The South Carolina House has approved a bill that increases the penalties for passing a stopped school bus and requires all buses to have longer stop sign arms to extend across a lane of traffic. The proposal now heads to the Senate.
Republican leaders in the South Carolina House appear ready to tackle cutting income taxes in the state before this year’s General Assembly session ends in May.
The bill would require every school district in the state to offer some type of program to send children to a school outside their zoned areas. It also would allow children to go to a school in a different district.
House Democrats are urging the Senate to pass South Carolina’s hate crime bill. ABC Columbia’s Alex Tejada has the full story tonight at 6.
This act would require all schools in South Carolina to train teachers, faculty and staff how to respond to students who have seizures at school or on the school bus.
The South Carolina Senate debate on medical marijuana is going into another week.
Davis has been proposing medical marijuana since 2014 and has invested years of research into the issue. He has answered questions about concerns over the bill at the statehouse this week.
The proposal would allow parents to spend up to about $7,000 of public school money on private schools as well as tutoring, equipment or other needs.
A new map for South Carolina’s U.S. House seats is on its way to the governor after the state House approved the plan without any additional debate. The plan makes minimal changes to the seven current districts, six of which reliably elect Republicans.
The South Carolina Senate has started a debate on medical marijuana. Sen. Tom Davis has dedicated more than seven years of his legislative career to getting the debate that started Wednesday.
