business leaders, civil rights and minority group advocates, and some religious communities, lawmakers have moved to pass a hate crimes statute.
But there is limited time over the course of the next month — by which all bills must be passed, or else be delayed until the 2022 legislative session — to pass the bill, which was approved by the subcommittee and has been sent to the full House Judiciary Committee, which will take up the legislation next week.But before passing the bill, lawmakers on the Constitutional Laws subcommittee made several changes to eliminate certain parts of the bill that they thought would likely hinder its passage in the Republican-dominated legislature, reports the South Carolina newspaper The State.Among those.