S 0480 Joint Resolution, By Wilson, W.E. Applegate, Branton, Bryan, Courson, 
H.U. Fielding, Giese, W.R. Lee, J.M. Long, A.S. Macaulay, T.W. Mitchell, 
C.L. Powell, R.C. Shealy and Thomas
 A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to Section 5 of Article III of the
 Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, relating to apportionment of members of
 the House of Representatives, so as to provide also that no apportionment of
 senators may take effect until the General Election which succeeds the
 apportionment; proposing an amendment to the Constitution by adding Section 5A
 to Article III so as to provide for apportionment of the House of
 Representatives and the Senate by the South Carolina Reapportionment
 Commission when the General Assembly fails to apportion the bodies by certain
 dates and to provide for the membership of the Commission; proposing an
 amendment to Section 13 of Article VII of the Constitution, relating to
 arrangement by the General Assembly of counties into judicial circuits and
 congressional districts and establishing or altering the location of voting
 precincts, so as to provide that if the General Assembly fails to arrange the
 counties into congressional districts by the first day of July following the
 taking and the publication of the enumeration of inhabitants as required by
 Section 3 of Article III the South Carolina Reapportionment Commission shall
 make the arrangement; and proposing an amendment to Article XVII of the
 Constitution by adding Section 15 so as to create the South Carolina
 Reapportionment Commission and to provide its powers and duties
   03/04/87  Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-757
   03/04/87  Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-758