COLUMBIA (AP) The South Carolina House passed another bill dealing with the failed construction of two nuclear plants, this time creating a committee to study the possible sale of state-owned utility Santee Cooper. The proposal, approved on a 104-7 vote, also lets ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A South Carolina state representative introduced two bills that would place redistricting power in the hands of voters instead of politicians, a proposal that has had little movement in the past. “We need to change this system of ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) The South Carolina House has given key approval to a bill re-establishing the state’s limit on how many liquor stores a person or business can own. The House voted 100-1 on April 3 to agree with a Senate proposal ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) South Carolina House lawmakers have approved a budget to fund state government for the coming year. Legislators late March 13 voted 116-2 to approve the state’s more than $8 billion budget plan. The chamber reconvened early March 14 for another ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) A judge has refused to increase the sentence for a former South Carolina lawmaker who pleaded guilty to misconduct in office in an investigation of Statehouse corruption. Circuit Judge Carmen Mullen ruled March 6 she will not re-sentence former ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) After years without the drugs to do lethal injections, the South Carolina Senate has agreed to require condemned inmates go to the electric chair instead. South Carolina law has empowered residents of death row to make a choice ...

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COLUMBIA (AP) The chairman of one of the most powerful committees in the South Carolina House says he will not run for re-election this year. In a statement to his hometown newspaper, The News & Reporter of Chester, Rep. Greg Delleney ...

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South Carolina Libertarian Party v. South Carolina State Election Commission (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-044-14, 4 pp.) (Per Curiam) S.C. S. Ct. Holding: Since the General Assembly delayed the effective date of the Equal Access to the Ballot Act in order ...

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Kobe v. Haley As members of the S.C. Budget and Control Board, the moving defendants would not be able to provide plaintiffs with the injunctive relief they seek as to Adult Day Health Care and Medicaid services provided to plaintiffs.

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Rainey v. Haley : Pursuant to a comprehensive statutory scheme for regulating the behavior of elected officials, the House and Senate Legislative Ethics Committees are charged with the exclusive responsibility for the handling of ethics complaints involving members of the General Assembly; therefore, the circuit court correctly determined that it lacked jurisdiction to hear plaintiff’s action seeking a declaratory judgment that defendant had committed ethics violations while she was a member of the General Assembly

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