S 0391 Joint Resolution, By T.E. Smith
 A Joint Resolution proposing an amendment to Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12,
 and 16 of Article IV of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, relating to
 the Executive Department so as to delete the provisions relating to the
 election, term, qualifications, duties, and compensation of the lieutenant
 governor, relating to the requirement that the Senate member acting as
 lieutenant governor shall vacate his seat so as to allow an election to fill
 the seat, and relating to the prohibition on the voting power of the presiding
 officer of the Senate, unless the Senate is equally divided; to provide for
 the election of the President of the Senate from the members of the Senate; to
 provide for the President of the Senate to assume the duties of the Office of
 the President Pro Tempore of the Senate relating to notification of the
 disability of the governor to discharge the powers and duties of the
 governor's office; and to provide for the President of the Senate to assume
 the duties of the Office of the Lieutenant Governor relating to succession to
 governor when the governor-elect dies, declines to serve, or fails to take the
 oath or when the governor is removed from office by impeachment, death,
 resignation, disqualification, disability, or removal from the State;
 presiding in the Senate; and the authority to act in an emergency.
   03/21/85  Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-973
   03/21/85  Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary SJ-974