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| STATEMENT OF ATTENDANCE I came in after the roll call and was present for the Session on Tuesday, February 27. Gilda Cobb-Hunter June S. Shissias Grady A. Brown Douglas E. McTeer, Jr. Michael F. Jaskwhich William F. Cotty Wilbur L. Cave John G. Felder Alma W. Byrd H.B. Limehouse III George H. Bailey William D. Keyserling Marion P. Carnell Larry L. Elliott Jackson S. Whipper Patrick B. Harris Ralph W. Canty Theodore A. Brown G. Ralph Davenport, Jr. L. Morgan Martin C. Alex Harvin III Jerry N. Govan, Jr. Douglas Jennings, Jr. William D. Boan Robert J. Sheheen
The SPEAKER granted Rep. SHEHEEN a temporary leave of absence.
The SPEAKER granted Rep. BAXLEY a leave of absence for the day.
Announcement was made that Dr. Woodrow Long of Greenville is the Doctor of the Day for the General Assembly.
The following Bills were taken up, read the third time, and ordered returned to the Senate with amendments.
S. 597 -- Senator Greg Smith: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 50-18-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO HYBRID STRIPED BASS, SO AS TO CHANGE THE DEFINITION OF PROCESSOR.
S. 296 -- Senator Hayes: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 27-18-70, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEMAND, SAVINGS, OR TIME DEPOSITS WITH BANKING OR FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS BEING DEEMED ABANDONED
S. 1014 -- Senators McConnell, Passailaigue, Courson, Rose and Richter: A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 54-7-100, SO AS TO ESTABLISH THE HUNLEY COMMISSION TO NEGOTIATE WITH THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT ON BEHALF OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA CONCERNING THE SUBMARINE H.L. HUNLEY TO ENSURE THAT THE SUBMARINE AND ANY HUMAN REMAINS LOCATED THEREIN REMAIN IN SOUTH CAROLINA IN PERPETUITY AND ARE DISPLAYED IN AN APPROPRIATE MANNER FOR THE BENEFIT OF FUTURE GENERATIONS.
The following Bills and Joint Resolution were taken up, read the third time, and ordered sent to the Senate.
H. 4544 -- Reps. Cotty, Mason, T. Brown, Inabinett, Richardson, Rogers, Seithel, Neilson, Easterday, Kirsh, Shissias, Stuart, Hutson, McMahand, Rhoad, J. Harris, Wilkes, Stille, Cato, Bailey, Harrison, Gamble, Dantzler, Witherspoon, Delleney, Fleming, Harrell, Koon, Cromer and S. Whipper: A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 38-5-190 SO AS TO AUTHORIZE CERTAIN INSURANCE OR INSURANCE-RELATED ENTITIES, ORGANIZATIONS, OR AGENCIES TO CAUSE RECORDS RELATING TO POLICY APPLICATIONS, CHANGES, REFUNDS, TERMINATIONS, CLAIMS, OR PREMIUM PAYMENTS TO BE COPIED OR REPRODUCED BY CERTAIN MEANS, AND PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS.
H. 4444 -- Rep. Sharpe: A BILL TO AMEND SECTIONS 38-43-105 AND 38-43-106, BOTH AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH
H. 4078 -- Reps. Kelley, Keyserling, Thomas, Martin, Riser, Wilkes, Worley, Keegan, J. Young and T. Brown: A BILL TO AMEND TITLE 39, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO TRADE AND COMMERCE BY ADDING CHAPTER 18 SO AS TO REGULATE PRACTICES AND AGREEMENTS CONCERNING THE LICENSING OF COPYRIGHTED NONDRAMATIC MUSICAL WORKS, TO AUTHORIZE CERTAIN CIVIL REMEDIES FOR VIOLATIONS INCLUDING INJUNCTIVE RELIEF AND PETITION FOR TERMINATION OF CONTRACT, AND TO PROVIDE CRIMINAL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS.
H. 4648 -- Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee: A JOINT RESOLUTION TO APPROVE REGULATIONS OF THE WORKERS' COMPENSATION COMMISSION, RELATING TO WORDS AND PHRASES, DEFINED; FILING WITH THE COMMISSION, DEFINED; PERIODIC REPORT; STATUS REPORT AND COMPENSATION RECEIPT; TERMINATING TEMPORARY TOTAL OR TEMPORARY PARTIAL COMPENSATION BENEFITS; ADJUSTING THE COMPENSATION RATE; SETTLEMENT, FORM 16; SETTLEMENT BY AGREEMENT AND FINAL RELEASE; INFORMAL CONFERENCE; FINES, ASSESSMENT AND REVIEW, DESIGNATED AS REGULATION DOCUMENT NUMBER 1917, PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 23, TITLE 1 OF THE 1976 CODE.
