Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3579 Primary Sponsor:Rudnick Committee Number:21 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Highway Department, construction progress reports Residing Body:House Current Committee:Education and Public Works Date Tabled:Mar 19, 1991 Computer Document Number:CYY/18086.SD Introduced Date:Feb 21, 1991 Last History Body:House Last History Date:Mar 19, 1991 Last History Type:Tabled in Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Rudnick Baxley Corning Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN ---- ------ ------------ ------------------------------ --- 3579 House Mar 19, 1991 Tabled in Committee 21 3579 House Feb 21, 1991 Introduced, read first time, 21 referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 57-3-765 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SHALL GIVE PERIODIC REPORTS CONCERNING THE PROGRESS OF CERTAIN HIGHWAY EXPANSION OR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY CAUSING A PROGRESS REPORT TO BE PUBLISHED IN A NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTY OR COUNTIES WHERE THE PROJECT IS LOCATED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 57-3-765. Where the Department of Highways and Public Transportation publicly has announced a highway expansion or construction project, the cost of which will exceed one hundred thousand dollars, it shall give periodic reports concerning the progress of the project no less than semiannually until completion by causing a progress report to be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties where the project is located."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.