Rep. KIRSH moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. QUINN moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. LANFORD moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 24.
Section 24 was adopted.
Rep. SHEHEEN moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. TUCKER moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. McELVEEN moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 3.
Rep. MARCHBANKS proposed the following Amendment No. 6 (Doc Name P:\amend\dc.5).
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 3, Legislative Department, page 400, after line 7, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/There is hereby established a Capital Projects Oversight Committee which consists of three members of
the Ways and Means Committee appointed by the Ways and Means Committee chairman and three
members of the Senate Finance Committee appointed by the Senate Finance Committee chairman. The
duties of the Capital Projects Oversight Committee are as follows:
1. Approve all permanent improvement projects exceeding $250,000;
2. Approve all real property acquisitions, capital lease purchases, A&E expenditures, and aircraft
purchases and aircraft lease-purchases;
3. Approve bond bill enactment process;
4. Approve Cash Draw Schedule process for bond bill projects;
5. Approve Annual Permanent Improvement Program;
6. Approve starting date for DOT projects that are funded through State Highway Bonds;
7. Reauthorizes bond authorization through enactment of legislation;
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Rep. MARCHBANKS explained the amendment and Rep. McABEE moved to adjourn debate upon amendment, which was adopted.
Rep. MARCHBANKS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. TUCKER moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. KIRSH proposed the following Amendment No. 31 (Doc Name P:\amend\ta.1), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 17C, Budget & Control Board, page 420, line 21, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/Effective on July 1 of the current fiscal year, the Appropriation Bill must show the prior year's base budget in the appropriation budget format./
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Rep. KIRSH explained the amendment.
Rep. H. BROWN spoke against the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Rep. SHEHEEN moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 18A.
Reps. LITTLEJOHN and H. BROWN proposed the following Amendment No. 56 (Doc Name P:\amend\PFM\8012AC.96), which was tabled.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, SECTION 18A (CHE), paragraph 22, page 427, line 3, after /order./, by inserting:
/However, notwithstanding a decision of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Citadel must be reimbursed from the funds appropriated in Part IA, SECTION 18C, for funds expended through June 30, 1996, for the support of the Women's Leadership Program./
Amend further, Part IB, SECTION 18C (THE CITADEL), Page 428, line 16, after /./, by inserting:
/However, notwithstanding a decision of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the Citadel must be reimbursed from the funds appropriated in Part IA, SECTION 18C, for funds expended through June 30, 1996, for the support of the Women's Leadership Program./
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Rep. LITTLEJOHN explained the amendment and moved to table the amendment, which was agreed to.
Rep. QUINN moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 18C.
Section 18C was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 18M.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 18M, MUSC, page 429, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/The members of the State Budget and Control Board and the Joint Bond Review Committee, after their respective reviews of the proposed sale or lease between the Medical University of South Carolina and Columbia/HCA, shall forward their recommendations to the General Assembly and the sale or lease of MUSC facilities to Columbia/HCA shall not occur unless the General Assembly by joint resolution approves the sale or lease of these assets/
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Rep. SEITHEL explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Section 18M as amended was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 34.
Reps. G. BROWN, COBB-HUNTER, SCOTT, ROGERS, GOVAN, CAIN, THOMAS, McCRAW, GAMBLE and WITHERSPOON proposed the following Amendment No. 47 (Doc Name P:\amend\dc.30), which was ruled out of order.
/It is the intent of the General Assembly that the Division of Motor Vehicles in each county should have a local telephone number./
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Rep. G. BROWN explained the amendment.
Rep. KLAUBER raised the Point of Order that Amendment No. 47 was out of order as it was not germane.
The SPEAKER sustained the Point of Order and ruled the amendment out of order.
Rep. G. BROWN moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 41.
Rep. KIRSH proposed the following Amendment No. 45 (Doc Name P:\amend\jl.21), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 41, Department of Corrections, page 468, Paragraph 15, lines 18-23, by striking:
/15. (CORR: Recreational Weight Room Equipment) All recreational weight room equipment within the South Carolina Department of Corrections shall be disbursed in the following order: to the Department of Corrections Training Facility, the Criminal Justice Academy and to the Department of Education for distribution to local school districts. The Department of Corrections is prohibited from purchasing recreational weight room equipment for inmate use and if any prison fails to remove the weights from inmates' use, then $10,000,000 of the State General Funds will be withheld from the Other Operating Expenses of the Department of Corrections./
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Rep. KIRSH explained the amendment.
