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TexasTowelie

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Tue Mar 7, 2017, 10:05 AM Mar 2017

State lawmakers to consider 'grants' committee

South Carolina House budget writers are proposing to re-create a special panel to approve state spending on local projects.

The panel was disbanded after it was criticized as pork barrel spending by then-Gov. Mark Sanford.

However, in its first draft of the state budget that takes effect July 1, the House Ways and Means Committee proposes re-establishing the “Competitive Grants Review Committee” and giving the panel $6 million to spend.

House budget writers say the committee will decide what local projects get state money. Now, those projects are buried in the state’s roughly $8 billion-a-year general fund budget.

Read more: http://www.independentmail.com/story/news/politics/2017/03/06/state-lawmakers-consider-grants-committee/98803612/

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