Healthcare providers in South Carolina may soon be able to refuse to perform procedures that they say violate their morals, ethics, or religious beliefs.
Despite the abrupt death of the bill to legalize medical marijuana in South Carolina this year, supporters and advocates say their hope for the legislation is still alive.
At the end of last week, House members moved to create a statewide task force to hold hearings and figure out how to recruit and retain more teachers in South Carolina.
All registered voters will have this early, in-person option, and they do not need to provide an excuse or reason for why they are voting early, as they previously had.
With a few exceptions, including the budget and redistricting legislation, any bill that had not passed both chambers by that point died for the year, needing to be refiled and reintroduced at the start of next year.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, nearly 3,000 people with disabilities in South Carolina were being paid less than the minimum wage just before the pandemic began.
A bill that would remove the need for South Carolina hospitals to seek state permission to build new facilities, make expansions or buy expensive equipment is dead for this year’s legislative session.
With just three days left on the calendar in South Carolina’s legislative session, it will be a race to the finish to advance bills to the governor’s desk by the end of next week.
The House Ways and Means Committee advanced a version of S.2 to the House floor Thursday, after amending the bill with significant changes that would pump the brakes on its progress.
The South Carolina Senate approved a bill Wednesday that would ban transgender students from playing girls’ or women’s sports in public schools and colleges, likely clearing the way for the state to join a dozen others that have passed similar laws in recent years.
The decision shocked leaders in the state Senate and may have repercussions well beyond failing to make South Carolina one of about 40 states allowing patients to use marijuana as medicine.
South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Joe Cunningham criticized Gov. Henry McMaster and the state legislature after lawmakers tabled a bill that would legalize medical marijuana.
Last year, McMaster signed the “Fetal Heartbeat Bill” into law, which bans most abortions after a fetal heartbeat is detected, typically around six weeks, making it one of the most restrictive anti-abortion laws in the country.
Sponsors of this bill have held that DHEC, overseeing the state’s health and environmental control operations, has become unwieldy and ineffective at times.
Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives elected Rep. Murrell Smith, R - Sumter, to serve as their next Speaker on Thursday in a unanimous vote.
South Carolina is hoping to get everyone in the state connected to high-speed internet at home and work within the next few years, thanks in large part to a major influx of money coming in from the federal government.
SC’s anti-vaccine mandate legislation is on its way to Governor Henry McMaster’s desk after the House voted 76-34 to agree with the changes the Senate made in early April.
Five University of South Carolina trustees who some powerful lawmakers feel are responsible for interference in daily affairs and hiring a president who left in less than two years and crudely criticized the school won’t be allowed to run for reelection next month.
After two mass shootings in South Carolina over the last weekend, including one in his own district, a state senator is calling for toughened up penalties for people who illegally carry guns.
The office tasked with broadband expansion and investment in South Carolina estimates it will cost more than $600 million at this point to ensure everyone in the state is connected to the internet.
The push has gained renewed effort recently after contentious hearings between current trustees seeking to keep their seats and the lawmakers who decide if that will happen.
The Democratic National Committee is shaking up its nomination process to allow any state to make the case they should be one of the first to hold a primary or caucus.
South Carolina’s largest educator group gathered outside the State House Tuesday to call on state lawmakers to make easing teacher shortages across the state a priority.
The end of this week marks the close of “crossover week” at the capital, the deadline by which bills have to pass one chamber and cross over the lobby to be considered in the other chamber.
Some supporters shared that concern, but ultimately, several echoed the sentiment that they believe this bill will help the people of South Carolina and give them more healthcare options.
South Carolina’s Republican House majority outlasted more than 1,000 amendments by Democrats on Tuesday and passed a bill that would bar transgender students from playing girls’ or women’s sports in public schools in colleges.
As the bill works its way through the House, it now sits with the Medical, Military, Public and Municipal Affairs, or 3-M, Committee and on Monday, members of that committee heard six hours of public testimony on the legislation as they consider advancing it.
South Carolina lawmakers have less than two months left to pass one of the highest-profile bills at the State House this year: legislation to legalize medical marijuana.
The bill would require athletes at the middle school, high school, and collegiate levels compete based on the gender they were assigned at birth, prohibiting transgender girls and women from competing in girls’ and women’s sports.
It would also set aside $100 million for applications that were approved by the end of last year but have not been able to use the tax credits since the state moratorium went into effect.
GOP candidate Mike Reichenbach won the special election Tuesday night to fill the state District 31 Senate seat previously held by the late Sen. Hugh Leatherman.
