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The Senate debated the budget (H. 4300) on Tuesday and Wednesday and passed the budget, which includes increased funding to the Local Government Fund (LGF). The House worked through its calendar and continued to move several pertinent bills through committees. Bills of interest are discussed below:
Revenue, Finance and Economic Development
Budget – ... Read more
The Senate spent time on the floor this week debating and passing the Bond Reform bill (H. 3532) and cleared several other bills from the calendar as debate on the budget bill (H. 4300) will begin next week on the Senate floor. The House was on furlough and did not meet in statewide session this week. Several bills of interest are discussed below:
Revenue, Finance and... Read more
Cribb speaks at the economic development event hosted on
Dec. 14 at Santee Cooper’s Camp Hall Commerce Park in
Ridgeville.
Berkeley County made history in 2022 with its landmark $3.5 billion investment announcement with battery manufacturer Redwood Materials.
“This (announcment) will take us this year to $10.1 billion in capital investments in... Read more
The Aiken County Public Library—an impressive-looking multi-story building located in the City of Aiken’s downtown historic district— officially re-opened in a ribbon-cutting ceremony last January after a two-year renovation. Keep reading...Read more
South Carolina has been hard at work addressing the opioid crisis since 2014, when we—like the rest of the nation—realized we had a significant problem with prescription drug use. Since then, our state has made significant progress, but despite policy changes and multi-faceted public safety and public health efforts, we have seen overdoses rise. Communities nationwide and in South Carolina have felt the deep and complex impacts as the drug crisis has evolved in ways that we never could have anticipated.... Read more