H 3014 Joint Resolution, By G.M. Smith, M.A. Pitts and Cobb-Hunter
 A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1, ARTICLE XVI OF THE
 CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO AMENDMENTS AND REVISIONS TO
 THE CONSTITUTION, SO AS TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF QUESTIONS CONTAINED IN ONE OR
 MORE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO NOT MORE THAN FOUR FOR SUBMISSION AT THE SAME TIME
 TO THE ELECTORS, AND TO DELETE CERTAIN OBSOLETE LANGUAGE.

   12/13/06  House  Prefiled
   12/13/06  House  Referred to Committee on Judiciary
   01/09/07  House  Introduced and read first time HJ-22
   01/09/07  House  Referred to Committee on Judiciary HJ-22

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1, ARTICLE XVI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO AMENDMENTS AND REVISIONS TO THE CONSTITUTION, SO AS TO LIMIT THE NUMBER OF QUESTIONS CONTAINED IN ONE OR MORE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO NOT MORE THAN FOUR FOR SUBMISSION AT THE SAME TIME TO THE ELECTORS, AND TO DELETE CERTAIN OBSOLETE LANGUAGE.

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

SECTION    1.    It is proposed that Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of this State be amended to read:

"Section 1.    Any An amendment or amendments to this Constitution may must be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives. However, for the general election in 1990, revision of an entire article or the addition of a new article may be proposed as a single amendment with only one question being required to be submitted to the electors beginning in the 2010 general election, not more than four questions may be contained in one or more proposed amendments for submission to the electors at the same time. The amendment may delete, revise, and transpose provisions from other articles of the Constitution provided the provisions are germane to the subject matter of the article being revised or being proposed. If it is agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each House, the amendment or amendments must be entered on the Journals respectively, with the yeas and nays taken on it and must be submitted to the qualified electors of the State at the next general election for Representatives. If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting on the question vote in favor of the amendment or amendments and a majority of each branch of the next General Assembly, after the election and before another, ratify the amendment or amendments, by yeas and nays, they become part of the Constitution. The amendment or amendments must be read three times, on three several days, in each House."

SECTION    2.    The proposed amendment in Section 1 must be submitted to the qualified electors at the next general election for representatives. Ballots must be provided at the various voting precincts with the following words printed or written on the ballot:

"Must Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to require, beginning in the 2010 general election, not more than four questions to be contained in one or more proposed amendments for submission to the electors at the same time, and to delete certain obsolete language?

Those voting in favor of the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'Yes', and those voting against the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'No'."