SC Gas Tax Bill to Fix Roads Headed to House Floor

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – A bill raising South Carolina’s gas tax and a number of other fees to put an additional $600 million a year into state roads is on its way to the House floor. The House Ways and Means Committee unanimously approved the bill Thursday after a 90-minute meeting focused more on how the new money might be spent than the extremely rare move in conservative South Carolina to increase a tax. The bill would raise the state’s 16-cents-per-gallon gas tax to 26 cents per gallon over five years.