Republican Senator Katrina Shealy and Democratic Representative Jermaine Johnson released a joint statement Tuesday calling for an emergency session to repeal the special budget mask proviso which prevents mask mandates in schools.
A South Carolina Senate leader says he hopes the process to draw new districts for state House and Senate seats as well as the U.S. House will take less than four months. Sen. Luke Rankin led the first meeting Tuesday of the Senate’s redistricting subcommittee.
A bill that would ban most abortions in South Carolina took its first steps in the House Tuesday.
The South Carolina House has approved a bill to reinstate some teacher raises into this year’s budget.
An abortion ban bill in the State House is one step closer to being passed out of the Senate. On Wednesday, lawmakers voted 29-17, passing the bill on its second reading. It has one more before going in front of representatives in the House chamber.
The lawmakers who write South Carolina’s budget will vote Monday afternoon on advancing up to $208 million to speed up COVID-19 vaccination efforts and fund other pandemic relief.
The South Carolina House and Senate are expected to discuss some contentious bills this week. The Senate could debate a bill that would ban almost all abortions in the state, but lawmakers could delay considering that legislation.
After a week of warnings from the FBI and local law enforcement, it was a fairly quiet afternoon at the State House.
State lawmakers are not meeting at the State House this week. Leaders are asking lawmakers to hold committee and subcommittee meetings online so they can pass bills the entire House and Senate can take up when they return.
Officials say there was no violence or arrests during a protest at the State House on Sunday. A group of peaceful protesters joined outside the State House for a “Freedom of Speech” rally.
