Current Status Bill Number:622 Ratification Number:137 Act Number:158 Type of Legislation:Joint Resolution JR Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19970408 Primary Sponsor:Drummond All Sponsors:Drummond Drafted Document Number:res1376.jwd Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19970520 Governor's Action:S Date of Governor's Action:19970610 Subject:Motor carrier registration fees, Public Safety Department to retain and expend for 1996-97; Motor Vehicles
Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 19970918 Act No. A158 ------ 19970610 Signed by Governor ------ 19970604 Ratified R137 House 19970520 Read third time, enrolled for ratification House 19970515 Read second time House 19970513 Committee report: Favorable 30 HWM House 19970422 Introduced, read first time, 30 HWM referred to Committee Senate 19970417 Read third time, sent to House Senate 19970416 Read second time, notice of general amendments Senate 19970416 Recalled from Committee 06 SF Senate 19970408 Introduced, read first time, 06 SF referred to CommitteeView additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.
(A158, R137, S622)
A JOINT RESOLUTION TO ALLOW THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO RETAIN AND EXPEND MOTOR CARRIER REGISTRATION FEES FOR FISCAL YEAR 1996-97.
Whereas, the Department of Public Safety is authorized to retain motor carrier registration fees to control and police illegal transportation and to promote safety on the highways; and
Whereas, prior to restructuring, all motor carrier registration fees were retained by the Public Service Commission and expanded by it to control and police illegal transportation and to promote highway safety; and
Whereas, restructuring transferred these employees to the Department of Revenue and resulted in the passage of temporary provisos 72.67, 72.68, and 72.69 in the 1995-96 Appropriations Act; and
Whereas, these provisos were necessary to continue the legislative intent that the motor carrier registration fees be used to fund these enforcement efforts; and
Whereas, with the transfer of these personnel to the Department of Public Safety effective January 1, 1996, the referenced provisos were subsequently deleted in the 1996-97 Appropriations Act as they were believed to be no longer necessary; and
Whereas, the provisos were in fact the legal basis for retention and expenditure of those fees by the Department of Revenue and later the Department of Public Safety for the legislative purpose for which they are collected; and
Whereas, there was no intent to recapture into the general fund those fees that have been used to this point to underwrite the salaries of those original Public Service Commission employees who have been transferred; and
Whereas, with the deletion of these provisos and the deposit of the collected motor carrier registration fees now into the general fund, the Department of Public Safety has no authorized or appropriated funds available to pay these transferred Public Safety Commission employees. Now, therefore,
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Motor carrier registration fees
SECTION 1. The Department of Public Safety is authorized to retain and expend the motor carrier registration fees for fiscal year 1996-97.
Time effective
SECTION 2. This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
Approved the 10th day of June, 1997.