South Carolina Statehouse Blog

Being debated in the Banking and Consumer Affairs subcommittee right now, is the issue of payday lending. What the final product of this bill will look like is still not entirely clear. It may still undergo fundamental changes. The legislative term used for this bill is the “Deferred Presentment Act.” In this committee is Representative […]

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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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Yesterday morning, I made my first excursion to the South Carolina state house to interview Republican Representative Nathan Ballentine of Lexington County. Ballentine’s name is on the list of representatives in the House Ways and Means committee supporting the recent “Appropriations Bill Earmark Disclosure Act.”
This Earmark Disclosure Act, officially referred to as House Bill 4356, […]

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Recently, I sat down with Representative Nikki Haley to talk about a “green bill,” House Bill 4892. This bill is an attempt to turn South Carolina more green, in that it effectively supports the building and buying of homes that are environmentally friendly. Specifically, this bill states that;

Homeowners associations and/or local municipalities may […]

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This week, the debate about whether or not the list of concealed-weapon permit holders should be accessible through the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) is taking place in the South Carolina Statehouse. A bill, House Bill 3528, would amend the current law in a couple of ways that would restrict the access to the list. […]

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