South Carolina Statehouse Blog

Across the nation, many states are looking into adopting constitutional amendments that would make it a constitutional right for secret ballot elections to be held in the work place. South Carolina is leading the country in this regard with H. 3305, a bill whose main sponsor and leading proponent is Representative Eric Bedingfield.
To start, H. […]

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Election laws are a hot topic this year in many of our country’s state legislatures. South Carolina is no exception with a voter ID bill being just one of the many election oriented bills that will be debated in the coming months. This bill, H. 3418, would require voters to present picture identification at the […]

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Today, Governor Mark Sanford held a press conference with members of the law enforcement community and advocates for a stronger DUI law to talk about the new measure that take effect tomorrow, February 10, at noon.
The following is the press conference in its entirety split up into two parts:
Part 1:

Part 2:

Here are some facts/statistics from […]

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How to protect our nation’s children from the many dangers of this world is always a topic of significance in the United States. South Carolina is one state that’s addressing this important issue with new legislation that would limit where convicted sex offenders can live. Representative Joan Brady of Richland County is the main proponent […]

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The argument about who has the right to possess a gun has been going on since the creation of the second amendment. An especially hot topic in recent years has been handgun possession and in particular the issue of what should be the legal age of possession. For the citizens of South Carolina, a consensus […]

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