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The House assembled at 2:00 P.M.
Deliberations were opened with prayer by the Chaplain of the House of Representatives, the Rev. Dr. Alton C. Clark as follows:
Our Father God, in these moments of prayer when there is silence in this Chamber, may there be no lack of confidence in the knowledge of Your presence. May no short circuit be made because of our lack of faith, or our high sounding words be joined to low attainments, or our fine phares be hidden in shabby thoughts, or our friendly smiles be masking cold hearts. Keep us vividly aware that we are heirs of a great heritage and trustees of priceless things. Keep us ever aware of the price that was paid for them and of the eternal vigilance required to preserve them. In our Saviour's Name we pray.
Amen.
Pursuant to Rule 6.3, the House of Representatives was led in the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag of the United States of America by the SPEAKER.
After corrections to the Journal of the proceedings of yesterday, the SPEAKER ordered it confirmed.
The following was received.
January 10, 1989
The Honorable Sarah G. Manly
Member, South Carolina House of Representatives
Room 335 D
Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Manly:
It is with pleasure that I am this date appointing you to serve on the House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee. Rep. L.E. Bennett is Chairman of this Committee and I am notifying him of your appointment by copy of this letter. I am sure you will serve well in this capacity.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
Received as information.
The following were received and referred to the Committee on Invitations and Memorial Resolutions.
August 12, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
On behalf of more than one hundred (100) churches associated with Christian Viewpoint and more that fifty (50) Christian Schools which are members of the South Carolina Association of Christian Schools, I invite the members of the House to a breakfast to be held at the Radisson Inn on Assembly Street on Wednesday, February 1, 1989, at 8:15 A.M.
This invitation complies with requirements for breakfast invitations on the Rules of the General Assembly.
Sincerely,
Orin G. Briggs
January 9, 1989
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
The South Carolina Medical Association, S.C. Hospital Association, and the S.C. Dental Association would like to invite the House of Representatives to a luncheon on February 1, 1989, at Noon or upon adjournment. The luncheon will be held at the Radisson and will feature a speaker on the infectious wastes issues.
Sincerely,
Jan Maynard
Director, Health Policy Affairs
March 17, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
By this letter I wish to confirm that the South Carolina Probate Judge's Association will host a legislative reception on Wednesday, February 1, 1989, at the Radisson Hotel, Columbia, 7:00-9:00 P.M. Prior to December 1, 1988, the Association will issue its invitation to the House of Representatives stating the time of the reception.
Thank you for placing us on your calendar for this event.
Yours truly,
Daisy P. Porter
Judge of Probate
December 20, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
The South Carolina State Museum extends an invitation to the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives and their spouses to a reception and tour of the State Museum on Thursday, February 2, 1989 from 8:00 A.M. - 9:30 A.M. Please announce this invitation to the members. We look forward to seeing them on the 2nd for a look at our state's newest educational and cultural attraction.
Sincerely,
Overton G. Ganong
Executive Director
January 9, 1989
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
On February 7th, the Chambers in our county will sponsor a "York County Day" in Columbia. Our theme this year is "York County Headliners." The main event for "York County Day" will be an evening reception for General Assembly members, the Governor, the Lieutenant Governor, the members of the State Boards and Commissions and their staff. The purpose of this reception will be to increase their awareness of York County.
We would like to invite all the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives to attend the reception at 6:00 P.M. at Stadium Place, 1200 Bluff Road.
Please notify your colleagues of the event 80 that they may mark their calendars now.
We will be sending formal invitations out in the next few days.
Thank you. We appreciate your help. Please call me if you have any questions.
With kindest regards, I am
Sincerely,
L. Keith Williams
Vice President of Administration
February 10, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
On behalf of the membership of the National Guard Association of South Carolina and the Adjutant General of South Carolina, Major General T. Eston Marchant, it is my pleasure to extend a warm and cordial invitation to the members of the House to the eleventh annual Legislative Appreciation Reception at the National Guard Armory, 1225 Bluff Road, Columbia, South Carolina from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. on February 8, 1989. If this date has already been committed to someone else, please reserve February 9, 1989 for our reception at the same time and place.
Please bring this invitation to the attention of the House Invitations Committee. Thank you for your assistance, and I look forward to a favorable reply.
Sincerely,
Stanhope S. Spears
Colonel, SCARNG
President
December 28, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
Members of the House of the South Carolina General Assembly are cordially invited for coffee and rolls on Thursday, February 9, 1989, from 8:30 to 10 A.M. in Room 101 of the Blatt Building.
Co-hosting with the Association for Retarded Citizens of South Carolina is the South Carolina Human Service Providers, Inc. We hope each of the Representatives will take a few minutes to be with us for refreshments and to meet representatives of our organizations.
ARC of S.C. has a membership of 1,200 people, which includes family members, people with mental retardation, professionals, and friends. It is the oldest and largest parent/volunteer/advocacy organization for mental retardation in the State.
The S.C. Human Services Providers is made up of executive staff of county Mental Retardation Boards and other organizations. These Boards are comprised of at least 1,000 citizen volunteers who provide direction and support for local county mental retardation programs serving 8,000 citizens with mental retardation.
We look forward to the Representatives dropping in to meet us on February 9.
Sincerely,
Jackie Robey, Chairperson
Governmental Affairs Committee
September 7, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
On behalf of the South Carolina Association of Counties and its forty-six member county governments, I would like to extend to the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, their spouses and attaches, an invitation to attend a reception to be held in their honor on Tuesday, February 14, 1989, from 6:00 until 7:30 P.M., at the Radisson Hotel in Columbia, South Carolina. This reception will be hosted by elected county officials from across the state in appreciation and commemoration of the successful working relationship between state and local governments in South Carolina.
Thanking you for your consideration and looking forward to your favorable response, I am,
Sincerely,
Michael B. Cone
Executive Director
January 11, 1989
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
On behalf of the South Carolina Recreation and Park Association, I would like to confirm our date of Tuesday, February 14, 1989 for our legislative drop-in. The drop-in will be held at the Radisson Hotel from the hours of 7:30 P.M. until 9:00 P.M.
If there are any further questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at 256-8700.
Thank You for your time and cooperation.
Sincerely,
James E. Headley
December 29, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
This is to invite the members of the House of Representatives to have lunch with independent insurance agents from your home districts at the Radisson Hotel on Wednesday, February 15, upon adjournment.
The luncheon is part of the association's annual Legislative Day activities. Agents who are in Columbia for the day will meet House members in the Statehouse Lobby to escort them to lunch.
The agents look forward to sharing their views on insurance issues with the House members.
Sincerely,
Leland C. Ruef
Legislative Liaison
May 19, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
This is to extend an invitation to members of the House for a reception on Wednesday, February 15, 1989. from 6:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. at the Radisson Hotel. The reception will be sponsored by the I-85 Chamber Group.
Thank you for your prompt attention to this request.
Sincerely,
Douglas A. Smith
Chairman of the Board
January 12, 1989
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
The South Carolina Association of Auditors, Treasurers and Tax Collectors would like to invite the members of the House of Representatives, their spouses or guests, Clerks and Attaches to a reception on Wednesday, February 15, 1989 at the Radisson Hotel at 8:00 P.M.
We hope this is convenient with your schedule and look forward to seeing you at that time.
Sincerely,
J. Steve Summers
President
November 21, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
The South Carolina Farm Bureau Federation cordially extends an invitation to the members of the House of Representatives, Research Directors, Administrative Assistants, Secretaries, spouses and/or escorts, to attend our annual Legislative Banquet on Tuesday, February 21st, 1989 at 6:00 P.M. at the Ellison Building, State Fairgrounds, Columbia, South Carolina.
Traditionally, we begin on time and present a very short program...that is our plan this year. We will not hold you to a late hour.
Sincerely,
Harry S. Bell
President
July 7, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
This is to confirm my request to reserve the period of 8:00 P.M. to 10:00 P.M. on the evening of February 22, 1989, for a drop-in sponsored by the South Carolina Registered Cosmetologist Association. I appreciate your cooperation, and do not hesitate to contact me if there is any question.
Sincerely,
Joseph M. McCulloch, Jr.
July 29, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
The Carolinas Branch, Associated General Contractors has scheduled its annual legislative reception for Wednesday, February 22, 1989, from 6:00-8:00 P.M. at the Radisson Hotel, Columbia. Members of the House of Representatives and their personal staff are cordially invited to attend.
I hope this meets with the approval of the House Invitations Committee. Please notify me upon acceptance of our invitation by the full House.
Sincerely,
Michael D. Covington
Director
Highway-Heavy Division
January 11, 1989
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
It would be greatly appreciated if you would extend an invitation to members of the South Carolina House to attend a coffee reception February 23, 1989 from 9:00 A.M. until 11:00 A.M. in the downstairs lobby of the State House. This reception, which has been approved by the Director of General Services, will be hosted by the Coalition of Law Enforcement and Correctional Associations.
We truly appreciate your help and look forward to seeing you at the event.
Very sincerely,
Ernie Nunnery
August 2, 1988
The Honorable Samuel R. Foster
Chairman, House Invitations Committee
518 Blatt Building
Columbia, S.C. 29211
Dear Rep. Foster:
The South Carolina AFL-CIO would like to invite the members of the House of Representatives to a reception on Tuesday, February 28, 1989 from 7:00-8:30 P.M. at the Town House Hotel, 1615 Gervais Street, Columbia, S.C.
I have talked by phone to your office and they have tentatively scheduled this on the calendar.
We look forward to hearing from you on this.
Sincerely,
G.O. Smoak
President
The following were received.
January 16, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 983)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
Pursuant to Act 176 of 1977, I have received on January 16, 1989 regulations concerning R.61-95, Medicaid Nursing Home Permits from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
They are hereby referred to the Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs for consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
January 13, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 1077)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
Pursuant to Act 176 of 1977, I have received on January 13, 1989 regulations concerning Reporting of Termination of Certain School District Employees from the S.C. Department of Education.
They are hereby referred to the Committee on Education and Public Works for consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
January 13, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 1075)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
Pursuant to Act 176 of 1977, I have received on January 13, 1989 regulations concerning Insurance Holding Company Systems from the S.C. Department of Insurance.
They are hereby referred to the Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry for consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
January 13, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 1076)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
Pursuant to Act 176 of 1977, I have received on January 13, 1989 regulations concerning Professional Personnel Qualifications and Duties, Vocational Centers from the S.C. Department of Education.