Debate was resumed on the following Bill, the pending question being the consideration of the Bill.
Debate was resumed on Section 3B.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 3b, House of Representatives, page 11, line 24, opposite /Unclass Leg Misc (P)/ by decreasing the amounts in columns (5) and (6) by /61,293/;
Amend further, line 25, by decreasing the FTE's in columns (5) and (6) by /(2.00)/
Renumber sections and amend totals/title to conform.
Rep. KIRSH explained the amendment.
Reps. WALDROP and SCOTT spoke against the amendment.
The question then recurred to the adoption of the amendment.
Rep. J. BROWN demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Askins Brown, H. Cain Cato Chamblee Cooper Cotty Cromer Dantzler Easterday Fleming Fulmer Harrell Harrison Haskins Herdklotz Howard Jaskwhich Kelley Kirsh Klauber Knotts Koon Law Limbaugh Littlejohn Loftis Marchbanks Mason Meacham Rice Richardson Robinson Sandifer Sharpe Simrill Smith, D. Smith, R. Stille Stuart Thomas Tripp Trotter Vaughn Walker Wells Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Worley Wright Young Young-Brickell
Anderson Bailey Breeland Brown, G. Brown, J. Cave Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Delleney Gamble Govan Hallman Harris, J. Hines, J. Hines, M. Hutson Inabinett Jennings Keegan Kennedy Kinon Lanford Lee Lloyd McAbee McCraw McKay McMahand Moody-Lawrence Neal Neilson Phillips Rhoad Riser Scott Seithel Shissias Stoddard Tucker Waldrop Whatley Whipper, L. White Wilder Wilkes Williams
So, the amendment was adopted.
Rep. TUCKER proposed the following Amendment No. 97 (Doc Name P:\amend\ta.12), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 3B, Legislative Department, page 10, line 32, opposite /Unclass. Leg. Misc (P)/ by decreasing the amount(s) in Column 5 and Column 6 by:
. . . . .COLUMN 5. . . . .COLUMN 6
/. . . . . 90,522. . . . . 90,522
. . . . .( ). . . . .( )/
Renumber sections and amend totals/title to conform.
Rep. TUCKER explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Reps. KIRSH and SIMRILL proposed the following Amendment No. 60 (Doc Name P:\amend\dc.12), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 3b, House of Representatives, page 10, line 23, opposite /Unclass Leg Misc (P)/ by decreasing the amounts in columns (5) and (6) by $43,094;
Amend further, line 25, opposite /Unclass Leg Misc (TP)/ by decreasing the amounts in columns (5) and (6) by /6,000/
Renumber sections and amend totals/title to conform.
Rep. KIRSH explained the amendment.
Rep. McABEE spoke against the amendment and moved to table the amendment.
Rep. KIRSH demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Anderson Bailey Breeland Brown, G. Brown, J. Byrd Cave Chamblee Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Govan Harrell Harris, J. Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Inabinett Jaskwhich Jennings Keegan Kennedy Kinon Klauber Lee McAbee McCraw McMahand McTeer Moody-Lawrence Neal Neilson Phillips Rhoad Riser Shissias Stille Stoddard Townsend Trotter Tucker Waldrop Whatley Whipper, L. White Wilder Wilkes Williams
Those who voted in the negative are:
Allison Askins Cain Cato Cooper Cotty Cromer Dantzler Delleney Easterday Fleming Fulmer Gamble Hallman Harrison Haskins Herdklotz Kelley
Kirsh Knotts Koon Lanford Law Limbaugh Limehouse Littlejohn Lloyd Loftis Marchbanks Mason McKay Meacham Quinn Rice Richardson Robinson Sandifer Scott Sharpe Simrill Smith, D. Smith, R. Spearman Stuart Thomas Tripp Vaughn Walker Wells Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Worley Wright Young Young-Brickell
So, the House refused to table the amendment.
The question then recurred to the adoption of the amendment, which was agreed to.
Debate was resumed on Amendment No. 26, which was proposed on Monday, February 26, by Rep. KIRSH.
Rep. KIRSH moved to table the amendment, which was agreed to.
Section 3B as amended was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 6A.
Section 6A was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 11.
Rep. QUINN explained the section.
