Journal of the House of Representatives
of the First Session of the 111th General Assembly
of the State of South Carolina
being the Regular Session Beginning Tuesday, January 10, 1995

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Printed Page 1950 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

Rep. WILKES moved that the House do now adjourn.


Printed Page 1951 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

Rep. A. YOUNG demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Yeas 41; Nays 70

Those who voted in the affirmative are:

Anderson         Askins           Bailey
Beatty           Boan             Brown, G.
Byrd             Canty            Carnell
Cave             Chamblee         Clyburn
Cobb-Hunter      Davenport        Felder
Govan            Harris, P.       Harwell
Hines            Howard           Inabinett
Kennedy          Keyserling       Kinon
Klauber          Lloyd            Martin
McAbee           McTeer           Moody-Lawrence
Neal             Neilson          Rhoad
Rogers           Scott            Sheheen
Spearman         White            Wilder
Wilkes           Wright

Total--41

Those who voted in the negative are:

Allison          Baxley           Brown, H.
Cain             Cato             Cooper
Cotty            Cromer           Dantzler
Delleney         Easterday        Fair
Fleming          Fulmer           Gamble
Hallman          Harrell          Harris, J.
Harrison         Haskins          Herdklotz
Huff             Hutson           Jennings
Keegan           Kelley           Kirsh
Knotts           Koon             Lanford
Law              Limbaugh         Limehouse
Littlejohn       Marchbanks       Mason
McCraw           Meacham          Phillips
Quinn            Rice             Richardson
Riser            Robinson         Sandifer
Seithel          Sharpe           Shissias
Simrill          Smith, D.        Smith, R.
Stille           Stuart           Thomas


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Townsend         Tripp            Trotter
Tucker           Vaughn           Waldrop
Walker           Wells            Whatley
Whipper, S.      Wilkins          Witherspoon
Wofford          Worley           Young, A.
Young, J.

Total--70

So, the House refused to adjourn.

Rep. HARRELL spoke against the amendment.

Rep. McTEER spoke in favor of the amendment.

Rep. HASKINS spoke against the amendment.

The question then recurred to the adoption of the amendment.

Rep. McTEER demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:

Yeas 47; Nays 64

Those who voted in the affirmative are:

Askins           Bailey           Baxley
Beatty           Boan             Brown, G.
Brown, T.        Byrd             Canty
Carnell          Cave             Clyburn
Cobb-Hunter      Cromer           Felder
Govan            Harris, J.       Harwell
Hines            Hodges           Howard
Inabinett        Kennedy          Keyserling
Lloyd            Martin           McAbee
McCraw           McTeer           Moody-Lawrence
Neal             Neilson          Phillips
Rogers           Scott            Sheheen
Shissias         Spearman         Stille
Stuart           Townsend         Tucker
Whipper, L.      Whipper, S.      White
Wilder           Wilkes

Total--47



Printed Page 1953 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

Those who voted in the negative are:
Allison          Anderson         Brown, H.
Cain             Cato             Cooper
Cotty            Dantzler         Davenport
Delleney         Easterday        Fair
Fleming          Fulmer           Gamble
Hallman          Harrell          Harris, P.
Harrison         Haskins          Herdklotz
Huff             Hutson           Jennings
Keegan           Kelley           Kinon
Kirsh            Klauber          Knotts
Koon             Lanford          Law
Limbaugh         Limehouse        Littlejohn
Marchbanks       Mason            Meacham
Quinn            Rhoad            Rice
Riser            Robinson         Sandifer
Seithel          Sharpe           Simrill
Smith, D.        Smith, R.        Thomas
Tripp            Trotter          Vaughn
Waldrop          Walker           Whatley
Wilkins          Witherspoon      Wofford
Worley           Wright           Young, A.
Young, J.

Total--64

So, the amendment was rejected.

Rep. LIMBAUGH proposed the following Amendment No. 38 (Doc Name L:\council\legis\amend\GJK\21593SD.95), which was adopted.

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking the unnumbered subsection added to Section 59-73-35 of the 1976 Code by the amendment of Representative Limbaugh (doc. no. L:\COUNCIL\LEGIS\AMEND\GJK\21587SD.95) and inserting:

/( ) the provisions of this section do not apply to a school district in which any increase in the ad valorem school tax levy for a particular year must be approved by the qualified electors of the school district in a referendum./

Renumber sections to conform.

Amend totals and title to conform.


Printed Page 1954 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

Rep. LIMBAUGH explained the amendment.

The amendment was then adopted.

Reps. HODGES, WILKES and BOAN proposed the following Amendment No. 40 (Doc Name L:\council\legis\amend\JIC\5674HTC.95), which was tabled.

Amend the report, as and if amended, Section 12-37-251(A), as contained in SECTION 2, page 3651-2, by striking lines 26 through 32 and inserting:

/No exemption calculated pursuant to this section may exempt more than 125,000 dollars of fair market value of a property for any one property tax year./

Amend title to conform.

Rep. HODGES explained the amendment.

