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Bill 4322

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                      4322
Type of Legislation:              Joint Resolution JR
Introducing Body:                 House
Introduced Date:                  20010813
Primary Sponsor:                  Altman
All Sponsors:                     Altman
Drafted Document Number:          l:\council\bills\bbm\10519htc01.doc
Residing Body:                    House
Current Committee:                Judiciary Committee 25 HJ
Subject:                          Reapportionment of election districts for 
                                  Senate, House of Representatives, U.S. 
                                  Congress; General Assembly


                        History

Body    Date      Action Description                     Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  ______________________________________ _______ ____________
House   20010813  Introduced, read first time,           25 HJ
                  referred to Committee


              Versions of This Bill

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 21, ARTICLE IV OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO THE REQUIREMENT THAT BILLS AND JOINT RESOLUTIONS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, TO BECOME EFFECTIVE, MUST BE PRESENTED FOR APPROVAL TO THE GOVERNOR, THE VETO THE GOVERNOR MAY EXERCISE OVER LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENTS THUS PRESENTED, AND THE MEANS BY WHICH THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MAY OVERRIDE THE GOVERNOR'S VETO, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT NO PRESENTATION TO THE GOVERNOR IS REQUIRED FOR A LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT TO BE EFFECTIVE WHICH APPORTIONS QUALIFIED ELECTORS AMONG THE GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, SENATE, AND UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ARE ELECTED.

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

SECTION    1. It is proposed that the first paragraph of Section 21, Article IV of the Constitution of this State be amended to read:

    "Every bill or joint resolution which shall have has passed the General Assembly, except on a question of adjournment or which apportions qualified electors among the geographical areas from which members of the House of Representatives, Senate, and United States House of Representatives are elected, shall, before it becomes a law, must be presented to the Governor, and if he the Governor approves, he the governor shall sign it; or if not, he shall return it, with his the governor's objections, to the house in which it originated, which shall must enter the objections at large on its Journal and proceed to reconsider it. If after such the reconsideration two-thirds of that house shall agree agrees to pass it, it shall must be sent, together with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall must be reconsidered, and if approved by two-thirds of that house it shall have has the same effect as if it had been signed by the Governor; . but In all such these cases, the vote of both houses shall must be taken by yeas and nays, and the names of the persons voting for and against the bill or joint resolution shall must be entered on the Journals of both houses respectively."

SECTION    2.    The proposed amendment must be submitted to the qualified electors at the next general election for representatives. Ballots must be provided at the various voting precincts with the following words printed or written on the ballot:

    "Must Section 21, Article IV of the Constitution of this State relating to the requirement that bills and joint resolutions passed by the General Assembly, to be effective, must be presented to the Governor, the veto the Governor may exercise over legislative enactments thus presented, and the means by which the General Assembly may override the Governor's veto be amended so as to provide that no presentation to the Governor is required for a legislative enactment to be effective which apportions qualified electors among the geographical areas from which members of the House of Representatives, Senate, and United States House of Representatives are elected?

Those voting in favor of the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'Yes', and those voting against the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'No'."

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