Section 11 was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 18A.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 18A, Commission on Higher Education, page 94, immediately after line 32 by inserting new lines to read:
/. . . . .COLUMN 5. . . . .COLUMN 6
Quality. . . . .3,000,000. . . . .3,000,000
Formula
Funding. . . . .51,500,000. . . . .51,500,000/
Renumber sections and amend totals/title to conform.
Rep. McTEER explained the amendment.
Rep. HALLMAN spoke against the amendment.
Rep. HODGES spoke in favor of the amendment.
Rep. STILLE spoke against the amendment.
Rep. STILLE spoke against the amendment.
Rep. McELVEEN spoke in favor of the amendment.
Rep. HALLMAN spoke against the amendment and moved to table the amendment.
Rep. HODGES demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Allison Bailey Brown, H. Cain Cato Chamblee Cooper Cotty Dantzler Delleney Easterday Elliott Felder Fleming Fulmer Hallman Harrell Harrison Haskins Herdklotz Hutson Keegan Kelley Kinon Kirsh Klauber Knotts Koon Lanford Law Limbaugh Limehouse Littlejohn Loftis Marchbanks Mason McKay Meacham Quinn Rice Riser Robinson Sandifer Seithel Sharpe Simrill Smith, D. Smith, R.
Spearman Stille Stuart Thomas Townsend Tripp Trotter Vaughn Waldrop Walker Wells Whatley Wilkins Williams Witherspoon Wofford Worley Wright Young Young-Brickell
Those who voted in the negative are:
Anderson Askins Breeland Brown, G. Brown, J. Brown, T. Byrd Canty Carnell Cave Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Cromer Govan Harris, J. Harris, P. Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Howard Inabinett Jennings Keyserling Lee Lloyd McAbee McCraw McElveen McMahand McTeer Moody-Lawrence Neal Neilson Phillips Rhoad Richardson Rogers Scott Shissias Stoddard Tucker Whipper, L. Whipper, S. White Wilder Wilkes
So, the amendment was tabled.
Section 18A was adopted.
As a part-time employee of the University of South Carolina, I did not vote on Amendment #46, Section 18.
Rep. MARGARET GAMBLE
Debate was resumed on Section 19.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 19, Department of Education, page 167, immediately after line 4 by inserting a new line to read:
/. . . . .COLUMN 5. . . . .COLUMN 6
S.C. Geographic
Alliance USC. . . . .40,000. . . . .40,000/
Renumber sections and amend totals/title to conform.
Rep. COTTY explained the amendment.
Rep. WELLS moved to table the amendment, which was agreed to.
Rep. KIRSH proposed the following Amendment No. 28 (Doc Name P:\amend\cj.10), which was tabled.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 19, Department of Education, page 170, immediately after line 18 by inserting a new line to read:
/. . . . .COLUMN 5. . . . .COLUMN 6
Alternative Schooling. . . . .$5,000,000/. . . . .
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 19, Department of Education, page 178, line 9, opposite /Local School Innovation Funds/ by decreasing the amount(s) in Column 5 by:
. . . . .COLUMN 5. . . . .COLUMN 6
/. . . . .5,000,000/
. . . . .( ). . . . .( )
Renumber sections and amend totals/title to conform.
Rep. KIRSH explained the amendment.
Rep. KIRSH spoke in favor of the amendment.
Rep. HARRELL spoke against the amendment and moved to table the amendment.
Rep. KIRSH demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Allison Askins Brown, H. Cain Carnell Cato Chamblee Cooper Cotty
Cromer Dantzler Davenport Easterday Felder Fleming Fulmer Gamble Hallman Harrell Harrison Haskins Herdklotz Hutson Jaskwhich Keegan Kelley Klauber Knotts Koon Lanford Law Limbaugh Limehouse Littlejohn Loftis Marchbanks Mason McAbee McKay Meacham Quinn Rhoad Rice Riser Robinson Sandifer Seithel Simrill Smith, D. Smith, R. Spearman Stuart Townsend Tripp Trotter Vaughn Walker Wells Whatley Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Worley Young Young-Brickell
Those who voted in the negative are:
Anderson Breeland Brown, G. Brown, J. Brown, T. Byrd Canty Cave Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Delleney Elliott Govan Harris, J. Harris, P. Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Howard Inabinett Jennings Keyserling Kinon Kirsh Lee Lloyd McCraw McElveen McMahand McTeer Moody-Lawrence Neal Neilson Phillips Richardson Rogers Scott Shissias Stille Stoddard Thomas Tucker Whipper, L. Whipper, S. White Wilder Wilkes Williams
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