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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.4344 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:20010827 Primary Sponsor:Harrison All Sponsors:Harrison, Wilkins and Fleming Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\pt\1624dw01.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 25 HJ Subject:Reapportionment of election districts, Senate President Pro Tempore to make submission of plan; General Assembly History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 20010827 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ referred to Committee Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 2-1-75 SO AS TO ESTABLISH ELECTION DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE SOUTH CAROLINA SENATE ARE ELECTED COMMENCING WITH THE 2004 GENERAL ELECTION AND THE PRIMARIES THEREFOR, AND TO DESIGNATE THE PRESIDENT PRO TEMPORE OF THE SENATE AS THE OFFICIAL SUBMITTING AUTHORITY TO MAKE THE REQUIRED SUBMISSION OF THE SENATE REAPPORTIONMENT PLAN TO THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE UNDER THE VOTING RIGHTS ACT.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 2-1-75. Commencing with the 2004 general election and the primaries therefor, one member of the Senate must be elected from each of the following districts:
SECTION 2. Effective with the 2004 general election and the primaries therefor, members of the Senate must be elected from the districts enumerated in Section 2-1-75.
SECTION 3. Upon the effective date of this act, the President Pro Tempore of the South Carolina Senate is designated as the official submitting authority who is responsible for making submissions of the revised Senate election districts set forth in Section 2-1-75 to the Chief, Voting Section, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, in compliance with Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as amended, and Title 28, Part 51 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, or word of this act is for any reason held to be unconstitutional or invalid or denied preclearance under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, such holding or denial does not affect the constitutionality or validity of the remaining portions of this act or the ability to hold timely elections in all districts not forming the basis of the Section 5 objection, the General Assembly hereby declaring that it would have passed this chapter, and each and every section, subsection, paragraph, subparagraph, sentence, clause, phrase, and word thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more other sections, subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs, sentences, clauses, phrases, or words hereof may be declared to be unconstitutional, invalid, or otherwise ineffective.
SECTION 5. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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