Current Status Bill Number:20 Type of Legislation:Joint Resolution JR Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19970114 Primary Sponsor:Saleeby All Sponsors:Saleeby Drafted Document Number:pt\2721dw.97 Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 11 SJ Subject:Constitution, amendments and revisions; number of submitted to voters limited; elections, referendum
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Senate 19970114 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1, ARTICLE XVI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO AMENDMENTS AND REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION, SO AS TO LIMIT TO THREE THE NUMBER OF AMENDMENTS THAT MAY BE SUBMITTED TO THE QUALIFIED ELECTORS OF THIS STATE AT A GENERAL ELECTION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. It is proposed that Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of this State be amended to read:
"Section 1. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives. However, for the general election in 1990, revision of an entire article or the addition of a new article may be proposed as a single amendment with only one question being required to be submitted to the electors. The amendment may delete, revise, and transpose provisions from other articles of the Constitution provided the provisions are germane to the subject matter of the article being revised or being proposed. If it is agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each House, the amendment or amendments must be entered on the Journals respectively, with the yeas and nays taken on it and must be submitted to the qualified electors of the State at the next general election for Representatives. No more than three amendments may be submitted to the qualified electors at a general election. If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting on the question vote in favor of the amendment or amendments and a majority of each branch of the next General Assembly, after the election and before another, ratify the amendment or amendments, by yeas and nays, they become part of the Constitution. The amendment or amendments must be read three times, on three several days, in each House."
SECTION 2. The proposed amendment must be submitted to the qualified electors at the next general election for representatives. Ballots must be provided at the various voting precincts with the following words printed or written on the ballot:
"Must Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to limit to three the number of amendments that may be submitted to the qualified electors of this State at a general election?
Those voting in favor of the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'Yes', and those voting against the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'No'."