South Carolina General Assembly
123rd Session, 2019-2020

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S. 269

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senator McLeod
Document Path: l:\council\bills\cc\15354zw19.docx
Companion/Similar bill(s): 945

Introduced in the Senate on January 8, 2019
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary

Summary: General Assembly term limits

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 Judiciary
    1/8/2019  Senate  Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 161)
    1/8/2019  Senate  Referred to Committee on Judiciary 
                        (Senate Journal-page 161)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

12/12/2018

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A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 2-1-60 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT NO PERSON IS ELIGIBLE FOR ELECTION TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IF THAT PERSON HAS SERVED SIX TERMS IN THE SAME BODY, THAT NO PERSON IS ELIGIBLE FOR ELECTION TO THE SENATE IF THAT PERSON HAS SERVED THREE TERMS IN THE SAME BODY, AND TO PROVIDE THAT ANY TERM SERVED, FOR WHICH THE ELECTION WAS HELD PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 2019, MUST NOT BE COUNTED AS A TERM SERVED.

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

SECTION    1.    Chapter 1, Title 2 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 2-1-60.    (A)    No person is eligible for election to the House of Representatives if that person has served six terms in the same body, regardless of the district represented.

(B)    No person is eligible for election to the Senate if that person has served three terms in the same body, regardless of the district represented.

(C)    For purposes of this section, any term served, for which the election was held prior to January 1, 2019, must not be counted as a term served.

(D)    For purposes of this section, service in office for more than one half of a term must be deemed service for a term."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon ratification of an amendment to Section 7, Article III of the Constitution of this State authorizing the General Assembly to provide term limitations for its members by statute.

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