S*0332(Rat #0001, Act #0003 of 1999)  General Bill, By Jackson
 A BILL TO RATIFY AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 33, ARTICLE III OF THE CONSTITUTION
 OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO MARRIAGES OF WHITES AND NEGROES AND THE
 AGE OF CONSENT FOR AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, SO AS TO DELETE THE PROVISION MAKING A
 MARRIAGE BETWEEN A WHITE AND NEGRO OR MULATTO UNLAWFUL.

   01/14/99  Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-14
   01/14/99  Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-14
   01/27/99  Senate Committee report: Favorable Judiciary SJ-10
   01/28/99  Senate Read second time SJ-12
   02/02/99  Senate Read third time and sent to House SJ-6
   02/03/99  House  Introduced, read first time, placed on calendar
                     without reference HJ-9
   02/04/99  House  Read second time HJ-28
   02/04/99  House  Unanimous consent for third reading on next
                     legislative day HJ-29
   02/05/99  House  Read third time and enrolled HJ-2
   02/16/99         Ratified R 1
   02/23/99         No signature required
   04/16/99         Copies available
   04/16/99         Act No. 3

AN ACT TO RATIFY AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 33, ARTICLE III OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO MARRIAGES OF WHITES AND NEGROES AND THE AGE OF CONSENT FOR AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, SO AS TO DELETE THE PROVISION MAKING A MARRIAGE BETWEEN A WHITE AND NEGRO OR MULATTO UNLAWFUL.

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

Constitutional amendment ratified

SECTION 1. The amendment to Section 33, Article III of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of joint resolution 444 of 1998, having been submitted to the qualified electors at the general election of 1998 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 33 of Article III is amended to read:

"Section 33. No unmarried woman shall legally consent to sexual intercourse who shall not have attained the age of fourteen years."

Ratified the 16th day of February, 1999.