H 3072 General Bill, By Cobb-Hunter, Viers, Brady, Toole, Ceips and Scarborough

Similar(S 23, H 3129)
 A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE 74
 TO CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR "BREAST CANCER AWARENESS" SPECIAL
 LICENSE PLATES.

   12/08/04  House  Prefiled
   12/08/04  House  Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works
   01/11/05  House  Introduced and read first time HJ-71
   01/11/05  House  Referred to Committee on Education and Public
                     Works HJ-71
   02/23/05  House  Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Ceips
   02/24/05  House  Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Scarborough
   03/10/05  House  Committee report: Favorable with amendment
                     Education and Public Works HJ-42
   03/14/05  House  Amended HJ-20
   03/14/05  House  Read second time HJ-20
   03/15/05  House  Read third time and sent to Senate HJ-109
   03/16/05  Senate Introduced and read first time
   03/16/05  Senate Referred to Committee on Transportation

AMENDED

March 14, 2005

H. 3072

Introduced by Reps. Cobb-Hunter, Viers, Brady, Toole, Ceips and Scarborough

S. Printed 3/14/05--H.

Read the first time January 11, 2005.

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING ARTICLE 74 TO CHAPTER 3, TITLE 56 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR "BREAST CANCER AWARENESS" SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES.

Amend Title To Conform

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

SECTION    1.    Chapter 3, Title 56 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Article 74

Section 56-3-7800.    (A)    The department may issue 'Breast Cancer Awareness' special motor vehicle license plates to owners of private passenger-carrying motor vehicles or light pickups having an empty weight of seven thousand pounds or less and a gross weight of nine thousand pounds or less registered in their names which may have imprinted on the plate an emblem, a seal, or other symbol associated with breast cancer. The South Carolina Chapter of the American Cancer Society shall submit to the department for its approval the emblem, seal, or other symbol it desires to be used for this special license plate. The South Carolina Chapter of the American Cancer Society may request a change in the emblem, seal, or other symbol not more than once every five years. The special license plate must be issued or revalidated for a biennial period which expires twenty-four months from the month it is issued. The fee for this special license plate is the regular motor vehicle registration fee contained in Article 5, Chapter 3 of this title and a special motor vehicle license fee of thirty-five dollars.

(B)    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, from the fees collected pursuant to this section, the Comptroller General shall place sufficient funds into a special restricted account to be used by the Department of Motor Vehicles to defray the expenses of the department in producing and administering the special license plates. Of the remaining funds collected from the special motor vehicle license fee, twenty-five percent must be deposited with the State Treasurer in a separate fund for the Department of Health and Environmental Control to use solely to expand the services of the Best Chance Network, and seventy-five percent must be distributed to the South Carolina Chapter of the American Cancer Society to support the following programs:

(1)    Tell-A-Friend;

(2)    Reach to Recovery; and

(3)    Look Good...Feel Better.

(C)    Before the department produces and distributes a plate authorized under this section, it must receive:

(1)    four hundred or more prepaid applications for the special license plate or a deposit of four thousand dollars from the individual or organization seeking issuance of the license plate. If a deposit of four thousand dollars is made by an individual or organization pursuant to this section, the department must refund the four thousand dollars once an equivalent amount of license plate fees is collected for that organization's license plate. If the equivalent amount is not collected within four years of the first issuance of the license plate, then the department must retain the deposit; and

(2)    a plan to market the sale of the special license plate that must be approved by the department.

(D)    If the department receives less than three hundred biennial applications and renewals for a particular special license plate authorized under this section, it shall not produce additional special license plates in that series. The department shall continue to issue special license plates of that series until the existing inventory is exhausted."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.