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H. 4434

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Nanney, Clemmons, Horne and Sellers
Document Path: l:\council\bills\dka\3933dw10.docx

Introduced in the House on January 27, 2010
Introduced in the Senate on March 9, 2010
Last Amended on March 3, 2010
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary

Summary: Election

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   1/27/2010  House   Introduced and read first time HJ-12
   1/27/2010  House   Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-12
   2/24/2010  House   Committee report: Favorable with amendment Judiciary HJ-7
    3/3/2010  House   Requests for debate-Rep(s). Kennedy, JH Neal, 
                        Cobb-Hunter, Hosey, Clyburn, Ott, Williams, Jefferson, 
                        Hart, McEachern, Gunn, Harvin, Clemmons, Norman, King, 
                        Parks, Nanney, Erickson, and Neilson HJ-17
    3/3/2010  House   Amended HJ-78
    3/3/2010  House   Read second time HJ-79
    3/3/2010  House   Roll call Yeas-80  Nays-32 HJ-79
    3/4/2010  House   Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-24
    3/4/2010          Scrivener's error corrected
    3/9/2010  Senate  Introduced and read first time SJ-7
    3/9/2010  Senate  Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-7
   3/23/2010  Senate  Referred to Subcommittee: Campsen (ch), Cleary, Scott

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

1/27/2010
2/24/2010
3/3/2010
3/4/2010

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AMENDED

March 3, 2010

H. 4434

S. Printed 3/3/10--H.    [SEC 3/4/10 1:38 PM]

Read the first time January 27, 2010.

TO AMEND SECTION 7-13-35, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE NOTICE OF ELECTION GIVEN BY THE AUTHORITY CHARGED BY LAW WITH CONDUCTING AN ELECTION, SO AS TO DELETE THE REQUIREMENT THAT THE NOTICE BE PUBLISHED IN A NEWSPAPER AND THAT INSTEAD IT BE POSTED ON THE WEBSITE OF THE STATE ELECTION COMMISSION, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THIS NOTICE BE POSTED FORTY-FIVE DAYS INSTEAD OF SIXTY DAYS BEFORE AN ELECTION.

Amend Title To Conform

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    Section 7-13-35 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 434 of 1996, is further amended to read:

"Section 7-13-35.     (A)    The authority charged by law with conducting an election must publish two notices notice of general, municipal, special, and primary elections held in the county in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or municipality, as appropriate. The notice only must include the date, time, and type of election to be held, as well as the date by which a voter shall register in order to vote in the election. The notice must direct readers to the website of the State Election Commission for further information.

(B)    The authority charged by law with conducting an election shall cause to be posted on the website of the State Elections Commission a notice of general, municipal, special, and primary elections held in the county. Included in each notice must be a reminder of the last day persons may register to be eligible to vote in the election for which notice is given, notification of the date, time, and location of the hearing on ballots challenged in the election, a list of the precincts involved in the election, the location of the polling places in each of the precincts, and notification that the process of examining the return-addressed envelopes containing absentee ballots may begin at 2:00 p.m. 9:00 a.m. on election day at a place designated in the notice by the authority charged with conducting the election.

(C)    The first notice must appear, in a paper of general circulation and on the State Elections Commission website, not later than sixty forty-five days before the election and the second notice must appear not later than two weeks after the first notice.

(D)    The authority charged by law with conducting an election also shall cause to be posted on either the county or municipal board of election website, as appropriate, a conspicuous link to the website of the State Elections Commission. Nothing in the this section, must be construed to require a county or municipal board of election to create or maintain a website."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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