South Carolina Senate Bill 266

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-1)
Status: Introduced on January 10 2023 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-05-01 - Recommitted to Committee on Judiciary
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Comm Sub) [HTML]

Amend The South Carolina Code Of Laws By Amending Section 63-19-820, Relating To Out-of-home Placement, So As To Eliminate The Exception For Children To Be Tried As An Adult And To Decrease The Length Of Time That A Child May Be Held In A Juvenile Detention Facility For Committing A Status Offense Or For Violating A Related Court Order; By Amending Section 63-19-1020, Relating To Instituting Proceedings, So As To Require That The Child And His Family Seek Counseling When The Status Offense Is Of Incorrigibility; By Amending Section 63-19-1440, Relating To Commitment, So As To Distinguish Between Status And Criminal Offenses And To Change The Requirements For Court Orders; By Amending Section 63-19-1810, Relating To Determination Of Release, So As To Make Conforming Changes; By Amending Section 63-19-2050, Relating To Petition For Expungement Of Official Records, So As To Make Conforming Changes; And By Amending Section 63-19-2050, Relating To Petition For Expungement Of Official Records, So As To Provide For The Automatic Expungement Of A Juvenile's Records For Status Offenses, With Exceptions.

Status Offenders

Sen. Bradley Hutto [D]	Sen. Darrell Jackson [D]	Sen. Katrina Shealy [R]	Sen. Tameika Devine [D]
Sen. Maymia McLeod [D]	Sen. Karl Allen [D]	Sen. Deon Tedder [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-05-01	Senate	Recommitted to Committee on Judiciary
2024-04-03	Senate	Read second time
2024-04-03	Senate	Committee Amendment Tabled
2024-03-27	Senate	Committee report: Favorable with amendment Judiciary
2024-03-19	Senate	Referred to Subcommittee: Hutto (ch), Rice, Senn, Adams, Tedder
2023-02-09		Scrivener's error corrected
2023-01-10	Senate	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2023-01-10	Senate	Introduced and read first time
2022-12-07	Senate	Referred to Committee on Judiciary
2022-12-07	Senate	Prefiled

Chapter	Article	Section	Citation Type	Statute Text
63	19	1020	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	19	1440	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	19	1810	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	19	2050	(n/a)	See Bill Text
63	19	820	(n/a)	See Bill Text

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/billsearch.php?billnumbers=0266&session=125&summary=B
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/prever/266_20221207.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/prever/266_20230209.htm
Text	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/prever/266_20240327.htm
Supplement	https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess125_2023-2024/fiscalimpactstatements/S0266%202023-01-10%20introduced.pdf