Bill 3647

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                       3647
Type of Legislation:               General Bill GB
Introducing Body:                  House
Introduced Date:                   19970313
Primary Sponsor:                   Battle
All Sponsors:                      Battle, Jennings, Whipper,
                                   Sheheen, Chellis, Bailey, Gourdine,
                                   Barfield, F. Smith, Harvin,
                                   J. Brown, Miller, M. Hines, Kinon,
                                   Mason, Edge, McMahand, Witherspoon
                                   and Baxley 
Drafted Document Number:           gjk\20237sd.97
Residing Body:                     Senate
Current Committee:                 Fish, Game and Forestry
                                   Committee 07 SFGF
Date of Last Amendment:            19970423
Subject:                           Set hooks, rivers where nongame
                                   fish may be used with provided; Fish
                                   and Game

Body    Date      Action Description                       Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  _______________________________________  _______ ____________
Senate  19970429  Introduced, read first time,             07 SFGF
                  referred to Committee
House   19970424  Read third time, sent to Senate
House   19970423  Amended, read second time
House   19970416  Committee report: Favorable              20 HANR
House   19970313  Introduced, read first time,             20 HANR
                  referred to Committee

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

AMENDED

April 23, 1997

H. 3647

Introduced by Reps. Battle, Jennings, Whipper, Sheheen, Chellis, Bailey, Gourdine, Barfield, F. Smith, Harvin, J. Brown, Miller, M. Hines, Kinon, Mason, Edge, McMahand, Witherspoon and Baxley

S. Printed 4/23/97--H.

Read the first time March 13, 1997.

TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-1187, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF NONGAME FISH AND BAIT WHICH MAY BE USED WITH TROTLINES, SET HOOKS, AND JUGS, SO AS TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR THE RIVERS WHERE LIVE NONGAME FISH MAY BE USED WITH CERTAIN SET HOOKS AND TO CHANGE THE SIZE OF THE SINGLE-BARBED SET HOOKS WITH WHICH LIVE NONGAME FISH MAY BE USED ON THESE RIVERS.

Amend Title To Conform

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

SECTION 1. Section 50-13-1187(B) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 24 of 1995, is amended to read:

"(B) Notwithstanding this section, on the Edisto, Black, Sampit, Big Pee Dee, Little Pee Dee, Lumber, and Waccamaw Rivers River live nongame fish may be used with 9/0 or larger single-barbed set hooks that have a shank-to-point gap of 1-3/16 (one and three-sixteenths) inches or greater."

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