Bill Text: SC S0990 | 2015-2016 | 121st General Assembly | Comm Sub
Bill Title: Judicial Elections
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-01-27 - Adopted, sent to Senate [S0990 Detail]
Download: South_Carolina-2015-S0990-Comm_Sub.html
COMMITTEE REPORT
January 26, 2016
S. 990
S. Printed 1/26/16--H.
Read the first time January 19, 2016.
To whom was referred a Concurrent Resolution (S. 990) to fix noon on Wednesday, February 3, 2016, as the time to elect a successor to a certain Justice of the Supreme Court, Seat 2, upon his swearing in, etc., respectfully
That they have duly and carefully considered the same and recommend that the same do pass:
JIMMY C. BALES for Committee.
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION
TO FIX NOON ON WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2016, AS THE TIME TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, SEAT 2, UPON HIS SWEARING IN AS CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE SUPREME COURT, AND THE SUCCESSOR WILL FILL THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF THAT OFFICE, WHICH WILL EXPIRE JULY 31, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE COURT OF APPEALS, SEAT 9, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 2, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, SIXTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 4, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 2, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE CIRCUIT COURT, AT-LARGE, SEAT 10, UPON HIS RETIREMENT ON OR BEFORE DECEMBER 31, 2015, AND THE SUCCESSOR WILL FILL THE UNEXPIRED TERM OF THAT OFFICE, WHICH WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2021; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 2, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, FIRST JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 3, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, SECOND JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, THIRD JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, FOURTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, FIFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 4, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, SEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 3, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, EIGHTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 2, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 3 UPON HER RETIREMENT ON OR BEFORE JUNE 30, 2016, AND THE SUCCESSOR WILL SERVE A NEW TERM OF THAT OFFICE, WHICH EXPIRES ON JUNE 30, 2022; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, NINTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 6, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, TENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 2, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, ELEVENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, TWELFTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 3, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, THIRTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 6, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, FOURTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 2, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 2, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE FAMILY COURT, SIXTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, SEAT 1, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016; TO ELECT A SUCCESSOR TO A CERTAIN JUDGE OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE LAW COURT, SEAT 6, WHOSE TERM WILL EXPIRE JUNE 30, 2016.
Be it resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring:
That the Senate and the House of Representatives shall meet in joint assembly in the Hall of the House of Representatives Wednesday, February 3, 2016, at noon to elect a successor to the Honorable Costa M. Pleicones, Justice of the Supreme Court, Seat 2, upon his swearing in as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the successor will fill the unexpired term of that office, which will expire July 31, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable James Edward Lockemy, Judge of the Court of Appeals, Seat 9, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Edgar Warren Dickson, Judge of the Circuit Court, First Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Diane Schafer Goodstein, Judge of the Circuit Court, First Judicial Circuit, Seat 2, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Doyet A. Early, III, Judge of the Circuit Court, Second Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Ralph Ferrell Cothran, Jr., Judge of the Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Brian M. Gibbons, Judge of the Circuit Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Frank Robert Addy, Jr., Judge of the Circuit Court, Eighth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable David Garrison Hill, Judge of the Circuit Court, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 4, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Steven H. John, Judge of the Circuit Court, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable John Calvin Hayes, III, Judge of the Circuit Court, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Daniel Dewitt Hall, Judge of the Circuit Court, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 2, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable James R. Barber, III, Judge of the Circuit Court, At-Large, Seat 10, upon his retirement on or before December 31, 2015, and the successor will fill the unexpired term of that office, which will expire June 30, 2021; to elect a successor to the Honorable William J. Wylie, Jr., Judge of the Family Court, First Judicial Circuit, Seat 2, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Nancy Chapman McLin, Judge of the Family Court, First Judicial Circuit, Seat 3, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Vicki J. Snelgrove, Judge of the Family Court, Second Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable George Marion McFaddin, Jr., Judge of the Family Court, Third Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Cely Anne Brigman, Judge of the Family Court, Fourth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Dorothy Mobley Jones, Judge of the Family Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Gwendlyne Young Jones, Judge of the Family Court, Fifth Judicial Circuit, Seat 4, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Usha J. Bridges, Judge of the Family Court, Seventh Judicial Circuit, Seat 3, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable John M. Rucker, Judge of the Family Court, Eighth Judicial Circuit, Seat 2, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Daniel E. Martin, Jr., Judge of the Family Court, Ninth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Judy Cone McMahon, Judge of the Family Court, Ninth Judicial Circuit, Seat 3, upon her retirement on or before June 30, 2016, and the successor will serve a new term of that office, which expires June 30, 2022; to elect a successor to the Honorable Jack Alan Landis, Judge of the Family Court, Ninth Judicial Circuit, Seat 6 whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Karen F. Ballenger, Judge of the Family Court, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 2, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable William Gregory Seigler, Judge of the Family Court, Eleventh Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Jerry Deese Vinson, Jr., Judge of the Family Court, Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Seat 3, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Alex Kinlaw, Jr., Judge of the Family Court, Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 6, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Peter L. Fuge, Judge of the Family Court, Fourteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 2, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Melissa J. Buckhannon (f/k/a Melissa Johnson Emery), Judge of the Family Court, Fifteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 2, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Thomas H. White, IV, Judge of the Family Court, Sixteenth Judicial Circuit, Seat 1, whose term will expire June 30, 2016; to elect a successor to the Honorable Sebastien Phillip Lenski, Judge of the Administrative Law Court, Seat 6, whose term will expire June 30, 2016.
Be it further resolved that all nominations must be made by the chairman of the Judicial Merit Selection Commission, and that no further nominating or seconding speeches may be made by members of the General Assembly on behalf of any candidate.