The amendment was then adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 41, Department of Corrections, page 468, Paragraph 16, lines 24-26, by striking paragraph 16 in its entirety and inserting:
/16. (CORR: Recreational Scoreboards and Bleachers) The recreational scoreboards and bleachers determined to be surplus by the South Carolina Department of Corrections may be donated by the Department to any school district. The Department must notify all school districts of the availability of surplus scoreboards and bleachers and establish a date by which all requests for these items must be received by the Department. A drawing is to be held to award the items when more than one school district places a request for the items./
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Rep. KIRSH explained the amendment.
Rep. QUINN spoke against the amendment.
Rep. KIRSH spoke in favor of the amendment.
Rep. QUINN moved to table the amendment.
Rep. KIRSH demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Koon McMahand Quinn Rice Shissias Smith, R.
Those who voted in the negative are:
Allison Askins Bailey Cain Cato Cobb-Hunter Cotty Delleney Easterday Fleming Fulmer Gamble Hallman Haskins Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Hutson Inabinett Jennings Keegan Kelley Keyserling Kinon Kirsh Klauber Knotts Lanford Law Lee
Limbaugh Limehouse Lloyd Loftis Marchbanks Mason McCraw McElveen McKay Meacham Neilson Phillips Rhoad Richardson Riser Robinson Sandifer Scott Sheheen Simrill Spearman Stille Stoddard Stuart Thomas Tripp Trotter Vaughn Whatley Wilder Witherspoon Wofford Worley Wright Young Young-Brickell
So, the House refused to table the amendment.
The question then recurred to the adoption of the amendment, which was agreed to.
Reps. COBB-HUNTER, KINON, McELVEEN, G. BROWN, LLOYD, CANTY, INABINETT, KIRSH, ROGERS, KEYSERLING, NEAL, SCOTT, BYRD, HODGES, L. WHIPPER and WHITE proposed the following Amendment No. 64 (Doc Name P:\amend\jl.55), which was tabled.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, Section 41, Dept. of Corrections, page 468, by adding an appropriately numbered paragraph to read:
/Of the funds appropriated in Section 41, Department of Corrections, for correctional officer salaries, it is the intent of the General Assembly that the Department shall not use any of these funds for special pay increases for employees at designated institutions. The Department is authorized to provide for pay increases for correctional officers. However, any pay increase grant shall be across the board for all correctional officers at all of the Department's institutions and facilities/
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Rep. COBB-HUNTER explained the amendment.
Rep. QUINN spoke against the amendment and moved to table the amendment.
Those who voted in the affirmative are:
Allison Anderson Askins Brown, H. Cain Cato Cotty Dantzler Easterday Fulmer Gamble Hallman Harrell Harrison Haskins Herdklotz Jaskwhich Keegan Klauber Knotts Koon Law Lee Limbaugh Limehouse Littlejohn Loftis Marchbanks Mason McKay McMahand Meacham Quinn Rhoad Rice Riser Robinson Sandifer Seithel Sharpe Shissias Simrill Smith, R. Stoddard Stuart Tripp Trotter Vaughn Wells Whatley Wilkins Witherspoon Wofford Wright Young-Brickell
Those who voted in the negative are:
Bailey Breeland Brown, G. Brown, J. Byrd Canty Clyburn Cobb-Hunter Cromer Delleney Govan Hines, J. Hines, M. Hodges Howard Hutson Inabinett Jennings Kelley Keyserling Kinon Kirsh Lanford Lloyd McCraw McElveen Neal Neilson Phillips Richardson Rogers Scott Sheheen Spearman Stille Thomas
Tucker Whipper, L. White Wilder Worley Young
So, the amendment was tabled.
Section 41 as amended was adopted.
Rep. McABEE moved to adjourn debate upon the section, which was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 55
Section 55 was adopted.
Rep. ROGERS moved to adjourn debate upon the Section, which was adopted.
Debate was resumed on Section 72.
Reps. GAMBLE, CROMER, HALLMAN, McCRAW, SHISSIAS, DELLENEY, FULMER and PHILLIPS proposed the following Amendment No. 42 (Doc Name P:\amend\DKA\3551AC.96), which was adopted.
Amend the bill, as and if amended, Part IB, SECTION 72, page 497, by striking paragraph 72.45 and inserting:
/45. (GP: Publication List for General Assembly) With the exception of the Governor's Executive Budget and related documents and telephone directories, and notwithstanding any other requirement, mandate, or provision of this act to the contrary, no agency, department, or entity of state government shall provide the General Assembly with hard copies of a publication whether or not the publication, report, or other document is required to be furnished to the General Assembly by law, and a publication only may be provided to a member of the General Assembly if the member requests the publication. Nothing herein prevents the agency or department from transmitting such publications to the Office of Legislative Printing and Information Technology Resources (LPITR) by