H 4626 General Bill, By L.M. Martin, J.M. Baxley, J.L.M. Cromer, Delleney, L.O. Graham, J.H. Hodges, Jennings, J.T. McElveen, P.H. Thomas, Wilkins, Witherspoon, S.S. Wofford and H.G. Worley
    A Bill to amend the Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, by adding Section 59-23-200 so as to provide for metal detectors in middle, junior high, and high schools in this State and provide that the Department of Education shall promulgate regulations regarding the installation of the equipment; to amend Sections 16-23-430, as amended, relating to carrying weapons on school property, so as to increase the penalty; 20-7-430, as amended, relating to transfer of juvenile criminal cases to circuit court, so as to provide that circuit court has exclusive jurisdiction over a juvenile sixteen years of age or older who is charged with a violent crime and to make other changes to conform to this requirement; and 20-7-600, as amended, relating to taking a child into custody, so as to allow detention in a secure facility of a juvenile who has in his possession a deadly weapon and to extend the detention time without a hearing to forty-eight hours.
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01/27/94	House	Introduced and read first time HJ-4
01/27/94	House	Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works HJ-5
02/09/94	House	Recalled from Committee on Education and Public Works HJ-79
02/09/94	House	Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-79