Reference is to Printer's Date 5/7/14-H.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, immediately after SECTION 22, by adding an appropriately numbered section to read:
/ SECTION ___.
(A)(1) there is created the
South Carolina Ethics Violations Study Committee to be comprised
of eight members appointed as follows:
(a)
four circuit solicitors appointed by the Executive
Director of the South Carolina Commission on Prosecution
Coordination by August 1, 2014. Two of the four appointed
solicitors must be members of the majority political party
represented in the General Assembly, and two must be members of
the largest minority political party represented in the General
Assembly;
(2)
four public defenders appointed by the Executive Director
of the South Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense by August
1, 2014; and
(3)
the committee shall select a chair and a vice chair from
among its members. Administrative and logistical support to the
committee must be provided from either one or more of the
committee members' solicitors offices or from the South Carolina
Commission on Prosecution Coordination.
(B)(1) In making
appointments to the South Carolina Ethics Violations Study
Committee, the appointing authorities shall consider a
candidate's criminal trial experience. The appointing
authorities also shall make every effort to ensure that all
geographic areas of the State are represented and that the
membership reflects urban and rural areas of the State as well
as the ethnic diversity of the State.
(2)
the members of the committee shall serve without
compensation, and are ineligible for the usual mileage,
subsistence, and per diem allowed by law for members of state
boards, committees, and commissions.
(C) the South Carolina
Ethics Violations Study Committee shall have the following
duties and responsibilities:
(1)
to examine and assess all of the governmental ethics
rules, directives, and violations contained in Chapter 17, Title
2 and Article 7, Chapter 13, Title 8 of the 1976 Code;
(2)
to identify and recommend which specific governmental
ethics violations contained in the above referenced statutory
provisions should appropriately be designated as criminal
violations and which should appropriately be designated as civil
violations; and
(3)
to report its findings and recommendations to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives, the President Pro Tempore of
the Senate, and to the Chairmen of the House of Representatives
and Senate Judiciary Committees by February 1, 2015, at which
time the committee is dissolved." /
Renumber sections to conform.
Amend title to conform.