Bill Text: SC H3201 | 2015-2016 | 121st General Assembly | Introduced
Bill Title: Lobbyist
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2015-01-13 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary [H3201 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2015-H3201-Introduced.html
A BILL
TO AMEND SECTION 2-17-90, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO ACTS PROHIBITED OF LOBBYISTS' PRINCIPALS AND ACTS PROHIBITED OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS AND EMPLOYEES, SO AS TO FURTHER PROVIDE FOR THOSE FUNCTIONS PAID FOR BY A LOBBYIST'S PRINCIPAL TO WHICH MEMBERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MAY BE INVITED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
SECTION 1. Section 2-17-90(A)(1) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
"(1) as to members of the General Assembly, a function to which a member of the General Assembly is invited if the entire membership of the House, the Senate, or the General Assembly is invited, or one of the committees, subcommittees, joint committees, legislative caucuses or their committees or subcommittees, or county legislative delegations of the General Assembly of which the legislator is a member is invited and the function is not held on the Statehouse grounds. However, the Speaker of the House and Speaker Pro Tempore of the House may be included in an invitation to one of the above groups. In addition, invitations may be extended and accepted when the invitation is extended to all members in attendance at (a) national and regional conventions and conferences of organizations for which the General Assembly pays annual dues as a membership requirement and (b) American Legislative Exchange Council conventions and conferences;"
SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.
