South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster answers questions about the 2024 General Assembly’s session at a news conference on Monday, May 13, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster answers questions about the 2024 General Assembly’s session at a news conference on Monday, May 13, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster answers questions about the 2024 General Assembly’s session at a news conference on Monday, May 13, 2024, in Columbia, S.C. South Carolina Gov.
The harder lift might be resurrecting a bill that would combine six South Carolina heath care agencies into one department.on Thursday’s last regular session day when one House member of the ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus objected to taking it up immediately. It had passed both chambers overwhelmingly.
“We can’t wait another day,” McMaster said. “We have young people going to the Department of Juvenile Justice who ought to be in mental health institutions. We have suicides. We have way too many things happen to our people that could be prevented if we would get organized and streamlined.”2024 South Carolina General Assembly session may be remembered for what didn’t happenLawmakers could put a provision in the state budget to start the consolidation and follow with a bill next year.
Earlier this year, doctors and parents testified before committees in both the House and Senate that people younger than 18 do not receive gender-transition surgeries in South Carolina and hormone treatments begin only after extensive consultation with health professionals.in the state budget, although the Senate is using extra money from a sales tax fund to knock the income tax rate most people pay in the state from 6.4% to 6.2%.