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STATUS INFORMATION
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Sponsors: Senators Ford, Knotts, Mescher, Cromer, Courson, Pinckney, Sheheen, Williams and Leventis
Document Path: l:\council\bills\swb\6434cm05.doc
Companion/Similar bill(s): 741
Introduced in the Senate on March 22, 2005
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Corrections and Penology
Summary: Sex offenders
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3/22/2005 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-6 3/22/2005 Senate Referred to Committee on Corrections and Penology SJ-6
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND THE CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, BY ADDING SECTION 24-21-435 SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT A SEX OFFENDER WHO IS SERVING A PROBATIONARY SENTENCE MUST BE PLACED UNDER GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM SATELLITE SURVEILLANCE CONTINUOUSLY FOR THE DURATION OF HIS PROBATIONARY SENTENCE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF PROBATION, PAROLE AND PARDON SERVICES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Article 5, Section 21, Title 24 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:
"Section 24-21-435. A person who is determined to be a sex offender pursuant to Section 23-3-430 and who is serving a probationary sentence must be placed under global positioning system satellite surveillance continuously for the duration of his probationary sentence by the department."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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