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Announcement was made that Dr. Susan Baker of Charleston is the Doctor of the Day for the General Assembly.
Reps. CAVE and RHOAD on behalf of the Barnwell Delegation, presented to the House the Blackville-Hilda Hawks football team, winners of the 1995 State Class A Championship, their coaches and other school officials.
Rep. H. BROWN moved that when the House adjourns it adjourn to meet at 9:30 A.M. tomorrow, which was agreed to.
Debate was resumed on the following Bill, the pending question being the consideration of the Bill.
Debate was resumed on Section 18N.
Reps. ROGERS and HODGES proposed the following Amendment No. 143 (Doc Name P:\amend\bs.67), which was tabled.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IA, Section 18N, Technical & Comprehensive Education, page 161, after line 31, opposite /Special Item-Job Retraining Fund/ by increasing the amount(s) in Column 5 and Column 6 by:
. . . . .COLUMN 5. . . . .COLUMN 6
/. . . . .1,500,000. . . . .1,500,000
. . . . .( ). . . . .( )/
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Rep. ROGERS explained the amendment.
Rep. HODGES spoke in favor of the amendment.
Rep. FULMER moved to table the amendment.
Rep. ROGERS demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Allison Bailey Brown, H. Cain Carnell Cato Chamblee Cooper Cotty Dantzler Delleney Easterday Fleming Fulmer Gamble Hallman Harrell Harris, P. Haskins Herdklotz Keegan Kelley Keyserling Kirsh Klauber Knotts Koon Limbaugh Limehouse Littlejohn Loftis Marchbanks Mason McAbee McKay Meacham Rice Richardson Riser Robinson Sandifer Seithel Sharpe Shissias Simrill Smith, D. Smith, R. Spearman Stuart Tripp Trotter Vaughn Waldrop Walker Wells Whatley Wilkes Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Worley Young Young-Brickell
Those who voted in the negative are:
Anderson Askins Breeland Brown, G. Brown, T. Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Harris, J. Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Howard Inabinett Jennings Kennedy Lee Lloyd McCraw McMahand Neal Neilson Phillips Rogers Scott
Sheheen Stoddard Townsend Tucker Whipper, L. Whipper, S. White Wilder Williams
So, the amendment was tabled.
Section 18N was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 3.
Reps. GAMBLE, CROMER, HARRISON, FLEMING, WORLEY, RHOAD, KOON, NEILSON, SPEARMAN, STUART, PHILLIPS, SHISSIAS, WRIGHT, DELLENEY, J. HARRIS, McCRAW, RICHARDSON, WITHERSPOON, KNOTTS, L. WHIPPER and KELLEY proposed the following Amendment No. 110 (Doc Name P:\amend\PT\2283SD.96), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, SECTION 3, by adding at the end of Paragraph 3.29, which begins on Line 23 of Page 397, the following:
/The amount herein appropriated for additional support personnel to assist House members shall be allocated to each member on a pro-rata basis. Each member may choose to expend his allocation for an individual legislative aide or may choose to combine his allocation with allocations of other House members for a legislative aide to assist each of the members contributing to the expense of that aide./
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Rep. GAMBLE explained the amendment.
Rep. VAUGHN spoke against the amendment.
Reps. CROMER and KIRSH spoke in favor of the amendment.
