Current Status Bill Number:3154 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19950110 Primary Sponsor:Lanford All Sponsors:Lanford, Fair, Allison, Herdklotz, Simrill, Meacham, Fleming, Kelley, Law, Haskins, Harrell, Gamble, Stuart and Phillips Drafted Document Number:BBM\9731SD.95 Residing Body:House Date Tabled:19950411 Current Committee:Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs Committee 27 H3M Subject:Prisons, exercise equipment
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 19950411 Tabled in Committee 27 H3M House 19950110 Introduced, read first time, 27 H3M referred to Committee House 19941221 Prefiled, referred to Committee 27 H3MView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 24-1-290 SO AS TO PROHIBIT THE DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS FROM PROVIDING OR PERMITTING EXERCISE EQUIPMENT FOR USE BY PRISONERS, TO PROVIDE THAT ANY SUCH EQUIPMENT OWNED BY THE DEPARTMENT MUST BE DONATED TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES THROUGHOUT THE STATE IN THE MANNER THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY SHALL PROVIDE, AND TO PROVIDE ANY SUCH EQUIPMENT NOT OWNED BY THE DEPARTMENT BUT LOCATED IN ANY OF ITS FACILITIES MUST BE RETURNED TO THE OWNER WITHIN THIRTY DAYS OF THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS SECTION.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. The 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 24-1-290. (A) The department may not provide or permit exercise equipment for use by prisoners. For purposes of this section `exercise equipment' means free weights and machines or devices that are designed for exercising parts of the human body by offering various amounts of resistance.
(B) Any such equipment owned by the department must be donated to law enforcement agencies throughout the State in the manner the General Assembly shall provide. Any such equipment not owned by the department but located in any of its facilities must be returned to the owner within thirty days of the effective date of this section."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.