Current Status Introducing Body:House Bill Number:4688 Primary Sponsor:Sheheen Committee Number:25 Type of Legislation:JR Subject:Constitution, revision of article Residing Body:House Current Committee:Judiciary Computer Document Number:GJK/20306SD.94 Introduced Date:19940208 Last History Body:House Last History Date:19940208 Last History Type:Introduced, read first time, referred to Committee Scope of Legislation:Statewide All Sponsors:Sheheen Type of Legislation:Joint Resolution
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4688 House 19940208 Introduced, read first time, 25
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PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 1, ARTICLE XVI OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO AMENDMENT AND REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION, SO AS TO PROVIDE THAT FOR ANY GENERAL ELECTION RATHER THAN JUST FOR THE 1990 GENERAL ELECTION, REVISION OF AN ENTIRE ARTICLE OR THE ADDITION OF A NEW ARTICLE MAY BE PROPOSED AS A SINGLE AMENDMENT WITH ONLY ONE QUESTION BEING REQUIRED TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE ELECTORS.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, is amended to read:
"Section 1. Any amendment or amendments to this Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or House of Representatives. However, for the any general election in 1990, revision of an entire article or the addition of a new article may be proposed as a single amendment with only one question being required to be submitted to the electors. The amendment may delete, revise, and transpose provisions from other articles of the Constitution provided the provisions are germane to the subject matter of the article being revised or being proposed. If it is agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each House, the amendment or amendments must be entered on the Journals respectively, with the yeas and nays taken on it and must be submitted to the qualified electors of the State at the next general election for Representatives. If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting on the question vote in favor of the amendment or amendments and a majority of each branch of the next General Assembly, after the election and before another, ratify the amendment or amendments, by yeas and nays, they become part of the Constitution. The amendment or amendments must be read three times, on three several days, in each House."
SECTION 2. The proposed amendment must be submitted to the qualified electors at the next general election. Ballots must be provided at the various voting precincts with the following words printed or written on the ballots:
"Shall Article XVI, Section 1 of the Constitution of this State, relating to amendment and revision of the Constitution be amended, so as to provide that for any general election rather than just for the 1990 general election, revision of an entire article or the addition of a new article may be proposed as a single amendment with only one question being required to be submitted to the qualified electors of this State?
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'."