIRE THE CIRCUIT SOLICITOR TO REPORT THE PERSON'S ACCEPTANCE INTO THE PROGRAM TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 56-1-746 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 421 of 1992, is further amended by adding:
"(E) If a person charged with an offense enumerated in subsection (A) of this section is accepted into a pretrial intervention program on the charge, his driver's license may be suspended as provided in this section in the same manner as if he was convicted of the offense. The circuit solicitor shall report to the department the acceptance into a pretrial intervention program of a person charged with one of the enumerated offenses."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.