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S. 183
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senators McElveen and Harpootlian
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Companion/Similar bill(s): 3302
Introduced in the Senate on January 8, 2019
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Finance
Summary: Voting machines
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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12/12/2018 Senate Prefiled
12/12/2018 Senate Referred to Committee on Finance
1/8/2019 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 125)
1/8/2019 Senate Referred to Committee on Finance
(Senate Journal-page 125)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO PROVIDE FOR SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION TO PURCHASE ELECTRONIC VOTING MACHINES THAT PRODUCE A PAPER AUDIT TRAIL; AND TO ALLOW THE DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATION TO CARRY FORWARD UNEXPENDED FUNDS APPROPRIATED IN THIS ACT.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. There is appropriated from the Fiscal Year 2017-18 General Fund Budgetary Surplus the sum of twenty-five million dollars to the Department of Administration to purchase voting machines to be placed in service for the 2020 presidential preference primaries pursuant to Section 7-11-20 of the 1976 Code. Voting machines purchased pursuant to this act must be designed to allow a direct vote on the machine by the manual touch of a screen, monitor, wheel, or other device and must be equipped with a voter-verified paper audit trail that produces a permanent paper recording of all votes cast by each elector in that election.
SECTION 2. The Department of Administration's procurement of voting machines pursuant to this act shall be through a fair, transparent process in strict accordance with the Consolidated Procurement Code.
SECTION 3. The Department of Administration may carry forward any funds appropriated in this act that remain unexpended at the end of the current fiscal year provided that the carried-forward funds must be expended on voting machines as provided in this act.
SECTION 4. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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