Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:432 Primary Sponsor:Richter Committee Number:11 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Fees and costs Residing Body:Senate Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:432 Introduced Date:19930217 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:19930217 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Richter Type of Legislation:General Bill
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432 Senate 19930217 Introduced, read first time, 11
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TO AMEND ITEM 11(a) OF SECTION 8-21-310, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO FEES AND COSTS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE FEE FOR FILING A FIRST COMPLAINT OR PETITION SHALL BE SIXTY DOLLARS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 8-21-310(11)(a) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(a) For for filing first complaint or petition, including application for a remedial and prerogative writ and bond on attachment or other bond, in a civil action or proceeding, in a court of record, fifty-five sixty dollars. There is no further fee for filing an amended or supplemental complaint or petition nor for filing any other paper in the same action or proceeding. An original application for postconviction relief may be filed without fee upon permission of the court to which the application is addressed. There is no further fee for entering and filing a verdict, judgment, final decree, or order of dismissal, and enrolling a judgment thereon, for signing, sealing, and issuance of execution, or for entering satisfaction or partial satisfaction on a judgment. Of the fifty-five sixty dollar fee thirty-five forty dollars is subject to the disposition provision of Section 20-7-1510 and the remaining twenty dollars must be remitted to the State and deposited to the credit of the general fund of the State;"
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.