Post by Logan on Jun 3, 2016 3:23:11 GMT -6
COLUMBIA — Bills that give military retirees a tax cut, shorten South Carolina's legislative session by three weeks and ban ticket quotas in law enforcement are among the potential laws heading to Gov. Nikki Haley's desk.
The Legislature passed a flurry of bills Thursday in the legislative session's last hours. But ethics reform bills that legislators have called a priority for four years could be dead again.
There's still a chance they could reach consensus on measures that send complaints against legislators to independent investigators and require all officeholders to disclose who pays them.
Because they made it to panels that try to compromise on the chambers' differing versions of bills, they stay alive for the special session later this month. But legislators may take up little beyond Haley's vetoes then.
Read more: www.goupstate.com/article/20160602/WIRE/160609921/1083/ARTICLES?Title=SC-lawmakers-pass-military-tax-cut-ethics-bill-in-doubt
The Legislature passed a flurry of bills Thursday in the legislative session's last hours. But ethics reform bills that legislators have called a priority for four years could be dead again.
There's still a chance they could reach consensus on measures that send complaints against legislators to independent investigators and require all officeholders to disclose who pays them.
Because they made it to panels that try to compromise on the chambers' differing versions of bills, they stay alive for the special session later this month. But legislators may take up little beyond Haley's vetoes then.
Read more: www.goupstate.com/article/20160602/WIRE/160609921/1083/ARTICLES?Title=SC-lawmakers-pass-military-tax-cut-ethics-bill-in-doubt