South Carolina General Assembly
115th Session, 2003-2004
A168, R119, S516
STATUS INFORMATION
General Bill
Sponsors: Senator McGill
Document Path: l:\council\bills\ggs\22013htc03.doc
Introduced in the Senate on March 26, 2003
Introduced in the House on April 16, 2003
Last Amended on May 29, 2003
Passed by the General Assembly on May 29, 2003
Became law without Governor's signature, January 16, 2004
Summary: Targeted jobs tax credit, definition of new job expanded, where jobs to be located
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTIONS
DateBodyAction Description with journal page number
3/26/2003SenateIntroduced and read first time SJ12
3/26/2003SenateReferred to Committee on FinanceSJ12
4/9/2003SenateCommittee report: Favorable FinanceSJ23
4/10/2003SenateRead second time SJ12
4/10/2003SenateOrdered to third reading with notice of amendments SJ12
4/15/2003SenateRead third time and sent to House SJ56
4/16/2003HouseIntroduced and read first time HJ8
4/16/2003HouseReferred to Committee on Ways and MeansHJ8
5/15/2003HouseCommittee report: Favorable with amendment Ways and MeansHJ6
5/21/2003HouseAmended HJ27
5/21/2003HouseRead second time HJ29
5/22/2003HouseRead third time and returned to Senate with amendments HJ21
5/22/2003Scrivener's error corrected
5/27/2003SenateHouse amendment amended SJ28
5/27/2003SenateReturned to House with amendments SJ28
5/28/2003Scrivener's error corrected
5/28/2003HouseNonconcurrence in Senate amendment HJ71
5/28/2003SenateSenate insists upon amendment and conference committee appointed Sens.McGill, Peeler, Hayes SJ36
5/28/2003HouseConference committee appointed Reps.Cooper, Miller and Chellis HJ144
5/29/2003HouseFree conference powers granted HJ32
5/29/2003HouseFree conference committee appointed Reps.Cooper, Chellis and Miller HJ33
5/29/2003HouseFree conference report adopted HJ34
5/29/2003SenateFree conference powers granted SJ40
5/29/2003SenateFree conference committee appointed McGill, Peeler, Hayes SJ40
5/29/2003SenateFree conference report received and adopted SJ40
5/29/2003HouseOrdered enrolled for ratification HJ62
6/3/2003Ratified R 119
1/16/2004Became law without Governor's signature
1/22/2004Copies available
1/22/2004Effective date See Act
2/20/2004Act No.168
VERSIONS OF THIS BILL
3/26/2003
4/9/2003
5/15/2003
5/21/2003
5/22/2003
5/27/2003
5/28/2003
5/29/2003
(A168, R119, S516)
AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION 1263360, AS AMENDED, CODE OF LAWS OF SOUTH CAROLINA, 1976, RELATING TO THE TARGETED JOBS TAX CREDIT, SO AS TO EXTEND THE DEFINITION OF “NEW JOB” TO INCLUDE JOBS MAINTAINED WHEN AN UNRELATED ENTITY ACQUIRES AS OF JULY 10, 2002, SUBSTANTIALLY ALL OF THE ASSETS OF A COMPANY OPERATING UNDER CHAPTER 11 OF THE UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY CODE, MORE THAN FIVE HUNDRED INDIVIDUALS ARE HIRED WHO WERE LAST EMPLOYED BY THE BANKRUPT TAXPAYER, AND THE JOBS ARE IN A MANUFACTURING FACILITY LOCATED IN A COUNTY CLASSIFIED AS LEAST DEVELOPED, AND TO AMEND SECTION 122050, RELATING TO THE CORPORATE LICENSE TAX, SO AS, FOR PURPOSES OF THE CORPORATE LICENSE TAX, TO ALLOW A HOLDING COMPANY TO REDUCE ITS PAIDIN CAPITAL SURPLUS BY THE PORTION OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO ITS CAPITAL RECEIVED FROM ITS PARENT CORPORATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY USED TO FINANCE A SUBSIDIARY’S EXPANSION COSTING IN EXCESS OF ONE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLARS, WHICH ON THE DATE CONSTRUCTION BEGAN IS LOCATED IN AN ECONOMIC IMPACT ZONE, TO PROVIDE A THREE-YEAR PERIOD WITHIN WHICH THE EXPANSION MUST BE COMPLETED, TO ALLOW THE SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE TO EXTEND THIS PERIOD ON GOOD CAUSE SHOWN, AND TO PROVIDE FOR RECAPTURE IF THE EXPANSION IS NOT TIMELY COMPLETED.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina:
“New job” further defined
SECTION1.Section 1263360(M)(3) of the 1976 Code is amended to read:
“(3)‘New job’ means a job created in this State at the time a new facility or an expansion is initially staffed. Except as otherwise provided in this item, the term does not include a job created when an employee is shifted from an existing location in this State to a new or expanded facility whether the transferred job is from, or to, a facility of the taxpayer or a related person. A related person includes any entity or person that bears a relationship to the taxpayer as described in Section 267 of the Internal Revenue Code. However, this exclusion of a new job created by employee shifting does not extend to a job created at a new or expanded facility located in a county in which is located an ‘applicable federal facility’ as defined in Section 1263450(A)(1)(b). The term ‘new job’ also includes an existing job at a facility of an employer which is reinstated after the employer has rebuilt the facility due to:
(a)its destruction by accidental fire, natural disaster, or act of God;
(b)involuntary conversion as a result of condemnation or exercise of eminent domain by the State or any of its political subdivisions or by the federal government.
Destruction for purposes of this provision means that more than fifty percent of the facility was destroyed. For purposes of this section, involuntary conversion as a result of condemnation or exercise of eminent domain includes a legally binding agreement for the purchase of a facility of an employer entered into between an employer and the State of South Carolina or a political subdivision of the State under threat of exercise of eminent domain by the State or its political subdivision.
The year of reinstatement is the year of creation of the job. All reinstated jobs qualify for the credit pursuant to this section, and a comparison is not required to be made between the number of fulltime jobs of the employer in the taxable year and the number of fulltime jobs of the employer with the corresponding period of the prior taxable year.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, ‘new job’ includes jobs created by a taxpayer when the taxpayer hires more than five hundred fulltime individuals:
(a)at a manufacturing facility located in a county classified as least developed;
(b)immediately before their employment by the taxpayer, the individuals were employed by a company operating under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code; and
(c)the taxpayer, as an unrelated entity, acquires as of July 10, 2002, substantially all of the assets of the company operating under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code.”
Corporate license tax, contribution excluded
Section2.A.Section 122050 of the 1976 Code is amended by adding a new subsection at the end to read:
“(C)In addition to the provisions of subsection (B) of this section, a holding company may reduce its paidin capital surplus by the portion of contributions to capital received from its parent corporation that is directly or indirectly used to finance a subsidiary’s expansion costing in excess of one hundred million dollars, which on the date construction started is located in an Economic Impact Zone as defined in Section 121430. A reduction is only allowed pursuant to this subsection for the paid-in capital surplus of the holding company attributable to this contribution to capital for expansion. Additionally, no reduction is allowed unless the expansion is completed within three years of the first contribution to capital received by the holding company, but this three-year limitation may be extended by the Department of Revenue upon written application and good cause shown. Amounts previously excluded in paid-in capital surplus pursuant to this subsection must be included in the first license tax year beginning after the period allowed for the expansion if the expansion is not timely completed.”
B.Notwithstanding the general effective date of this act, this section takes effect upon approval of this act by the Governor and applies to increases in capital over the prior year’s capital on January 1, 2003, and thereafter.
Time effective
SECTION3.This act is effective for taxable years beginning after 2002 where the job tax credit pursuant to Section 1263360 of the 1976 Code, as amended by this act, was earned after June 1, 2002.
Ratified the 3rd day of June, 2003.
Became law without the signature of the Governor -- 1/16/04.
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