Rep. VAUGHN spoke upon the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 3, Legislative Department, page 399, Paragraph 45, line 16, by striking:
/(LEG: (Legislative Oversight of Medicaid Waiver) There is created the Legislative Medicaid Waiver Task Force consisting of the following voting members: the Governor or his designee, up to three members of the Senate Finance appointed by the Chairman of Senate Finance, up to three members of Ways and Means appointed by the Chairman of Ways and Means and up to three members appointed by the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Health Care Planning and Oversight. This Task Force shall (1) oversee planning and implementation of the medicaid waiver which was applied for on March 3, 1994; and (2) review the budgets of all state agencies which might be affected by the conversion to managed care and the expansion of medicaid coverage to potentially over 200,000 additional South Carolinians. In addition to the Governor and the legislative members, the Chairmen of Senate Finance, Ways and Means and Health Care Planning and Oversight may jointly appoint up to six representatives of public and private interests, one of whom must be a consumer, who are significantly affected by the waiver. Such representatives will serve as non-voting members of the Task Force. The legislative members of the Task Force shall elect one member to serve as chairman and one member to serve as vice chairman. The Task Force shall periodically report to all members of the General Assembly concerning the progress of the waiver. The Speaker of the House, President Pro Tempore of the Senate and Chairman of the Health Care Planning and Oversight Committee shall jointly designate staff from the House and Senate to provide necessary administrative, legal and research services for the Task Force, and to the extent practical, use the personnel of appropriate state agencies and commissions with such administrative and legal resources./
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Rep. ROGERS explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Debate was resumed on Amendment No. 6, which was proposed on Monday, February 26, by Rep. MARCHBANKS.
Rep. MARCHBANKS moved to table the amendment, which was agreed to.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 3, Legislative Department, page 400, after line 7, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/There is hereby established a Capital Projects Oversight Committee. The Capital Projects Oversight Committee shall consist of four members of the Ways and Means Committee, one of whom shall be the Ways and Means Committee Chairman and three other members who shall be appointed by the Chairman and four members of the Senate Finance Committee, one of whom shall be the Senate Finance Committee Chairman and three other members who shall be appointed by the Chairman. The duties of the former Joint Bond Review Committee shall be devolved upon the Capital Projects Oversight Committee/
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Rep. MARCHBANKS explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted by a division vote of 66 to 27.
Rep. KIRSH proposed the following Amendment No. 151 (Doc Name P:\amend\ff.29), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 3, Legislative Department, page 398, Paragraph 40, lines 27 through 34, by striking:
/proviso (LEG: Selected Agencies Base Budget Study) in its entirety/
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Rep. KIRSH explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Reps. ROBINSON, WILKINS, HARRISON, MARCHBANKS, TROTTER, HASKINS, QUINN and D. SMITH proposed the following Amendment No. 114 (Doc Name P:\amend\GJK\22410DW.96), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, SECTION 3, Legislative Department, page 400, after line 7, by adding an appropriately numbered item.
/ . No member of the General Assembly who has been convicted of a felony under state or federal law or who has pled guilty or nolo contendere to these offenses may receive compensation or reimbursable expenses provided for members of the General Assembly in this act.
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Rep. ROBINSON explained the amendment.
Rep. SCOTT raised the Point of Order that Amendment No. 114 was out of order as it was not germane.
The SPEAKER stated that it was in Part IB and he overruled the Point of Order.
The amendment was then adopted.
Section 3 as amended was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 6DD.
Section 6DD was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 11.
Reps. TUCKER and QUINN proposed the following Amendment No. 92 (Doc Name P:\amend\jl.60), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 11, Attorney General, page 407, Paragraph 12, line 29 by striking /under the age of 17/ and inserting /non-violent/ before the word /criminal:/
Amend the bill further, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 11, Attorney General, page 407, Paragraph 12, by striking line 34 beginning with /When a juvenile/ through line 40 ending with /suspended sentence/
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Rep. TUCKER explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Reps. TUCKER and QUINN proposed the following Amendment No. 123 (Doc Name P:\amend\JIC\5327SD.96), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, SECTION 11, Paragraph 12, by striking /The Attorney General's Office and the/, as contained on line 40 of page 407 and inserting /The/.
Rep. TUCKER explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Rep. TUCKER proposed the following Amendment No. 148 (Doc Name P:\amend\jl.65), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 11, Attorney General's Office, page 407, Paragraph 12, lines 26 and 27, by striking:
/and as an optional alternative sentence for Family Court Judges/
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Rep. TUCKER explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Section 11 as amended was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 14.
Section 14 was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 17C.
