South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas says he will step down from his leadership post when this year's regular session ends on May 12. In a letter to the House clerk, Lucas set the election to select his replacement for next Thursday, where Ways and Means Chairman Murrell Smith appears to have the position locked up.
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas said Thursday he will step down from his leadership post when this year's regular session ends on May 12.
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South Carolina companies to lawmakers: Pass hate crimes bill
By JEFFREY COLLINSFebruary 22, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this June 18, 2015, file photo, a group of women pray at a makeshift memorial on the sidewalk in front of the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. One big change happened in conservative South Carolina after a racist gunman killed nine black people during a Bible study five years ago, the Confederate flag came down. But since then, hundreds of other monuments and buildings named for Civil War figures, virulent racists and even a gynecologist who did painful, disfiguring medical experiments on African American women remain. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton, File)