Legislative Update: Week 9, 2019
Legislative Update: Week 9 Overview Two jackpots in one week! First, the winner of the $1.5 billion Mega Millions jackpot from last year finally claimed their prize…which means the State of South Carolina will reap a one-time, $61 million reward. So, when the House starts debate on the budget next week, we’ll add that amount to […]
Legislative Update: Week 8, 2019
Legislative Update: Week 8 Overview This week started with the General Assembly honoring the Clemson Tigers winning the 2018 national football championship and an inspiring speech by head football Coach Dabo Swinney on the importance (and effectiveness) of unity in order to get things done. It was a good reminder this week as my colleagues and […]
Legislative Update Week 6
Legislative Update: Week 6 Overview: Education reform was once again in the forefront this week. As always, I am grateful and pleased with all of the comments I have received from our community on fixing this issue. We are working hard on both sides of the aisle to make this comprehensive reform bill the best it […]
Legislative Update: Week 5
Legislative Update Week 5 Overview: We are now over a month into the legislative session and I am very pleased with the progress being made. In the next few weeks, I expect to see developments with the education reform bill, a plan for reforming the tax system and an outline for next year’s budget. I […]
Legislative Update: Week 4, 2019
Legislative Update: Week 4 Overview: This week several different groups made trips to the State House. It was great to be able to meet with each of them and discuss many of the important issues that we’re dealing with this session. On Tuesday, teachers from across the state came to talk about teacher pay, fewer […]
Legislative Update: January 31, 2019
Busy week at the State House. We are working hard for you!
Legislative Update: Week 3, 2019
Legislative Update: Week 3 Overview: Working closely with Gov. Henry McMaster, leaders in the House and Senate promised to be bold this legislative session, and this week showed just how serious they are. The Governor devoted almost one-third of his entire State of the State speech to the need to find solutions to our outdated […]
Legislative Update: Week 2, 2019
Legislative Update: Week 2 Overview of the week: We have been hard at work in Columbia this week in committees focusing on the 500 bills that crossed the desk the first day of session. There are over 70 bills in education and well over 100 bills in judiciary alone. In the chamber this week, […]
House Passes Revenue Neutral Conformity Bill
House Passes Revenue Neutral Conformity Bill Sends legislation to Governor for signature (Columbia, SC) – House Speaker Jay Lucas (District 65-Darlington) issued the following statement after the House gave final approval to H.5341, the tax conformity bill. This piece of legislation saves South Carolina taxpayers over $1.2 billion over five years by […]
Summer Days
Tommy is back in the office to talk about the Republican caucus for August and the upcoming election plans including events such as Summerfest.