South Carolina General Assembly
112th Session, 1997-1998

Bill 3744

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter 

                    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
History


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 HJ
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FREE CONFERENCE REPORT ADOPTED--NOT PRINTED

June 5, 1997

H. 3744

Introduced by Rep. Wilkins

S. Printed 5/21/97--S.

Read the first time April 23, 1997.

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION

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.

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