NEWS: Pinckney, Haley, Riley to be honored by Institute
Staff reports | The Riley Institute at Furman University in January will honor the late state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor slain in June with eight worshippers in Emanuel AME Church in...
View ArticlePOLL: Trump on top, but …
Staff reports | Tycoon Donald Trump remained on top of the GOP presidential field in a Winthrop Poll released Thursday garnering 24 percent of likely GOP voters. But as timing would have it, the...
View ArticleBRIEF: Don’t Drill lobby puts pressure on Haley
Gov. Nikki Haley is under increasing pressure to come out against drilling or testing for oil and natural gas off the South Carolina coast. 15.1218.dontdrill“There is one person who can save the jobs...
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: Pre-filed bills go from dam fund to Viagra
House members pre-filed 65 bills last week prior to the Jan. 12, 2016 opening of the General Assembly. Because of travel, we didn’t offer summaries of major new legislation, but bills you may be...
View ArticleTOP FIVE: A new weekly feature for Statehouse Report readers
Today as we start our 15th year, we’re introducing a new feature to help you stay even more on top of important policy and legislative news that you might have missed. It’s called “Top Five.” It...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: The next best thing to being there; O’Dell passes
SCETV’s ETV World channel will offer viewers the chance to see what happens on the House and Senate floors during session times, which generally start at noon on Tuesday and 10 a.m. on Wednesdays and...
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: New bills range from war memorials to refugees, guns, agency reform
Legislators filed about 140 new bills during the first week of the General Assembly’s 2016 session. They also formally added about 260 bills that were prefiled in December. See all Senate bills | See...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: Accolades, raspberries and revisionism
Staff reports | Gov. Nikki Haley earned a lot of accolades for moderate comments, particularly on immigration, during the nationally-televised GOP response which she gave following President Obama’s...
View ArticleAGENDA: Lots of meetings on tap next week
There will be more than a dozen meetings next week by subcommittees of the House Ways and Means Committee as they continue early work on the 2016-17 budget. Also on tap: An Agriculture subcommittee...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: A legislative report card; State of the State
The South Carolina Club for Growth this week gave good grades to seven state representatives and 11 state senators based on eight House votes and nine Senate votes from the 2015 legislative session....
View ArticleAGENDA: Roads, budgeting in focus in coming week
State senators are expected to start floor debate Tuesday on a multi-billion-dollar bill to repair the state’s crumbling transportation structure. As outlined in this story, there are three issues that...
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: Five dozen new bills filed this week
About two dozen bills were introduced in the past week in the Senate and another three dozen in the House. Of particular interest are bills on a journalist registry, aid for farmers, new rules for...
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: Safe harbors to education reform
Legislators introduced about 90 new bills in the Senate and House over the last week. Below is a list of bills that may be of special interest, particularly several education reform bills introduced in...
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: Bills introduced on lasers, gun exemption, more pay, funeral homes
Lawmakers introduced fewer bills than usual this week -- only five dozen or so. Among those of interest are measures on coal ash, homeowners' associations, a proposed sales tax exemption for gun sales...
View ArticleBRIEF: Dumping on plan to dump coal ash in Pickens County
Environmentalists are pretty happy with the quick movement of a pair of bills introduced this month to fight an out-of-state company that reportedly had plans to dump tons of coal ash in Pickens County.
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: From affordable housing to better public education
State senators introduced only a dozen new bills over the past week, while House members added more than 100 to the hopper, including many resolutions commending youths for becoming Eagle scouts. In...
View ArticleAGENDA: Legislative breaks, budget ahead
State representatives next week will take the first of three weeks of furlough during this year’s session. They’re expected to also take off the last week of March and first week of April. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleBRIEFS: A really, really big word and polls
We thought we’d never, ever be able to use this 28-letter, 12-syllable word in a headline, much less in any kind of writing. But today in South Carolina, we find our political environment a charged...
View ArticleTALLY SHEET: Few new bills filed
With the House on furlough for the past week, the only action related to newly-related bills was in the Senate, where 22 new measures were introduced. Of interest: Judicial elections, alimony.
View ArticleAGENDA: House to consider education reform measures
House members will start floor consideration of six of eight education reform bills filed earlier this year in response to the pending final ruling in the Abbeville education equity lawsuit.
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