Rep. SHEHEEN proposed the following Amendment No. 58 (Doc Name P:\amend\dc.7), which was rejected.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 17C, B&C BD-Budget & Analyses, Page 419, Paragraph 19, Line 30 by striking paragraph in its entirety and inserting the following:
/17C.19 (Employee Pay) The amounts appropriated to the Budget and control Board for employee Pay increase must be allocated by the Board to the various state agencies to provide for employees pay increases in accordance with the following plan:
1. With respect to both classified and unclassified employees not elsewhere covered in the Act:
A. Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after January 1 of the current fiscal year, employees whose annualized salary is equal to or less than $50,000 shall receive an annual average 4% increase.
B. Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after January 1 of the current fiscal year, employees whose annualized salary is more than $50,000 shall receive an annualized increase of $2,000.
3. Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after January 1 of the current fiscal year, agency heads not covered by the Agency Head Salary Commission, shall receive an annualized base pay increase of 4%, not to exceed an annualized increase of $2,000.
4. With respect to local health care providers, the funds provided for compensation increases shall be based on an annual average 4% increase, effective on the first pay period of or after January 1 of the current fiscal year.
5. Effective on the first pay date that occurs on or after January 1 of the current fiscal year, the Chief Justice and other judicial officers shall receive a base pay increase of $2,000./
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Rep. SHEHEEN explained the amendment.
Rep. H. BROWN spoke against the amendment.
Rep. SHEHEEN spoke in favor of the amendment.
Rep. HASKINS spoke against the amendment.
Rep. H. BROWN moved to table the amendment.
Rep. SHEHEEN demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Allison Askins Brown, H. Cain Cato Chamblee Cooper Cotty Dantzler Easterday Felder Fulmer Hallman Harrell Haskins Herdklotz Jaskwhich Keegan Kelley Klauber Koon Lanford Law Limbaugh Limehouse Littlejohn Loftis
Marchbanks Mason McKay Meacham Rice Richardson Riser Robinson Sandifer Seithel Sharpe Simrill Smith, D. Smith, R. Spearman Stuart Tripp Trotter Vaughn Walker Wells Whatley Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Worley Wright Young Young-Brickell
Those who voted in the negative are:
Anderson Bailey Breeland Brown, G. Brown, J. Brown, T. Byrd Carnell Cave Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Cromer Delleney Elliott Harris, J. Harris, P. Harrison Harvin Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Howard Inabinett Jennings Kennedy Keyserling Kinon Kirsh Knotts Lee Lloyd McAbee McCraw McElveen McMahand McTeer Moody-Lawrence Neal Neilson Phillips Quinn Rhoad Rogers Scott Sheheen Shissias Stille Stoddard Townsend Tucker Waldrop Whipper, L. Whipper, S. White Wilder Wilkes
So, the House refused to table the amendment.
The question then recurred to the adoption of the amendment.
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Anderson Breeland Brown, J. Brown, T. Byrd Carnell Cave Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Cromer Delleney Elliott Felder Govan Harris, J. Harris, P. Harvin Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Howard Inabinett Jennings Kennedy Keyserling Kinon Kirsh Lee Lloyd Martin McAbee McCraw McElveen McMahand McTeer Moody-Lawrence Neal Neilson Phillips Rhoad Rogers Scott Sheheen Shissias Stille Stoddard Townsend Tucker Waldrop Whipper, L. Whipper, S. White Wilder Wilkes Williams
Those who voted in the negative are:
Allison Askins Brown, H. Cain Cato Chamblee Cooper Cotty Dantzler Easterday Fleming Fulmer Hallman Harrell Harrison Haskins Herdklotz Jaskwhich Keegan Kelley Klauber Koon Lanford Law Limbaugh Limehouse Littlejohn Loftis Marchbanks Mason McKay Meacham Quinn Rice Richardson Riser Robinson Sandifer Seithel
Sharpe Simrill Smith, D. Smith, R. Spearman Stuart Tripp Trotter Vaughn Walker Wells Whatley Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Worley Wright Young Young-Brickell
So, the amendment was rejected.
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