South Carolina General Assembly
123rd Session, 2019-2020

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H. 4688

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Rep. Pendarvis
Document Path: l:\council\bills\bh\7217ahb20.docx

Introduced in the House on January 14, 2020
Currently residing in the House Committee on Judiciary

Summary: Admissibility of copies of certain motor vehicle documents

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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  11/20/2019  House   Prefiled
  11/20/2019  House   Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works
   1/14/2020  House   Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 68)
   1/14/2020  House   Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works 
                        (House Journal-page 68)
    2/5/2020  House   Recalled from Committee on Education and Public Works 
                        (House Journal-page 51)
    2/5/2020  House   Committed to Committee on Judiciary 
                        (House Journal-page 51)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

11/20/2019

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A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 19-5-30, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE ADMISSIBILITY OF PHOTOSTATIC OR CERTIFIED COPIES OF CERTAIN MOTOR VEHICLE DOCUMENTS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT CERTIFICATION INCLUDES COPIES OF WATERMARKED DOCUMENTS WHEN PRINTED FROM THE COMPUTER SYSTEM OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES.

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

SECTION    1.    Section 19-5-30 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

    "Section 19-5-30. Photostatic, optical disk, or certified copies of motor vehicle registration applications, registrations, notices of cancellation, suspensions or revocations, reports of violations, and documents pertaining to the motor vehicle safety responsibility laws of this State, when certified by the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles, or his designee, as true copies of originals, on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles, shall be are admissible in any proceedings in any court in like manner as the original thereof. Certification includes a watermark applied to a copy of the document when it is printed from the department's computer system."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect one hundred eighty days after approval by the Governor.

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