Current Status Introducing Body:Senate Bill Number:665 Primary Sponsor:Peeler Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Pardon, subsequent offense conviction Residing Body:Senate Computer Document Number:BBM/9170.JM Introduced Date:Feb 14, 1991 Date of Last Amendment:Mar 24, 1992 Last History Body:Senate Last History Date:Mar 24, 1992 Last History Type:Amended, read second time, ordered to third reading with notice of general amendments Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Peeler Type of Legislation:General Bill
Bill Body Date Action Description CMN ---- ------ ------------ ------------------------------ --- 665 Senate Mar 24, 1992 Amended, read second time, ordered to third reading with notice of general amendments 665 Senate Jan 15, 1992 Committee Report: Favorable 11 with amendment 665 Senate Feb 14, 1991 Introduced, read first time, 11 referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
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COMMITTEE AMENDMENT ADOPTED
March 24, 1992
S. 665
S. Printed 3/24/92--S.
Read the first time February 14, 1991.
TO AMEND SECTION 24-21-940, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF "PARDON", SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A PARDON OF A CONVICTION DOES NOT PRECLUDE THE CONVICTION RECORD FROM BEING CONSIDERED AS A PRIOR OFFENSE UNDER A STATUTE INCREASING THE PENALTY FOR A SUBSEQUENT OFFENSE.
Amend Title To Conform
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 24-21-940 A. of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"A. `Pardon' means that an individual is fully pardoned fully from all the legal consequences of his crime and of his conviction, direct and collateral, including the punishment, whether of imprisonment, pecuniary penalty, or whatever else the law has provided. A conviction precludes the conviction record from being considered as a prior offense under a statute increasing the penalty for a subsequent offense."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.