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S. 952
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senator Lourie
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Introduced in the Senate on January 8, 2008
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Finance
Summary: Medicine sales tax exemptions
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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1/8/2008 Senate Introduced and read first time SJ-75
1/8/2008 Senate Referred to Committee on Finance SJ-75
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 12-36-2120, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO EXEMPTIONS FROM SALES TAX, SO AS TO INCLUDE AN EXEMPTION FOR MEDICINE USED FOR INTRAOCULAR AND PERIOCULAR INJECTIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF OPHTHALMIC DISEASES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 12-36-2120(28)(a) of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 89 of 2005, is further amended to read:
"(a) medicine and prosthetic devices sold by prescription, prescription medicines used to prevent respiratory syncytial virus, medicine used for intraocular and periocular injections for the treatment of ophthalmic diseases, prescription medicines and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals used in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, lymphoma, leukemia, or related diseases, including prescription medicines used to relieve the effects of any such treatment, free samples of prescription medicine distributed by its manufacturer and any use of these free samples;"
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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