Bill 4481

                    Current Status

Introducing Body:               House
Bill Number:                    4481
Primary Sponsor:                Snow
Type of Legislation:            GB
Subject:                        Bass, striped; taking of
Residing Body:                  House
Computer Document Number:       NO5/7509BDW.94
Introduced Date:                19940112
Last History Body:              House
Last History Date:              19940420
Last History Type:              Objection by Representative
Scope of Legislation:           Statewide
All Sponsors:                   Snow
                                Inabinett
                                Riser
Type of Legislation:            General Bill

Bill  Body    Date          Action Description              CMN  Leg Involved
____  ______  ____________  ______________________________  ___  ____________

4481  House   19940420      Objection by Representative          Holt
                            Kennedy
                            J. Bailey
                            Breeland
                            Stoddard
4481  House   19940322      Debate adjourned until
                            Wednesday, April 20, 1994       
4481  House   19940224      Debate adjourned until
                            Thursday, March 10, 194         
4481  House   19940217      Debate adjourned until
                            Thursday, February 24, 1994     
4481  House   19940209      Committee Report: Favorable     20
4481  House   19940112      Introduced, read first time,    20
                            referred to Committee

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

COMMITTEE REPORT

February 9, 1994

H. 4481

S. Printed 2/9/94--H.

Read the first time January 12, 1994.

To whom was referred a Bill (H. 4481), to amend Section 50-13-235, as amended, Code of Laws of South Carolina, 1976, relating to the prohibition against taking striped bass under certain conditions, etc., respectfully

That they have duly and carefully considered the same, and recommend that the same do pass:

THOMAS N. RHOAD, for Committee.

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-235, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION AGAINST TAKING STRIPED BASS UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, SO AS TO REVISE THE LENGTH OF THE STRIPED BASS PROHIBITION AND THE RESTRICTED AREA IN THE SANTEE RIVER AND PROVIDE FOR A RESTRICTION IN THE TAILRACE CANAL AND THE COOPER AND WANDO RIVERS.

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

SECTION 1. Section 50-13-235 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 50-13-235. It is unlawful to take or possess striped bass, (rockfish), less than eighteen twenty-one inches in Lake Lakes Marion and Moultrie, the Congaree River, the Wateree River northward to the Lake Wateree Dam, the Saluda River northward to the Lake Murray Dam, and the Santee River southward to from the saltwater-freshwater dividing line, U.S. Highway 17, to the Intercoastal Waterway. It is unlawful to take or possess striped bass, rockfish, less than twenty-one inches in the Tailrace Canal from the Pinopolis Dam to the Cooper River, in the east and west branches of the Cooper River downstream to the U.S. Highway 17 bridge, and in the Wando River."

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