Bill 4160

                    Current Status

Bill Number:                       4160
Type of Legislation:               General Bill GB
Introducing Body:                  House
Introduced Date:                   19970515
Primary Sponsor:                   Fleming
All Sponsors:                      Fleming, Sharpe, Neilson,
                                   Baxley, J. Hines, Inabinett,
                                   Phillips, Hawkins, Littlejohn, Lee,
                                   Mullen, Rodgers, M. Hines, D. Smith,
                                   McCraw, Neal, Davenport, Allison,
                                   Walker, Wilder, Canty, Lloyd and
                                   Jennings 
Drafted Document Number:           gjk\20735sd.97
Residing Body:                     House
Current Committee:                 Education and Public Works
                                   Committee 21 HEPW
Subject:                           County transportation
                                   commissions, counties within
                                   district to have resident commission
                                   member in intervals,
                                   provisions

Body    Date      Action Description                       Com     Leg Involved
______  ________  _______________________________________  _______ ____________
House   19970515  Introduced, read first time,             21 HEPW
                  referred to Committee

TO AMEND SECTION 57-1-320, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DISTRICTS FROM WHICH MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION ARE ELECTED, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT ALL COUNTIES WITHIN A DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION DISTRICT MUST HAVE A RESIDENT COMMISSION MEMBER BEFORE ANY OTHER COUNTY IN THAT DISTRICT MAY HAVE A RESIDENT COMMISSION MEMBER FOR A SECOND OR SUBSEQUENT TIME WITHOUT EACH COUNTY IN THE DISTRICT FIRST HAVING A RESIDENT COMMISSION MEMBER IN THE INTERVAL.

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

SECTION 1. Section 57-1-320(B) of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 181 of 1993, is amended to read:

"(B) No county within a Department of Transportation district shall have a resident commission member for more than one consecutive term and in no event shall any two persons from the same county serve as a commission member simultaneously except as provided hereinafter. All counties within a Department of Transportation district must have a resident commission member before any other county in that district may have a resident commission member for a second or subsequent time without each county in the district first having a resident commission member in the interval."

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.