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Current Status Bill Number:View additional legislative information at the LPITS web site.332 Ratification Number:1 Act Number:3 Type of Legislation:General Bill GB Introducing Body:Senate Introduced Date:19990114 Primary Sponsor:Jackson All Sponsors:Jackson Drafted Document Number:l:\s-res\dj\009inte.kad.doc Date Bill Passed both Bodies:19990205 Governor's Action:U Signature of Governor not required Date of Governor's Action:19990216 Subject:Marriage of blacks and whites, constitutional amendment making unlawful deleted; Discrimination, Domestic Relations History Body Date Action Description Com Leg Involved ______ ________ ______________________________________ _______ ____________ ------ 19990409 Act No. A3 ------ 19990216 Signature of Governor not required ------ 19990216 Ratified R1 House 19990205 Read third time, enrolled for ratification House 19990204 Unanimous consent for third reading on the next Legislative day House 19990204 Read second time House 19990203 Introduced, read first time, placed on Calendar without reference Senate 19990202 Read third time, sent to House Senate 19990128 Read second time Senate 19990127 Committee report: Favorable 11 SJ Senate 19990114 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ referred to Committee Versions of This Bill Revised on January 27, 1999 - Word format Revised on February 3, 1999 - Word format
(A3, R1, S332)
AN ACT TO RATIFY AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 33, ARTICLE III OF THE CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1895, RELATING TO MARRIAGES OF WHITES AND NEGROES AND THE AGE OF CONSENT FOR AN UNMARRIED WOMAN, SO AS TO DELETE THE PROVISION MAKING A MARRIAGE BETWEEN A WHITE AND NEGRO OR MULATTO UNLAWFUL.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
Constitutional amendment ratified
SECTION 1. The amendment to Section 33, Article III of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, prepared under the terms of joint resolution 444 of 1998, having been submitted to the qualified electors at the general election of 1998 as prescribed in Section 1, Article XVI of the Constitution of South Carolina, 1895, and a favorable vote having been received on the amendment, is ratified and declared to be a part of the Constitution so that Section 33 of Article III is amended to read:
"Section 33. No unmarried woman shall legally consent to sexual intercourse who shall not have attained the age of fourteen years."
Ratified the 16th day of February, 1999.
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