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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3869 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20010403 Primary Sponsor:A. Young All Sponsors:A. Young, Barfield, Barrett, Carnell, Harvin, Koon, Littlejohn, Taylor and Wilder Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\pt\1348dw01.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 25 HJ Subject:Poll managers, sixteen or seventeen-year- old assistant poll manager appointed for every two regular managers; Elections History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 20010403 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 7-13-110, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO POLL MANAGERS AND THEIR ASSISTANTS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT ONE SIXTEEN OR SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD ASSISTANT POLL MANAGER MAY BE APPOINTED FOR EVERY REGULAR POLL WORKER APPOINTED TO WORK IN A PRECINCT.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 7-13-110 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 337 of 2000, is further amended to read:
"Section 7-13-110. All managers of election for the various polling places in the State must be residents and registered electors of the respective counties in which they are appointed to work or in an adjoining county. Any A person at least sixteen years of age who has completed the training required by Section 7-13-72 and who is not otherwise disqualified by law may be appointed as a poll manager's assistant by the appropriate county election commission. Sixteen and seventeen-year-olds A sixteen or seventeen-year-old appointed as a poll manager's assistants assistant may not serve as chairman of the managers or clerk in the polling place to which they are appointed. They Sixteen and seventeen-year-olds must serve under supervision of the chairman of the managers of the polling place, and their specific duties must be prescribed by the county election commission. No polling place in this State may employ more than one One sixteen or seventeen-year-old assistant poll manager may be appointed for every regular poll worker appointed to work in a precinct."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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