Current Status Bill Number:3744 Type of Legislation:Concurrent Resolution CR Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19970401 Primary Sponsor:Wilkins All Sponsors:Wilkins Drafted Document Number:jic\6014ac.97 Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19970605 Date of Last Amendment:19970605 Subject:Drug Impaired Infants and their Mothers Study Committee, Minors, Narcotics and Drugs
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ Senate 19970605 Free Conference Committee Report 99 HFCC adopted Senate 19970605 Free Conference Powers granted, 89 SFCC Rose appointed Senators to Committee Short of Free Conference Washington House 19970605 Free Conference Committee Report 99 HFCC adopted House 19970605 Free Conference Powers granted, 99 HFCC Young appointed Reps. to Committee of Cotty Free Conference Govan House 19970603 Conference powers granted, 98 HCC Young appointed Reps. to Committee of Cotty Conference Govan Senate 19970529 Conference powers granted, 88 SCC Rose appointed Senators to Committee Short of Conference Washington Senate 19970529 Insists upon amendment House 19970527 Non-concurrence in Senate amendment Senate 19970521 Adopted, returned to House with amendment Senate 19970521 Committee amendment adopted Senate 19970520 Committee report: Favorable with 13 SMA amendment Senate 19970423 Introduced, referred to Committee 13 SMA House 19970422 Adopted, sent to Senate House 19970417 Debate adjourned until Tuesday, 19970422 House 19970416 Committee report: Favorable 25 HJ House 19970401 Introduced, referred to Committee 25 HJView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
FREE CONFERENCE REPORT ADOPTED--NOT PRINTED
June 5, 1997
H. 3744
S. Printed 5/21/97--S.
Read the first time April 23, 1997.
TO ESTABLISH A STUDY COMMITTEE TO FORMULATE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO CONSIDER FOR FUTURE LEGISLATION CONCERNING DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS AND THE TREATMENT METHODS, COMMITMENT PROCEDURES, AND THE PROSECUTION OF MOTHERS OF DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS, AND ALL OTHER RELATED ISSUES CONCERNING DRUG IMPAIRED INFANTS AND THEIR MOTHERS.
Amend Title To Conform
That a study committee be appointed to study the treatment, commitment, and prosecution of mothers of drug impaired infants and related issues including, but not limited to, a review of Title 44 of the South Carolina Code of Laws, and propose a comprehensive approach to this problem. The committee is composed of:
(1) one member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and one member of the Senate Medical Affairs Committee appointed by the President Pro Tempore and one member of the House Judiciary Committee and one member of the House Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee appointed by the Speaker of the House of Representatives; and
(2) the following representatives or their designees: the Attorney General, the head of the prosecution section of the Attorney General's Office, the President of the South Carolina Solicitors Association, the President of the South Carolina Medical Association, the President of the South Carolina Hospital Association, the President of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Association, the Director of the Department of Health and Environmental Control, the Director of the Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services, the Director of the Department of Social Services, the Chief of the South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division, the Director of the South Carolina Legal Services Association, the President of the South Carolina Chapter of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and the President of the South Carolina Public Defenders Association.
The committee shall be chaired jointly by a senator designated by the President Pro Tempore from his appointees and a representative designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from his appointees. The committee shall submit its report and recommendations to the General Assembly as soon as possible but no later than the beginning of the 1998 legislative session at which time the committee is dissolved. The committee must be staffed by personnel designated by the Speaker of the House of Representatives from the House staff and personnel designated by the President Pro Tempore from the Senate staff.
/s/Michael T. Rose /s/W. Jeffrey Young
/s/McKinley Washington, Jr. /s/William F. Cotty
/s/Linda H. Short /s/Jerry N. Govan, Jr.
On Part of the Senate. On Part of the House.