What a year 2014 was in S.C.
With a GOP sweep of the 2014 elections, the toppling of a sitting House speaker and the implosion of the state agency dedicated to keeping children safe, the year in news has been filled with twists...
View ArticleLots of bills filed early
House members and state senators pre-filed 532 bills in December for consideration in the 2015-16 session of the Statehouse, which opens at noon on Jan. 13, 2015. To take a look at summaries of major...
View ArticleMore than 100 bills introduced
House members and senators introduced more than 100 new bills this week, but most of them were congratulatory or memorials.
View ArticleLittle new on the table
Because budget debate embroiled House members all week, the only bills that were introduced were two resolutions on Thursday to invite athletic teams to visit the floor. Look for substantive bills next...
View ArticleHouse, Senate to be on recess
The House will be on the second week of a two-week recess next week while the Senate will take its week off next week too.
View ArticlePHOTO: Back at it
The Public Education and Special Schools Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee held one of several hearings to kick off the start of the 2016-17 state budget process in Columbia. Next week...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEF: Who are the grown-ups now?
For years at the Statehouse, there’s been a running joke that the House of Representatives, fired by a tempestuous desire to do stuff and be relevant, passed bills relatively quickly, sometimes without...
View ArticleRESCHEDULED: Tax policy meeting moved to Oct. 18
(UPDATED, 10/10) Members of the public can give testimony at 11 a.m. Oct. 18 to the special House Tax Policy Review Committee in Room 110 of the Blatt Building on the Statehouse grounds in Columbia....
View ArticleBRIEF: House, Senate to reorganize Dec. 6
Staff reports | More than two dozen new Statehouse faces will meet for the first time next week in Columbia with veteran lawmakers as the state House and Senate reorganize on Dec. 6.
View Article4/5 full issue: House, Senate budgets similar; On Santee Cooper; Abortion...
INSIDE ISSUE 18.14 | APRIL 5, 2019 NEWS: Senate, House differ little on state budget BRIEFS: House wades into abortion politics; Crossover looms; Education; more COMMENTARY, Brack: Slow down on zeal...
View ArticleBIG STORY: Session’s close drawing near with big items waiting for 2020
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | Lawmakers have three legislative days left to figure out how to deal with $158.6 million in budget differences from a $1 billion surplus. Since January,...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: Clock ticks at Statehouse, 4K enrollment, more
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | The clock is ticking down: There are three legislative days left in the House before the start of budget deliberations and six legislative days left in...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: House budgets $11 more per student for education
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | A draft of the state budget shorts public K-12 students nearly $600 each in a year of a record surplus and revenues. The House will begin budget...
View ArticleBIG LIST: 359 file for 170 state legislative seats
By Lindsay Street, Statehouse correspondent | The June primary and General Election remain in question as the S.C. Election Commission pushes for changes from lawmakers on how the state executes...
View ArticleNEW for 10/23: On justice and race; Country moving to middle; Cancer
INSIDE ISSUE 19.43 | Oct. 23, 2020 BIG STORY: House justice panel seems to skirt race, critics say NEWS BRIEFS: 200,000 in S.C. could get coverage if Medicaid expands, report finds SPOTLIGHT: South...
View ArticleNEW for 4/23: Time running out; Political talk; Santee Cooper breathes
INSIDE STATEHOUSE REPORT | APRIL 23, 2021 BIG STORY: Clock winds down on legislature as budget debate to start NEWS BRIEFS: Senate vote gives Santee Cooper room to breathe LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: Hung up...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: House, Senate to return Dec. 1, 6 on redistricting
Staff reports | Both chambers of the S.C. General Assembly will return in early December to consider redistricting plans. New maps are required every 10 years by the U.S. Constitution to equalize...
View ArticleNEWS BRIEFS: Senate’s $12 billion state budget returns to House
Staff reports | State lawmakers have until May 12 to approve a $12 billion budget following Thursday's approval of the spending plan pushed by the state Senate. Because the Senate bill, which includes...
View ArticleBRACK: Smith has leadership opportunity to quell sideshows
By Andy Brack | Word that newly-elected House Speaker Murrell Smith, R-Sumter, is going to make House members write bills better sounds like a good idea at first blush. But is poor draftsmanship...
View ArticleNEW for 1/27: From abortion ban to executions to political playbook
INSIDE STATEHOUSE REPORT | ISSUE 22.04 | JAN. 27, 2023 NEWS: Abortion ban, prosperity at top of 2023 agenda NEWS BRIEFS: Court demands more info on executions LOWCOUNTRY, Ariail: GOP comity...
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