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South Carolina General Fund Reserve, Amendment 1 (1978)
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The South Carolina General Fund Reserve, Amendment 1 was on the ballot in South Carolina on November 7, 1978, as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. It was approved. [1]
Election results
| South Carolina Amendment 1 (1978) | ||||
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| Result | Votes | Percentage | ||
 Yes | 235,628 | 52.05% | ||
| No | 217,110 | 47.95% | ||
Election results via: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
Text of measure
The question on the ballot:
| Shall Article III of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to add Section 36 to require that a procedure be followed to require a state general fund reserve of an amount equal to five percent of the general fund revenue of the latest completed fiscal year and to authorize the General Assembly to appropriate the amount of such reserve when approve by two-thirds of the membership of each house?[1][2] |
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Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. REFERENDA AND PRIMARY ELECTION MATERIALS [Computer file]. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1995. doi:10.3886/ICPSR00006.v1
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
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