H 3744  Concurrent Resolution, By Wilkins

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 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO ESTABLISH A STUDY COMMITTEE TO FORMULATE
 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CONSIDER FOR FUTURE LEGISLATION
 CONCERNING DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS AND THE TREATMENT METHODS, COMMITMENT
 PROCEDURES, AND THE PROSECUTION OF MOTHERS OF DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS, AND ALL
 OTHER RELATED ISSUES CONCERNING DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS AND THEIR MOTHERS.
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   04/01/97  House  Introduced HJ-9
   04/01/97  House  Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-9
   04/16/97  House  Committee report: Favorable Judiciary HJ-5
   04/17/97  House  Debate adjourned until  Tuesday, April 22, 1997 HJ-39
   04/22/97  House  Adopted, sent to Senate HJ-26
   04/23/97  Senate Introduced SJ-6
   04/23/97  Senate Referred to Committee on Medical Affairs SJ-6
   05/20/97  Senate Committee report: Favorable with amendment
                     Medical Affairs SJ-19
   05/21/97  Senate Amended and adopted SJ-46
   05/21/97  Senate Returned to House with amendments SJ-46
   05/27/97  House  Non-concurrence in Senate amendment HJ-38
   05/29/97  Senate Senate insists upon amendment and conference
                     committee appointed  Sens. Rose, Short,
                     Washington SJ-12
   06/03/97  House  Conference committee appointed  Reps. Young,
                     Cotty & Govan HJ-53
   06/05/97  House  Free conference powers granted HJ-133
   06/05/97  House  Free conference committee appointed  Reps. Young,
                     Cotty & Govan HJ-135
   06/05/97  House  Free conference report received and adopted HJ-135
   06/05/97  Senate Free conference powers granted SJ-155
   06/05/97  Senate Free conference committee appointed  Sens. Rose,
                     Short, Washington SJ-155
   06/05/97  Senate Free conference report received and adopted SJ-155

June 5, 1997

H. 3744

S. Printed 5/21/97--S.

Read the first time April 23, 1997.

TO ESTABLISH A STUDY COMMITTEE TO FORMULATE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CONSIDER FOR FUTURE LEGISLATION CONCERNING DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS AND THE TREATMENT METHODS, COMMITMENT PROCEDURES, AND THE PROSECUTION OF MOTHERS OF DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS, AND ALL OTHER RELATED ISSUES CONCERNING DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS AND THEIR MOTHERS.

Amend Title To Conform

That a study committee be appointed to study the treatment, commitment, and prosecution of mothers of drug impaired infants and related issues including, but not limited to, a review of Title 44 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, and propose a comprehensive approach to this problem. The committee is composed of:

(1) one member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one member of the Senate Medical Affairs Committee appointed by the President Pro Tempore and one member of the House Judiciary Committee and one member of the House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and

(2) the following representatives or their designees: the Attorney General, the head of the prosecution section of the Attorney General's Office, the President of the South Carolina Solicitors Association, the President of the South Carolina Medical Association, the President of the South Carolina Hospital Association, the President of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Association, the Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Director of the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, the Director of the Department of Social Services, the Chief of the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division, the Director of the South Carolina Legal Services Association, the President of the South Carolina Chapter of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the President of the South Carolina Public Defenders Association.

The committee shall be chaired jointly by a senator designated by the President Pro Tempore from his appointees and a representative designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from his appointees. The committee shall submit its report and recommendations to the General Assembly as soon as possible but no later than the beginning of the 1998 legislative session at which time the committee is dissolved. The committee must be staffed by personnel designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the House staff and personnel designated by the President Pro Tempore from the Senate staff.

/s/Michael T. Rose /s/W. Jeffrey Young

/s/McKinley Washington, Jr. /s/William F. Cotty

/s/Linda H. Short /s/Jerry N. Govan, Jr.

On Part of the Senate. On Part of the House.