Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:3081 Primary Sponsor:Simrill Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:GB Subject:Absentee voting by persons sixty-five or older Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:EGM/18042DW.93 Introduced Date:19930112 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19930112 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Simrill Meacham Kinon A. Young J. Bailey R. Smith Walker Fair Littlejohn Wells Cato Allison Vaughn Haskins Stuart Farr Beatty Mattos Hines Boan Wright T.C. Alexander Gamble Lanford M.O. Alexander Elliott Moody-Lawrence D. Wilder Trotter Type of Legislation:General Bill
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3081 House 19930112 Introduced, read first time, 25
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TO AMEND SECTIONS 7-15-320 AND 7-15-340, BOTH AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO PERSONS QUALIFIED TO VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT, SO AS TO LOWER FROM SEVENTY-TWO TO SIXTY-FIVE THE AGE OF A PERSON WHO QUALIFIES TO VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Item (14) of Section 7-15-320 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 489 of 1992, is amended to read:
"(14) persons seventy-two sixty-five years of age or older."
SECTION 2. Box 14 of Section 7-15-340 of the 1976 Code, as added by Act 489 of 1992, is amended to read:
"[] 14. Persons seventy-two sixty-five years of age or older."
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.