The Senate led the way on reforming South Carolina's most complex and unwieldy agency, DHEC. Senate bill 399, passed near the end of this legislative session and it accomplishes the following: Creates separate agencies for Environment and Health. The first, named the Department of Environmental Services, holds divisions to monitor air quality, water, land and [...]
I have been in close contact with the S. C. Office of Regulatory Staff (ORS) to bring internet availability to communities that currently have no access. ORS launched a new informative website that includes a survey to collect information and locations of citizens who have no service. This data will stream directly onto their mapping [...]
The chief target, to date, of the corruption investigation, former Rep. Rick Quinn, received only probation last week when the judge chose to ignore the evidence of his vote-selling. I am disgusted, and you should be, too. But, with federal judges revoking President Trump's authority to regulate foreign travelers and stop unconstitutional accommodations for illegal [...]
I am honored to serve as the chairman of the Senate Corrections and Penology Committee, and our committee recently passed legislation to ensure that death penalty sentences are carried out in SC. One protects the identities of lethal injection drug producers so that they avoid harassment by militant liberals. The other brings back the electric [...]
