S 1036 Joint Resolution, By Senate Ethics

Similar(S 974)
 A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to Section 12, Article III, of the
 Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, relating to each House of the General
 Assembly determing its rules of procedure and punishing its members for
 disorderly behavior, so as to provide that any member of the General Assembly
 who is indicted in any court for a crime which is a felony and which involves
 moral turpitude or a violation of the election laws shall be suspended by the
 presiding officer of the House of which he is a member until he shall be
 acquitted or convicted and in the case of a conviction for any such crime, the
 House of which he is a member with the concurrence of two-thirds shall expel
 him, and to define the terms "convicted" or "conviction" for this purpose to
 mean a conviction at the trial level.
   05/19/82  Senate Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar
                     without reference SJ-18