They are hereby referred to the Committee on Education and Public Works for consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
January 16, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 916)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
Pursuant to Act 176 of 1977, I have received on January 16, 1989 regulations concerning R.61-47, Shellfish from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
They are hereby referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources for consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
January 16, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 863)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
Pursuant to Act 176 of 1977, I have received on January 16, 1989 regulations concerning R.61-69, Classified Waters, Chattooga River from the S.C. Department of Health and Environmental Control.
They are hereby referred to the Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources for consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
January 12, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 1003)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
Pursuant to Act 176 of 1977, I have received on January 12, 1989 regulations concerning License Tax: Motor Fuel from the S.C. Tax Commission.
They are hereby referred to the Committee on Ways and Means for consideration.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
Received as information.
The following were received.
January 12, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 868)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
The Department of Health and Environmental Control is hereby withdrawing R. 61-62 Air Pollution Control Regulations and Standards which were filed on February 25, 1988 and referred to Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
January 13, 1989
The Honorable Sandra K. McKinney
Clerk of the S.C. (Doc. No. 959)
House of Representatives
Dear Mrs. McKinney:
The Board of Social Work Examiners is hereby withdrawing Regulation 959, which concerns Continuing Education Requirements and was referred to Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee.
Sincerely,
Robert J. Sheheen
Received as information.
Rep. WILKINS, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted a favorable report, on:
H. 3034 -- Reps. Clyborne, Wilkins and Hearn: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 34-11-70, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE OF FRAUDULENT INTENT IN DRAWING A CHECK AND DETERMINATION OF PROBABLE CAUSE FOR PROSECUTION, SO AS TO ADD A PROVISION REQUIRING A FIFTEEN-DOLLAR SERVICE CHARGE PAYABLE BY THE DRAWER OF A DRAFT, CHECK, OR OTHER WRITTEN ORDER TO THE PAYEE OF THE INSTRUMENT WHEN IT IS PRESENTED FOR PAYMENT IN WHOLE OR IN PART OF A DEBT EXISTING AT THAT TIME AND TO PROVIDE THAT THIS SERVICE CHARGE DOES NOT RELATE TO A PRESUMPTION OF FRAUD.
Ordered for consideration tomorrow.
Rep. WILKINS, from the Committee on Judiciary submitted a favorable report, with amendments, on:
H. 3018 -- Rep. Clyborne: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 18-7-20, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO AN APPEAL FROM A JUDGMENT IN A MAGISTRATE'S OR MUNICIPAL COURT, SO AS TO CHANGE FROM TEN TO THIRTY DAYS THE TIME AN APPELLANT HAS TO FILE HIS NOTICE OF APPEAL.
Ordered for consideration tomorrow.
Rep. WILKINS, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted a favorable report, on:
H. 3075 -- Rep. Hodges: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 56-5-2950, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO IMPLIED CONSENT TO A CHEMICAL TEST TO DETERMINE THE ALCOHOLIC CONTENT OF BLOOD AND THE PROCEDURE RELATED TO IT, SO AS TO ADD PROVISIONS ESTABLISHING A CHAIN OF CUSTODY OR CONTROL OF EVIDENCE IN A CRIMINAL PROSECUTION UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION, OR OF SECTIONS 56-5-2930 AND 56-5-2945.
Ordered for consideration tomorrow.
Rep. WILKINS, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted a favorable report, with amendments, on:
H. 3085 -- Rep. Townsend: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 16-11-740, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE OFFENSE OF MALICIOUS INJURY TO TELEGRAPH, TELEPHONE, OR ELECTRIC UTILITY SYSTEMS, SO AS TO INCLUDE INJURY TO CABLE TELEVISION SYSTEMS IN THE OFFENSE AND TO PROVIDE A SPECIFIC PENALTY FOR THE OFFENSE.
Ordered for consideration tomorrow.
Rep. WILKINS, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted a favorable report, on:
H. 3060 -- Rep. Kirsh: A BILL TO AMEND CHAPTER 11, TITLE 26, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO NOTARIES PUBLIC, BY ADDING SECTION 26-1-95 SO AS TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR A NOTARY PUBLIC IN HIS OFFICIAL CAPACITY TO FALSELY CERTIFY THE AFFIRMING OR SWEARING OF A PERSON TO AN INSTRUMENT, AFFIDAVIT, OR WRITING, TO PROVIDE A PENALTY FOR VIOLATION, AND TO REQUIRE A NOTARY PUBLIC CONVICTED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION TO FORFEIT HIS COMMISSION.
Ordered for consideration tomorrow.
Rep. WILKINS, from the Committee on Judiciary, submitted a favorable report, with amendments, and Rep. CORNING, for the minority, submitted an unfavorable report, on:
H. 3106 -- Rep. D. Martin: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 7-25-180, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE UNLAWFUL DISTRIBUTION OF CAMPAIGN LITERATURE, SO AS TO REQUIRE THAT NO PERSON MAY DISTRIBUTE CAMPAIGN LITERATURE WITHIN TWO HUNDRED FEET OF THE EXTERIOR DOOR DESIGNATED BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE POLL MANAGERS INSTEAD OF FROM THE BUILDING IN WHICH A POLLING PLACE IS LOCATED.
Ordered for consideration tomorrow.
The following was introduced:
H. 3247 -- Reps. Rudnick, J. Bailey, Sheheen, M.O. Alexander, T.C. Alexander, Altman, G. Bailey, K. Bailey, Baker, Barber, Barfield, Baxley, Beasley, Bennett, Blackwell, Blanding, Boan, G. Brown, H. Brown, J. Brown, R. Brown, Bruce, Burch, M.D. Burriss, T.M. Burriss, Carnell, Chamblee, Clyborne, Cole, Cooper, Corbett, Cork, Corning, Davenport, Derrick, Elliott, Faber, Fair, Fant, Farr, Felder, Ferguson, Foster, Gentry, Glover, Gordon, Gregory, Hallman, J. Harris, P. Harris, Harvin, Harwell, Haskins, Hayes, Hearn, Hendricks, Hodges, Holt, Huff, Jaskwhich, J.C. Johnson, J.W. Johnson, Kay, Keegan, Keesley, Keyserling, Kirsh, Klapman, Kohn, Koon, Lanford, Limehouse, Littlejohn, Lockemy, Manly, Mappus, D. Martin, L. Martin, Mattos, McAbee, McBride, McCain, McEachin, McElveen, McGinnis, McKay, McLellan, McLeod, McTeer, Moss, Neilson, Nesbitt, Nettles, Phillips, Quinn, Rama, Rhoad, J. Rogers, T. Rogers, Sharpe, Short, Simpson, Snow, Stoddard, Sturkie, Taylor, Townsend, Tucker, Vaughn, Waites, Waldrop, Washington, Wells, Whipper, White, Wilder, Wilkes, Wilkins, D. Williams, J. Williams, Winstead, Wofford and Wright: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE SPECIAL GIFT OF A STEINWAY CONCERT GRAND PIANO TO THE NEW IRA AND NANCY KOGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS BY ALICE BARRON PEARCE AND HER CHILDREN, L. GREGORY PEARCE, JR., AND ALICE BARRON PEARCE STEWART, IN MEMORY OF L. GREGORY PEARCE.
Whereas, the late L. Gregory Pearce of Columbia was a gifted pianist and organist, having studied as a teenager at the South Carolina Conservatory of Music; and
Whereas, in 1936, he graduated from the University of South Carolina, where he played in the Carolina Gamecock Orchestra; and
Whereas, he was the outstanding organist for Eastminster Presbyterian Church in Columbia for many years and served as president of the Columbia Music Festival Association and dean of the American Guild of Organists; and
Whereas, he was a well-known and much respected and admired Columbian who was a staunch supporter and promoter of the arts; and
Whereas, his widow, Mrs. Alice Barron Pearce, and his children, Mr. L. Gregory Pearce, Jr., and Mrs. Alice Barron Pearce Stewart, have generously honored the memory of L. Gregory Pearce by giving a Steinway concert grand piano to the new Ira and Nancy Koger Center for the Arts for the enjoyment of arts lovers for many years to come. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, recognizes the special gift of a Steinway concert grand piano to the new Ira and Nancy Koger Center for the Arts by Alice Barron Pearce and her children, L. Gregory Pearce, Jr., and Alice Barron Pearce Stewart, in memory of L. Gregory Pearce.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mrs. Alice Barron Pearce.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered sent to the Senate.
The following was introduced:
H. 3248 -- Reps. Rudnick, J. Bailey, Sheheen, M.O. Alexander, T.C. Alexander, Altman, G. Bailey, K. Bailey, Baker, Barber, Barfield, Baxley, Beasley, Bennett, Blackwell, Blanding, Boan, G. Brown, H. Brown, J. Brown, R. Brown, Bruce, Burch, M.D. Burriss, T.M. Burriss, Carnell, Chamblee, Clyborne, Cole, Cooper, Corbett, Cork, Corning, Davenport, Derrick, Elliott, Faber, Fair, Fant, Farr, Felder, Ferguson, Foster, Gentry, Glover, Gordon, Gregory, Hallman, J. Harris, P. Harris, Harvin, Harwell, Haskins, Hayes, Hearn, Hendricks, Hodges, Holt, Huff, Jaskwhich J.C. Johnson, J.W. Johnson, Kay, Keegan, Keesley, Keyserling, Kirsh, Klapman, Kohn, Koon, Lanford, Limehouse, Littlejohn, Lockemy, Manly, Mappus, D. Martin, L. Martin, Mattos, McAbee, McBride, McCain, McEachin, McElveen, McGinnis, McKay, McLellan, McLeod, McTeer, Moss, Neilson, Nesbitt, Nettles, Phillips, Quinn, Rama, Rhoad, J. Rogers, T. Rogers, Sharpe, Short, Simpson, Snow, Stoddard, Sturkie, Taylor, Townsend, Tucker, Vaughn, Waites, Waldrop, Washington, Wells, Whipper, White, Wilder, Wilkes, Wilkins, D. Williams, J. Williams, Winstead, Wofford and Wright: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE SUBSTANTIAL GIFT MADE BY THE COLUMBIA AREA FAMILIES WHO ARE DESCENDANTS OF THE GONZALES BROTHERS TO HONOR THE BROTHERS AND HELP MAKE THE IRA AND NANCY KOGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS A REALITY.
