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SC’s opioid-abuse committee hits the road Wednesday

The week after South Carolina held a summit on the state’s opioid crisis, the committee studying the state’s opioid laws will hold a hearing on the road Wednesday.

The S.C. House’s opioid abuse study committee will hold a public hearing from 6 to 8 p.m. in Conway. Anyone who won’t be in the Grand Strand area will be able to watch online at scstatehouse.gov.

The committee’s chairman, Rep. Eric Bedingfield, R-Greenville, has already taken a new job outside the Legislature but said he wants to finish the panel’s meeting schedule before resigning his seat.

Back at the State House:

▪ A S.C. House education subcommittee will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday to study the controversial John de la Howe School in McCormick County, which lost its accreditation last year.

▪ The Education Oversight Committee will meet at 1 p.m. on Friday to review school performance standards and ratings.

This story was originally published September 11, 2017 at 11:24 AM with the headline "SC’s opioid-abuse committee hits the road Wednesday."

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