South Carolina H 3356: Constitutional amendment, sales restrictions

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2025-2026 Bill 3356 Text of Previous Version (Dec. 06, 2024) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 3356

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A joint Resolution

PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 14, ARTICLE XVII OF THE 
CONSTITUTION OF SOUTH CAROLINA, RELATING TO CITIZENS DEEMED SUI JURIS AND 
RESTRICTIONS REGARDING THE SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES, SO AS TO ALLOW THE GENERAL 
ASSEMBLY ALSO TO RESTRICT THE SALE OF CERTAIN PRODUCTS, SUBSTANCES, OR SERVICES 
DETERMINED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO BE UNREASONABLY HAZARDOUS, PERILOUS, OR 
UNSAFE TO PERSONS UNTIL AGE TWENTY-ONE.

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

SECTION 1. It is proposed that Section 14, Article XVII of the 
Constitution of this State be amended to read:

 Section 
14. Every citizen who is eighteen years of age or older, not laboring under 
disabilities prescribed in this Constitution or otherwise established by law, 
shall be deemed sui juris and endowed with full legal rights and 
responsibilities, provided, that the General Assembly may restrict the sale of 
alcoholic beverages, or other products, substances, or 
services determined by the General Assembly to be unreasonably hazardous, 
perilous, or unsafe to persons until age twenty-one.

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:

 "Must Section 14, 
Article XVII of the Constitution of this State, relating to citizens deemed sui 
juris and restrictions regarding the sale of alcoholic beverages, be 
amended so as to allow the General Assembly to restrict the sale of products, 
substances, or services determined by the General Assembly to be unreasonably 
hazardous, perilous, or unsafe to persons until age twenty-one?

Yes o

No o

Those voting in favor 
of the question shall deposit a ballot with a check or cross mark in the square 
after the word 'Yes,' and those voting against the question shall deposit a 
ballot with a check or cross mark in the square after the word 'No'."

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