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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3440 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19990203 Primary Sponsor:Cooper All Sponsors:Cooper Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\psd\7156ac99.doc Residing Body:House Date Tabled:19990309 Current Committee:Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee 26 HLCI Subject:Contractor, general or mechanical; threshold construction costs requiring licensure as increased; Construction History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 19990309 Tabled in Committee 26 HLCI House 19990203 Introduced, read first time, 26 HLCI referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 40-11-30, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THRESHOLD CONSTRUCTION COSTS REQUIRING LICENSURE AS A GENERAL CONTRACTOR OR MECHANICAL CONTRACTOR SO AS TO INCREASE THE THRESHOLD FROM FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO FORTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR GENERAL CONTRACTORS AND FROM FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS TO THIRTY-FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR MECHANICAL CONTRACTORS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 40-11-30 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 440 of 1998, is further amended to read:
"Section 40-11-30. No entity or individual may practice as a contractor by performing or offering to perform contracting work for which the total cost of construction is greater than five forty-five thousand dollars for general contracting or greater than five thirty-five thousand dollars for mechanical contracting without a license issued in accordance with this chapter."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect April 1, 1999.
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