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FILE - Construction is well underway for two new nuclear reactors at the V.C. Summer Nuclear Station in Jenkinsville, S.C. on Monday, April 9, 2012. The South Carolina House is insisting the state continue to accept offers to sale Santee Cooper, meaning the fate of a bill to overhaul the state-owned utility will go down to the wire at this year s session. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) The South Carolina House is insisting the state continue to accept offers to sell Santee Cooper, meaning the fate of a bill to overhaul the state-owned utility will go down to the wire at this year s session.
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By JEFFREY COLLINS - Associated Press - Tuesday, May 4, 2021
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - The South Carolina House is insisting the state continue to accept offers to sell Santee Cooper, meaning the fate of a bill to overhaul the state-owned utility will go down to the wire at this year’s session.
The House refused to accept changes the Senate made last month to a bill the House passed back in January .
The House mostly agreed with the Senate, which gets rid of by 2023 the nine members of the current 10-person Santee Cooper board who were serving before 2017 when the utility was the minority partner in building two nuclear reactors which were abandoned before generating power, losing billions of dollars.
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On February 11, the South Carolina House Judiciary Committee passed HB 3262. It would require candidates seeking the nomination of a party that nominates by convention to pay a filing fee during March of an election year. It has 21 sponsors, all Republicans: Russell Fry, Chip Huggins, Sylleste Davis, William Newton, Garry Smith, Adam Morgan, James Burns, Shannon Erickson, Linda Bennett, Anne Thayer, Bill Taylor, Bruce Bryant, Jason Elliott, Mark Willis, Raye Felder, Sandy McGarry, V. Stephen Moss, Patrick Haddon, Steven Long, Thomas Pope, and Cal Forrest.
If enacted, the bill would be unconstitutional for two different reasons. The first is that the Fourth Circuit ruled in Dixon v Maryland State Board of Elections, 878 F 2d 776 (1989) that states can’t require filing fees, unless the purpose of the filing fee is to keep a ballot uncrowded. In the Dixon case, the court struck down a $290 fee to file as a declared write-in candidate. The rationale was that a wri