South Carolina General Assembly
122nd Session, 2017-2018

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S. 816

STATUS INFORMATION

General Bill
Sponsors: Senators Goldfinch, Fanning and Senn
Document Path: l:\council\bills\bh\7139ahb18.docx

Introduced in the Senate on January 9, 2018
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary

Summary: General Assembly term limits

HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS 

     Date      Body   Action Description with journal page number
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   12/6/2017  Senate  Prefiled
   12/6/2017  Senate  Referred to Committee on Judiciary
    1/9/2018  Senate  Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 67)
    1/9/2018  Senate  Referred to Committee on Judiciary 
                        (Senate Journal-page 67)

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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL

12/6/2017

(Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)

A BILL

TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 2-1-190 SO AS TO PROVIDE TERM LIMITS FOR MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY LIMITING PERSONS ELECTED TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO EIGHT TERMS IN THAT BODY, AND PERSONS ELECTED TO THE SENATE TO FOUR TERMS IN THAT BODY, AND TO PROVIDE THAT ANY TERM SERVED FOR WHICH THE ELECTION WAS HELD PRIOR TO JANUARY 1, 2018, MAY NOT BE COUNTED AS A TERM SERVED.

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

SECTION    1.    Chapter 1, Title 2 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 2-1-190.    (A)    For purposes of this section, 'service in office for more than one half of a term' is considered service for a term.

(B)    A person is not eligible for election to the House of Representatives if that person has served eight terms in the same body, regardless of the district represented.

(C)    A person is not eligible for election to the Senate if that person has served four terms in the same body, regardless of the district represented.

(D)    For purposes of the number of terms served in the General Assembly, a term served for which the election was held before January 1, 2018, may not be counted as a term served."

SECTION    2.    This act takes effect upon ratification of an amendment to Section 7, Article III of the Constitution of this State authorizing the General Assembly to provide term limitations for its members by statute.

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