Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4744 Primary Sponsor:Robinson Committee Number:30 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Pretrial intervention program Residing Body:House Current Committee:Ways and Means Computer Document Number:DKA/3192AL.94 Introduced Date:19940215 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940215 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Robinson Trotter Marchbanks Type of Legislation:General Bill
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4744 House 19940215 Introduced, read first time, 30
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TO AMEND SECTION 17-22-110, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PAYMENT OF FEES FOR THE PRETRIAL INTERVENTION PROGRAM, SO AS TO INCREASE THE FEE BY FIFTY DOLLARS TO BE REMITTED TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY THAT INITIATED THE CASE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 17-22-110 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 499 of 1992, is further amended to read:
"Section 17-22-110. An applicant to an intervention program or an offender who applies to the chief administrative judge of the court of general sessions for admission to a program pursuant to Section 17-22-100 shall pay a nonrefundable application fee of fifty dollars and, if accepted into the program, a nonrefundable participation fee of two three hundred fifty dollars prior to before admission. Fifty dollars of the fee must be remitted to the law enforcement agency that initiated the case. All The remaining fees paid must be deposited into a special circuit solicitor's fund for operation of the pretrial intervention program. All fees or costs of supervision may be waived partially or totally by the solicitor in cases of indigency. The solicitor may also, if he determines necessary, in situations other than indigency, also may allow scheduling of payments in lieu instead of lump sum payment if he determines it necessary. In no case shall aggregate fees for application and participation in an intervention program exceed three hundred fifty dollars. However, in cases where the solicitor determines that referral to another agency or program is needed to achieve rehabilitation for a problem directly related to the charge, the defendant may be required to pay his participation in that special program, except that no services may be denied due to inability to pay."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.