Bill Text: SC S0140 | 2023-2024 | 125th General Assembly | Introduced

South Carolina Senate Bill 140

Bill Title: Sentence enhancements for certain crimes committed while on bond

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced) 2023-01-10 - Referred to Committee on Judiciary [S0140 Detail]

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2023-2024 Bill 140 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 07, 2022) - South Carolina Legislature Online

South Carolina General Assembly
125th Session, 2023-2024

Bill 140

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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A bill

to amend the South Carolina Code of Laws by adding Section 16-1-140 so as to ENHANCE THE POSSIBLE SENTENCE FOR A PERSON CONVICTED OF A SERIOUS OR MOST SERIOUS OFFENSE, A VIOLENT CRIME, OR A LESSER-INCLUDED OFFENSE THAT WAS COMMITTED WHILE THE PERSON WAS RELEASED ON BOND FOR A SEPARATE, PREVIOUS SERIOUS OR MOST SERIOUS OFFENSE OR A VIOLENT CRIME OR A LESSER- INCLUDED OFFENSE FOR WHICH THE PERSON ALSO WAS CONVICTED.

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

SECTION 1.Chapter 1, Title 16 of the S.C. Code is amended by adding:

Section 161140. If a person is convicted of a serious offense or most serious offense as defined by Section 172545, a violent crime as defined by Section 16160, or a lesser-included offense, any of which the person committed while released on bond for a separate, previous serious offense or most serious offense as defined by Section 172545, a violent crime as defined by Section 16160, or a lesser-included offense for which the person also was convicted, then the person may have added to his sentence an amount of imprisonment up to forty percent of the maximum sentence for the offense the person committed while released on bond.