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South Carolina Senators ID 'Laws That Go Too Far' Includes Poker and GamblingWed, Mar 26th, 2008 @ 12:00am Governments everywhere have all sorts of creative ways to strike a balance between enhancing your life and regulating it to death, and the U.S. state of South Carolina's two-year legislative session proves no different, as a piece in The Post and Courier entertains while it relays how lawmakers discuss every thing from un-banning playing poker with Granny to preventing folks from taking fast food chains to court for serving fattening foods. "There are more inane laws introduced than you could shake a stick at," House Majority Leader Jim Merrill, R-Daniel Island, said. "Somebody at the grocery store says they're having trouble with this or that, and they (some legislators) feel they need to introduce a law about it." Among the several thousand bills filed this session were proposals to stop parents from smoking in cars if a child younger than 10 is riding along, suspend driver's licenses for high school students who are absent too often and require restaurants to post notices if they serve food with trans fats. There's even a proposal that would prevent people from suing restaurants if they get fat. SENATORS PROPOSE BILL TO LIBERLIZE ANTIQUATED ANTI-GAMBLING LAWS Senate President Pro Tem Glenn McConnell (R-Charleston) hosted Senators. Robert Ford (D-Charleston) and Larry Martin (R-Pickens) on a recent edition of his weekly news conference sponsored by ETV, a half-hour show where legislators discuss what's going on around the Statehouse. The panel talked about "laws that go too far" during the show, with a focus on South Carolina's gambling legislation. McConnell and Ford co-sponsored a bill that would update what many consider the state's antiquated anti-gambling laws, which by extension stop people from playing Monopoly at their kitchen table and holding cake raffles at church, much less playing poker using chips. No one knows of anyone ever being ticketed, much less being thrown in the slammer, for an innocent board game, but the state's anti-gambling laws did lead to Mount Pleasant police raiding a poker game in April 2006. That game had been advertised via an Internet site set up specifically to attract poker enthusiasts from around the Low Country. Players paid a $20 buy-in to join the game, with a percentage of the proceeds going to the house. McConnell and Ford's bill would allow card games and games with dice in homes all over South Carolina as long as the games didn't involve bets or cash. It also would allow churches and nonprofits to hold fundraisers such as cake raffles or games for charities. Another piece of legislation dealing solely with nonprofit raffles is on the Senate calendar for consideration. "No one's going to pick up a gambling habit off buying a raffle ticket," said McConnell, a self-described Republican with a Libertarian bent. BUT 2 GAMBLING BILLS ARE HELD UP The Senator's gaming bill appears to be stuck in committee after it faced opposition from Martin and others out of fear of its unintended consequences, such as compulsive gambling. Rep. Wallace Scarborough, R-Charleston, has a similar bill in the House that's been held up since last January (click here for related article). "I can't tell you how many times I broke the law playing Old Maid with my mother," Scarborough joked. Based on article in The Post and Courier by Yvonne Wenger.
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