Whereas, in 1891, Ambrose Elliott Gonzales and Narciso Gener Gonzales were central figures in founding The State newspaper in Columbia; and
Whereas, another brother, William Elliott Gonzales, later joined them in their journalistic efforts; and
Whereas, those familiar with the history of the Palmetto State know the important role which the Gonzales brothers played in shaping social and political life in South Carolina; and
Whereas, the main performance hall in the newly-opened Ira and Nancy Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia has been named Gonzales Hall in recognition of the generous gift made by the descendants of the Gonzales brothers; and
Whereas, this wonderful, substantial gift truly does much to encourage and promote the arts in Columbia, the capital city of the State of South Carolina. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, recognizes the substantial gift made by the Columbia area families who are descendants of the Gonzales brothers to honor the brothers and help make the Ira and Nancy Koger Center for the Arts a reality.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the donor families (descendants of Ambrose Elliott, Narciso Gener, and William Elliott Gonzales), in care of the Honorable James B. Holderman, President of the University of South Carolina.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered sent to the Senate.
The following was introduced:
H. 3249 -- Reps. Rudnick, J. Bailey, Sheheen, M.O. Alexander, T.C. Alexander, Altman, G. Bailey, K. Bailey, Baker, Barber, Barfield, Baxley, Beasley, Bennett, Blackwell, Blanding, Boan, G. Brown, H. Brown, J. Brown, R. Brown, Bruce, Burch, M.D. Burriss, T.M. Burriss, Carnell, Chamblee, Clyborne, Cole, Cooper, Corbett, Cork, Corning, Davenport, Derrick, Elliott, Faber, Fair, Fant, Farr, Felder, Ferguson, Foster, Gentry, Glover, Gordon, Gregory, Hallman, J. Harris, P. Harris, Harvin, Harwell, Haskins, Hayes, Hearn, Hendricks, Hodges, Holt, Huff, Jaskwhich, J.C. Johnson, J.W. Johnson, Kay, Keegan, Keesley, Keyserling, Kirsh, Klapman, Kohn, Koon, Lanford, Limehouse, Littlejohn, Lockemy, Manly, Mappus, D. Martin, L. Martin, Mattos, McAbee, McBride, McCain, McEachin, McElveen, McGinnis, McKay, McLellan, McLeod, McTeer, Moss, Neilson, Nesbitt, Nettles, Phillips, Quinn, Rama, Rhoad, J. Rogers, T. Rogers, Sharpe, Short, Simpson, Snow, Stoddard, Sturkie, Taylor, Townsend, Tucker, Vaughn, Waites, Waldrop, Washington, Wells, Whipper, White, Wilder, Wilkes, Wilkins, D. Williams, J. Williams, Winstead, Wofford and Wright: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING THE KNIGHT FOUNDATION OF AKRON, OHIO, FOR THE GENEROUS GRANT IT HAS AWARDED TO THE NEW IRA AND NANCY KOGER CENTER FOR THE ARTS IN COLUMBIA.
Whereas, the Knight Foundation of Akron, Ohio, makes donations and grants to arts and service organizations across the United States; and
Whereas, usually the grants are made to groups operating in cities or areas where Knight-Ridder newspapers are located, such as Columbia; and
Whereas, the Knight Foundation has awarded the new Ira and Nancy Koger Center for the Arts a grant of two hundred thousand dollars; and
Whereas, this grant is indeed most generous and will greatly enable the Koger Center to fulfill its purpose of bringing the arts to the people of South Carolina on a more elaborate scale. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, recognizes the Knight Foundation of Akron, Ohio, for the generous grant it has awarded to the new Ira and Nancy Koger Center for the Arts in Columbia.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to the Knight Foundation, Akron, Ohio.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered sent to the Senate.
The following was introduced:
H. 3250 -- Reps. Rudnick, J. Bailey, Sheheen, M.O. Alexander, T.C. Alexander, Altman, G. Bailey, K. Bailey, Baker, Barber, Barfield, Baxley, Beasley, Bennett, Blackwell, Blanding, Boan, G. Brown, H. Brown, J. Brown, R. Brown, Bruce, Burch, M.D. Burriss, T.M. Burriss, Carnell, Chamblee, Clyborne, Cole, Cooper, Corbett, Cork, Corning, Davenport, Derrick, Elliott, Faber, Fair, Fant, Farr, Felder, Ferguson, Foster, Gentry, Glover, Gordon, Gregory, Hallman, J. Harris, P. Harris, Harvin, Harwell, Haskins, Hayes, Hearn, Hendricks, Hodges, Holt, Huff, Jaskwhich, J.C. Johnson, J.W. Johnson, Kay, Keegan, Keesley, Keyserling, Kirsh, Klapman, Kohn, Koon, Lanford, Limehouse, Littlejohn, Lockemy, Manly, Mappus, D. Martin, L. Martin, Mattos, McAbee, McBride, McCain, McEachin, McElveen, McGinnis, McKay, McLellan, McLeod, McTeer, Moss, Neilson, Nesbitt, Nettles, Phillips, Quinn, Rama, Rhoad, J. Rogers, T. Rogers, Sharpe, Short, Simpson, Snow, Stoddard, Sturkie, Taylor, Townsend, Tucker, Vaughn, Waites, Waldrop, Washington, Wells, Whipper, White, Wilder, Wilkes, Wilkins, D. Williams, J. Williams, Winstead, Wofford and Wright: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION EXPRESSING SINCEREST THANKS TO IRA AND NANCY KOGER FOR MAKING POSSIBLE THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE SPLENDID NEW ARTS CENTER IN COLUMBIA.
Whereas, the Ira and Nancy Koger Center for the Arts opened in Columbia on Saturday, January 14, 1989, to rave reviews for its outstanding acoustics; and
Whereas, the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Harold Faberman, brought the center to life and delighted the opening-weekend audiences; and
Whereas, the center is a truly wonderful facility which is distinguished by the intimate closeness it establishes between the listener-viewer and the performer; and
Whereas, the center will undoubtedly provide much enjoyment to arts lovers for generations to come; and
Whereas, the long-awaited arts center in Columbia was made possible in large part by the generosity of Ira and Nancy Koger; and
Whereas, Mr. and Mrs. Koger are greatly deserving of recognition and have the gratitude of the members of the General Assembly. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, expresses sincerest thanks to Ira and Nancy Koger for making possible the construction of the splendid new arts center in Columbia.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Mr. and Mrs. Ira Koger.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered sent to the Senate.
The following was introduced:
H. 3251 -- Rep. Chamblee: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMENDING LEROY GARRISON OF ANDERSON COUNTY FOR BEING CHOSEN STATE SUPERVISOR OF THE YEAR FOR 1988 BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION, PAROLE AND PARDON SERVICES.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered sent to the Senate.
On motion of Rep. MATTOS, with unanimous consent, the following was taken up for immediate consideration:
H. 3252 -- Reps. Mattos, M.O. Alexander, Baker, Blackwell, Clyborne, Fair, Fant, Haskins, Jaskwhich, Vaughn, Wilkins and Manly: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE FURMAN UNIVERSITY PALADINS FOOTBALL TEAM ON WINNING THE NCAA DIVISION I-AA NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP FOR THE 1988 COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON BY DEFEATING A TOUGH GEORGIA SOUTHERN TEAM IN THE TITLE GAME AT POCATELLO, IDAHO, RECOGNIZING THE PALADINS' NUMEROUS ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING THE SEASON, INVITING THE FURMAN TEAM, COACHES, STAFF, AND THE UNIVERSITY'S PRESIDENT TO ATTEND A JOINT SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AT 12:00 NOON ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1989, AND INVITING HEAD COACH JIMMY SATTERFIELD TO ADDRESS THE JOINT SESSION.
Whereas, the Furman University Paladins football team defeated an excellent Georgia Southern team 17-12 in December at Pocatello, Idaho, and thereby claimed the national championship for 1988 in the NCAA Division I-AA; and
Whereas, Furman played with inspiration during 1988, especially during the playoffs following the regular season; and
Whereas, the Paladins' numerous victories in 1988 were the result of outstanding play by the team's members, as well as superb coaching; and
Whereas, Furman's football success of recent years, culminating in the capturing of the national championship in the season just finished, has excited citizens all across South Carolina; and
Whereas, Furman's highly successful sports program and its long recognized reputation for academic excellence have combined to make the school a model in both areas and an institution of which all South Carolinians can be extremely proud; and
Whereas, the members of the General Assembly are pleased to have this opportunity to recognize Furman University and its national champions in college football. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, by this resolution, congratulates the Furman University Paladins football team on winning the NCAA Division I-AA national championship for the 1988 college football season by defeating a tough Georgia Southern team in the title game at Pocatello, Idaho, recognizes the Paladins' numerous accomplishments during the season, invites the Furman team, coaches, staff, and the university's president to attend a joint session of the General Assembly at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, February 15, 1989, in the Hall of the House of Representatives, and invites Head Coach Jimmy Satterfield to address the joint session.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this resolution be forwarded to Head Coach Jimmy Satterfield, on behalf of the Furman team, coaches, and staff, and to the Honorable John E. Johns, President of Furman University.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered sent to the Senate.
On motion of Rep. WASHINGTON, with unanimous consent, the following was taken up for immediate consideration:
H. 3253 -- Rep. Washington: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION PAYING HONOR AND TRIBUTE TO THE REVEREND DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Whereas, January 16, 1989, marked the national and state holiday in honor of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and
Whereas, Martin Luther King, Jr., stands as one of the most renown and noble figures in our nation's history; and
Whereas, he is long remembered for his great advocation for justice and equality for all Americans, regardless of race, creed, religion, or sex; and
Whereas, he led a national movement that led to the eradication of many barriers of racial discrimination and inequalities that opened the doors of opportunity for a great many Americans; and
Whereas, in 1963, in the heart of the nation's capitol, he delivered one of the greatest orations of our time, titled "I Have A Dream", which has forever been ingrained in the conscience of our nation; and
Whereas, he dreamed that one day all would be able "to work together, to pray together, to struggle together...as Black men and White men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics..."; and
Whereas, we, as members of the General Assembly, stand in this body today, epitomizing the great "Dream" of Dr. King, as we, made up of different races, religions, and Heritages, come together as a cohesive unit, pursuing the best for the State of South Carolina; and
Whereas, the commemoration of Dr. King should inspire all of us to reflect on the tremendous progress we have made in this Nation and State over such a short period of time and remind us of the great things we can accomplish when we work together, free of prejudice and discrimination; and
Whereas, thus, it is only fitting that we take this time to pay tribute and give honor to a man who contributed so greatly to this country and whose vision continues to operate as a dynamic and vital force in our society. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the members of the General Assembly, by this resolution, pay honor and tribute to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered sent to the Senate.
