South Carolina Legislative Session Dates Amendment (2016)
| Legislative Session Dates Amendment | |
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| Election date November 8, 2016 | |
| Topic State legislatures | |
| Status Not on the ballot | |
| Type Constitutional amendment | Origin State legislature |
The South Carolina Legislative Session Dates Amendment was not put on the November 8, 2016 ballot in South Carolina as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment. The measure, upon voter approval, would have had the South Carolina Legislature convene on the second Tuesday of February and adjourn no later than the last Thursday in May of the same year. Legislative committee meetings would have been allowed to convene earlier on the second Tuesday of January.[1]
Text of measure
Ballot title
The proposed ballot title was:[1]
| “ | Shall Section 9, Article III of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to provide for annual sessions of the General Assembly commencing on the second Tuesday in February, rather than the second Tuesday in January of each year, to require each annual session of the General Assembly to adjourn sine die not later than the last Thursday in May each year, and to allow the General Assembly to convene in local session and begin committee meetings or hearings on the second Tuesday in January each year?[2] | ” |
Path to the ballot
- See also: Amending the South Carolina Constitution
The proposed amendment had to be approved by a two-thirds vote in both chambers of the South Carolina Legislature to be placed on the ballot. If approved by voters, the amendment would have gone back to the legislature for a second approval before becoming law.
The amendment was approved in the South Carolina House of Representatives on March 5, 2015, with 103 representatives voting in favor and four voting against.[3]
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 South Carolina Legislature, "H. 3014," accessed March 19, 2015
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ South Carolina Legislature, "H. 3014 Status," accessed March 19, 2015
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