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A16, R23, H3571

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Reps. Barfield and Hardee
Document Path: l:\council\bills\swb\5131cm13.docx

Introduced in the House on February 20, 2013
Introduced in the Senate on March 7, 2013
Last Amended on April 9, 2013
Passed by the General Assembly on April 17, 2013
Governor's Action: April 23, 2013, Signed

Summary: Fishing hooks

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   2/20/2013  House   Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 3)
   2/20/2013  House   Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Natural Resources 
                        and Environmental Affairs (House Journal-page 3)
   2/28/2013  House   Committee report: Favorable with amendment Agriculture, 
                        Natural Resources and Environmental Affairs 
                        (House Journal-page 5)
    3/1/2013          Scrivener's error corrected
    3/6/2013  House   Amended (House Journal-page 79)
    3/6/2013  House   Read second time (House Journal-page 79)
    3/6/2013  House   Roll call Yeas-105  Nays-0 (House Journal-page 81)
    3/7/2013  House   Read third time and sent to Senate 
                        (House Journal-page 24)
    3/7/2013  Senate  Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 12)
    3/7/2013  Senate  Referred to Committee on Fish, Game and Forestry 
                        (Senate Journal-page 12)
   3/21/2013  Senate  Committee report: Favorable with amendment Fish, Game 
                        and Forestry (Senate Journal-page 23)
    4/9/2013  Senate  Committee Amendment Adopted (Senate Journal-page 43)
    4/9/2013  Senate  Read second time (Senate Journal-page 43)
    4/9/2013  Senate  Roll call Ayes-40  Nays-0 (Senate Journal-page 43)
   4/10/2013  Senate  Read third time and returned to House with amendments 
                        (Senate Journal-page 31)
   4/17/2013  House   Concurred in Senate amendment and enrolled
   4/17/2013  House   Roll call Yeas-108  Nays-0
   4/18/2013          Ratified R 23
   4/23/2013          Signed By Governor
   4/29/2013          Effective date 04/23/13
   4/30/2013          Act No. 16

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

2/20/2013
2/28/2013
3/1/2013
3/6/2013
3/21/2013
4/9/2013

(A16, R23, H3571)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-665, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO BAIT THAT MAY BE USED WITH TROTLINES, SET HOOKS, AND JUGS, SO AS TO REVISE THE SIZE OF HOOKS THAT MAY BE USED TO FISH ALONG CERTAIN RIVERS.

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

Hooks used to fish along certain rivers

SECTION    1.    Section 50-13-665 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 114 of 2012, is further amended to read:

"Section 50-13-665.    (A)    Except as provided in subsections (B) and (C), and the bait listed below, no other bait may be used with trotlines, set hooks, and jugs:

(1)    soap;

(2)    dough balls;

(3)    nongame fish or bream cut into two or more equal parts;

(4)    shrimp;

(5)    meat scraps which may not include insects, worms, or other invertebrates;

(6)    grapes.

(B)    Notwithstanding another provision of law, on the Black, Edisto, Great Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Little Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Lumber, Lynches (including Clarks, Mill, and Muddy Creeks), Sampit, and Waccamaw Rivers, live nongame fish and live bream may be used with single-barbed set hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of fifteen-sixteenths inches or greater. However, it is unlawful for a person to have in possession more than the lawful creel limit of bream while fishing with nongame devices on these rivers.

(C)    Live nongame fish and live bream may be used on a trotline having not more than twenty hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of fifteen-sixteenths inches or greater on the Black, Great Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Little Pee Dee (including the navigable oxbows and sloughs), Lumber, Lynches (including Clarks, Mill, and Muddy Creeks) and Waccamaw Rivers. However, it is unlawful for a person to have in possession more than the lawful creel limit of bream while fishing with nongame devices on these rivers.

(D)    A person violating the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, must be fined not more than two hundred dollars or imprisoned for not more than thirty days."

Time effective

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

Ratified the 18th day of April, 2013.

Approved the 23rd day of April, 2013.

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