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H. 3151
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Rep. Spires
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Introduced in the House on January 11, 2011
Currently residing in the House Committee on Judiciary
Summary: Magistrates
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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12/7/2010 House Prefiled
12/7/2010 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary
1/11/2011 House Introduced and read first time (House Journal-page 65)
1/11/2011 House Referred to Committee on Judiciary
(House Journal-page 65)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 22-1-25, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO MANDATORY RETIREMENT AGE FOR MAGISTRATES, SO AS TO RAISE THE AGE OF MANDATORY RETIREMENT FROM SEVENTY-TWO YEARS OF AGE TO SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS OF AGE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 22-1-25 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"Section 22-1-25. Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 9-1-1530 or Section 1-13-80(h)(I)(8), (10), or (12), it shall be is mandatory for a magistrate to retire not later than the end of the fiscal year in which he reaches his seventy-second seventy-fifth birthday. Any magistrate serving in office on the effective date of this section who has attained the age of seventy-two years prior to July 1, 1993, may continue to serve until June 30, 1994."
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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