The Senate sent to the House the following:
S. 189 -- Senator Lourie: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO CONGRATULATE MR. DAVID BAKER, A PROMINENT LOCAL BUSINESSMAN AND COMMUNITY LEADER, UPON THE OCCASION OF HIS RECEIVING THE 1988 DISTINGUISHED COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD PRESENTED BY THE COLUMBIA JEWISH FEDERATION AND THE COLUMBIA JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered returned to the Senate with concurrence.
The Senate sent to the House the following:
S. 190 -- Senator Courson: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO CONGRATULATE ENVIRONMENTAL ATTORNEY, JAMES S. CHANDLER, OF PAWLEYS ISLAND UPON BEING NAMED 1988 CONSERVATIONIST OF THE YEAR BY THE SOUTH CAROLINA WILDLIFE FEDERATION.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered returned to the Senate with concurrence.
The Senate sent to the House the following:
S. 191 -- Senators Wilson, Shealy and Setzler: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE SYMPATHY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS OF THE LATE NANCY C. FOX OF LEXINGTON IN LEXINGTON COUNTY.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered returned to the Senate with concurrence.
The Senate sent to the House the following:
S. 192 -- Senators Horace C. Smith, Lee and Russell: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING TONY RICE, STAR QUARTERBACK OF THE NOTRE DAME FIGHTING IRISH AND NATIVE OF SPARTANBURG COUNTY, FOR HIS OUTSTANDING PLAYING ABILITY AND LEADERSHIP.
The Concurrent Resolution was agreed to and ordered returned to the Senate with concurrence.
Rep. T. ROGERS, with unanimous consent, introduced Hyman Rubin, III, a senior at Dreher High School, who made a perfect score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test.
The following Bills and Joint Resolutions were introduced, read the first time, and referred to appropriate committees:
H. 3254 -- Reps. Baker, Felder, Winstead, Elliott, J. Bailey, Chamblee, Ferguson, Phillips, Farr, Holt, K. Bailey, Davenport, Wells, Keegan, Wofford, Rama, McAbee, Carnell, Washington, Whipper and Keyserling: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 38-3-20, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE INSURANCE COMMISSION, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT MEMBERS WHO TAKE OFFICE ON OR AFTER JULY 1, 1989, SHALL SERVE FOR TERMS OF THREE YEARS; TO AMEND THE 1976 CODE BY ADDING SECTIONS 38-3-25 AND 38-3-75 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT BEGINNING WITH THE 1990 GENERAL ELECTION THE CHIEF INSURANCE COMMISSIONER MUST BE ELECTED, TO PROVIDE FOR HIS TERM, MANNER OF FILLING VACANCIES, QUALIFICATIONS, AND A LIMITATION ON THE NUMBER OF TERMS WHICH MAY BE SERVED, AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE COMMISSIONER ONCE ELECTED SHALL SERVE AS AN EX OFFICIO MEMBER OF THE INSURANCE COMMISSION; TO AMEND THE 1976 CODE BY ADDING SECTION 38-3-95 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR LIMITATIONS ON THE AMOUNT OF CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS WHICH MAY BE GIVEN TO CANDIDATES WHO OFFER FOR ELECTION TO THE OFFICE OF CHIEF INSURANCE COMMISSIONER, TO DEVOLVE THE DUTIES OF THE CHIEF INSURANCE COMMISSIONER RELATING TO SUPERVISING AND REGULATING INSURANCE RATES UPON THE INSURANCE COMMISSION EFFECTIVE UPON THE ELECTION OF THE COMMISSIONER; AND TO REPEAL SECTIONS 38-3-60 AND 38-3-100 RELATING TO THE CHIEF INSURANCE COMMISSIONER, EFFECTIVE UPON HIS ELECTION.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry.
H. 3255 -- Reps. Barber, Washington, G. Bailey, Holt, Waites, Hallman, J. Bailey, Felder, Baker, T. Rogers and Whipper: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 59-1-420, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE LENGTH OF THE SCHOOL TERM, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT NO TERM MAY BEGIN EARLIER THAN THE DAY FOLLOWING LABOR DAY.
Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works.
H. 3256 -- Reps. Barber, G. Bailey, Washington, Holt, J. Bailey, Whipper and T. Rogers: A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING CHAPTER 110 TO TITLE 59 SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATION TRUST ACT; TO AMEND SECTION 12-7-435, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO DEDUCTIONS FROM SOUTH CAROLINA TAXABLE INCOME, SO AS TO ALLOW THE DEDUCTION OF PAYMENTS PAID BY THE PURCHASER OF AN ADVANCE TUITION PAYMENT CONTRACT; TO REQUIRE THE SOUTH CAROLINA EDUCATION TRUST ESTABLISHED BY THIS ACT TO OBTAIN RULINGS FROM THE INTERNAL REVENUE SERVICE AND THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION BEFORE BEGINNING OPERATIONS AND TO PROVIDE FOR AN UNFAVORABLE RULING; TO REPEAL THE CHAPTER ADDED BY THIS ACT IF NO ADVANCE TUITION PAYMENT CONTRACT IS ENTERED INTO BY THE TRUST BEFORE JULY 1, 1992; AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE INITIAL TERMS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE EDUCATION TRUST COMMISSION.
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
H. 3257 -- Reps. Hearn, J.W. Johnson and Lockemy: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 42-9-240, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DATE ON WHICH WORKERS' COMPENSATION PAYABLE UNDER AN AWARD OR UNDER A JUDGMENT UPON AN APPEAL FROM AN AWARD BECOMES DUE, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF THE COMPENSATION BECOMES DUE FOURTEEN, RATHER THAN SEVEN, DAYS FROM THE DATE OF THE AWARD OR FROM THE DATE OF THE JUDGMENT.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry.
H. 3258 -- Reps. Hearn, J.W. Johnson and Lockemy: A BILL TO REPEAL SECTIONS 42-11-120, 42-11-130, 42-11-140, 42-11-150, AND 42-11-160, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO WORKERS' COMPENSATION, OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES, AND THE MEDICAL BOARD.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry.
H. 3259 -- Reps. Snow, Bruce, G. Brown and Barfield: A BILL TO AMEND SECTIONS 39-11-100, 39-11-130, AND 39-11-170, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DUTIES OF PUBLIC WEIGHMASTERS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A WEIGHMASTER'S STAMP IS REQUIRED ONLY AT A CUSTOMER'S REQUEST, TO DELETE THE AUTHORITY OF THE COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE TO FORFEIT A WEIGHMASTER'S BOND, AND TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL REMEDIES FOR THE COMMISSIONER IN REGULATING WEIGHMASTERS, INCLUDING INJUNCTIONS AND CIVIL PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS; TO AMEND SECTIONS 46-41-30 AND 46-41-50, RELATING TO DEALERS IN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS, SO AS TO DELETE REFERENCES TO THE AFFIDAVITS REQUIRED BY MILLERS; AND TO REPEAL SECTION 39-11-70 RELATING TO THE BOND OF PUBLIC WEIGHMASTERS AND SECTION 46-41-25 RELATING TO MILLERS.
Referred to Committee on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
H. 3260 -- Ways and Means Committee: A JOINT RESOLUTION TO MAKE APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE EXPENSES OF STATE GOVERNMENT SUPPLEMENTAL TO THOSE CONTAINED IN ACT 658 OF 1988, THE GENERAL APPROPRIATIONS ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 1988-89, AND TO IDENTIFY THE SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR THE SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION.
Without reference.
H. 3261 -- Judiciary Committee: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 20-7-1370, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO QUALIFICATIONS AND TERMS OF JUDGES, SO AS TO INCREASE THE TERMS OF FAMILY COURT JUDGES FROM FOUR TO SIX YEARS.
Without reference.
H. 3262 -- Judiciary Committee: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 4-9-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE AUTHORIZATION TO CONDUCT A REFERENDUM TO DETERMINE A CHANGE IN THE FORM OF COUNTY GOVERNMENT, NUMBER OF COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS, OR METHODS OF ELECTION, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE A REFERENDUM TO BE HELD TO CHANGE THE METHODS OF ELECTION OF COUNTY COUNCILS AND PROVIDE FOR AND LIMIT THE ALTERNATE METHODS OF ELECTION WHICH MAY BE ESTABLISHED.
Without reference.
H. 3263 -- Reps. Wilkins, Hayes, Foster, Hodges, Moss, Vaughn, M.D. Burriss, T. Rogers, Huff, Ferguson, Davenport, Rhoad, Barfield, Bruce, Harvin, J. Harris and Koon: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 23-11-40, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO VACANCIES IN THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE CHIEF DEPUTY OR SECOND-IN-COMMAND OF THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE SHALL ACT AS SHERIFF, AND IS SUBJECT TO THE DUTIES AND LIABILITIES INCIDENT TO THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF, UNTIL THE VACANCY IS FILLED; AND TO REPEAL SECTIONS 23-11-50, 23-11-60, 23-11-70, 23-11-80, 23-11-90, AND 23-11-100 RELATING TO THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE COUNTY CORONER AND CLERK WHEN THERE IS A VACANCY IN THE OFFICE OF SHERIFF.
Referred to Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs.
H. 3264 -- Reps. McLellan and Kirsh: A BILL TO AMEND ACT 1377 OF 1968, RELATING TO STATE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BONDS, SECTION 57-11-350 OF THE 1976 CODE, RELATING TO STATE HIGHWAY BONDS, SECTION 59-71-500, RELATING TO STATE SCHOOL BONDS, AND SECTION 59-107-130, RELATING TO STATE INSTITUTIONAL BONDS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE STATE TREASURER AS WELL AS THE GOVERNOR MAY SIGN THESE OBLIGATIONS BY A FACSIMILE OF HIS SIGNATURE.
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
H. 3265 -- Rep. Boan: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 38-71-310, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO APPROVAL OF ACCIDENT, HEALTH, OR ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE POLICIES ISSUED OR DELIVERED IN THIS STATE, SO AS TO REVISE THE MANNER IN WHICH PREMIUM RATES FOR CERTAIN ACCIDENT AND HEALTH INSURANCE POLICIES ARE APPROVED.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry.
