South Carolina Bill 948<\/h1>\n
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Indicates Matter Stricken<\/i> History<\/p>\n <\/center><\/p>\n (Text matches printed bills. Document has been reformatted to meet World Wide Web specifications.)<\/p>\n <\/center>Indicates Matter Stricken<\/i> COMMITTEE REPORT<\/p>\n February 11, 1998<\/p>\n S. 948<\/p>\n Read the first time January 27, 1998.<\/p>\n JAMES E. BRYAN, JR., for Committee.<\/p>\n Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:<\/p>\n SECTION 1. It is proposed that Article III, Section 33 of the Constitution of this State be amended to read:<\/p>\n “Section 33. The marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto, or person who shall have one-eighth or more of negro blood, shall be unlawful and void.<\/i> No unmarried woman shall legally consent to sexual intercourse who shall not have attained the age of fourteen years.”<\/p>\n SECTION 2. The proposed amendment must be submitted to the qualified electors at the next general election for representatives. Ballots must be provided at the various voting precincts with the following words printed or written on the ballot:<\/p>\n “Shall Article III, Section 33 of the Constitution of this State be amended so as to repeal the prohibition against the marriage of a white person with a negro or mulatto, or person who shall have one-eighth or more of Negro blood?<\/p>\n South Carolina Bill 948 Indicates Matter Stricken Indicates New Matter Current Status Bill Number: 948 Type of Legislation: Joint Resolution JR Introducing Body: Senate Introduced Date: 19980127 Primary Sponsor: Ford All Sponsors: Ford and...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6234,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6,57],"tags":[104],"class_list":["post-3780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","category-legislation","tag-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-YY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/South-Carolina.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3780\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIndicates New Matter<\/b><\/p>\n Current Status\r\n\r\nBill Number: 948\r\nType of Legislation: Joint Resolution JR\r\nIntroducing Body: Senate\r\nIntroduced Date: 19980127\r\nPrimary Sponsor: Ford\r\nAll Sponsors: Ford and Patterson \r\nDrafted Document Number: jud9035.rf\r\nCompanion Bill Number: 4303\r\nResiding Body: House\r\nCurrent Committee: Judiciary Committee 25 HJ\r\nSubject: Marriage, provision making\r\n marriage of blacks and whites\r\n unlawful deleted; Domestic\r\n Relations, Discrimination\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
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<\/p>\nBody Date Action Description Com Leg Involved\r\n______ ________ _______________________________________ _______ ____________\r\n\r\nHouse 19980217 Introduced, read first time, 25 HJ\r\n referred to Committee\r\nSenate 19980213 Read third time, sent to House\r\nSenate 19980212 Read second time, unanimous consent\r\n for third reading on Friday,\r\n 19980213\r\nSenate 19980211 Committee report: Favorable 11 SJ\r\nSenate 19980127 Introduced, read first time, 11 SJ\r\n referred to Committee\r\n<\/pre>\n
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