Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:5073 Primary Sponsor:McLeod Committee Number:00 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Sumter County Registration and Elections Commission Residing Body:House Current Committee:Local Delegation Computer Document Number:PT/1173DW.94 Introduced Date:19940413 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940413 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Sumter Delegation Scope of Legislation:Local All Sponsors:McLeod G. Brown McElveen Neal Type of Legislation:General Bill
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5073 House 19940413 Introduced, read first time, 00
referred to Sumter Delegation
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TO AMEND ACT 230 OF 1993, RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE SUMTER COUNTY REGISTRATION AND ELECTIONS COMMISSION, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT FOR 1994, THE COMMISSION SHALL ELECT A CHAIRMAN WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ACT, AND PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF A CHAIRMAN IN EACH YEAR AFTER THAT IN WHICH PRIMARIES ARE CONDUCTED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 1(D) of Act 230 of 1993, is amended to read:
"(D) The members of the commission, the administrator, who must be the chairman of the commission, and staff shall receive compensation as may be appropriated by the county council. In each year in which primaries are conducted, the commission must elect a chairman no later than six months but no earlier than seven months before the primary."
SECTION 2. Notwithstanding the amendment to Section 1(D) of Act 230 of 1993, contained in Section 1 of this act, for 1994 only, the Sumter County Registration and Elections Commission shall elect a chairman within thirty days after the effective date of this act.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.