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South Carolina Separate Confinement of Juvenile Offenders Amendment (2022)

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South Carolina Separate Confinement of Juvenile Offenders Amendment
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Election date
November 8, 2022
Topic
Prisons
Status
Not on the ballot
Type
Constitutional amendment		Origin
State legislature

The South Carolina Separate Confinement of Juvenile Offenders Amendment was not on the ballot in South Carolina as a legislatively referred constitutional amendment on November 8, 2022.

The amendment would have increased the age for which the state legislature can provide for the separate confinement of juvenile offenders from 17 to 18.[1]

Text of measure

Full text

The full text of the proposed amendment was available here.

Path to the ballot

See also: Amending the South Carolina Constitution

To put a legislatively referred constitutional amendment before voters, a two-thirds (66.67%) vote is required in both the South Carolina State Senate and the South Carolina House of Representatives.

The amendment was introduced in the state legislature as Senate Joint Resolution 0090 on December 9, 2020. It was approved in the Senate on March 31, 2022, by a vote of 42-0 with three members not voting and one vacancy.[1]

Vote in the South Carolina House of Representatives
March 29, 2022
Requirement: Two-thirds (66.67 percent) vote of all members in each chamber
Number of yes votes required: 30  Approveda
YesNoNot voting
Total4302
Total percent93.33%0.00%4.44%
Democrat1402
Republican2801

See also

External links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 South Carolina State House, "South Carolina SJR 0090," accessed April 5, 2022
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