H. 3266 -- Rep. Boan: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 38-3-210, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PETITIONS FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW OF ORDERS OR DECISIONS OF THE CHIEF INSURANCE COMMISSIONER SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT APPEALS FROM THESE ORDERS OR DECISIONS MUST BE BROUGHT IN THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS OF RICHLAND COUNTY.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
H. 3267 -- Reps. Boan, McLellan and Taylor: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 56-10-40, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO NOTIFICATION TO THE CHIEF COMMISSIONER OF THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION BY PROVIDERS OF INSURANCE OR SECURITY, SO AS TO REQUIRE THAT NOTIFICATION OF A LAPSE OR TERMINATION MUST BE IN WRITING WHICH MAY BE ACCOMPANIED BY AN ELECTRONIC COMPUTER TAPE CONTAINING THE NOTIFICATION; AND SECTION 56-10-240, AS AMENDED, RELATING TO THE REQUIREMENTS ON INSURERS AND MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATORS WHEN A MOTOR VEHICLE IS NOT INSURED AS REQUIRED BY LAW, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE INSURER WHO GAVE THE CANCELLATION OR REFUSAL TO RENEW NOTICE TO FILE EVIDENCE THAT A VEHICLE IS INSURED BEFORE THE DEPARTMENT REISSUES REGISTRATION CERTIFICATES AND LICENSE PLATES.
Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works.
H. 3268 -- Rep. Gentry: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 62-3-603, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO BOND REQUIREMENTS FOR PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES IN THE PROBATION OF ESTATES, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT NO BOND IS REQUIRED IN THE PROBATING OF AN ESTATE WHEN THERE IS A SINGLE BENEFICIARY, AND UNDER INTESTATION, WHEN THERE IS ONLY ONE SURVIVING HEIR.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
H. 3269 -- Reps. Fant, Faber, McBride, K. Bailey, Whipper, Littlejohn, Glover, Washington, White, Ferguson, D. Williams, Taylor and Gordon: A BILL TO REPEAL SECTION 7-13-50, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO RUNOFF PRIMARY ELECTIONS.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
H. 3270 -- Reps. Kirsh and McAbee: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 41-44-10, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS FOR PURPOSES OF THE PALMETTO SEED CAPITAL CORPORATION AND THE PALMETTO SEED CAPITAL FUND LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, SO AS TO REVISE THE DEFINITION OF A "START-UP BUSINESS", AND SECTION 41-44-60, RELATING TO THE PALMETTO SEED CAPITAL CORPORATION AND PARTNERSHIP, SO AS TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR THE GENERAL NATURE OF THE BUSINESS OF THE CORPORATION AND TO REVISE THE PURPOSE FOR WHICH MONIES RAISED BY THE PARTNERSHIP MAY BE USED.
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
H. 3271 -- Reps. Waites, McBride, White, Whipper, Beasley, Wilkes, Faber, Moss, J. Brown, Washington, Barber, Foster, Fant, J. Rogers, Gordon, Hayes, Rudnick, P. Harris, McGinnis, Harvin, T. Rogers, Harwell, McElveen and Keyserling: A BILL TO ENACT THE "SOUTH CAROLINA PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN ACT" INCLUDING PROVISIONS TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 12-7-1247 SO AS TO ALLOW CERTAIN INCOME TAX CREDITS FOR EXPENDITURES MADE BY A TAXPAYER TO ESTABLISH AND TO OPERATE A CHILD CARE PROGRAM FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS EMPLOYEES AND FOR CHILD CARE PAYMENTS MADE BY A TAXPAYER FOR THE BENEFIT OF HIS EMPLOYEES; TO AMEND SECTION 12-7-1230 RELATING TO THE CREDIT FOR HOUSEHOLD AND DEPENDENT CARE SERVICES NECESSARY FOR GAINFUL EMPLOYMENT, SO AS TO INCREASE THIS CREDIT; TO ESTABLISH THE SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC/PRIVATE CHILD CARE COUNCIL AND PROVIDE FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP, DUTIES, AND FUNCTIONS; AND TO PROVIDE THAT THE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES FINANCE COMMISSION SHALL ESTABLISH CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IN CERTAIN COUNTIES AND SHALL EXPAND EXISTING CHILD DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IN OTHER COUNTIES WITHIN THE LIMITS OF APPROPRIATIONS PROVIDED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH CERTAIN GUIDELINES.
Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works.
H. 3272 -- Reps. Rudnick, Harvin, Holt, G. Brown, Klapman and Burch: A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 29-3-321 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT WHEN A MORTGAGEE OR ASSIGNEE OF A MORTGAGE IS A FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR RECORDING THE SATISFACTION OR CANCELLATION OF THE MORTGAGE IT HOLDS.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
H. 3273 -- Reps. Nesbitt, Kirsh, Klapman, Boan, Hayes, Short, Foster and McGinnis: A JOINT RESOLUTION PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE X, SECTION 15, CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO THE BONDED INDEBTEDNESS OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS, SO AS TO INCREASE THE GENERAL OBLIGATION DEBT LIMIT FROM EIGHT TO TWELVE PERCENT OF THE ASSESSED VALUE OF ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY OF SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
H. 3274 -- Reps. Townsend, Kay, L. Martin, Fair, Clyborne, Manly, Waldrop, Baker, P. Harris, T.C. Alexander, J. Rogers, J.W. Johnson, McLellan, Cooper, Rhoad, M.O. Alexander, Chamblee, Simpson and Hendricks: A BILL TO AMEND SECTIONS 44-43-120, 44-43-130, 44-43-140, AND 44-43-150, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DONATION OF EYES, SO AS TO AUTHORIZE THE SOUTH CAROLINA LIONS EYE BANK TO MAKE DETERMINATIONS RELATING TO THE REMOVAL, PROCESSING, DISTRIBUTION, AND USE OF EYES DONATED FOR SIGHT RESTORATION.
Referred to Committee on Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs.
H. 3275 -- Reps. Hearn, McBride, T.M. Burriss, T. Rogers, Wells, Cork, Wright, Faber, Waites, J. Bailey and Quinn: A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 23-9-65 SO AS TO PERMIT THE USE IN THIS STATE OF CERTAIN AUTOMATIC FUELING CLIPS ON SELF-SERVICE GASOLINE DISPENSERS.
Referred to Committee on Labor, Commerce and Industry.
H. 3276 -- Reps. Rudnick, Kirsh and Baxley: A BILL TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 57-3-765 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SHALL GIVE PERIODIC REPORTS CONCERNING THE PROGRESS OF CERTAIN HIGHWAY EXPANSION OR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS BY CAUSING A PROGRESS REPORT TO BE PUBLISHED IN A NEWSPAPER OF GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE COUNTY OR COUNTIES WHERE THE PROJECT IS LOCATED.
Referred to Committee on Education and Public Works.
H. 3277 -- Reps. Rudnick, Harvin, Wright and Quinn: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 16-23-490, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO ADDITIONAL PUNISHMENT FOR POSSESSING A FIREARM OR KNIFE DURING THE COMMISSION OF A VIOLENT CRIME, SO AS TO INCREASE THE PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.
Referred to Committee on Judiciary.
H. 3278 -- Rep. Tucker: A BILL TO AMEND ACT 510 OF 1982, RELATING TO THE ANDERSON COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, SO AS TO PROVIDE FOR THE ELECTION OF FIVE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS FROM THE COUNTY COUNCIL DISTRICTS INSTEAD OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICTS, TO PROVIDE FOR ELECTION BY THE ELECTORS OF EACH DISTRICT, AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE EXPIRATION OF THE TERMS OF THE CURRENT MEMBERS AND FOR THE INITIAL TERMS.
Referred to Anderson Delegation.
H. 3279 -- Reps. Wells, Sturkie, Cole, Cork, M.D. Burriss, G. Bailey, Haskins, McGinnis, Sharpe, Limehouse, Davenport, Lockemy, T.M. Burriss, Neilson, Derrick, Littlejohn, T.C. Alexander, Rhoad, Moss, Lanford, Wofford, Corning, Mappus, Phillips, Clyborne, Nesbitt, Hearn, Corbett, Koon, Quinn, Rama and Hallman: A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE ESTABLISHMENT OF INDIVIDUAL HOUSING ACCOUNTS; TO EMPOWER FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS TO HANDLE THE ACCOUNTS AND TO PROVIDE THAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE ACCOUNTS WHEN USED SOLELY IN CONNECTION WITH THE PURCHASE OF A FIRST PRINCIPAL RESIDENCE ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.
Referred to Committee on Ways and Means.
The roll call of the House of Representatives was taken resulting as follows.
Alexander, M.O. Alexander, T.C. Altman Bailey, G. Bailey, J. Bailey, K. Baker Barber Barfield Baxley Beasley Bennett Blackwell Blanding Boan Brown, G. Brown, H. Brown, J. Brown, R. Bruce Burch Burriss, M.D. Burriss, T.M. Carnell Chamblee Clyborne Cole Cooper Corbett Cork Corning Davenport Derrick Elliott Faber Fair Fant Farr Felder Foster Gentry Glover Gordon Gregory Hallman Harris, J. Harris, P. Harvin Harwell Haskins Hayes Hearn Hendricks Hodges Holt Huff Jaskwhich Johnson, J.C. Johnson, J.W. Kay Keegan Keesley Keyserling Kirsh Klapman Kohn Koon Lanford Littlejohn Lockemy Manly Mappus Martin, D. Martin, L. Mattos McAbee McBride McCain McEachin McElveen McGinnis McKay McLellan McLeod McTeer Moss Neilson Nesbitt Nettles Phillips Quinn Rama Rhoad Rogers, J. Rogers, T. Rudnick Sharpe Sheheen Short Simpson Snow Stoddard Sturkie Taylor Townsend Tucker Vaughn Waites Waldrop Washington Wells Whipper White Wilder Wilkes Wilkins Williams, D. Williams, J. Winstead Wofford Wright
STATEMENT OF ATTENDANCE
Rep. ALEX HARVIN, III signed a statement with the Clerk that he came in after the roll call of the House and was present for the Session on Thursday, January 12, 1989.
Announcement was made that Dr. John Hawk, Jr. of Charleston is the Doctor of the Day for the General Assembly.
