Ed Sutton

Would strengthen legislative oversight of state regulations and reduce unnecessary burdens on small businesses.

Sets deceptive rules for selecting and overseeing South Carolina's delegates to a potential Article V convention.

Establishes a statewide goal of increasing protected land from about 3.4 million acres to seven million acres by 2050.

Allows certain municipalities to ask voters to approve a local sales tax of up to one percent.

Requires public schools and colleges to designate multi-person restrooms, changing rooms, and sleeping quarters for use only by members of one sex.

Expands and clarifies the state tax credit for redeveloping abandoned buildings.

Expands access to hormonal birth control by allowing pharmacists to dispense "self-administered hormonal contraceptives" without a patient-specific doctor's prescription.

Allows municipalities without an existing operating millage to impose one, capped at one-third of the previous year's general fund or proposed budget.

Forces South Carolina school districts to track student poverty, expand taxpayer-funded school meals, assist with applications, ban "lunch shaming," and consider joining the federal Community Eligibility Provision.