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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3303 Ratification Number:33 Act Number:19 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20010123 Primary Sponsor:Scott All Sponsors:Scott, Knotts Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\pt\1149dw01.doc Date Bill Passed both Bodies:20010328 Date of Last Amendment:20010327 Governor's Action:U Signature of Governor not required Date of Governor's Action:20010410 Subject:Lotteries, State; authorized, use of revenues; Lottery, Education Lottery Account, Treasurers, School Districts History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 20010501 Act No. A19 ------ 20010410 Signature of Governor not required ------ 20010410 Ratified R33 Senate 20010328 Concurred in House amendment, enrolled for ratification House 20010327 Senate amendments amended, returned to Senate with amendment Senate 20010320 Read third time, returned to House with amendment Senate 20010315 Amended, read second time Senate 20010314 Committee report: Favorable with 11 SJ amendment Senate 20010228 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ referred to Committee House 20010228 Read third time, sent to Senate House 20010228 Request for debate withdrawn by Representative Scott Hosey Moody- Lawrence J. Brown Ott J.E. Smith Lloyd Govan Weeks J.R. Smith House 20010222 Read second time House 20010221 Debate interrupted House 20010214 Co-Sponsor added (Rule 5.2) by Rep. Knotts House 20010213 Objection by Representative Walker House 20010213 Request for debate by Representative Scott J.E. Smith Govan J. Brown J.H. Neal Ott Fleming McLeod Hosey Weeks Lloyd Altman Tripp Sharpe Harrison J.R. Smith Cato Hamilton Easterday Davenport Moody- Lawrence Simrill Cobb-Hunter Barrett House 20010207 Committee report: Favorable 25 HJ House 20010123 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ referred to Committee Versions of This Bill Revised on February 7, 2001 - Word format Revised on March 14, 2001 - Word format Revised on March 15, 2001 - Word format Revised on March 27, 2001 - Word format
(A19, R33, H3303)
AN ACT TO RATIFY AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 7, ARTICLE XVII OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, SO AS TO DELETE REFERENCES TO THE PROHIBITION ON LOTTERIES, THEIR ADVERTISING, AND TICKET SALES, TO PROVIDE THAT LOTTERIES MAY BE CONDUCTED ONLY BY THE STATE, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE USE OF THE REVENUES DERIVED FROM THE LOTTERIES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Constitutional amendment ratified
SECTION 1. The amendment to Section 7, Article XVII of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of Joint Resolution 129 of 1999 (H. 3677 of 1999), having been submitted to the qualified electors at the general election of 2000 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 7 of Article XVII is amended to read:
"Section 7. Only the State may conduct lotteries, and these lotteries must be conducted in the manner that the General Assembly provides by law. The revenue derived from the lotteries must first be used to pay all operating expenses and prizes for the lotteries. The remaining lottery revenues must be credited to a separate fund in the state treasury styled the 'Education Lottery Account', and the earnings on this account must be credited to it. Education Lottery Account proceeds may be used only for education purposes as the General Assembly provides by law.
The game of bingo, when conducted by charitable, religious, or fraternal organizations exempt from federal income taxation or when conducted at recognized annual state and county fairs, is not considered a lottery prohibited by this section."
Ratified the 10th day of April, 2001.
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