SC lawmakers’ plan to borrow money for colleges, state buildings could already be dead - Maayan Schechter, The State

A plan to borrow hundreds of millions of dollars to repair crumbling state-owned buildings and colleges could be on life support less than a week before the General Assembly returns to Columbia for a new two-year session. But some leaders in the Republican-controlled Legislature say it is premature to say a potential borrowing proposal is dead. New S.C. House budget committee chairman Murrell Smith told reporters Thursday he predicts a bond bill will not pass the Legislature in 2019. Such a proposal would come through Smith’s powerful Ways and Means Committee. https://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/news/local/2019/01/04/sc-lawmakers-plan-borrow-money-colleges-state-buildings-could-already-dead/2481649002/