COLUMBIA, S.C. - A revised criminal domestic violence bill is expected to be introduced in a House subcommittee Tuesday.

The bill should easily pass through a Judiciary subcommittee hearing Tuesday afternoon and a full committee meeting Wednesday, according to the committee chairman, Rep. Jim Harrison, R-Columbia.

One of the sponsors of the bill is Rep. John Graham Altman, said Harrison and House Speaker David Wilkins, R-Greenville.

Altman, a member of the Judiciary Committee, received national attention last week for what he said after a domestic violence bill was tabled.

"I do not understand why women continue to go back around men who abuse them," Altman, R-Charleston, said the next day to WIS-TV. "I've asked women that and they all tell me the same answer, 'John Graham, you don't understand.' And I say you're right, I don't understand."

The new bill is a scaled-down version of the proposal killed last week.

The revised bill would set fines of a minimum $1,000 up to $2,500 for first-offense criminal domestic violence. The current penalty is 30 days in jail or a $500 fine.

The new bill would impose a minimum mandatory sentence of 30 days in jail for a second offense, and minimum one-year sentences for third and subsequent offenses and criminal domestic violence of a high and aggravated nature.

Third and subsequent offenses would be classified as felonies. Currently, only aggravated criminal domestic violence is a felony.

Some of the penalties in the revised bill are tougher than the original bill, said Rep. Gilda Cobb-Hunter, who also will be the lead sponsor of the revised bill.

"Without a doubt, this is meaningful. I hope the bill will pass as presented. It's reasonable and more than fair," said Cobb-Hunter, D-Orangeburg.

The bill will need to be passed fast. Any bills that make it through the House after Saturday can only be considered by the full Senate after a two-thirds vote.

But Wilkins, Harrison and Cobb-Hunter don't see that as a major problem. "If we want to pass it this year, it can happen," Cobb-Hunter said.

The revival of the bill and Altman's decision to sponsor it pleaded longtime victim advocate Laura Hudson of the South Carolina Victim Assistance Network .

"John Graham Altman is the best thing that has ever happened to us," Hudson said. "I guess there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. I do believe in redemption."