Rep. H. BROWN moved to table the amendment.

Rep. HODGES demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:

Yeas 65; Nays 46

Those who voted in the affirmative are:

Allison          Bailey           Brown, H.
Brown, T.        Cain             Cato
Chamblee         Cooper           Cotty
Dantzler         Davenport        Easterday
Fair             Felder           Fleming
Fulmer           Hallman          Harrell
Harrison         Harwell          Haskins
Herdklotz        Huff             Hutson
Keegan           Kelley           Kirsh
Klauber          Koon             Lanford
Law              Limbaugh         Limehouse
Littlejohn       Marchbanks       Mason
McAbee           Meacham          Quinn
Rice             Richardson       Riser
Robinson         Sandifer         Seithel
Sharpe           Simrill          Smith, D.
Smith, R.        Thomas           Townsend
Tripp            Trotter          Vaughn
Waldrop          Walker           Wells


Printed Page 1955 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

Whatley          Wilkins          Witherspoon
Wofford          Worley           Wright
Young, A.        Young, J.

Total--65

Those who voted in the negative are:

Anderson         Askins           Baxley
Beatty           Boan             Brown, G.
Byrd             Canty            Carnell
Cave             Clyburn          Cobb-Hunter
Cromer           Delleney         Gamble
Govan            Harris, J.       Harris, P.
Hodges           Howard           Inabinett
Jennings         Kennedy          Keyserling
Kinon            Lloyd            Martin
McCraw           McTeer           Moody-Lawrence
Neal             Neilson          Phillips
Rhoad            Rogers           Scott
Sheheen          Shissias         Spearman
Stille           Stuart           Tucker
Whipper, L.      White            Wilder
Wilkes

Total--46

So, the amendment was tabled.

Rep. WILKES moved that the House do now adjourn.

POINT OF ORDER

Rep. H. BROWN raised the Point of Order that fifteen minutes had not elapsed since a similar motion was made, which point was not sustained by the Chair.


Printed Page 1956 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

Rep. A. YOUNG demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:
Yeas 30; Nays 72

Those who voted in the affirmative are:

Askins           Baxley           Beatty
Boan             Byrd             Canty
Carnell          Cave             Chamblee
Cobb-Hunter      Davenport        Harris, J.
Harris, P.       Harwell          Howard
Inabinett        Kennedy          Keyserling
Lloyd            McAbee           Moody-Lawrence
Neal             Sheheen          Spearman
Stille           Tucker           Waldrop
Whipper, L.      White            Wilkes

Total--30

Those who voted in the negative are:

Allison          Bailey           Brown, H.
Cain             Cato             Clyburn
Cooper           Cotty            Cromer
Dantzler         Delleney         Easterday
Fair             Fleming          Fulmer
Gamble           Hallman          Harrell
Harrison         Haskins          Herdklotz
Huff             Hutson           Jennings
Keegan           Kelley           Kinon
Kirsh            Klauber          Knotts
Koon             Lanford          Law
Limbaugh         Limehouse        Littlejohn
Marchbanks       Mason            McCraw
McTeer           Meacham          Neilson
Phillips         Quinn            Rhoad
Rice             Riser            Robinson
Sandifer         Scott            Seithel
Sharpe           Shissias         Simrill
Smith, R.        Stuart           Thomas
Tripp            Trotter          Vaughn
Walker           Wells            Whatley
Whipper, S.      Wilder           Wilkins


Printed Page 1957 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

Witherspoon      Wofford          Worley
Wright           Young, A.        Young, J.

Total--72

So, the House refused to adjourn.

Reps. LANFORD, KOON, KNOTTS, BAILEY, ASKINS, WRIGHT and KENNEDY proposed the following Amendment No. 41 (Doc Name L:\council\legis\amend\JIC\5691HTC.95), which was tabled.

Amend the bill, as and if amended, by striking all after the enacting words and inserting:

/SECTION 1. The State Election Commission shall conduct a statewide referendum on May 16, 1995, on the question of raising the sales tax in order to provide property tax relief. The state election laws apply to this referendum, mutatis mutandis. The commission shall canvass the results of the referendum and certify the results to the director of the Department of Revenue and Taxation and the Code Commissioner. The referendum question must read substantially as follows:

"Do you favor raising the statewide sales, use, and casual excise tax rate from five to seven percent to exempt food from the sales tax, to grant owner-occupied residential property an exemption from all property taxes, and to repeal the local option sales and use tax?

[] 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 2. Chapter 36, Title 12 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Article 11

Section 12-36-1110. An additional sales, use, and casual excise tax equal to two percent of gross proceeds of sales or sales price is imposed pursuant to this chapter. Of the total revenue of the tax imposed by this article, an amount equal to 24.6 percent must be credited to the general fund of the State and 6.1 percent must be credited to the Education Improvement Act Fund. The remaining revenues must be credited to the State Property Tax Relief Fund in the State Treasury, a fund separate and distinct from the general fund of the State, and the revenue in this fund must be used to reimburse property taxing governmental entities for the


Printed Page 1958 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

revenues not collected as a result of the homestead exemption allowed pursuant to Section 12-37-251. Reimbursements must be made from the fund in the manner that reimbursements are made pursuant to Section 12-37-270, mutatis mutandis. If insufficient revenues are available in the fund to provide the full reimbursement, the difference must be paid from the general fund of the state and the general fund must be reimbursed from revenues accruing in the State Property Tax Relief Fund."

