TO ALLOW A COUNTY WHERE ITS ONE PERCENT SALES AND USE TAX FOR CAPITAL PROJECTS WILL EXPIRE UNLESS APPROVED IN A 2019 REFERENDUM TO HOLD A REFERENDUM TO REIMPOSE THE TAX IN 2018.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:

SECTION    1.    A county that has imposed a one percent sales and use tax pursuant to Article 3, Chapter 10, Title 4 of the 1976 Code, relating to the Capital Project Sales Tax Act, the approval for the imposition of which will expire unless approved in a 2019 referendum, may instead hold a referendum on the question of reimpostion of the one percent sales and use tax in 2018 at the time of the general election.

SECTION    2.    This joint resolution takes effect upon approval by the Governor.