Current Status Bill Number:4727 Ratification Number:491 Act Number:402 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:House Introduced Date:19960312 Primary Sponsor:Witherspoon All Sponsors:Witherspoon Drafted Document Number:bbm\10479jm.96 Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19960523 Date of Last Amendment:19960328 Governor's Action:U Became law without signature of Governor Date of Governor's Action:19960606 Subject:Bass, taking of in certain rivers
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 19960613 Act No. A402 ------ 19960606 Unsigned, became law without signature of Governor ------ 19960530 Ratified R491 Senate 19960523 Read third time, enrolled for ratification Senate 19960423 Read second time, notice of general amendments Senate 19960417 Committee report: Favorable 07 SFGF Senate 19960402 Introduced, read first time, 07 SFGF referred to Committee House 19960329 Read third time, sent to Senate House 19960328 Unanimous consent for third reading on the next Legislative day House 19960328 Amended, read second time House 19960327 Committee report: Favorable with 20 HANR amendment House 19960312 Introduced, read first time, 20 HANR referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
(A402, R491, H4727)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 50-13-235, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE PROHIBITION AGAINST THE TAKING OF STRIPED BASS LESS THAN TWENTY-ONE INCHES UNDER CERTAIN CONDITIONS, SO AS TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR THOSE RIVERS, RESERVOIRS, AND THEIR TRIBUTARIES WHERE IT IS UNLAWFUL TO TAKE OR POSSESS STRIPED BASS LESS THAN TWENTY-ONE INCHES.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Unlawful places changed
SECTION 1. Section 50-13-235 of the 1976 Code, as amended by Act 117 of 1995, is further amended to read:
"Section 50-13-235. It is unlawful to take or possess striped bass, rockfish, less than twenty-one inches in the following rivers, reservoirs, and their tributaries: Lakes Marion and Moultrie, the Congaree River, the Wateree River northward to the Lake Wateree Dam, the Lower Saluda River northward to the Lake Murray Dam, the Broad River from its confluence with the Lower Saluda River northward to the Columbia Dam, the Santee River southward to the Intercoastal Waterway, the Tailrace Canal from the Pinopolis Dam to the Cooper River, the Cooper River, including the east and west branches of the Cooper River downstream to the U.S. Highway 17 bridge, and in the Wando River."
Time effective
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Became law without the signature of the Governor -- 6/6/96.