The following Bill and Joint Resolution were taken up, read the second time, and ordered to a third reading:
H. 3204 -- Reps. M.O. Alexander, Blackwell, Baker, Fant, Fair, Mattos, Manly, Jaskwhich, Wilkins, Haskins, Clyborne and Vaughn: A BILL TO AMEND SECTION 7-7-280, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE VOTING PRECINCTS AND THE POLLING PLACES IN GREENVILLE COUNTY, SO AS TO CHANGE THE POLLING PLACE FOR THE MEADOW WOOD PRECINCT.
S. 2 -- Senator Waddell: A JOINT RESOLUTION DIRECTING THE STATE BUDGET AND CONTROL BOARD AND SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS TO PROCEED EXPEDITIOUSLY TO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT A REPLACEMENT FACILITY IN LEE COUNTY FOR THE CENTRAL CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTION, TO PROVIDE THAT TWENTY-FOUR MILLION DOLLARS IN PREVIOUSLY AUTHORIZED STATE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT BONDS MUST FIRST BE USED TO FINANCE THE PROJECT, TO PROVIDE FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING AS MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE TREASURER TO PROVIDE INTERIM FINANCING FOR NOT MORE THAN ONE YEAR, IF NECESSARY.
Rep. WASHINGTON moved to adjourn debate upon the Veto on the following Act until Wednesday, January 25, which was adopted.
(R795) H. 4073 -- Reps. Dangerfield, J. Bradley, Aydlette, Washington, Winstead, Kohn, D. Martin, Klapman, Altman, Mappus, Whipper and Holt: AN ACT TO AMEND SECTIONS 57-5-820 AND 57-5-830, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO CONSENT OF A MUNICIPALITY TO WORK ON HIGHWAYS WITHIN ITS LIMITS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT, UPON APPEAL BY THE DEPARTMENT OF HIGHWAYS AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND ONE GENERAL PURPOSE LOCAL GOVERNMENT TO AN APPEALS COMMITTEE WHEN A MUNICIPALITY DISAPPROVES CONSTRUCTION WITHIN ITS LIMITS, THE WORK MAY BE COMPLETED IF THE COMMITTEE MAKES A FINDING THIS THE WORK IS INCLUDED IN THE URBAN AREA TRANSPORTATION PLAN, IS OF GREAT SIGNIFICANCE TO MORE THAN ONE POLITICAL SUBDIVISION, AND DOES NOT ADVERSELY AFFECT THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN THE DISAPPROVING MUNICIPALITY AND WITHOUT PLAN APPROVAL OF THE DISAPPROVING MUNICIPALITY AND TO PROVIDE FOR APPEALS.
The following Concurrent Resolution was taken up.
H. 3157 -- Ways and Means Committee: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO PROVIDE THAT THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESCIND THEIR PREVIOUS CALL FOR A CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION TO BE CONVENED FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONSIDERING A BALANCED BUDGET AMENDMENT TO THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION, AND TO MEMORIALIZE CONGRESS TO ADOPT AMENDMENTS TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE STATES FOR RATIFICATION REQUIRING A BALANCED FEDERAL BUDGET.
Whereas, South Carolina continues to have grave concern over the federal budget and the inability of the United States Congress to control expenditures in such a manner so as to conform to available revenues; and
Whereas, we continue to encourage the United States Congress to seek ways to reduce and eradicate the federal budget deficit; and
Whereas, the call for a Constitutional Convention to address this problem is not the most efficient or effective course of action in view of the fact that the convention cannot be limited to any specific purpose; and
Whereas, Article V of the United States Constitution provides for an alternative method by authorizing the Congress to propose amendments to the Constitution which become part of the Constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states; and
Whereas, South Carolina feels that for the protection of the integrity of the United States Constitution state ratification of congressionally adopted amendments is a more desirable method for enacting constitutional safeguards against continuing budget deficits. Now, therefore,
Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:
That the members of the General Assembly rescind Senate Resolution 1024 approved on Tuesday, May 16, 1978, which memorialized Congress to call a Constitutional Convention for the purpose of amending the Federal Constitution to limit annual federal appropriations to annual revenues, with certain exceptions, and memorialize Congress to Adopt amendments to the United States Constitution to be submitted to the states for ratification requiring a balanced federal budget.
Be it further resolved that copies of this resolution be forwarded to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and to each member of the South Carolina Congressional Delegation.
Rep. BAXLEY spoke against the Concurrent Resolution.
The Concurrent Resolution was adopted and ordered sent to the Senate.
Rep. L. MARTIN moved to dispense with the Motion Period.
As a first substitute Rep. RUDNICK moved to recall H. 3187 from the Invitations Committee.
As a second substitute Rep. L. MARTIN moved to dispense with the balance of the Motion Period.
Rep. RUDNICK moved to table the motion, which was rejected.
The question then recurred to the motion to dispense with the balance of the Motion Period, which was agreed to.
The Senate returned to the House with concurrence the following:
H. 3191 -- Rep. Harvin: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION CONGRATULATING THE PLAYERS AND THE COACHING STAFF OF THE FOOTBALL TEAM OF MANNING HIGH SCHOOL OF CLARENDON COUNTY UPON WINNING THE 1988 CLASS AAA STATE CHAMPIONSHIP.
H. 3192 -- Rep. Bruce: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO CONGRATULATE JULIAN "DOC" DAVIS, HEAD FOOTBALL COACH AT CHAPMAN HIGH SCHOOL OF INMAN IN SPARTANBURG COUNTY, UPON HIS SELECTION AS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL COACH OF THE YEAR FOR 1988.
H. 3236 -- Reps. Hayes, Kirsh, Foster, Nesbitt and Short: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION TO EXPRESS THE SYMPATHY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE FAMILY AND MANY FRIENDS OF MR. JAMES ANDERSON BASS OF ROCK HILL, YORK COUNTY.
H. 3246 -- Reps. Koon, Sturkie, Klapman, Sharpe, Wright, Felder and Derrick: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION EXPRESSING THE CONGRATULATIONS OF THE MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO THE PASTOR, THE REV. R.B. DAY, AND THE CONGREGATION OF RED BANK BAPTIST CHURCH IN RED BANK IN LEXINGTON COUNTY UPON THE OCCASION OF THE ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY OF ITS FOUNDING IN 1889.
The House receded until 6:45 P.M.
At 6:45 P.M. the House resumed, the SPEAKER in the Chair.
The House stood at ease subject to the call of the Chair.
At 7:00 P.M. the Senate appeared in the Hall of the House.
The President of the Senate called the Joint Assembly to order and announced that it had convened under the terms of a Concurrent Resolution adopted by both Houses.
H. 3107 -- Rep. Sheheen: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION INVITING HIS EXCELLENCY, CARROLL A. CAMPBELL, JR., GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, TO ADDRESS THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN JOINT SESSION AT 7:00 P.M. ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1989.
Governor Carroll A. Campbell, Jr. was escorted to the rostrum by Senators Williams, J. Verne Smith, Martschink and Matthews and REPRESENTATIVES WILKINS, J. ROGERS, SHORT and WHIPPER.
The President of the Senate introduced Governor Campbell who then addressed the Joint Assembly as follows:
"Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, ladies and gentlemen of the Joint Assembly...It's indeed a pleasure for me to be here tonight and to share with you some of the goals and visions that I have for 1989. If I might, though, I'd like to introduce to my family before I start. They are seated in the balcony, my wife Iris, and my two sons, who have joined me tonight and I wanted you to know who they were. But, before I start I'd like to say something to the new members of the General Assembly, the new legislators that are here. You have a tough act to follow.
I am convinced that when historians look back at the years of the 107th General Assembly, they will conclude that more good was done for more people during that session than any other two-year period in modern history.
Together we built the framework of economic growth. A framework that will last long after we are gone from this place. Together we strengthened the framework of education which will nurture generations yet born.
We kept our eyes on the big picture, on the macro-issues of our generation which see beyond the temporal emotions of the moment to the sweeping demands of the future. The big picture, ladies and gentlemen, is economic growth.
The big picture is education, preparing our children to take hold of tomorrow with spirits that are enriched and skills that are sharply tuned. The big picture is a bold government that practices what Thoreau called the highest art: improving the quality of life through expanded opportunity.
Let us disagree on the individual hues and colors, but let us agree tonight that the big picture of expanded opportunity shall forever dominate the political landscape in the State of South Carolina. Over the last two years, I asked you for eight bills to makes South Carolina competitive for jobs and you adopted seven. I am pleased to report to you that 1988 set an all-time record with 3.7 billion dollars in new capital investment in our state, which is 53 percent higher than any other year that we ever had in the history of this state.
I am also proud to announce tonight that Teledyne Corporation contacted me this morning and told me that they had purchased over 600 acres in Fort Lawn and will build a multi-million dollar facility in three phases there over the next few years.
The State Development Board tells also that the 3.7 billion dollars in new investment will produce some 50 million dollars in local tax revenue for the schools of South Carolina each and every year. So, education and economic development are linked and we knew that and we're showing it in the way we're running South Carolina. That's the big picture ladies and gentlemen. It's big picture success, and it wouldn't have happened without you. It could not have happened without you. I can report to you that our per capita income is now 42nd in the country, that's the highest level the per capita income of the people of this state have ever obtained since they have been keeping records. We have the lowest unemployment rate in South Carolina right now than we've had in 15 years, and it wouldn't have happened without you, the members of this distinguished Body. Now lest anyone think this is accidental. I point out that just one new law, the Fee-In-Lieu-Of-Taxes. That law was cited by two companies investing more than one billion new dollars in South Carolina. That's just one example. It wouldn't have happened without you. Tonight I am asking you for two new ecomonic development initiatives. The first is an incentive package to encourage a regional airline hub in the state, action essential for corporate headquarters and tourism development for our state if we are to continue to grow. And I also ask you to join together in declaring that affordable, quality child care is a right for working women of this state. This is purely an economic issue. Lack of affordable day care constitutes one of the greatest obstacles to expanding opportunities for working women in our state that there is. It further denies business and industry a source of productive employees and denies the state potential tax revenue. In short, we all lose. But, let me caution this, except in limited circumstances, the state should not get involved in funding day care centers. But we can and we should involve ourselves with educating the private sector on this need, and encouraging companies to support day care centers with a series of tax incentives. This will benefit the companies. It will benefit the state and the working mothers who so desperately need it. And while I am talking about this, I want to commend the Lieutenant Governor, Lieutenant Governor Theodore for his interest in this issue. His program and his ideas, together with the ideas of all of us should be put together to form a comprehensive plan to address this problem. Lieutenant Governor, I salute you.
