Bill 3101

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                    3101
Ratification Number:            323
Act Number:                     287
Type of Legislation:            General Bill GB
Introducing Body:               House
Introduced Date:                19950110
Primary Sponsor:                Shissias 
All Sponsors:                   Shissias, Cromer, Wells, Kelley,
                                Richardson, Gamble, Lloyd, Spearman and
                                Phillips 
Drafted Document Number:        DKA\3533AC.95
Date Bill Passed both Bodies:   19960328
Date of Last Amendment:         19950419
Governor's Action:              S
Date of Governor's Action:      19960506
Subject:                        Child support enforcement

Body    Date      Action Description                       Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  _______________________________________  _______ ____________

------  19960515  Act No. A287
------  19960506  Signed by Governor
------  19960430  Ratified R323
Senate  19960328  Read third time, enrolled for
                  ratification
Senate  19960213  Read second time
Senate  19950510  Committee report: Favorable              11 SJ
Senate  19950425  Introduced, read first time,             11 SJ
                  referred to Committee
House   19950420  Read third time, sent to Senate
House   19950419  Amended, read second time
House   19950405  Committee report: Favorable with         25 HJ
                  amendment
House   19950110  Introduced, read first time,             25 HJ
                  referred to Committee
House   19941214  Prefiled, referred to Committee          25 HJ

(A287, R323, H3101)

AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 20-7-420, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE JURISDICTION OF FAMILY COURT, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT CHILD SUPPORT MUST BE ORDERED WHEN A CHILD IS PAST AGE EIGHTEEN BUT BEFORE AGE NINETEEN WHEN THE CHILD IS IN HIGH SCHOOL AND MAKING PROGRESS TOWARD COMPLETING HIGH SCHOOL AND TO PROVIDE EXCEPTIONS.

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

Conditions for extending child support past age eighteen

SECTION 1. Section 20-7-420(17) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"(17) To make all orders for support run until further order of the court, except that orders for child support run until the child is eighteen years of age or until the child is married or becomes self-supporting, as determined by the court, whichever occurs first or to provide for child support past the age of eighteen years if the child is in high school and is making satisfactory progress toward completion of high school, not to exceed the nineteenth birthday unless exceptional circumstances are found to exist or unless there is a preexisting agreement or order to provide for child support past the age of eighteen years; and in the discretion of the court, to provide for child support past age eighteen where there are physical or mental disabilities of the child or other exceptional circumstances that warrant the continuation of child support beyond age eighteen for as long as the physical or mental disabilities or exceptional circumstances continue."

Time effective

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

Approved the 6th day of May, 1996.