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Joint Resolution
Sponsors: Senator Shealy
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Introduced in the Senate on March 1, 2022
Currently residing in the Senate Committee on Judiciary
Summary: Sale of alcohol
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
Date Body Action Description with journal page number
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3/1/2022 Senate Introduced and read first time (Senate Journal-page 6)
3/1/2022 Senate Referred to Committee on Judiciary
(Senate Journal-page 6)
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VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 14, ARTICLE XVII OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO CITIZENS DEEMED SUI JURIS AND RESTRICTIONS REGARDING THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, TO ALLOW THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY ALSO TO RESTRICT THE SALE, PURCHASE, OR POSSESSION OF TOBACCO PRODUCTS, CIGARETTES, AND ALTERNATIVE NICOTINE PRODUCTS BY PERSONS UNTIL AGE TWENTY-ONE.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. It is proposed that Section 14, Article XVII of the Constitution of this State be amended to read:
Every citizen who is eighteen years of age or older, not laboring under disabilities prescribed in this Constitution or otherwise established by law, shall be deemed sui juris and endowed with full legal rights and responsibilities, provided, that the General Assembly may restrict the sale of alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, cigarettes, and alternative nicotine products to, and the purchase or possession of these products by persons until age twenty one.
SECTION 2. The proposed amendment must be submitted to the qualified electors at the next general election for representatives. Ballots must be provided at the various noting precincts with the following words printed or written on the ballot:
"Must Section 14, Article XVII of the Constitution of this State, relating to citizens deemed sui juris and restrictions regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages be amended so as to allow the General Assembly to restrict the sale of tobacco products, cigarettes, and alternative nicotine products to, and the purchase or possession of these products by persons until age twenty one?
Yes []
No []
Those voting in favor of the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'Yes', and those voting against the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'No'."
SECTION 3. This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
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