In education, we have moved from dream to reality or, as Churchill put it: 'From the wonderful cloudland of aspiration to the ugly scaffolding of attempt and achievement.' The first class of juniors at the Governor's School for Science and Mathematics, which we established last year has an average of 1160 on the PSAT scores. This equals the SAT score of seniors at the long-established school for science and mathematics in North Carolina which was endowed by the National Science Foundation. Our kids can compete with anybody. All you gotta do is give them a chance. Moreover, 19 percent of the students at this school exceeded the cutoff score for the National Merit Scholar Qualifying Test in their first year. This is a remarkable achievement, and I would like to introduce to you the young man with the highest PSAT score at the Governor's School. He scored 1440 of a possible 1600 and he's in the balcony tonight representing the entire school. Join me, if you will in welcoming David England of Summerville, who is escorted by the director of the Governor's School, Lee Cox.
You know, untold thousands of South Carolinians labor on that ugly scaffolding of attempt and achievement for the simple purpose of making a better life in our state. Employers from 215 plants have expressed determination to improve basic skills of 17,000 workers by seeking enrollment in the work force initiative I created last year to fight illiteracy. Tonight, I want to publicly thank Spring Industries for helping lead the way with that program that has those 17,000 people now enrolled in it across the State of South Carolina. WYFF television in Greenville is producing and airing television literacy classrooms and more than a thousand adults are enrolled. Other broadcasters across this state are unselfishly devoting valuable airtime to fight illiteracy. Across this state employers and local literacy providers are working together to tame this monster. In two short years, you and I have renewed a commitment to higher education and technical education by raising the level of funding and creating the cutting edge research program. We have declared by both word and deed that all of education is critical, that all of education is worthy, that all of education suffers unless all of education is addressed. Let me be blunt. Some have suggested that we somehow are moving backwards in our commitment to education. They like to go back 15 or 20 years and show how the percentage of budgeted money for education declined. That is like comparing today's gasoline prices to those of 1900 in the horse and buggy days. Demands on state government have grown. They have grown dramatically in recent years. We are under court order to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on prisons and mental health facilities. We are required to do more and more for programs that didn't even exist 20 years ago in the areas of welfare and medical assistance. The role of government has grown. Almost half of the agencies that exist today probably weren't in existence 20 to 25 years ago.
So, let's set the record straight. You appropriated and I signed into law a higher percentage of new money for public education for this fiscal year we are now operating in than in any of the previous four years. The percentage of new money recommended by the Budget and Control Board for next year more than doubles the percentage of new money going into education in 1986. For them to say, that this General Assembly has backed up, is misleading to the public. The Budget and Control Board has proposed a budget which earmarks nearly one of every three new dollars for public education. It maintains the southeastern average for teacher salaries, fully funds the EFA and buys more textbooks and buses. This budget also keeps us on track with higher and technical education. There's no question that this General Assembly and governor are fully committed to education. We will keep education priority number one in South Carolina not only this year but in the years to come. I will work with the established subcommittee to develop a timetable and a strategy for implementation and I personally will lead the way into the next five years because there's no turning back now. These broad concepts of the task force for the next five years are important to all of us. But, I'd like to stop right now and acknowledge some people that were here before I was. I want to acknowledge Former Governor James B. Edwards' leadership in establishing the Education Finance Act in the State of South Carolina. And I want to acknowledge Former Governor Dick Riley's leadership in the establishment of the Education Improvement Act in the State of South Carolina and I want you to join me in thanking them for what they did for this state. Our accomplishments in public education are nationally known. Student performance has moved from near the bottom nationally to the middle on almost every achievement measure. Now we face the challenge of moving beyond average performance to superior performance by pushing top students to higher standards while pulling the bottom up. .This requires greater flexibility and innovation at the local level. To reach average achievement levels, we mandated not only what should be achieved but how it should be achieved, resulting in an enormous amount of monitoring, inspecting, enforcement and paperwork. This strategy made sense when our achievement levels were near the bottom of the nation, but it will not take us to the pinnacle of excellence which we seek. What works for minimum performance will not produce optimum performance. I therefore am calling for legislation to take us beyond minimum mandates by giving greater flexibility and innovation to those schools which have demonstrated through the product that they are turning out the significant achievement gains that they have been responsible for. The Bill I am drafting for your consideration will allow the State Department of Education to retain responsibility for maintaining required standards of performance, while giving these schools freedom to develop the programs to meet those standards. If you pass this law as proposed, next year 258 of the schools in the State of South Carolina would qualify. Schools with demonstrated abilities to produce must be freed to innovate. Principals must have authority to run their schools to meet the unique needs of their community. Teachers must have latitude to teach and communicate and care and create. We'll reach the pinnacle of excellence when teachers, principals, parents and the community come together to address educational needs unique to their children. Excellence will be developed in the communities, ladies and gentlemen, not the bureaucracy. And while we are speaking of education, I would ask you to seriously consider State Treasurer Grady Patterson's proposal to raise the legal debt limits of the counties for the purpose of school building construction. We must address these needs. We are losing sheep daily with every school in the state, with one-third of our students dropping out before getting a high school diploma. The cost to society is staggering. The cost to individual lives is unspeakable. We have to do something. Like the shepard in the Parable, we must seek these lost sheep in the briar patches of poverty, teenage pregnancy, learning deficiencies and substance abuse. We must do everything within our power to bring them back into the fold Or productivity. Addressing the problems of at-risk youth requires coordination of a wide range of agencies and services and we do not have it. I therefore am establishing by executive order the Governor's Council For At-Risk Youth charged with developing a state policy to reduce the dropout rate. The Council will include representatives of all relevant Human Services Agencies, the General Assembly, major education groups and parents. I will ask the Council for a full report by July of this year.
Also, I recommended in my proposed budget, $300,000 for pilot projects in the classroom for innovative approaches to this problem, and I ask you to fund this first step. In addition, if revenues for the Education Improvement Act surpass the current estimate, and I am confident they will, I ask you to target all of the revenue up to at least $9,000,000 toward remedial and compensatory instruction for at-risk youth in grades seven through twelve. That was the in the original EIA and we haven't been funding that. We need to look at that. In another area, South Carolina is ranked near the top in the nation in infant mortality. This is a moral and social outrage of the highest order that demands action. Therefore, I am especially pleased to announce tonight that two of the most prestigious organizations in South Carolina, Blue Cross Blue Shield and WIS Television of Columbia, have signed an agreement with my office to launch a statewide assault on infant mortality. While details are still being worked out, I can tell you that we will educate pregnant women about the need for prenatal medical care, and offer incentives to those who get such care. All pregnant women will be eligible, but the program targeted toward the poor. We will not spend one state dollar, thanks to the generosity of Blue Cross and WIS. This is the public service at its best. It is public-private partnership at its best. Prenatal care is just part of the problem. The high dropout rate and many other social problems are a result of children who don't get proper medical care after they're born. I have recommended about $900,000 for the National Governor's Initiative for the poor, pregnant mothers that would expand coverage for children from age one to age two. It is not only the right thing to do, it is the fiscally responsible thing to do because this program cuts late medical costs. So, the state of long-term economic growth is sound. The state of education continues to improve. But, what about the state of the family pocketbook? Comptroller General Earle Morris first pointed out, there are serious inequities in the Tax Code. The state's conformity with the Federal Tax Reform Act of 1986 raised the rate of taxation on the first $2,000 of income by 50 percent, hitting the working poor the hardest of anybody. And our top taxation rate starts at $10,000, and has not been adjusted in 30 years. This eats away the little discretionary income of the thousands of families in the lower middle income brackets. And worst of all, we don't index to inflation to guard against hidden tax increases.
But there's more. While Federal Capital Gains taxes increased by 40 percent after tax reform, South Carolina's Capital Gains rate increased 250 percent. It's hurting the small business people who may want to sell their businesses, the farmers who may need to sell land, it's hurting middle age couples whose children have grown and they've decided to move into a smaller home, where they sell their home.
We are confiscatory in our Capital Gains Tax and unfair in our personal income tax and they need to be corrected.
Not only that, we're stymieing economic activity and generating less tax revenue because of it.
And there's something else. The decision was made to tax premiums on auto insurance, with most of the money going toward general operations of government, even as insurance rates were soaring in the State of South Carolina.
It has been said that to do justice and to love kindness are required of all people.
And I had to ask myself, and I want you to too, where's the justice in a tax code that places a disproportionate burden on the middle and lower income working people?
Where's the kindness in a tax code that uses hidden taxes as cash cows for government at the expense of the people it purports to serve?
I call upon you to correct these injustices with a 76 million dollar tax cut to be phased in over four years because it is the right and the equitable thing to do.
I've outlined my proposals on accomplishing this series of tax cuts and am convinced they are sound and responsible, despite the objections of some that they amount to funny money.
I'm always amazed and find it interesting when people talk about tax cuts they talk about funny money, but when they talk about spending it, it's fun money? I don't understand.
Let's be clear. I have proposed a tax cut regardless of whether we have a surplus this year because it is the right thing to do. But revenues so far this year are growing at almost twice the rate necessary to meet our expenditures in the current budget.
If we do have a surplus this year, I urge you to accelerate those tax cuts by one year rather than spending it all. Surely, in a time of prosperity you won't deny the taxpayers fairness. I don't believe you would do that.
Ladies and gentlemen, If we can spend it, we can leave it with the people who made it, just a simple as that. And I do not intend to sign a budget that contains costly new spending programs unless tax relief is part of the package.
But tax fairness is only part of the big picture. Let's resolve to complete what we started last year by enacting substantive reform to lower automobile insurance rates in South Carolina for good drivers. We need to get on with that job.
Together we passed a highway safety bill that took effect less than three weeks ago, together we passed some other legislation. The Highway Bill was essential to make the highways safer and cut the cost of claims that make rates higher.
The Regulatory Reform Bill that we passed took effect last July over one year after it was signed into law. The Chief Insurance Commissioner said the recoupment fees would have been significantly higher for every driver this year had that bill not been signed into law.
Since Act 166 became law, State Farm insurance company has sent out rebates, Farm Bureau insurance company has filed for a rate reduction and Allstate insurance company has just reduced auto insurance rates for a number of their policyholders, everyone of them specifically citing the action that this Legislature took on 166 as their reason for doing so.
