Court Opinion

ID: 9565567
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-21 19:23:49.400279+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T09:19:45.429717
License: Public Domain

Justice PLEICONES.
I concur in the majority’s analysis of the log-rolling problems raised by these legislative acts, but I adhere to my dissenting opinion in Sloan v. Wilkins, 362 S.C. 430, 608 S.E.2d 579 (2005), and would hold that the provisions of these acts that violate Art. Ill, § 17 are not severable. As I stated in Sloan v. Wilkins, severing certain provisions of an act neither prevents nor corrects log-rolling, but rather creates uncertainty and promotes arbitrary enforcement of the one-subject rule.
Accordingly, I would hold that the unconstitutional provisions of the legislative acts are not severable.