South Carolina House passes $14B state budget, sending it over to Senate
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - The South Carolina House of Representatives made quick work of spending nearly $14 billion, officially sending its approved state budget over to the Senate on Tuesday in unusually efficient fashion.
In previous years, House members have worked through long days and nights, sometimes stretching into the weekend, to sign off on the spending plan for the next fiscal year.
But this week, with an unprecedented amount of money in their control thanks to last year’s budget surplus and pandemic relief dollars from the federal government, work that started Monday afternoon was wrapped up by lunchtime Tuesday.
“I think this week, in one day, we proved Biggie Smalls wrong: There’s mo’ money, no problems as it relates to the budget,” Rep. Murrell Smith, R – Sumter and the chair of the House’s budget-writing Ways and Means Committee, said to his colleagues on the House floor Tuesday.
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