So it is beginning to work. But I said in the beginning and I say again that it is just part of the answer.
Let's move ahead with true insurance reform and let's have some answers. We have some tough choices, The choices are these:
Make the current system work, even though we have several hundred thousand people out there at any given time driving uninsured illegally while everybody else is lulled into believing they are protected because we have compulsory insurance.
Or we can eliminate compulsory insurance and let the marketplace work. That choice is in your hands as Legislators and mine as Governor.
I choose first to try to make the system work. However, if we cannot get the job done through the system, I would be equally as prepared to eliminate compulsory insurance so the people can, by choice, purchase their own insurance and protect themselves at a much lower rate than the present system allows.
I have been meeting with Legislators on forging a Consensus Bill, and I want the people of South Carolina to know this, the members of the General Assembly, the House and the Senate - are as committed as I am to rate reform in this state. And I have had a good feeling as I have worked with them to try to find the answers.
Time doesn't permit me to go into the ideas we've been working on. The copies have been passed around, and they're on the Legislators' desks. And they outline the alternatives we have to work with.
There's one thing, though, I ask you not to send me a seatbelt law with a mandated rollback and call it insurance reform. That would be misleading the people of this state.
I will only accept a secondary seatbelt law coupled with substantive insurance reform. That's how we have a rate rollback and that's how we get meaningful reductions in insurance premiums. But I'm confident that working together, that we can do it.
It won't be easy. Forces are already at work to scuttle meaningful reform because they're making out just fine the way things are now.
To bring rates down for good drivers in this state, a little sacrifice is required of everybody: the companies, the agents, the lawyers and, yes, the public.
We must confront the fact that we can't continue having a cadillac system of insurance when most people in our state don't drive cadillacs. You need to understand that and I need to understand that.
But better for everyone, including the special interests, to sacrifice a little than for the good drivers of South Carolina to continue taking it on the chin. And I ask your help in finding the answer to that problem.
On a related matter, I know that a request came in from the Highway Department to raise fees that we lowered a few years ago for the people of this state. To raise those fees would be a breach of faith with the people and I don't think we should let that happen. If you are convinced that agency needs more revenue, to match Federal funds coming in, then I would suggest that you look at the "C" funds as a way to match that money, to double that money coming in, rather than to raise more money from the people of this state. I think that's the appropriate place you ought to look.
Painting the big picture of economic prosperity, of quality education, of reasonable tax and insurance rates all of these things are the art of man.
Nature, as the Italian poet Dante said, is the art of God. We are the guardians of the air, land and water and are accountable for their safekeeping.
We have learned that we cannot just throw things away because there is no such thing as "away". Everything we dispose of goes somewhere. And we need to realize it.
Things we use in our homes everyday, waste from the great factories and technologies all wind up someplace. The challenge of science and government is to maintain the integrity of the environment while not stopping modern life dead in its tracks.
Through the years we have addressed hazardous waste. I recall well as a young State Legislator when I first came to this Body, working, Senator from Greer, to try to do something about a midnight dump in Greer that the people there were concerned about.
And I recall as Congressman working on providing the source of revenue for the superfund, so that we could clean up some of the mistakes that have been made across America.
We have evolved to the point where we're collecting waste instead of throwing it on the roadside.
We have evolved to the point where we're beginning to incinerate and treat chemical waste. Detoxification technology is available for our use!
We must continue to evolve, but we cannot and we must not turn back the clock by being reactionary and shutting down the State and causing people to go back to midnight dumping on the side of the roads and in the streams of South Carolina.
I've seen many recommendations, and I'll tell you right now, I have serious reservations about the State of South Carolina getting into the hazardous waste business and saddling the taxpayers with potential liabilities which rightfully belong to the companies that are in the business.
So what can we do?
I've been conferring a great deal with Representative Mac McLeod of Sumter about some of the concerns that he has in seeking some solutions, and I know that the Speaker of the House, Speaker Bob Sheheen has been doing tremendous research in trying to find answers on how we deal with some of the problems of out-of-state hazardous waste.
Tonight I will sign an Executive Order shutting off shipments of hazardous waste from any states that prohibit disposal of such waste within their own borders.
Ladies and gentlemen, by doing this we are telling these states if it's not good enough for them, it's not good enough for us and we're not gonna take it anymore.
This action will take place March 1st to give these states time to get their own houses in order.
By October the 17th of this year, every state must certify to the President that they have adequate capacity for waste they generate for the next 20 years, and let' just consider what we're doing a little extra push to get them on the way.
My Executive Order goes further by requiring DHEC to speed up cleanup of the 43 priority superfund sites in our State, and mandates that our industries have priority at in-state facilities.
It contains one other important provision: That we will mandate, under strict EPA guidelines, waste minimization, reduction, recycling and treatment to further reduce the volume of landfill disposal.
If all states play by the rules, I believe that Region Four of the southeast can eventually agree on a joint plan that will stop all waste from all other areas from coming into our region. And I'm working with the other states to try to find that solution.
But for now, South Carolina's position on hazardous waste is that it is more blessed to give than to receive.
South Carolina is blessed with an abundance of natural resources which are important to both the environmental and the economic health of our state.
I co-chaired the National Wetlands Forum last year, which for the first time comprehensively addressed the need for protecting our nation's wetlands. Our state needs a comprehensive policy on natural resources and wetlands.
I will establish a South Carolina Freshwater Wetlands Forum composed of citizens from diversified interests in wetlands management and conservation. I will charge this group with the development of a state wetlands conservation plan.
These and other environmental concerns are not isolated. You can't separate them when you talk about them anymore than you can separate the air from the water quality, or the water from land and the impact that one has upon the other. Yet South Carolina has at least a half dozen agencies dealing with different parts of the whole.
And it is time to ask the question would the State of South Carolina be better served by consolidating these agencies into a single department with the single-minded purpose of conserving and protecting our natural resources.
I'm asking you to explore with me tonight that solution to that question. I ask that we have the courage to seek the truth and the wisdom to know what to do with it when we find it.
As we fight environmental pollution, we also fight the moral pollution of drugs, the drugs that flow into the state like sewage and attract sewer rats who sell them on the streets and in the schools.
I promised last year to take the fight to the pushers and I can report to you tonight we have done just that in the State of South Carolina.
Six months ago I created by Executive Order the Governor's Raid Team, an interagency strike force of agents from SLED, ABC, Wildlife and the Highway Patrol under the supervision of Chief Robert Stewart.
Ladies and gentlemen, the results of their work are dramatic.
In six months since the creation of the Raid Team, about 68 million dollars worth of drugs has been taken off the streets because the Raid Team and local law enforcement know they have our support. That is a 600 percent increase over the six months before the Raid Team went into existence. They've done a good job, Ladies and gentlemen.
The increasing number of drug cases and other criminal investigations prompted the need for a new forensic sciences laboratory in our state. You approved ten million dollars for construction for this laboratory at SLED.
I now ask you to begin funding operations of this vital crime fighting weapon in the fiscal year. It is needed, it is a tool that will return many times over the investment we make in it in guaranteeing safety of our citizens.
You know, opportunity is that sacred value which places dignity of achievement within the grasp of anyone willing to reach. We should not seek parity but we should seek purity of opportunity in the society we live in.
President Reagan signed into law the Fair Housing Act of 1988.
I am asking you this year to adopt conforming legislation with standards which open the door to everyone regardless of their race, sex, handicaps or other barriers that some may try to erect. This is the fair and it's moral thing to do. And no one truly has opportunity unless all have opportunity.
Opportunity also extends to ideas in the marketplace, ideas that transform dreams into reality and move capitalism forward. Many would-be entrepreneurs in South Carolina don't make that transition they don't make it because they don't have the capital.
I've decided to help them by using some of my discretionary grant money to form a loan pool in the Governor's Office for small and minority business people to give them a chance to test their ideas and make this place a better state for them, and for us.
And I'd like to ask the state directors and private business people to do something. For the first time in four years the Governor's office has published a list of certified minority businesses in South Carolina.
I ask you to get it, I ask you to read it, to use it because many of these companies turn out superb products and their services are outstanding in many instances, and they deserve a chance too.
Speaking of opportunity, what opportunities we have in South Carolina to enjoy the arts. Cultural development has to be in the mainstream of our efforts to improve the quality of life in this state.
Last Saturday I attended the opening of the Koger Center For The Arts and I was sitting there absorbed in the majestic symphonies of The London Philharmonic Orchestra.
I was sitting there thinking about this address, and what I was going to talk to you about. And it occurred to me that despite the beauty of that performance, and the magnificence of the sound in that auditorium, you and I hear more glorious symphonies everyday.
It's the symphony of South Carolina: it's quiet, it's unassuming, yet it's dignified, it's powerful it's eternal.
It's a symphony in which no one plays second fiddle:
Like the illiterate man who told one of my staff members that the proudest day in his life was when he enrolled in the work force initiative and developed the ability to write his first note to his wife.
It's like the teenage welfare mother who was able to go back to school because we opened the Intergenerational Day Care Center in Orangeburg last year.
The symphony of South Carolina includes all who are willing to play:
Like Amy Matthews of Irmo High and Hyman Rubin III of Dreher High who scored perfect 16 hundreds on their Scholastic Aptitude Tests.
And teachers like Beulah White in Georgetown, a driving force behind the Reach Program.
And educators like Melvin Smoak, whose brilliant innovations at Orangeburg-Wilkinson High were heralded nationally.
Listen for this symphony and you'll hear it everywhere: You'll hear it in the largest factories: you'll hear it in the smallest offices; you'll hear it on the sprawling farms and you'll hear it the city streets; you'll hear it in the school rallies where the kids Just Say No and in our houses of worship where they and their parents Just Say Yes.
If we will keep our ears tuned to this magnificent symphony, then we will be able to paint the perfect picture of opportunity for this grand state that we call South Carolina.
Thank you and God bless you."
Upon the conclusion of his address, Governor Campbell and his escort party retired from the Chamber.
The purposes of the Joint Assembly having been accomplished, the PRESIDENT announced that under the terms of the Concurrent Resolution the Joint Assembly would recede from business.
The Senate accordingly retired to its Chamber.
At 7:50 P.M. the House resumed, the SPEAKER in the Chair.
Rep. BOAN moved that the House do now adjourn, which was adopted.
At 7:51 P.M. the House in accordance with the motion of Rep. BOAN adjourned to meet at 10:00 A.M. tomorrow.
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