By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Lawmakers return to the Statehouse Tuesday , to a full slate of pressing issues -- from the $9 billion failure of nuclear plants being built in Fairfield County to challenges related to education, the environment, ethics and more.
The S.C. House is expected to take up a number of overrides from Gov. Henry McMaster’s vetoes prior to the 2017 recess. Chief among these is the veto that halted $17.5 million of S.C. Education Lottery money from going toward replacing the state’s aging school bus fleet.
The S.C. Senate is expected to begin work on the slew of bills proposed in the wake of the canceled V.C. Summer nuclear project, which cost thousands their jobs and put billions on the backs of SCE&G ratepayers in the state. ...
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