Bill raising SC marriage age to 18 takes 1st step in Senate washingtontimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from washingtontimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Gov. Henry McMaster has signed a new law this week requiring physicians to offer certain patients prescriptions for an overdose-reversal drug such as naloxone in an effort to combat the growing opioid epidemic.
Senate Bill 571, first recommended by the state House Opioid Abuse Prevention Study Committee, was introduced Feb. 17 and signed into law on Thursday.
State Rep. Russell Fry, a Republican from Surfside Beach, Sen. Brad Hutto, a Democrat from Orangeburg, and Sen. Katrina Shealy, a Republican from Lexington, sponsored the legislation.
The bill requires a prescriber to offer a patient a prescription for naloxone or another overdose-reversal drug based on a specific set of criteria. The goal is to combat the opioid epidemic by reducing the number of accidental overdose deaths.
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Editorial Roundup: South Carolina
Recent editorials from South Carolina newspapers:
March 9
The Post and Courier on gun control legislation reintroduced to Congress by a U.S. representative from South Carolina:
Nearly six years after Dylann Roof was able to buy a gun and use it to kill nine people in Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, little has been done to improve the administration of national background checks required when purchasing a gun from a licensed federal firearms dealer. Congress has another chance to correct this failure and should do so without delay.
The Enhanced Background Checks Act reintroduced March 2 by U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., would help close the so-called “Charleston loophole” that allowed Mr. Roof to purchase his firearm when the federal background check was not completed within three business days. Mr. Clyburn’s bill would expand that narrow window by giving law enforcement 10 business days to complete a background check. If the review
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