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S 75
Session 125 (2023-2024)


S 75  General Bill, By  Malloy

A BILL TO AMEND ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 25, TITLE 17 OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS, RELATING TO CONVICTIONSNext AND SENTENCES, BY ADDING SECTION 17-25-40, TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON MUST NOT BE SENTENCED TO DEATH OR A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE IF THAT PERSON WAS YOUNGER THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME THE RELEVANT OFFENSE WAS COMMITTED.

  
    

      Date
      Body
      Action Description with journal page number
    

  
  
  

    11/30/2022
    Senate
    Prefiled
 
  

  

    11/30/2022
    Senate
    Referred to Committee on Judiciary 
  

  

    1/10/2023
    Senate
    Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 49)
  

  

    1/10/2023
    Senate
    Referred to Committee on Judiciary  (Senate Journal-page 49)
  

  

    7/27/2023
    
    Scrivener's error corrected

VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

11/30/2022
07/27/2023


S. 75

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A bill

 

TO AMEND ARTICLE 1, CHAPTER 25, TITLE 17 OF THE South Carolina CODE OF LAWS, RELATING TO PreviousCONVICTIONSNext AND SENTENCES, BY ADDING SECTION 17-25-40, TO PROVIDE THAT A PERSON MUST NOT BE SENTENCED TO DEATH OR A TERM OF IMPRISONMENT FOR LIFE WITHOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF PAROLE IF THAT PERSON WAS YOUNGER THAN EIGHTEEN YEARS OF AGE AT THE TIME THE RELEVANT OFFENSE WAS COMMITTED.

 

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

 

SECTION 1.  Article 1, Chapter 25, Title 17 of the S.C. Code is amended by adding:

 

    Section 17-25-40.  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person must not be sentenced to death or a term of imprisonment for life without the possibility of parole if that person was younger than eighteen years of age at the time the relevant offense was committed.

 

SECTION 2.  This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. This act is retroactive and constitutes sufficient grounds for the reconsideration of sentences imposed as the result of Previousconvictions rendered before the effective date of this act.

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