South Carolina S 24: Cigarette surtax

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2025-2026 Bill 24 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 11, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 24

Indicates Matter Stricken
Indicates New Matter

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TO AMEND THE SOUTH CAROLINA CODE OF LAWS BY AMENDING 
SECTION 63-19-1440(C), RELATING TO COMMITMENT TO THE CUSTODY OF THE DEPARTMENT 
OF JUVENILE JUSTICE, SO AS TO ALLOW A COURT TO ORDER TEMPORARY COMMITTMENT TO 
THE DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE FOR NOT MORE THAN TEN DAYS FOR EVALUATION.

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

SECTION 1. Section 63-19-1440(C) of the S.C. Code is amended to 
read:

 (C) The court, before committing a 
child as a delinquent or as a part of a sentence including commitments for 
contempt, shall order a community evaluation or temporarily commit the child to 
the Department of Juvenile Justice for not more than forty-five ten days for evaluation. A community evaluation is 
equivalent to a residential evaluation, but it is not required to include all 
components of a residential evaluation. However, in either evaluation the 
department shall make a recommendation to the court on the appropriate 
disposition of the case and shall submit that recommendation to the court 
before final disposition. The department is authorized to allow any child 
adjudicated delinquent for a status offense, a misdemeanor offense, or 
violation of probation or contempt for any offense who is temporarily committed 
to the department's custody for a residential evaluation, to reside in that 
child's home or in his home community while undergoing a community evaluation, 
unless the committing judge finds and concludes in the order for evaluation, 
that a community evaluation of the child must not be conducted because the 
child presents an unreasonable flight or public safety risk to his home 
community. The court may waive in writing the evaluation of the child and 
proceed to issue final disposition in the case if the child:

 (1) 
has previously received a residential evaluation or a community evaluation and 
the evaluation is available to the court;

 (2) 
has been within the past year temporarily or finally discharged or 
conditionally released for parole from a correctional institution of the 
department, and the child's previous evaluation or other equivalent information 
is available to the court; or

 (3) 
receives a determinate commitment sentence not to exceed ninety days.

SECTION 2. This act takes effect upon approval 
by the Governor.

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