June 16, 2014 This week the South Carolina General Assembly will vote to sustain or override Governor Nikki Haley’s veto number 24 dealing with a budget proviso establishing an “Alternative Health Care Study Committee”. Below is a statement by Frank Knapp Jr., president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce. ———————————————————————————————————————————————– […]
House Bill 3082, which will require affirmative legislative approval of any new state agency regulation before it can become law, is facing a filibuster in the Senate. Senator Phil Leventis of Sumter has already spoken for one hour on the bill and will hold the floor again when the Senate returns to the legislation this
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Chalk up one for sanity in the South Carolina General Assembly. Yesterday the Senate voted to put an end to a bill to “nullify” Obamacare in the State. Actually the vote turned on a procedural issue regarding a provision the Senate version had but the original House version didn’t The rules of the Senate notwithstanding,
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On the heels of a national survey of the uninsured that has potentially very good news for Obamacare, opponents of the law will hold a rally at the South Carolina Statehouse today. They will call for legislation to nullify the federal law’s implementation in the state to protect South Carolinians from what State Senator Lee
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The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce Last year the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) was very active in the state advocating for the interests of our state’s small businesses. The advocacy was both legislative and non-legislative. Non-Legislative Advocacy Fighting to keep utility rates low In March, Duke Energy filed for
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South Carolina state officials are reported to have been secretively putting together an incentive package to lure Boeing into manufacturing its new 777X jet in the Palmetto state. In addition to the prestige of expanding Boeing’s presence and employment in the state (which has already cost South Carolina $570 million in incentives to date), 2000
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It was a busy day yesterday for the S.C. Small Business Chamber of Commerce. Two Senate subcommittees and the House Ways and Means Committee held meetings on legislation we supported. Unfortunately two of these bills did not get the favorable votes we wanted.The morning started out with a Senate subcommittee on S.145, a bill that
Yesterday: Big business wins two, small business picks up one Read More »
Allow 3rd Party Financing of Solar Panels Bill would make solar energy affordable for homes and commercial buildings Don’t let the state’s energy companies do what they did in the S.C. House—stop a bill that will allow 3rd parties to finance solar panels on buildings and sell the electricity to the occupant owners. A public
Action Alert!! Public hearing is this Wednesday, April 10th For everyone who has complained that the state of South Carolina has not done enough to help small businesses, your support for House Bill 3125 is needed. The legislation would establish a Microenterprise Partnership Program (MPP) within the SC Department of Commerce to support organizations that
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This week a handful of Republican and Democratic Senators in Columbia and Washington found common ground on two important issues. In Columbia 15 Senators of both parties have introduced legislation to allow a third party to finance and own solar panels on a home or commercial building and sell the electricity to the building owners.
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