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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.3183 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19990112 Primary Sponsor:Klauber All Sponsors:Klauber, Seithel Drafted Document Number:l:\council\bills\bbm\10035som99.doc Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Committee 25 HJ Subject:Magistrates, bailing at bond hearing may be detained for forty-eight hours when domestic violence; Courts History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ House 19990112 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ referred to Committee House 19990106 Prefiled, referred to Committee 25 HJ Versions of This Bill
TO AMEND SECTION 22-5-510, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE BAILING OF PERSONS BY MAGISTRATES AND THE TIME PERIODS FOR HOLDING A BOND HEARING AND RELEASING A PERSON CHARGED WITH A BAILABLE OFFENSE, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE MAGISTRATE MAY ORDER A PERSON CHARGED WITH A VIOLATION OF CERTAIN CRIMINAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PROVISIONS OF LAW BE DETAINED IN THE INCARCERATING FACILITY FOR FORTY-EIGHT HOURS AFTER ARREST IF THE MAGISTRATE FINDS AT THE HEARING THAT THE ALLEGED VICTIM HAS REQUESTED AND HAS SHOWN GOOD CAUSE FOR DETAINING THE PERSON FOR THAT PERIOD OF TIME.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 22-5-510(B) of the 1976 Code, as amended by Act 425 of 1998, is further amended to read:
"(B) A person charged with a bailable offense must have a bond hearing within twenty-four hours of his arrest and must be released within a reasonable time, not to exceed four hours, after the bond is delivered to the incarcerating facility. However, in the case of a violation of the criminal domestic violence provisions of law, as contained in Chapter 25 of Title 16, the magistrate, upon a request from the alleged victim and showing of good cause made at the hearing, may order the person detained for forty-eight hours after his arrest. "
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