SECTION 3. Section 12-36-940 of the 1976 Code is amended to read:

"Section 12-36-940. Every retailer may add to the sales price:

(1) no amount on sales of ten cents or less;

(2) one cent on sales of eleven cents and over, but not in excess of twenty cents;

(3) two cents on sales of twenty-one cents and over, but not in excess of forty cents;

(4) three cents on sales of forty-one cents and over, but not in excess of sixty cents;

(5) four cents on sales of sixty-one cents and over, but not in excess of eighty cents;

(6) five cents on sales of eighty-one cents and over, but not in excess of one dollar;

(7) one cent additional for each twenty cents or major fraction thereon in excess of one dollar.

The inability, impracticability, refusal, or failure to add these amounts to the sales price and collect from the purchaser does not relieve the taxpayer from the tax levied by this article.

A retailer may add the amount of the tax to the sales price and the department shall prescribe tables providing the amount to be added to the sales price consistent with the total rate of the tax."

SECTION 4. Section 12-36-2120 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding an appropriately numbered item at the end to read:

"( ) food items eligible for purchase with United States Department of Agriculture food coupons, not including restaurant meals."

SECTION 5. Chapter 10, Title 4 of the 1976 Code is repealed.

SECTION 6. Article 3, Chapter 37, Title 12 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 12-37-251. Beginning for property tax year 1995, there is exempt from property tax one hundred percent of the fair market value of property assessed for ad valorem taxes pursuant to Section 12-43-220(c)."

SECTION 7. A. The gross proceeds of sales of tangible personal property delivered after June 30, 1995, in this State, either under the


Printed Page 1959 . . . . . Wednesday, March 22, 1995

terms of a construction contract executed before July 1, 1995, or a written bid submitted before July 1, 1995, culminating in a construction contract entered into before or after July 1, 1995, are exempt from the tax provided in Section 12-36-1110 of the 1976 Code if a verified copy of the contract is filed with the South Carolina Department of Revenue and Taxation before January 1, 1996.

B. Notwithstanding the date of general imposition of the tax imposed pursuant to Section 12-36-1110 of the 1976 Code, with respect to services that are regularly billed on a monthly basis, the tax is imposed beginning on the first day of the billing period beginning on or after July 1, 1995.

SECTION 8. Chapter 1, Title 6 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding:

"Section 6-1-75. In addition to any other limit imposed on the revenue raising power of municipalities, counties, and school districts, the governing body of a municipality or county, and the governing body authorized by law to levy school taxes may not impose for any property tax year millage in excess of the millage it imposed for the preceding tax year except upon a three-fifths majority vote of the governing body."

SECTION 9. Section 1 of this act takes effect upon approval by the Governor. The remaining provisions take effect July 1, 1995, but only if a majority "yes" vote is certified by the State Election Commission pursuant to Section 1 of this act./

Amend title to conform.

Rep. LANFORD explained the amendment.

Rep. MARCHBANKS moved to table the amendment.

Rep. LANFORD demanded the yeas and nays, which were taken resulting as follows:

Yeas 56; Nays 53

Those who voted in the affirmative are:

Allison          Anderson         Boan
Brown, H.        Cain             Cato
Chamblee         Clyburn          Cooper
Cotty            Dantzler         Delleney
Easterday        Fair             Felder
Fulmer           Hallman          Harrell
Harris, J.       Harrison         Harwell
Haskins          Herdklotz        Huff
Jennings         Keegan           Kelley


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Kinon            Kirsh            Klauber
Law              Limbaugh         Littlejohn
Marchbanks       Martin           Mason
Meacham          Neilson          Rice
Robinson         Seithel          Sharpe
Simrill          Smith, D.        Smith, R.
Tripp            Trotter          Vaughn
Waldrop          Walker           Wells
Wilkins          Witherspoon      Wofford
Young, A.        Young, J.

Total--56

Those who voted in the negative are:

Askins           Bailey           Beatty
Breeland         Brown, G.        Brown, T.
Byrd             Canty            Carnell
Cave             Cobb-Hunter      Cromer
Davenport        Fleming          Gamble
Govan            Hodges           Howard
Hutson           Inabinett        Kennedy
Keyserling       Knotts           Koon
Lanford          Limehouse        Lloyd
McAbee           McCraw           McTeer
Moody-Lawrence   Neal             Phillips
Quinn            Rhoad            Richardson
Riser            Rogers           Sandifer
Scott            Sheheen          Shissias
Spearman         Stille           Stuart
Thomas           Townsend         Tucker
Whipper, L.      White            Wilder
Wilkes           Wright

Total--53

So, the amendment was tabled.


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