South Carolina General Assembly
115th Session, 2003-2004

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S. 857

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Knotts
Document Path: l:\council\bills\gjk\20854sd04.doc

Introduced in the Senate on January 22, 2004
Introduced in the House on March 16, 2004
Last Amended on March 9, 2004
Currently residing in the House Committee on Education and Public Works

Summary: USC Medical School, human research remains, burial or cremation

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   1/22/2004  Senate  Introduced and read first time SJ-13
   1/22/2004  Senate  Referred to Committee on Education SJ-13
    3/4/2004  Senate  Committee report: Favorable with amendment Education SJ-8
    3/8/2004          Scrivener's error corrected
    3/9/2004  Senate  Amended SJ-63
    3/9/2004  Senate  Read second time SJ-63
    3/9/2004  Senate  Ordered to third reading with notice of amendments SJ-63
   3/11/2004  Senate  Read third time and sent to House SJ-17
   3/16/2004  House   Introduced and read first time HJ-6
   3/16/2004  House   Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works HJ-6

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

1/22/2004
3/4/2004
3/8/2004
3/9/2004

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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ADOPTED

March 9, 2004

S. 857

Introduced by Senator Knotts

S. Printed 3/9/04--S.

Read the first time January 22, 2004.

            

A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 59-117-110 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE REMAINS OF ANY PERSON WHO DONATED HIS OR HER BODY TO THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA MEDICAL SCHOOL FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH PURPOSES MUST BE INTERRED BY THE MEDICAL SCHOOL AT ITS EXPENSE IN A MARKED CEMETERY GRAVESITE IF THE REMAINS WERE BURIED OR IF THE REMAINS WERE CREMATED IN A MEMORIAL GARDEN CRYPT WHICH IDENTIFIES THE DECEDENT'S ASHES.

Amend Title To Conform

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

SECTION    1.    Chapter 117, Title 59 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 59-117-110.    The University of South Carolina School of Medicine may remove and relocate, at its expense, the cremains of a person, whose body was donated to and the cremains interred by the school of medicine from a grave or cemetery in the State to a memorial garden maintained at the school of medicine. Before the removal and relocation, the school of medicine shall notify the Department of Health and Environmental Control but is not required to obtain a permit as may otherwise be required by law or regulation."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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