Military Tax Cut Passes While Ethics Bills Could Be Dead Again

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – Bills that give military retirees a tax cut, shorten South Carolina’s legislative session and ban ticket quotas in law enforcement are among the potential laws heading to Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk.
The Legislature passed a flurry of bills Thursday in the legislative session’s last hours. But ethics reform bills legislators have called a priority for four years could be dead again.
There’s still a chance they could reach consensus on measures that send complaints against legislators to independent investigators and require all officeholders to disclose who pays them.
They’re among measures assigned to panels that try to compromise on the chambers’ differing versions of bills. Bills that made it that far stay alive for the special session later this month, but legislators may take up little beyond Haley’s vetoes then.