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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.60 Ratification Number:261 Act Number:246 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19990112 Primary Sponsor:Ford All Sponsors:Ford Drafted Document Number:l:\s-res\rf\002holi.jh.doc Date Bill Passed both Bodies:20000413 Date of Last Amendment:20000412 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:20000501 Subject:State Holidays, Confederate Memorial Day and Martin Luther King, Jr. Day declared as, schedule revised; Confederacy History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 20000516 Act No. A246 ------ 20000501 Signed by Governor ------ 20000426 Ratified R261 ------ 20000414 Scrivener's error corrected Senate 20000413 Concurred in House amendment, enrolled for ratification House 20000413 Read third time, returned to Senate with amendment House 20000412 Amended, read second time House 20000405 Committee report: Favorable with 25 HJ amendment House 20000302 Recommitted to Committee 25 HJ House 20000302 Amended House 20000301 Amended, debate interrupted by adjournment House 20000223 Debate adjourned until Tuesday, 20000229 House 20000215 Request for debate by Representative Cobb- Hunter Trotter Fleming Cotty Sheheen Miller Sharpe Breeland Moody- Lawrence Davenport J. Smith Meacham- Richardson Kirsh R. Smith Rhoad Emory Cato Inabinett Young- Brickell H. Brown Law Whatley Knotts Ott J.H. Neal Scott Hosey Sandifer Bailey ------ 20000210 Scrivener's error corrected House 20000209 Committee report: Favorable with 25 HJ amendment House 19990128 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ referred to Committee Senate 19990127 Read third time, sent to House Senate 19990126 Amended, read second time, ordered to third reading with notice of general amendments Senate 19990120 Committee report: Favorable 11 SJ Senate 19990112 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ referred to Committee Senate 19981118 Prefiled, referred to Committee 11 SJ Versions of This Bill Revised on January 20, 1999 - Word format Revised on January 26, 1999 - Word format Revised on February 9, 2000 - Word format Revised on February 10, 2000 - Word format Revised on March 1, 2000 - Word format Revised on March 2, 2000 - Word format Revised on April 5, 2000 - Word format Revised on April 12, 2000 - Word format Revised on April 14, 2000 - Word format
(A246, R261, S60)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 53-5-10, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO LEGAL HOLIDAYS, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE THIRD MONDAY OF JANUARY, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY, AND THE TENTH DAY OF MAY, CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY, ARE REGULAR, RATHER THAN OPTIONAL, HOLIDAYS; TO DELETE THE NINETEENTH DAY OF JANUARY, ROBERT E. LEE'S BIRTHDAY, AND THE THIRD DAY OF JUNE, JEFFERSON DAVIS' BIRTHDAY, AS HOLIDAYS; TO DELETE REFERENCES TO OPTIONAL HOLIDAYS; TO DELETE GENERAL ELECTION DAYS AS LEGAL HOLIDAYS; AND TO AMEND SECTION 53-3-80, RELATING TO JANUARY FIFTEENTH OF EACH YEAR BEING DECLARED TO BE MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT THE THIRD MONDAY OF JANUARY IS DECLARED TO BE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Third Monday of January, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and tenth of May, Confederate Memorial Day, are regular holidays; no optional holidays; no holiday on election day
SECTION 1. Section 53-5-10 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 458 of 1996, is further amended to read:
"Section 53-5-10. The first day of January - New Year's Day, the third Monday of January - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, the third Monday in February - George Washington's birthday/President's Day, the tenth day of May - Confederate Memorial Day, the last Monday of May - National Memorial Day, the fourth day of July - Independence Day, the first Monday in September - Labor Day, the eleventh day of November - Veterans Day, National Thanksgiving Day and the day after, and the twenty-fifth and twenty-sixth days of December in each year are legal holidays.
The holiday schedules of public colleges and universities, including technical colleges, shall not be in violation of this section so long as the number of holidays provided for in this section are not exceeded."
Third Monday of January is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
SECTION 2. Section 53-3-80 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 53-3-80. The third Monday of January of each year, is declared to be Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in South Carolina."
Time effective
SECTION 3. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Ratified the 26th day of April, 2000.
Approved the 1st day of May, 2000.
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