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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.4865 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20000405 Primary Sponsor:Loftis All Sponsors:Loftis, Davenport, Hamilton, Inabinett, Leach, Phillips and Vaughn Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\skb\18151som00.doc Companion Bill Number:1076 Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 25 HJ Subject:Minors, material harmful to; unlawful to dispay or distribute when indecent; Minors, Crimes, Obscenity, Libraries History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 20000407 Companion Bill No. 1076 House 20000405 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 16-15-385, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DISSEMINATING HARMFUL MATERIAL TO MINORS, SO AS TO DELETE PUBLIC LIBRARY FROM THE LIST OF GOVERNMENT AGENCIES CARRYING OUT THEIR LEGITIMATE FUNCTIONS WHO ARE GRANTED AN AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSE FROM PROSECUTION UNDER THIS SECTION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 16-15-385(C)(2) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 358 of 1990, is further amended to read:
"(2) the defendant was a school, church, museum, public, school, college, or university library, government agency, medical clinic, or hospital carrying out its legitimate function, or an employee or agent of such an organization acting in that capacity and carrying out a legitimate duty of his employment."
SECTION 2. All proceedings pending and rights and liabilities existing, acquired, or incurred at the time this act takes effect are saved and may be consummated according to the law in force when they were commenced. This act may not be construed to affect any prosecution pending or begun before the effective date of this act.
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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