South Carolina General Assembly
120th Session, 2013-2014

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S. 873

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Hutto
Document Path: l:\council\bills\bh\26037dg14.docx

Introduced in the Senate on January 14, 2014
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Finance

Summary: Local Government Fund

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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  12/17/2013  Senate  Prefiled
  12/17/2013  Senate  Referred to Committee on Finance
   1/14/2014  Senate  Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 55)
   1/14/2014  Senate  Referred to Committee on Finance (Senate Journal-page 55)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

12/17/2013

(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 6-27-30, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO FUNDING OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUND, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT, AT A MINIMUM, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUND MUST BE APPROPRIATED AS MUCH AS WAS APPROPRIATED IN FISCAL YEAR 2013-2014; AND TO AMEND SECTION 6-27-50, RELATING TO AMENDMENTS TO PROVISIONS OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT FUND, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT ITS PROVISIONS MAY NOT BE SUSPENDED EXCEPT IN SEPARATE LEGISLATION SOLELY FOR THAT PURPOSE.

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

SECTION    1.    Section 6-27-30 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 6-27-30.    In the annual general appropriations act, an amount equal to not less than four and one-half percent of general fund revenues of the latest completed fiscal year or the amount appropriated to the Local Government Fund in Fiscal Year 2013-2014, whichever is greater, must be appropriated to the Local Government Fund."

SECTION    2.    Section 6-27-50 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 6-27-50.    No section of this chapter may be amended, suspended, or repealed except in separate legislation solely for that purpose."

SECTION    3.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor and first applies in the first fiscal year beginning thereafter.

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