2001-2002 Bill 3157: Campaign Practices, Influence Outcome of Elective Office Defined;

BIL:3157

TYP:General Bill GB

INB:House

IND:20010109

PSP:Lourie

SPO:Lourie, J.E. Smith, J.M. Neal, Emory

DDN:l:\council\bills\gjk\20060dw01.doc

RBY:House

COM:Judiciary Committee 25 HJ

SUB:Campaign practices, influence outcome of elective office defined; Elections, Ethics

HST:

BodyDateAction DescriptionComLeg Involved

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House20010110Co-Sponsor added (Rule 5.2) by Rep.J.E. Smith

J.M. Neal

Emory

House20010109Introduced, read first time,25 HJ

referred to Committee

House20001220Prefiled, referred to Committee25 HJ

Versions of This Bill

TXT:

A BILL

TO AMEND SECTION 8131300, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO DEFINITIONS FOR PURPOSES OF THE PROVISIONS RELATING TO CAMPAIGN PRACTICES, SO AS TO DEFINE “INFLUENCE THE OUTCOME OF AN ELECTIVE OFFICE”.

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

SECTION1.Section 8131300 of the 1976 Code, as last amended by Act 6 of 1995, is further amended by adding the following item at the end to read:

“(31)‘Influence the outcome of an elective office’ means:

(a)expressly advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identifiable candidate using words including or substantially similar to ‘vote for’, ‘elect’, ‘cast your ballot for’, ‘Smith for Governor’, ‘vote against’, ‘defeat’, or ‘reject’; or

(b)communicating campaign slogans or individual words that, taken in context, have no other reasonable meaning other than to urge the election or defeat of a clearly identifiable candidate including or substantially similar to slogans or words such as ‘Smith’s the One’, ‘Jones 2000’, ‘Smith/Jones’, ‘Jones!’, or ‘SmithA Man for the People!’; or

(c)any communication about a public issue made, not more than one hundred twenty days before an election, that references a clearly identifiable candidate, that but for such reference, the communication as a whole would not convey a clear, unambiguous message concerning the public issue, and that is reasonably suggestive of primarily advocating the election or defeat of a clearly identifiable candidate, but does not necessarily contain words to that effect.”

SECTION2.This act takes effect upon approval by the Governor.

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