South Carolina House Bill 4614 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 7-1)
Status: Passed on June 27 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-06-27 - Act No. 259
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Specify Certain Procedures And Requirements For Court-ordered Child Custody, Including, But Not Limited To, Defining "joint Custody" And "sole Custody", Requiring Each Parent To Prepare And Submit A Parenting Plan Or To Jointly Submit A Plan, Which The Court Must Consider Before Issuing Temporary And Final Custody Orders, And Providing That The South Carolina Supreme Court Shall Develop Rules And Forms For Implementation Of The Parenting Plan; To Require The Court To Make Final Custody Determinations In The Best Interest Of The Child Based Upon The Evidence Presented, To Require The Court To Consider Joint Custody If Either Parent Seeks It, As Well As All Custody Options, Stating In Its Final Order The Reasoning For Its Custody Determination, And To Allow The Court To Allocate Parenting Time Regardless Of The Custody Determination; To Provide Matters That May Be Included In A Custody Order And To Provide Factors The Court May Consider In Issuing Or Modifying A Custody Order When Considering The Best Interest Of The Child; To Provide That If A Court Determines In Its Order That Telephonic And Electronic Communications With The Parent Is In The Best Interest Of The Child, Each Parent Should Facilitate Opportunities Providing For Such Communications; To Provide That Regardless Of Custody Arrangements And Unless Otherwise Prohibited By An Order Of The Court, Parents Have Equal Access And Rights To Obtain All Educational And Medical Records Of Their Children And To Participate In Their Children's School And Extracurricular Activities; And To Create The South Carolina Family Court Study Committee To Study The Feasibility Of Tracking The Outcome Of Contested Custody Proceedings And To Provide For Its Membership, Staffing, And Reporting

Procedures and requirements of court-ordered child custody

Rep. Norman Brannon [R]	Rep. Alan Clemmons [R]	Rep. George Hearn [R]	Sen. Dwight Loftis [R]
Rep. James Lucas [R]	Rep. Michael Pitts [R]	Rep. Kit Spires [R]	Rep. David Weeks [D]

2012-06-06 - House - House: Concur In Senate Amendments (Y: 100 N: 0 NV: 20 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2012-05-30 - Senate - Senate: 2nd Reading (Y: 33 N: 0 NV: 1 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2012-02-01 - House - House: Passage Of Bill (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 24 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2012-01-31 - House - House: Passage Of Bill (Y: 104 N: 0 NV: 15 Abs: 4) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-06-27		Act No. 259
2012-06-25		Effective date See Act for Effective Date
2012-06-18		Signed By Governor
2012-06-12		Ratified R 301
2012-06-06		Roll call Yeas-100 Nays-0
2012-06-06		Concurred in Senate amendment and enrolled
2012-06-06		Read third time and returned to House with amendments
2012-05-30		Roll call Ayes-33 Nays-0
2012-05-30		Read second time
2012-05-30		Committee Amendment Amended and Adopted
2012-04-19		Scrivener's error corrected
2012-04-18		Committee report: Favorable with amendment Judiciary
2012-02-06		Referred to Subcommittee: Sheheen (ch), Knotts, Campsen, Lourie, Campbell
2012-02-01		Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2012-02-01		Introduced and read first time
2012-02-01		Roll call Yeas-95 Nays-0
2012-02-01		Read third time and sent to Senate
2012-01-31		Roll call Yeas-104 Nays-0
2012-01-31		Read second time
2012-01-31		Amended
2012-01-26		Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Loftis, Clemmons
2012-01-26		24 hour point of order
2012-01-25		Committee report: Favorable with amendment Judiciary
2012-01-19		Member(s) request name added as sponsor: Spires
2012-01-17		Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2012-01-17		Introduced and read first time

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
63	5	30	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=4614&session=119&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/prever/4614_20120117.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/prever/4614_20120125.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/prever/4614_20120131.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/prever/4614_20120418.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/prever/4614_20120419.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess119_2011-2012/prever/4614_20120530.htm
Roll Call	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/votehistory.php?KEY=3449
Roll Call	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/votehistory.php?KEY=3458
Roll Call	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/votehistory.php?KEY=4664
Roll Call	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/votehistory.php?KEY=4813